Queensland Life Sciences Industry Report 2012 (PDF, 3.5MB)

Industry Sector Examples
Human health:
Pharmaceuticals, vaccines or drug discovery
Human health:
Complementary medicines, nutraceuticals
Human health:
Functional foods
Human health:
Diagnostics
Human health:
Medical devices and equipment
(e.g. vaccines, immune stimulants, biopharmaceuticals, rational drug design or
combinatorial chemistry)
(e.g. gene identification, gene constructs, gene delivery or xenotransplants)
(e.g.DNA/RNA/protein sequencing and databases for humans, plants, animals and microorganisms
or structure function studies)
(e.g. probiotics, unsaturated fatty acids)
(e.g. immunodiagnostics, gene probes or biosensors)
(e.g. MRI)
Animal health
genetic engineering, animal breeding or anti-microbials)
Agricultural biotechnology (e.g. tissue culture, embryogenesis, genetic markers, genetic engineering, plant
breeding, floriculture, forestry)
(e.g. biofertilisers, biopesticide, bioherbicides, biological additives, microbial pest
control, hormones, pheromones, and other agrichemicals)
Food biotechnology (e.g. Food products, food components, enzymes, yeasts, bacteria culture)
Environmental (e.g. treatment of organic emissions to air/water)
(land, air, water) or toxic waste sites
(e.g. detection of toxic substances using bioindicators, biosensors or immunodiagnostics)
bioprocessing (e.g. biopulping, biobleaching)
Marine
Industrial (white biotechnology)
(e.g. peptides, proteins, nucleotides, hormones, growth factors)
(e.g. monomers, fuels, lubricants, fine chemical feed
stocks, cosmetics)
alternative energy; development of novel biomaterials; use of plants and enzymes to generate
industrial products
as pollution and waste generation, for the same level of industrial production
Bioinformatics
management, mining and use of life-science information
Industry service provider
regulatory consultants, business consultants and other industry service providers
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