Industry News
Funds for venture capitalists
Three new fund managers selected for Innovation Investment Fund [ + ]
Chlamydia, HIV up, hep C down
HIV rates up by half, Chlamydia most common, hep C infection down [ + ]
NuSep licences gels
NuSep to licence out electrophoresis gels business [ + ]
ChemGenex raises $12.9m
Major shareholders chip in half of capital raising [ + ]
HeartWare vote for US move
Court approves shareholder vote on HeartWare's plans to redomicile [ + ]
Vascular patent for HealthLinx
HealthLinx granted US patent for vascular permeability program [ + ]
Orphan status for Mesoblast
Mesoblast's allogeneic stem cells given orphan drug status [ + ]
ComBio: Organic misconceptions and nutritional genomics
Dean DellaPenna says we are in the midst of a golden period for research into plant metabolism. [ + ]
Grants for new projects and conferences
Clean energy technologies, investigation of climate change issues and technologies to promote healthy ageing are some of the areas to receive funding in the latest round of grants from the International Science Linkages Competitive Grants scheme.
[ + ]Leggett action continues
Litigation against former Agenix CEO Neil Leggett to continue next week [ + ]
ComBio: teasing out the tasty tomato trichome
ComBio begins in Canberra next week and as part of our preview we talk to plenary speaker Rob Last about the tomato trichome project. [ + ]
Pharmaxis banks
Pharmaxis in strong cash position for FY09 [ + ]
BioDiem at Portugal flu conference
BioDiem presents LAIV research at influenza conference [ + ]
Mad cow in the family tree
Mad cow disease has traditionally been considered a foodborne disease but now researchers have established that it may sometimes be genetic. This means that it may appear in countries free from BSE.
[ + ]Micro discovery nets Lasker Prize
Three researchers at the forefront of microRNA discovery receive rich Lasker Prize [ + ]
