MERCK has announced the formation of Merck Serono Ventures, a corporate venture capital fund to incest in emerging biotechnology companies.
26/03/2009
SIGMA-ALDRICH and Sangamo BioSciences have announced a major expansion of their existing license agreement to include the exclusive rights to develop and distribute zinc finger DNA binding protein (ZFP)-modified cell lines for commercial production of protein pharmaceuticals.
06/10/2009
SCIENTISTS at the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology have successfully predicted the outcome in treating breast tumours in a pre-clinical study of a nano drug.
18/02/2009
BIOMEDICAL researchers from Monash University and the University of Melbourne are developing peptides as vaccines against melanoma.
25/06/2009
THE UNIVERSITY of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Life Technologies have announced a strategic scientific research collaboration to study pancreatic and ovarian cancer in Australia.
10/08/2009
A joint research team have received the $1 million Ramaciotti Biomedical Research Award to create a 'Centre for Kinomics'.
17/11/2009
SCIENTISTS at Dartmouth Medical School , have identified two proteins which maintain chromosomal segregation throughout cell division.
19/01/2009
PERKINELMER in conjunction with Cerep has announced the expansion of their kinase assay offering with 189 new kinase assays validated with Lance Ultra technology.
04/05/2009
A MAJOR collaborative research project focusing on protein analysis to unlock the secrets of multiple sclerosis was launched today by the Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Mark Butler.
31/08/2009
CIRCADIAN has been granted a key strategic patent for the exclusive use of the VEGF-D protein and VEGF-D antibodies in Europe for angiogenic applications.
23/06/2009
The University of Queensland (UQ) has received more than $360,000 in Government funding to further strengthen research linkages with China.
18/12/2009
PHARMACYCLICS has announced it is beginning treatment on patients in a Phase I dose-escalation study to evaluate the safety and tolerability of PCI-32765.
15/04/2009
Nobel laureate Professor Erwin Neher launches a new research institute at RMIT University this week. The institute will search for solutions to the key health issues facing Australia in the 21st century.
07/12/2009
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has announced that clinical trials involving animal to human transplantation (xenotransplantation) would be allowed to proceed, once stringent regulatory and surveillance frameworks have been put in place.
11/12/2009
US researchers have published a paper in Nature demonstrating how next-generation DNA sequencing can be used to identify DNA mutations in a small cell lung cancer (SCLC) line, which identify the mutational burden associated with tobacco smoking.
17/12/2009
University of Queensland (UQ) researchers have been awarded more than $8.6million in National Health and Medical Research Council funding, including two AUD$4 million Australia Fellowships and a Development Grant.
11/02/2010
GAVIN Robertson, associate professor of pharmacology, pathology and dermatology, Penn State College of Medicine says his team have developed drugs from naturally occurring compounds that can inhibit the growth of tumours in mice by 50 to 60% with a very low dose.
13/03/2009
MERCK KGaA has released follow-up safety data from a randomized Phase IIb study of patients with inoperable advanced (stage IIIb/IV) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
10/06/2009
PURDUE University researchers have synthesised a molecule which finds and penetrates prostate cancer cells, allowing targeted treatment of the disease.
09/07/2009
Commerce Minister Troy Buswell today announced the 2009 Western Australian Science Awards finalists.
26/10/2009