by Dr. Reinhard Hiller | Oct 26, 2018 | Announcement
26 October 2018, Cape Town, South Africa The Centre for Proteomic & Genomic Research (CPGR) today announced the results of its Core Lab Competition, launched in August 2018, with Whitehead Scientific and Illumina. The program allowed researchers to compete for USD...
by Dr. Reinhard Hiller | Mar 31, 2016 | Announcement
Life science and biotech entrepreneurs, let alone start-ups, are currently few and far between in South Africa. This is partly due to the embryonic status of the South African bio-economy, but also because this new and emerging area doesn’t have the track record which...
by Dr. Reinhard Hiller | Sep 19, 2014 | Blog, Emerging markets, The "Omics" Revolution
My short answer to this is, yes, but the real value of Genomics goes beyond an economic return and cannot be captured easily in dollars and cents! Background According to US-based non-profit research organisation Battelle, the Human Genome Project (HGP) contributed...
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