Abstract
The contents of this presentation derive from a Swiss initiative in Australia, to search for drugs from the sea. This initiative was manifested in the Roche Research Institute of Marine Pharmacology (RRIMP) (1974–1981) and was the first major commercial attempt to mount an integrated multidisciplinary approach to the challenges of marine pharmaceutical investigation and development. Biologists, chemists, biochemists, pharmacologists and microbiologists worked together within RRIMP and, in the organizational concept, had access to Roche R&D colleagues in Switzerland, U.S.A., Japan and England. Switzerland, a country without a coastline, looked to Australia, a country with one of the longest coastlines covering tropical. to near-Antarctic waters, for this initiative.
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Baker, J.T. (1984). Seaweeds in pharmaceutical studies and applications. In: Bird, C.J., Ragan, M.A. (eds) Eleventh International Seaweed Symposium. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6560-7_4
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