PharmaTelevision - PlantBio Trust: Balancing Global Opportunities and Local Needs in South Africa

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In this episode of PharmaTelevision News Review, Fintan Walton talks with Antonio Llobell, CEO at PlantbBio Trust.

Filmed at AusBiotech 2009, they discuss:

• how biotech has developed recently in South Africa
• innovation as one of South Africa's primary objectives
• bridging the gap between research and commercialisation
• what's profitable in South Africa
• South Africa as the gateway into the mainland
• the flourishing relationship between South Africa and Australia

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how biotech has developed recently in South Africa

Fintan Walton:

Hello and welcome to PharmaTelevision news review here in Melbourne, Australia. On this show I've got Antonio Llobell, who is the CEO of a company called PlantBio Trust based in South Africa. Welcome to the show.

Antonio Llobell:

Thank you Fintan Walton.

Fintan Walton:

Antonio Llobell, you're from South Africa and you're in the area of biotech, could you let us know little bit more about what's actually happening in biotech in South Africa and in particular what we were looking at is what's really happened in the last 15-years?

Antonio Llobell:

I am not sure about the last 15-years, but can give you an idea of what has happened in the past probably five to seven-years, government decided that biotech is an essential rather for economy development in the country and in 2001 there was implementation of national biotech strategy where the government decided to put in place specific innovation centres to develop the biotech sector and some of them have been placed in different regions and some of them have national school and the sectors basically to look at have been human health bioprocessing and agro-biotec.

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Antonio Llobell
CEO
PlantBio Trust

PlantBio Trust

PlantBio Trust is a National Innovation Centre for Plant Biotechnology, initiated by the Department of Science and Technology as part of the National Biotechnology Strategy for South Africa. PlantBio Trust was registered on the 25th March 2004 and officially launched on the 12th October 2004. To date PlantBio has received Non Profit Organization status and our NPO Registration Number is 041-184.