2008 BIO International Convention Session List
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Finance
Food and Agriculture
Global Health
Growing the Biotech Workforce
Industrial and Environmental
Intellectual Property/Legal
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Manufacturing
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Public Relations/Investor Relations
Regenerative Medicine
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Bench to Products
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"The session will deal with novel emerging therapeutic modalities to address medical needs that cannot be met by existing therapeutic approaches. The opportunities to
complement some established modalities and the challenges
in building business around new therapeutic strategies will be discu...
Bioethics
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"When developing new approaches or options to treat disease, it is key that the industry establish and nurture its relationships with target patient organizations, their leaders and members. Exchanging information and providing education about disease
intervention and program development pave ...
Biomarkers
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Recent alliances for late-stage compounds have broken through traditional barriers. These include deal economics, joint responsibility for development and concurrent funding of multiple indications. This session will review several of the breakthrough deals of 2007.
Objective1: Prepare for the ma...
Clinical Research/Clinical Trials
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"FDA and the pharma/biotech industry are being compelled by Congress, healthcare payors and patients to be more transparent with respect to the conduct and outcomes of clinical trials, including through the new clinical trial registry requirements of the Food and Drug Administration
Amendments...
Devices and Predictive Diagnostics
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"Next-generation molecular diagnostics represent a rapidly growing field with transformative potential for cancer management and medical practice. Possible clinical
applications range from screening of asymptomatic individuals to predicting the risk of recurrence or response to therapy to surv...
Doing Business Globally
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Where are companies in this industry investing in growth, and why? How are industry clusters developing, and what critical issues or benefits are driving these location decisions by the executives as they choose where to invest? What are the U.S. states and cities doing to compete with other countri...
Drug Discovery and Development
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"The pharmaceutical industry is facing a continued decline in the productivity of new drug approvals—especially evident in new molecules designed to modulate "unprecedented" targets. Participants in this panel will discuss the factors contributing to clinical stage attrition and...
Emerging Company Issues
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"Companies filing their first NDA or BLA have a significantly lower likelihood of receiving first-cycle approval. Some factors contributing to this fact were discussed in an independent evaluation of FDA's first-cycle review performance, conducted by Booz Allen and currently being updated. This...
Finance
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Whether private or public, early or late stage, management teams and shareholders are turning to debt more often to lower their cost of capital and extend cash runways. Panel members representing equipment and growth lending, royalty financing, receivables financing and venture capital will offer pe...
Food and Agriculture
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The panel discussion will start with the tech providers' progress on implementation of the Excellence in Stewardship Programs and how it has brought in the grain handlers, food processors and regulators.
Objective1:Raise awareness of progress in implementing stewardship processes.
Objective2:D...
Global Health
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"Many disease areas have high incidence and great unmet medical needs in developing countries. From a company's perspective, there is a balance to be struck between developing a drug to help alleviate the disease burden in these countries and return on investment to ensure the business can surv...
Growing the Biotech Workforce
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"The adverse financial impact of workplace injuries and resulting loss of key talent and diminished morale can be more devastating than the failure of an investigational product. Yet workplace safety issues tend to suffer from a relative lack of attention until injuries manifest themselves. Thi...
Industrial and Environmental
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"Discussions about conversion of renewable feedstocks such as starch, sugars or biomass are dominated by the focus on firstand second-generation bioethanol. The existing technology of starch hydrolysis to fermentable sugars can also be exploited for the production of other compounds (e.g., chem...
Intellectual Property/Legal
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"The World Health Organization (WHO) is developing a framework for providing access to medicines in developing countries. Many of the proposals in the framework would
change IP practice and policies in WHO member states. A panel of experts will discuss the WHO's framework and will analyze the ...
International Case Studies
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This panel will delve into the status of biofuel development in China, a mammoth player on the international scene.
Objective1:Outline government policy regarding alternative biofuels.
Objective2:Examine the perspective of China's academic sector on biofuels.
Objective3:Industrial participa...
Manufacturing
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"Biotherapeutics are today the fastest-growing segment of the pharmaceutical industry, with more than 200 marketed
products and hundreds more in development. This growth has created new demands for innovation in manufacturing: increased production efficiency, improved flexibility to make multi...
Policy
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"In most industrialized countries the balance appears to be shifting even further toward cost containment and away from recognition of the value of innovative medicines. Despite initiatives such as the EU's Pharmaceutical Forum to address this imbalance, national policies in Europe, North Ameri...
Public Relations/Investor Relations
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"Scientific communication strategies play a significant role in establishing visibility, credibility and valuation for companies and product candidates. This panel will explore the trends and liabilities inherent in publication planning, and suggest methods to coordinate and integrate those tre...
Regenerative Medicine
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"This panel will focus on the challenges facing the development of viable stem cell companies and the strategies being used to overcome these issues. Speakers from well-established stem cell companies, a new start-up and the investment community will discuss what they believe to be the major ba...
Regulatory
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"Once a predominantly academic pursuit, clinical trials and sponsored research are now part of a growing business in which private companies, and in particular pharmaceutical companies, play a major role. As recent cases, investigations and developments reflect, the federal government is scruti...
Technology Transfer/Licensing
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"Changes in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries coupled with pressures on traditional research funding present a perfect storm for creating innovative university technology transfer activities. Here we'll explore four distinctive models of university-led initiatives to advance thera...