Profession Bio-Entrepreneur, France's annual event for entrepreneurs in biotech, pharma and healthcare will take place this year on Thursday and Friday 12-13 March. It is organized by Centrale-Santé, part of the association of the Ecole Centrale, one of France's top graduate schools in partnership with MEDEC, France's annual healthcare show and conference. There is no charge for entry and registration may be done on-line (as long as space is available).
This 8th edition of the forum takes place at a time of great financial uncertainty and offers industry professionals two days of intense debate and networking to identify new issues and opportunities which will enable them to be better "bio-entrepreneurs".
This year's theme is "The convergence of diagnostics, therapeutics, imaging, medical devices and engineering".
The forum will also focus on Switzerland, the country which is this year's guest of honour, and which is a leading player in the international life sciences industry. Representatives of Roche, Merck-Serono, Debiopharm, Addex Pharmaceuticals, the Swiss Biotech Association, Biocartis and the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne) are all planning to take part.
You can download the provisional programme of Bio-Entrepreneur 2009 and register for free on bio-entrepreneur.
Event partners include bodies such as the Adebiotech biotech association, ACIP (Association des Cadres de l'Industrie Pharmaceutique - Pharma industry managers' association), AMIPS (Association des Médecins des Industries des Produits de Santé - doctor's association), Leem (Les Entreprises du Médicament - French pharmaceutical industry association), Catalyse Biosciences, a group of regional bodies responsible for encouraging the life science industries, and Interbiotech, an association to stimulate networking and business development across all life sciences. Media partners are Biotech Info, Innovation, Pharmaceutiques with Andrew Lloyd & Associates handling the public relations. There are also a number of industry partners.
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