WASHINGTON, and CARLSBAD, Calif., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- This year’s BIO-Europe 2003 9th Annual International Partnering Conference set new standards and remains the undisputed champion in the biotech partnering arena. Despite a still recovering biotech industry, BIO-Europe 2003 attracted more than 1,200 attendees, again a significant increase from last year. With over 3,300 individual partnering meetings and 200 company presentations the event cemented its position as the largest partnering meeting in the biotech and biopharmaceutical industry.
“Boehringer Ingelheim has been part of BIO-Europe since its very first event eight years ago. It is truly an unprecedented platform for initiating biotech partnerships and co-operations. Once again, the event met all our expectations,” said Jonathan Turner, Head of Business Development at Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH.
“The presence of not only a huge number of biotech companies from all around the world but also the high number of mid- and big sized pharma companies was impressive and of enormous importance for us,” added Mary Callan, VP of Business Development at Morphotek. “We consider attendance at BIO-Europe an absolute ‘must’.”
BIO-Europe along with BioSquare, which is held annually in the spring, are the two key partnering conferences in Europe hosted by the Biotechnology Industry Organization together with the E.B.D. Group. BioSquare 2004 will take place in Basel, Switzerland, March 10 - 12, 2004, and will also be co-hosted by Biovision, EuropaBio & the JBA.
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), headquartered in Washington, D.C., represents more than 1,000 biotechnology companies, academic institutions and state biotechnology centers in 47 U.S. states and 26 nations. BIO members are involved in research and development of health care, agricultural, industrial and environmental products.
E.B.D. Group, Inc. with offices in Carlsbad, CA and Munich, Germany, as well as the U.K. and Canada is an international business development and clinical development practice serving the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and service industries. With their partners BIO, BioCentury and BioSquare SAS, E.B.D. Group also organizes a number of conferences targeted to the global life science communities.
E.B.D. Group
CONTACT: Carola Schropp, Principal, of E.B.D. Group, +1-760-930-0500
