Industry News
Grants announced for a healthier WA
The first Telethon-Perth Children's Hospital Research Fund has provided the impetus for 17 projects. [ + ]
Molecular manoeuvring with gesture and voice
Visualising the structures of complex molecules is now a whole lot easier with a new toolkit. [ + ]
Biggest donation for UWA
Wealth as a gift for the University of Western Australia. [ + ]
Coridon hits dosing milestone in herpes trial
The 20 subjects enrolled in a trial of the HSV-2 vaccine under development at Allied Healthcare's (ASX:AHZ) Coridon have all received two out of three planned doses. [ + ]
Genea Biocells claims MD breakthrough
Genea Biocells has produced human skeletal muscle from stem cells, in a breakthrough technique with potential applications in the treatment of muscular dystrophies. [ + ]
Melanoma Genome Project on track
The Melanoma Genome Project is well underway with sequencing data submitted to the International Cancer Genome Consortium repository and expectations this will be publicly available early next year. [ + ]
Technical guidelines for therapeutic services open for comment
The Department of Health and Ageing has released draft technical guidelines for therapeutic services, open for consultation until 23 November 2013. [ + ]
iSonea teams with uHealth for AirSonea push
Sydney-based uHealth will work with iSonea (ASX:ISN) to pursue more sales opportunities for the latter's asthma symptom monitoring device, AirSonea. [ + ]
Human systems biology centre to be established in Sydney
The Centenary Institute's cytometry research program last night received the $1 million Ramaciotti Biomedical Research Award. As a result of the award, the Ramaciotti Centre for Human Systems Biology will be established. [ + ]
Qiagen launches Empowered Genome Community
Qiagen has launched the Empowered Genome Community - an initiative to help people who have had their genomes sequenced share, explore and interpret their data with researchers and each other. [ + ]
New Zealand's Innate moves to Australia
Innate Immunotherapeutics has moved its base from Auckland to Sydney as it prepares for Australian phase IIb trials of SPMS treatment candidate MIS416. [ + ]
Ramaciotti Awards and a new human systems biology centre
The 2013 recipients of the biennial Ramaciotti Awards for biomedical research have been announced. [ + ]
Ellex eye treatment shows promise in early AMD
Results from a pilot trial of Ellex Medical Lasers' (ASX:ELX) Retinal Rejuvenation Therapy (2RT) suggest the treatment could act as an early intervention therapy for AMD. [ + ]
Austrade to lead 'Australia-India Innovation in Life Sciences Roadshow'
Austrade, in partnership with Australian federal and state government agencies, is organising the first Australian 'Innovation Week' in India and invites interested Australian companies to participate. While the entire program will run over three weeks, the life sciences component will run for one week, commencing 25 November 2013. [ + ]
QRxPharma expands MoxDuo deal with Aspen
A month after licensing MoxDuo IR for ANZ and Oceania to Aspen for $1.25m, QRxPharma (ASX:QRX) has expanded the deal to also cover South Africa. [ + ]