Academic and Technology Partnerships

BioDiscovery is a SME focused on generating lead compounds from nature. Complementary technologies and specialist expertise is accessed via a network of partnerships. BioDiscovery works with a number of research institutes in the areas of:

• Biodiversity acquisition
• Taxonomy traditional and molecular technology
• Chemistry structural analysis and chemical synthesis
• Compound acquisition

Major Partners

• Landcare Research www.landcareresearch.co.nz; access to national microbial collection the ICMP and specialist biologists
• National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) www.niwascience.co.nz access to marine invertebrates, sediments and marine microbes.
• Industrial Research Limited (IRL) www.irl.cri.nz provision of facilities and access to synthetic chemistry (for scoping lead molecules) and analytical chemistry.
• GNS Science Ltd www.gns.cri.nz - access to extreme marine and terrestrial environments
• Auckland University Microbiology Department
• Iwi organisations provide legitimate access to land in Maori trust
• Plant and Food Research Institute www.plantandfood.com
• New Zealand Foundation for Research Science and Technology, www.frst.govt.nz