CARLSBAD, Calif. & SHANGHAI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EBD Group, the leading partnering firm for the global life science industry, and ChinaBio® LLC, today announced the launch of a co-produced partnering conference, the ChinaBio® Partnering Forum, to be held June 23–24, 2009 in Shanghai, China. The ChinaBio® Partnering Forum is the first biotech/pharma partnering conference to be held in China, and promises to become the largest and most productive such event in the country.