DUSSELDORF, Germany & WASHINGTON, DC & CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dr. Jürgen Rüttgers, the Minister President of the State of Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW), will be addressing the conference on his plans to develop the region as a biotech hub. Dr. Rüttgers is arguably Germany’s leading political figurehead for the life science sector. In the mid 1990s, as Germany’s Minister of Science and Technology, he was responsible for devising and executing Germany’s BioRegio programme, which laid the foundations for Germany’s thriving biotech sector today.
