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Tissue regeneration on a plate

Unlocking the self-healing potential of tissues The Invention The ability to boost and direct natural processes to regenerate tissues following injury or disease would have a major impact on modern medicine. Although all tissues have some regenerative capacity, the number and efficiency of the precursor-type cells responsible for self-healing (cells...

Published: 23/04/2015

Category(s): Therapeutics

Keywords(s): Life Sciences, Medical/Clinical, Therapies

Inventor(s): Vashe Chandrakanthan, John Pimanda

A 'non-invasive' test for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Point of Care Testing - for Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Capable of distinguishing between Ulcerative Colitisand Crohn’s Disease The Invention Inflammatory bowel disease is a life-long relapsing and remitting inflammatory disorder primarily affecting the gastrointestinal tract. Invasive diagnostic investigations, specifically colonoscopy and...

Published: 28/07/2015

Category(s): Diagnostics, Biomedical Sciences

Keywords(s): Biopharmaceutical, Biotech, Chemical, Diagnostics, Drug Development, Inflammatory Diseases, Investment, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical

Inventor(s): Valerie Wasinger, Rupert Leong

Genistein - a neuroprotective treatment for brain injury arising from excessive glutamate release such as occurs with stroke and epilepsy.

Background Traumatic brain injury is a major medical problem globally and is one of the leading causes of death and disability. There is no known treatment for stroke or ischaemic brain injury. A stroke is a medical emergency and can cause permanent brain damage and death. Risk factors for stroke include old age, high blood pressure, previous stroke...

Published: 19/05/2015

Category(s): Therapeutics, Biomedical Sciences

Keywords(s): Biotech, Chemical, Drug Development, Life Sciences, Medical/Clinical, Natural therapies, Pharmaceutical, Veterinarian

Inventor(s): Gary Housley, Youngsoo Kim, Paul Bertrand, Andrew Moorhouse, Ann Chi Yan Wong, Amanda Craig, John Power, Matthias Klugmann, Arun Krishnan, Renee Morris

Drug Delivery Solutions

AlbuMiz - a versatile nano-sized drug delivery system based on albumin. The system offers multiple drug delivery solutions. The Technology The nano-albumin (nab) technology has been successfully applied for the delivery of a range of small molecule anti-cancer drugs, most notably paclitaxel (abraxane). Here we developed a technology based on albumin...

Published: 23/04/2015

Category(s): Therapeutics, Next Generation Materials, Biomedical Sciences

Keywords(s): Biotech, Drug Development, Life Sciences, Metabolic Diseases, Nanotech, Oncology Diseases, Pharmaceutical

Inventor(s): Martina Stenzel, Wei Scarano, Mingtao (roger) Liang, Domenic Svejkar