Law, science

General expertise in commercialisation of biotechnology.
Most significant contribution: empirical research on biotechnology patents and technology transfer in Australia, Intellectual property, commercialisation, regulation of research, regulation of stem cell technology

2005 – 2009 Facilitation and Regulation of Genetic Databanks

2005 – 2007 Co-operative intellectual property management

2002 – 2004 Regulating the Collection and use of Human Tissue

2002 Biotechnology patent licensing in Australia: a preliminary study

1999 – 2001 Commercialisation of Human Genetic Technology

‘Property in Human Tissue and the Right of Commercialisation: the Interface between Tangible and Intellectual Property’ (2004) 30 Monash University Law Review 139

With J. Nielsen, Patents and Medical Biotechnology: An Empirical Analysis of Issues Facing the Australian Industry Centre for Law and Genetics Occasional Paper No. 6 (2003)

With J. Nielsen, ‘The Australian Medical Biotechnology Industry and Access to Intellectual Property: Issues for Patent Law Development’ (2001) 23 Sydney Law Review 347-374

‘Human Gene Patents: Under Whose Control?’ (2003) 179 Medical Journal of Australia181-182

‘Balancing Access to Pharmaceuticals with Patent Rights’ (2003) 22 Monash Bioethics Review 50-62

With M. Otlowski and D. Chalmers, ‘Consent Commercialisation and Benefit Sharing’ (2001) 9 Journal of Law and Medicine 80-94

With D Chalmers and B Gogarty, ‘Regulating Biomedical Advances: Embryonic Stem Cell Research’ (2002) 2 Macquarie Law Jounal 31-59

With J. Jabour-Green, ‘Bioprospecting in Areas Outside National Jurisdiction: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean’ (2003) 4 Melbourne Journal of International Law 76-111

With D. Chalmers, ‘Commercialisation of Biotechnology: Public Trust in Research’ (2004) 6 International Journal of Biotechnology 116

With D. Chalmers, ‘Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Can the Law Balance Ethical, Scientific and Economic Values?’ (2003) Part 1: 18 Law and Human Genome Review 43-53; Part 2: 19 Law and Human Genome Review 91-108

Member, Australian Institute of Health, Law and Ethics