NEW YORK, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The UBS Global Life Sciences Conference opens today at the Grand Hyatt in New York City and runs through Thursday, September 30. The Conference will feature presentations by 365 public and private companies representing biotechnology, medical device manufacturers, pharmaceuticals and specialty pharmaceuticals from 18 different countries.
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Now in its sixth year, the UBS Global Life Sciences Conference is among the largest health care investor conferences in the world. The leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical technology companies will be in attendance representing more than one trillion dollars of market capitalization. More than 3,500 people are expected to attend. Presenting companies include:
Actelion Ltd Agilent Technologies, Inc. Amgen Applied Biosystems Bausch & Lomb Baxter International Inc. Bayer AG Beckman Coulter, Inc. Becton, Dickinson and Company Biogen IDEC Inc. Biomet, Inc. Biovail Corporation Celgene Corporation Cephalon, Inc. Chiron Corporation The Cooper Companies, Inc. Cytyc Corporation Dade Behring Holdings, Inc. DENTSPLY International Inc. Edwards Lifesciences Eli Lilly and Company Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. GE Healthcare Genentech Genzyme Corporation Gilead Sciences, Inc. GN Store Nord A/S Hillenbrand Industries, Inc. ImClone Systems Incorporated Inamed Corporation Invitrogen Corporation IVAX Corporation Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (KCI) Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings The Mayne Group Medicis MedImmune, Inc. Medtronic, Inc. Mettler-Toledo International Inc. Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Millipore Corporation OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pall Corporation PerkinElmer, Inc. Pfizer Inc. Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc. Quest Diagnostics Incorporated Schering AG Sepracor Inc. Serono S.A. Shire Pharmaceuticals Sigma-Aldrich Corporation Smith & Nephew plc Smiths Group plc Thermo Electron Corporation Varian Medical Systems, Inc. Warner Chilcott plc Waters Corporation Wyeth Online conference information
To access audio transmissions and the conference agenda please go to the UBS Investment Bank website at http://www.ibb.ubs.com/. Audio transmissions of company presentations will be available live and by replay. Replays will begin three hours after the actual presentation time and will be available on the site for a period of four weeks.
UBS Investment Bank is a business group of UBS AG , one of the world’s leading financial firms. The investment banking and securities business is among the select bracket of major global houses, providing a full range of products to institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments and hedge funds. UBS employs around 66,000 people in 50 countries and is listed on the New York, Tokyo and Zurich stock exchanges.
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CONTACT: William Dentzer or Kris Kagel, Conference press desk,+1-646-213-6917
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