Tissue Therapies' Upton wins award
Tuesday, 17 August, 2004
\Tissue Therapies (ASX: TIS) founder and chief scientist Dr Zee Upton has won the research scientist category for the Smart Women - Smart State awards in Queensland for her work in the area of wound healing and cell culture technologies.
The award, which comes with a cheque for $2500, was developed to recognise the outstanding achievements of Queensland women in the fields of science, engineering and information technology.
Upton, who is based at the Queensland University of Technology, is co-inventor of the cell culture technologies being commercialised by Tissue Therapies. The company is developing wound healing technology and cell culture technology for use in medical, industrial and cosmeceutical applications.
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