The New Zealand Biotechnology Conference was held 9-11 July in Auckland, and was organised jointly by the New Zealand Biotechnology Association and BIOTENZ.
About 140 delegates attended; this was the highest attendance for a number of years and reflects the increasing interest from industry for all things biotechnological. The number of delegates from the commercial sector was proportionally higher than in previous years. It should be noted that in New Zealand biotechnology encompasses a wide variety of activities ranging from extraction of natural products for medicinal use to recombinant DNA technologies.
