WORLD COURIER has announced the opening of its newest purpose-driven investigational drug storage facilities in Melbourne and Johannesburg, bringing its network of GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice)-compliant clinical trial depots to a total of 11 worldwide and providing cost-effective logistical access to two continents critical to the global pharmaceutical industry.
15/10/2009
University of Melbourne medical researchers, Professors Frank Carbone and Mark Smyth, have received AUD$4 million NHMRC Australia Fellowships for their work in chronic infectious diseases and cancer research respectively.
11/02/2010
BIOMEDICAL researchers from Monash University and the University of Melbourne are developing peptides as vaccines against melanoma.
25/06/2009
Melbourne researchers believe that understanding how kangaroos repair their DNA could be the key to preventing skin cancer in the future.
02/12/2009
A Melbourne researcher has won third prize in the 2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®, the world’s foremost forum for showcasing microscope photos and movies of life science subjects.
08/12/2009
The University of Melbourne has been awarded more than AUD$35 million to improve the lives of people suffering Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, knee osteoarthritis and bacterial infections.
04/03/2010
Professor Alan Cowman from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, has been awarded the 2010 Howard Taylor Ricketts Award by the University of Chicago for his work in malaria.
19/01/2010
THE AUSTRALIAN Cancer Researcher Foundation (ACRF) is asking for applications from across Australia from leading scientists for cancer research grants of $1.5m to $5m
26/03/2009
AUSTRALIAN Professor Elizabeth Blackburn has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Carol Greider and Jack Szostak, for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.
06/10/2009
CSIRO has launched a new collaborative research cluster in Melbourne to establish a ‘biobank’ of blood samples to be used in advancing research into the prediction and early diagnosis of diseases such as Alzheimer’s and cancer.
19/02/2010
Melbourne researchers have received AUD$1.5 million to investigate whether breast stem cells or their descendents are directly linked to breast cancer, in the hope of leading to new treatments for the disease.
07/12/2009
BIONOMICS says it will be proceeding with the next clinical trial of its tumour-treating BNC105 vascular disrupting agent in the US.
02/07/2009
SCIENTISTS from the Australian Stem Cell Centre will head back to school during National Science Week to help secondary school students understand more about stem cell research.
12/08/2009
AS PART of the Business Club Australia’s (BCA) Bledisloe Cup events program, seven Biotech international representatives have arrived in Sydney to speak at a Life Science seminar today, Friday 21 August 2009.
21/08/2009
Brumby’s Labor Government has streamlined the ethical review process for clinical trials, making medical research into potentially lifesaving treatments easier to conduct in Victoria.
05/11/2009
A Microbial and Cellular Imaging and Analysis Facility has just been opened at the University of Technology, Sydney.
11/11/2009
CSIRO has formed a long-term research alliance agreement with Australian biotechnology company, Circadian Technologies, to develop new potential treatments for cancer.
10/12/2009
Researchers have discovered a normal function of a set of proteins related to the malaria parasite protein, which causes resistance to the front-line drug chloroquine. This discovery brings researchers a step closer to developing new antimalarial drugs and provides a new tool to study the malarial chloroquine-resistance factor.
15/01/2010
Australia’s most distinguished health and medical researchers have been recognised for their outstanding contribution to medical research.
12/03/2010
CSL has announced that a vaccine to treat severe gum disease is being developed in a new collaboration with Sanofi Pasteur, a global manufacturer of vaccines.
11/12/2009