29 May 2025
Our new Executive Council has been focused on enhancing member value, ensuring you receive maximum benefit from your membership while we deliver what matters most to you.
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18 March 2025
In this issue Insights from our Executive Director Reflecting on our journey from 2017—when NZBIO faced financial challenges and joined the NZTech Group—to today is truly remarkable. Four years of … Continue reading "MP Biomedicals New Zealand Limited"
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12 February 2025
In this issue Insights from our Executive Director As we kick off the year, BioTechNZ is already moving full speed ahead with exciting developments in the biotech sector. There is … Continue reading "MP Biomedicals New Zealand Limited"
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16 December 2024
It has been a landmark year for BioTechNZ and our members. Let's take a moment to reflect on the progress and achievements of 2024!
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30 September 2024
Kia ora, In this issue Insights from our Executive Director The more I work in this role the more excited I am about the convergence of once-siloed technologies across multidisciplinary … Continue reading "MP Biomedicals New Zealand Limited"
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03 September 2024
In this issue Insights from our Executive Director During the last month there has been plenty of discussion in the media regarding gene technologies – should our companies and researchers … Continue reading "MP Biomedicals New Zealand Limited"
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02 September 2024
We can’t wait to reconnect at Aotearoa New Zealand’s 2025 Life Science Summit – Uniting biology and technology to unleash potential. 18-19 March, 2025 at Tākina Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre. Click here … Continue reading "MP Biomedicals New Zealand Limited"
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21 June 2024
It has been another busy month for biotech. More than 35 Kiwis travelled to the BIO International Convention in San Diego.
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06 March 2024
In this issue Insights from our Executive Director This year feels like it’s going to be a fast game, but a good game for the biotech sector! I am incredibly … Continue reading "MP Biomedicals New Zealand Limited"
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MP Biomedicals New Zealand Ltd (MP Bio) is a specialized manufacturer of high-quality bovine proteins and has gained an international reputation in providing bovine plasma proteins to the global bio-pharmaceutical, animal health and diagnostic industry, and to prominent research institutes in New Z
September 4, 2019
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