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She won two scholarships, The US Westinghouse and one here in Australia. She has a three year fellowship in the US first and then does two years in Adelaide after that. She will back for good in another year. She is 37 years old and unfortunately married to her work.
On the topic of Gene ownership, here in Australia, the ownership of a human biological process (ie a gene) has been banned. So in other words the US patent cannot apply here and we are free to use what ever gene is necessary. Only thing that might apply is the process of determining that gene. The process itself may have a patent on it. But since that process would now be seen as being generic; its ability to have any innovation would have slipped away and therefore the patent on the process would no longer apply. The tests for patent are that it must be innnovative and that as a result it would not have been thought of by the average person in the field of endeavour (been a long time since I studied patent law but that is the jist of it). Now since most people in the field of gene research are near genius level, then it would follow that obtaining a patent would be really hard in this country with the current test.
Anyway that is for the lawyers.
Paul
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