BIO 2009 Special Event: Meet with French Biotech Companies on May 18 (Z076)
May 14th, 2009
BIO 2009 EVENT: SPECIAL MEETING WITH FRENCH BIOTECH COMPANIES
Monday, May 18, 2009 – 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm
W Atlanta Downtown Hotel
45 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd – Atlanta, GA 30308
Chicago, May 13, 2009 (word count: 436)
High-resolution logos are available on request.
As part of BIO 2009, the French Bio Clusters, led by Lyonbiopôle, one of France’s seven world-class clusters, in collaboration with Ubifrance, organize for the third time a one-day seminar called “Fast-Track R&D Partnering with France.” This event is supported by the French Ministry of Economy, Industry and Employment. It will welcome more than 100 expected international companies. The event will be opened by Jean Claude Muller, SVP Prospective and Strategic Initiatives Sanofi Aventis, and will feature, among others, Sean P. McKercher, VP Global Corporate Business Development from IPSEN Ltd.
This one-day seminar is dedicated to offer a real opportunity to network with more than 100 expected French and International biotech companies and to learn more how relevant it is on gathering partnerships and building a bioCluster Critical Mass.
The program includes many interactive presentations, discussions, networking and Q&A sessions. Seven R&D multipartenarial projects, fostered by the French Bio Clusters will be presented by the top management of French and American companies:
(Please click the highlighted name of each project to download a detailed summary in PDF format.)
ACTIVE: The use of endonucleases to cure viral infections
David J.D Sourdive, Vice President Corporate Development, Cellectis SA
HumabFc: Improvement of therapeutic efficacy of recombinant monoclonal antibodies
Didier Scherrer, Head of Research, LFB Biotechnology and Philippe MONDON, Chief Technical Officer, MilleGen SA
Vaccin’ERY: New cancer immunotherapy based on in situ dendritic cells activation
Maud Bouvier, Business Development Manager, ERYTech Pharma
Skuld-Tech: Genomics biomarkers for diagnostic/drug tandem purpose
Didier Ritter, CEO, Skuld-Tech
Innovative Cell: Based therapeutics & diagnostics
Olivier Boisteau, CEO, Cleancells
ALGOHUB™: Exploitation and use of microalgae in Nutrition & Health
Dominique Baumann, Vice President Technology, Roquette America Inc.
dScreen: Pooling “best in class” partners for breakthrough innovation in drug screening technologies
Patrick Tricoli, Head of European Access and External Innovations’ group, Sanofi-Aventis and Robert Cunningham, Vice President Business Development, Raindance Technologies
American Track
Philippe Jacon, President, Diagnostic Systems, BD Diagnostics
A speedy networking and meeting corner is available on the website www.fasttrackbio.com/2009, to meet potential partners and exchange with major biotech business actors.
The Fast Track will be moderated by Tristan ROUSSELLE, CEO and co-Founder, PX’Therapeutics.
The French Bio Clusters:
Lyonbiopôle (Rhône-Alpes Region), Medicen Paris Region, Alsace BioValley (Alsace Region), EUROBIOMED (PACA Languedoc/Roussillon region), Atlantic Biothérapies (Pays de Loire Region), Nutrition Healthcare Longevity Cluster (Lille Region), Cancer-Bio-Santé Cluster (Toulouse Region) and Prod’Innov (Bordeaux Region).
In collaboration with UBIFRANCE and the French Trade Commissions: www.ubifrance.fr
In partnership with:
the French Ministry of Economy, Industry and Employment , The Embassy of France in the United States of America (Office of S&T), The French Ministry for Research, and AFII.
For more information, please contact:
FRENCH TECHNOLOGY PRESS OFFICE
205 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 3740
Chicago, IL 60601
Tel.: (312) 327-5260
E-mail: contact.ftpo@ubifrance.fr
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