up to 2 years meerkat, page-3

pixie, I tried to post that and another article as well - but my files screwed up. However, that's about on the right track I'd say, 2 years min to commercialisation. A couple of points about that though.

First, it appears that Merial holds the key to commercialisation, if they want to move on it then all well and good, on the other hand, if they don't want to move on IMU's stuff then the future looks bleak. So having a 'big brother' is a two edged sword, as Biota found out a few years ago when they were screwed by their US partner.

Second, IMU sp will move up long before they are actually selling any product - if it looks like IMU really are going to commercialise - and that's all I'm interested in. Look what happened to CMQ sp, and that was years before any product hit the shelves (which it still hasn't done). So the promise of getting stuff to market is sufficient to achieve my goals.

One other thing of course is that if anyone thinks two tiny Australian companies have any monopoly on the biologics field then they'd have to be dreaming. I'm worried about what other products might emerge in the time it takes IMU to crank up. And let's face it, the Merials of the world are in a position to know exactly what's around. That's why I'd like to see very fast progress by IMU in completing its basic work. It just doesn't have all the time in the world to get going, no matter how good its products.

But I'll stay with IMU for a while longer to see what pans out....... roll on............