| The Sachs-Bloomberg Annual Global Biotech Forum is a
highly international meeting which draws together an exciting cross-section
of venture-funded and small-cap companies with leading investors and pharmas.
The event annually attracts an audience of over 400 industry players.
The programme looks jointly at issue of BioPartnering
and BioInvesting, with morning presentations from investors, pharmas and
big biotechs.
Speakers provisionally include:
- William
C. Mills III, Partner, Advent
International,
Co-Head of Biopharmaceutical and Medical Technology
Venture Capital
- Jean
M. George, Partner, Advanced
Technology Ventures
- Dr.
Paul Haycock, Director, Apax
Partners
- Margaret
A. Flanagan, Ph.D., Global Alliance
Director, Enabling
Science and Technology, AstraZeneca
Pharmaceuticals
- Jean-Francois
Formela, Senior Principal,
Atlas
Venture
- Prof.
Dr. Jesper Zeuthen, Managing Director,
BankInvest
Bio Venture
- Dr.
Kalevi Kurkijärvi Ph.D., Senior
Partner, Chairman & CEO,
Bio
Fund Management Oy Ltd
- G.
Steven Burrill, CEO, Burrill
& Company
- Pierre
Cantin, Partner,
CDP
Capital Technology Ventures
- P.Louis
Myers Ph.D, J.D, Principal,
Fish
& Richardson P.C.
- Jan van
Heek, Executive Vice President,
Therapeutics and Genetics, Genzyme
Corp.
- Dr. Jeffrey
S. Flier, Chief Academic Officer,
Harvard Faculty Dean
for Academic Affairs, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, George C.
Reisman Professor of Medicine, Harvard
Medical School
- Dr.
Gary T. Shearman, Investment
Advisor, HBM
Partners AG
- Christopher
K. Mirabelli Ph.D, General Partner,
HealthCare
Ventures, LLC
- Stan
Yakatan, Chairman, Katan
Associates
- Eileen
Smith Ewing, Esq., Partner
and Chair of the life Sciences Practice Group,
Kirkpatrick
& Lockhart LLP
- Dr. Ian
Nisbet, VELCADE
Product Leader, Millennium
Pharmaceuticals Inc
- Andrew
Greene, Managing Director,
Merlin
Biosciences
- Theodore J. Roumel, Assistant
Director, Office of Technology Transfer, National
Institutes of Health
- Dr.
Samir Master, Vice President, Business
Development and
Licensing, Global Head, Search and Evaluation, Novartis
Pharma AG
- Michael
Lytton, General Partner,
Oxford
BioScience Partners
- Dr.
Christoph H. Westphal, General Partner,
Polaris
Venture Partners
- James
M. Garvey, CEO
and Managing Partner, Schroder
Ventures Life
- Paul
Sekhri, Partner, Healthcare
Technology, The
Sprout Group
- Dr.
Gert A. Caspritz, General Partner,
Techno
Venture Management
- Stewart
J. Hen, Managing Director,
Warburg
Pincus LLC
- Ben
Bronstein, Managing Director,
Zero
Stage Capital
These were followed by afternoon
sector workshops featuring up to 50 smaller companies looking for finance/partnering.
A special plenary session also featured up to 10 small-cap/listed company
presentations.
In addition, there were separate
science presentations from leading academics
outlining developments in key research areas for future investment. Notably,
the Academic Keynote on his research into Obesity as an area for future
investment & commercial development was given by:
- Dr. Jeffrey S. Flier,
Chief Academic Officer, Harvard Faculty
Dean for Academic Affairs,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine, Harvard
Medical School
For further details of this years event, please contact Alexandra Howells
on Alexandra@sachsforum.com
or tel: +44 207 405 5544.
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