07 August 2019
An influential group of biotechnology entrepreneurs, investors, analysts and service providers from both sides of the Tasman attend the Bioshares Biotech Summit last week, a three-day biotech investment conference held every July in Queenstown.
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10 July 2019
Gene editing has a crucial role to play in reducing emissions to deal with climate change, BiotechNZ executive director Dr Zahra Champion says.
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03 July 2019
It has been another big month for biotech. Ian Proudfoot and his team at KPMG launched the Agribusiness Agenda, which is broken into three parts: Acknowledge, Evaluate, Accelerate.
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New Zealand researchers have the chance to work in France thanks to the Dumont d'Urville, a programme that aims to foster new partnerships and developing science and technology exchanges between research laboratories of excellence. The grant will pay for up to $80,000 in total per project f
August 16, 2019
NZ will miss out on billions of dollars of exports in the fast-growing global legal cannabis industry, BiotechNZ executive director Dr Zahra Champion says. The global legal marijuana market size is expected to reach $US 66.3 billion within six years, according to a new report by Grand View Resea
August 9, 2019
Hi Readers An influential group of biotechnology entrepreneurs, investors, analysts and service providers from both sides of the Tasman attend the Bioshares Biotech Summit last week, a three-day biotech investment conference held every July in Queenstown. Since 2014, on the opening
August 7, 2019
Agriculture Minister Damian O’Connor has said New Zealand “needs to have a sensible, mature conversation about genetic engineering.” The comments were made in response to the Government's Interim Climate Change Committee which raised concerns that laws surrounding genetic modification coul
July 31, 2019
Queenstown will tomorrow host one of the most significant life sciences conferences in New Zealand. BiotechNZ executive director Dr Zahra Champion says much of the Bioshares summit will be about biotech health and how companies are focused on developing targeted treatments for cancer and other d
July 24, 2019
Auckland – Gene editing has a crucial role to play in reducing emissions to deal with climate change, BiotechNZ executive director Dr Zahra Champion says. The issues and benefits of gene editing must accelerate discussions by the biotech industry and academic researchers to conv
July 10, 2019
Hi readers, It has been another big month for biotech. Ian Proudfoot and his team at KPMG launched the Agribusiness Agenda, which is broken into three parts: Acknowledge, Evaluate, Accelerate. This quote from the report is a good summary of the current situation
July 3, 2019
BIOTechNZ is helping the government grow New Zealand’s highly regarded biotech industry, its executive director Dr Zahra Champion says. The latest Scientific American Worldview scorecard for biotech, places New Zealand fourth in the world behind the US, Singapore and Denmark, and one place ahe
June 18, 2019
Hi readers, New Zealand BIOTech, you rock! I have just arrived back from BIO 2019 in Philadelphia, where New Zealand biotech companies, universities, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE), the Innovative Partnerships team at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Emp
June 12, 2019