A POSSIBLE cure for two causes of blindness is among Victorian innovations on show this week at the world's biggest biotech conference.

Premier Steve Bracks, in San Francisco for the conference, last night signed an expanded biotechnology alliance all Australian states, the ACT and New Zealand. The deal to encourage joint research, development and marketing expands on last year's agreement between Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.
"This expanded Australia-New Zealand alliance can only give us greater critical mass in the global market," Mr Bracks said.

A new drug developed in Melbourne by Antisense Therapeutics is being promoted at the conference as offering new hope to millions of people suffering diabetic retinopathy and wet age-related macular degeneration -- two eye diseases that cause blindness.

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