ZURICH, Switzerland & CARLSBAD, Calif. & VIENNA, Austria--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At the closing of BIO-Europe 2008 in Mannheim/Heidelberg which saw 2400 life science executives engage in an astounding 10,250 one-to-one meetings, EBD Group today announced that next year’s BIO-Europe partnering conference will pay a visit to Vienna, Austria. The 15th annual edition of BIO-Europe, the world’s largest stand-alone partnering event will gather leaders of the life science industry at the Wiener Messe on Nov. 2–4, 2009 to take dealmaking to a new level. This represents the first time in the conference’s 14 year history that it will venture outside of Germany, and is testimony to the recognition of the Vienna region’s emergence as a robust cluster of biotech innovation.