WESTBOROUGH, MA--(Marketwire - February 05, 2008) - IBC announced that its 16th International Intensive Symposium, Biological Assay Development & Validation, will be held May 14-16, 2008 at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins in San Francisco, CA. This meeting is designed for scientists, analysts, assay statisticians, and managers who work with biological assays during development or routine product release. The three day conference covers techniques for streamlining development and validation, technology and regulatory trends of development, and developing, qualifying, validating and maintaining biological assays.