Subsidiary established in Queensland and appoints Ian Frazer to advisory board.

The Western Australian branch of industry association AusBiotech has held a forum to examine the issues facing agricultural biotechnology in the state, and the challenges that must be faced if it is to move forward.

Drug delivery company OBJ (ASX:OBJ) claims to have reached an advanced stage in the development of its coin-sized smart drug patch.

Western Australia's well-established record-linked healthcare database had been an important innovation for research, but had also helped to better awareness of privacy issues, according to Prof Fiona Stanley, director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Perth.

Meditech Research has completed Phase I clinical trials of its anti-cancer therapy HyDox, indicating the treatment is safe for patients with breast cancer, renal carcinoma, sarcoma and prostate cancer.