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Pena-Gomar, Department of Food Research, Biotechnology Group, Universidad Autonoma de Quer,taro, C.U., Cerro de las Campanas S/N, 76010 Quer,taro, Quer,taro, Mexico; phone: +52 (4) 2163242; fax: +52 (4) 2164917; URL: <http://www.uaq.mx/>.

Gorman was assistant professor of biology (1983-1989) at Baldwin-Wallace College, where he taught introductory biology, honors biology, genetics and molecular biology, and research consultant (1984-86) in the biotechnology group of The Standard Oil Company, his research aimed at breeding herbicide-resistant varieties of alfalfa.

Sincerely, Kevin Richards Industry Vice President Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Group

But firms such as Mothercare and biotechnology group Xenova still managed spectacular gains.

Operating expenses for the Biotechnology Group were $816,000 for the quarter, down 4.2 percent from $852,000 in the first quarter of fiscal 2002, despite an increase in FY03 spending on the Phase III OraTest clinical trial of $276,000.

Seed stocks of NF-1 and NF-1 Profuse Ligule will be maintained by the Forage Biotechnology Group at The Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK 73401.

The Swiss biotechnology group, Serono, says it has signed an exclusive agreement with AstraZeneca to develop a new female infertility drug.

American chemicals and biotechnology group DuPont have concluded an agreement in principle with TotalFinaElf to buy the fluorinated telomers business of Atofina, the chemicals subsidiary of French oil group, said the two parties in separate press releases.

Both are members of the prestigious applied microbiology and biotechnology group in the university's Department of Life Sciences.

The draft was approved by a special biotechnology group under the Food Sanitation Investigation Council, which advises the health and welfare minister.

Genesis Drug Discovery & Development, the contract research division of Genesis Biotechnology Group, has named Olesia Buiakova as its new chief scientific officer, it was reported yesterday.