BIO International Convention 2007 - Announcements
Special One-Day Registrations For Researchers
BIO is making available to researchers at MATTO Institutions a special one-day limited academic pass. These passes are $100 each and will give academics a day at BIO with access to all the panels and the exhibits but not the general sessions. This is a considerable discount on normal BIO registration fees. If you have researchers who would like to attend BIO for just one day please contact Julia Goldberg at jgoldberg@umassp.edu and the appropriate registration codes will be sent to you.
Biotechnology Entrepreneurship Boot Camp
BIO will hold a Biotechnology Entrepreneurship Boot Camp on May 6 and 7. Registration for this event is $245 in addition to convention registration. (Academics may use a one day limited pass ($100) as their convention registration to attend this event and BIO will allow them to attend both days of the Boot Camp for no additional charge.) For more information on the Boot Camp please visit http://bio2007.org/program/sessiondesc.asp?sid=940.
Other MTTC/MATTO involvement at BIO
Over a dozen MATTO members will form an “Academic Alley” in the Massachusetts Pavilion - please stop by and visit if you are in the exhibit hall. Many thanks to the MTC’s Life Sciences Collaborative for their sponsorship of this area.
Approximately 70 researchers from MATTO members will have posters on display in the Innovation Corridor. Through a sponsorship from Alnylam all of these researchers have been given a full conference pass. If you have researchers in the Innovation Corridor, please make sure that they take full benefit from these full passes and attend as much of the conference as possible.
MATTO Chair, Todd Keiller, will run a panel session on Monday, May 7 at 2:00 titled “Does Size Matter? Working with Differing Research Institutions”. Todd will be joined by Irene Abrams, Brandeis University; Reid Leonard, Ph.D., Merck Research Laboratories; Robert Pucciariello, Evolved Nanomaterial Sciences Inc.; and Frances Toneguzzo, Ph.D, Partners Healthcare.