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    Welcome to Brisbane Young Entrepreneur Group

    Dear friends:

    My name is Bright and I'm a business owner who is looking for business partners in Brisbane.

    Hope to see more and more Brisbane young entrepreneurs joining this group.
    We will exchange Brisbane business opportunities with members in this group.

    Kind Regards
    Bright

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    Hi Bright,

    My name's Hamish and I'm from Brisbane also, I'm the owner of Zaano.com

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    Hi Bright,

    I would love to move to Brisbane.

    If at all possible I would like to move to Brisbane. I'm not sure if anyone can help but I would love to work together with start a company to screen for new drugs using a Drosophila model system.

    Atherothrombosis is a systemic, diffuse disease associated with a high risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. It is the main cause of death in Western populations, a major public health concern and its prevalence will further increase in the future. My lab focuses on the cellular immune response in Drosophila against a parasitoid wasp. When the wasp lays an egg inside a Drosophila larva, the larva's cellular immune response reacts by encapsulating the egg. We have evidence that the Drosophila anti-parasitoid immune response mimics thrombosis, we can even block the immune response by feeding the fly larvae aspirin (a known inhibitor of thrombus formation, but very bad for the stomach). I have also shown that with relatively little cost and effort a small-molecule screen can be performed in 384-well plates (though it is much easier in 96-well plates) to look for inhibitors of this encapsulation response, and thus hopefully new drugs to inhibit atherothrombosis. I also have a leukemia-model to screen against.

    I am an academic, not a businessman, I need someone who can help me start the company. Usually this is done by a university who then becomes a business partner. Since this work was originally done in Sweden I own the intellectual rights and I would like to start the company in Brisbane.

    There are people doing this on a small scale, there is at least one success story of someone doing a screen in Drosophila and they have a drug in phase III trials.

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    ummm..for biotech u'd wanna go to sydney
    ATP Innovations - Home more exactly..these guys do a lot of biotech commercialisation
    the whole thing is owned by a consortium of universities
    check them out. it's where you wanna be.

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