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Appendix B
Pages 29-31

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... BIOTECHNOLOGY IN JAPAN University: In addition to the inter-university basic research institutes at Okazaki, there are five major Japanese universities with notable biotechnology R&D efforts under way. Major research projects in specific aspects of biotechnology R&D are led by specific professors.
From page 30...
... Biomchnology-related collaborative projects are designed with international cooperation and collaboration in mind are: Human Frontiers Science Program, proposed at the Venice Summit in 1987 by the Japanese government with an initial budget of $17 million for FY 1989. Research areas will focus on brain functions such as learning and biological functions achieved through molecular approaches such as molecular recognition.
From page 31...
... Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, Lehigh University: bioprocess technology and applied rDNA research. Corporate: In pharmaceuticals Eli Lilly and Merck dominate in terms of R&D resources and research quality, although Genentech and Cetus are dominant in actual biotechnology products.


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