IBC Life Sciences’s BioProcess International(TM) Conference & Exhibition Heads to Raleigh, North Carolina

WESTBOROUGH, MA--(Marketwire - July 16, 2009) - IBC Life Sciences announced today details for the BioProcess International™ Conference & Exhibition, which serves the $80 billion biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry. The event will take place October 12-16, 2009, conveniently located at the Raleigh Convention Center in North Carolina, close to hundreds of biotech and biopharmaceutical companies in North Carolina's world-famous Research Triangle Park.

Kicking off on Monday with three Pre-Conference Symposiums, the main conference starts Tuesday and consists of four tracks: Manufacturing Efficiency and Supply Chain Security, Scaling up from Bench through Commercialization Cell Culture & Upstream Processing and Recovery & Purification. With a four day pass plus symposium, delegates will have access to a symposium plus all four tracks.

Conference highlights include 9 strategic discussion forums, 49 case studies, and 2 industry site tours to Diosynth Biotechnology and Biogen Idec, in addition to six keynote presentations throughout the week.

"This year we've taken into account delegates' requests for more examples of real-world applications by including 48 technical case studies from leading biopharmaceutical companies of all sizes," said Barry Walsh, Conference Director and Project Leader for IBC Life Sciences. "In addition, we have expanded coverage of the very popular strategic discussion forums, which provide intimate and uncensored settings to give attendees behind-the-scenes insight into what's working in the industry and today's most critical challenges."

Further networking opportunities will be available during the international exhibition to be open on October 13-15, where attendees have access to 150+ suppliers and the opportunity to participate in 8 themed round table discussions.

Additional content during the week includes collocated Formulation Strategies for Protein Therapeutics, a Biospace Career Fair, and three IBC Professional Training Academy courses.

For details and to register for BioProcess International™ Conference & Exhibition, please visit www.IBCLifeSciences.com/BPI.

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About IBC Life Sciences

IBC Life Sciences, the worldwide leader in scientific, technological and business conferences and courses for the life science industry. For more information, visit www.IBCLifeSciences.com.