BioPartnering North America(TM) Offers Unique Presenting Opportunities for Innovative Life Science Companies

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - September 18, 2009) - Technology Vision Group LLC™ (TVG) is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for company presentations and exhibition booths at the 8th Annual BioPartnering North America™ (BPN) conference, which will be held at the Westin Bayshore Resort in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, on 24-26 January 2010.

Presenting opportunities will be limited to 102 companies. Applications to present can be submitted online at www.techvision.com/bpn/apply.

BPN will be held on 24-26 January this year, just prior to the Winter Olympics in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, so plan early!

Early registration is now open for BPN. Register now at www.techvision.com/bpn/registration and receive a discounted registration rate.

Brent Vaughan, of KineMed, Inc., commented:

“As a past presenter at TVG conferences in both the US and Europe, I make the TVG conferences a high priority because of the quality of interactions they have provided with top-tier potential partners and investor groups...Presenting at TVG conferences has proven to be a very time-efficient way to meet with many top-tier potential partners.”

Company Presentations

This year, BPN will showcase 102 innovative companies from all parts of the world in 13-minute podium presentations. Company presentations provide excellent exposure to a broad spectrum of international life science business development executives from the biotech, pharmaceutical, investor, government and academic communities. In the past, BPN podium presentations have featured many young companies that have gone on to become some of the industry’s most important players.

Exhibition: “Spotlight on Biotechnology”

Join leading biotechnology companies, regional and international trade organizations to showcase your company or organization at BioPartnering North America’s new “Spotlight on Biotechnology” two-day Exhibition Hall. For more details, visit www.techvision.com/bpn/exhibition.

The Power of biopartnering.com™

BPN offers a process of over 3-months of networking, which provides a platform to partner with leading decision-makers from pharmaceutical, biotechnology and investment sectors in the global life science community. Access to biopartnering.com, the leading global life science conference partnering tool, specifically designed and developed by TVG, makes identifying and meeting with potential business opportunities easy and is the preferred networking tool for numerous life science events around the globe. BPN 2009 delegates experienced a 40% increase in the number of face-to-face meetings scheduled at last year’s conference.

To see a list of companies that attended BPN 2009, please visit www.techvision.com/bpn/participants

Sponsorships and International Delegations Also Available

Leverage your presence at BPN and become a Sponsor. Sponsorships are available and Delegations are eligible to receive group discounts for delegate, podium presenter and exhibition registrations.

Full details about BioPartnering North America online at www.techvision.com/bpn.

Hosts

LifeSciences British Columbia; BioAlberta; BIOTECanada

2010 Podium Presenters (As of 2 September 2009)

Agere Pharmaceuticals; Agile Therapeutics, Inc.; Aquinox Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Augurex Life Sciences Corp.; Conformetrix; Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (Research Institute); ImmunoVaccine Technologies Inc.; Italian Trade Commission; Otonomy, Inc; PolyMedix; Profectus BioSciences Inc.; Protaffin Biotechnologie AG; Sandoz International GmbH; University of Manitoba; YM BioSciences Inc.; Zymeworks

Exhibitors (As of 2 September 2009)

French Trade Commission; General Biologic; Italian Trade Commission; Pharmatek Laboratories, Inc.; Pirimal Healthcare; Silence Therapeutics