CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) will host the 2005 MIT Life Sciences Conference on March 9 and 10 at MIT’s Wong Auditorium. The conference, entitled “The Ongoing Promises and Challenges of Biotherapeutics,” will address technological challenges, recent innovations, and opportunities in three broad areas: optimizing biomolecules for therapeutic effect, improving therapeutic biomolecule production and formulation, and the promise of stem cell and nuclear cloning technologies to yield new ways to treat and cure diseases.
“There’s a lot of cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research going on at MIT that applies engineering to problems in biology and medicine,” says associate director of the ILP and conference coordinator Don McGowan, citing a number of departments, labs, and centers at the Institute where life sciences research takes place. “This conference will focus on what researchers at MIT, as well as others at Harvard and in industry, are doing to probe the inner-workings of large, complex molecules involved in the health of humans and other biological organisms, and to design similar types of molecules that may be helpful in fighting disease.”
The Industrial Liaison Program has drawn speakers from a range of MIT, Harvard, and industrial research initiatives focused on developing and improving biologic- and cell-based therapies for future applications in medicine. “We anticipate that this program will interest and engage a wide range of researchers and business leaders from the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, as well as from other communities that expect to benefit over the next 10 to 20 years from the advance of biological therapies for disease,” said McGowan.
The registration fee for this program is $1,450. Registrations on or before February 15, 2005, is $1,200. Registration is accessible via the online form only. You may call MIT Conference Services at 617-253-1700 for information about your registration status, but no registrations will be taken by phone. For non-registration questions, please call LeaAnn Maupin at 617- 258-9419. For more information about the 2005 MIT Life Sciences Conference, including an online agenda, brochure and registration, go to http://ilp-www.mit.edu/events/LifeSciences2005/.
About the MIT Industrial Liaison Program
The Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) is industry’s chief gateway to MIT, enabling companies worldwide to harness MIT resources to address current challenges and to anticipate future needs. The ILP helps company managers monitor MIT research developments, identify and arrange expert consultations with MIT faculty, license MIT-owned intellectual property, and facilitate corporate objectives through sponsored research at MIT. The professional staff of Industrial Liaison Officers facilitates customized interactions for
nearly 200 multinational companies. For more information please see the ILP Web site at http://ilp-www.mit.edu/.
CONTACTS The MIT Industrial Liaison Program Michael Lawson 617-452-3053
The MIT Industrial Liaison Program
CONTACT: Michael Lawson of The MIT Industrial Liaison Program,+1-617-452-3053
