BioSpace launches the 2008-2009 Pharm Country™ Hotbed Campaign

Biotech industry in the Northeast featured on Hotbed Map

SAN FRANCISO, CA, June 30, 2008 - BioSpace, the world’s leading online bioscience job board and life science career fair company, launched this morning the 2008-2009 Pharm Country™ Hotbed Campaign featuring the bioscience industry in Connecticut New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

The Pharm Country Hotbed Campaign features companies and academic institutions from the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device industries in the Northeast region of the United States. The 2008-2009 Pharm Country Hotbed Map is available for download at http://www.biospace.com/hotbed_map.aspx?ContentEntityID=934. Artistic renderings of buildings, logos, and the geographic location of the participating companies is displayed on this unique map. Various print collateral pieces and promotional materials are distributed throughout the year to life science professionals at events all over the United States and abroad, including BioSpace Career Fairs and a special mailing to laboratory managers across the United States.

Sponsors for this year’s Pharm Country Hotbed Campaign are BioNJ, Long Island Life Sciences Initiative (LILSI), and the Center for Biotechnology. Other organizations featured on the map include Pfizer, Purdue Pharma, Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, inVentiv Health, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Lancaster Laboratories and over 20 other participants including research institutes and universities. Detailed online profiles of all participating organizations including contact information, career opportunities, financial updates, and company history can be found through the Pharm Country homepage, http://www.biospace.com/hotbed.aspx?regionid=19, which also features fresh daily biopharmaceutical industry news and information from the region.

“BioSpace is proud to announce the launch of this year’s Pharm Country Hotbed Campaign,” said Wes Crews, CEO of BioSpace. “The Pharm Country region remains a strong and thriving biopharmaceutical market and is well represented on this year’s map.”

About BioSpace

BioSpace is the leading online community for life science careers, news and information. For over 23 years BioSpace has helped to accelerate recruitment, communication and discovery among business and scientific leaders in the biopharmaceutical market. The company’s flagship life science industry Web site, BioSpace.com (www.biospace.com), offers unparalleled opportunities for targeted recruitment, product, investment, event and other bioscience messaging. The company also hosts over 25 biopharmaceutical career events annually.

BioSpace is a subsidiary of onTargetjobs (www.ontargetjobs.com) and also powers DeviceSpace (www.devicespace.com) and ClinicaSpace (www.clinicaspace.com), online communities for medical device and clinical research professionals respectively.

CONTACT:
BioSpace
Brian Vacanti
Vice President, Marketing
817-717-1404

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