Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Register Onsite to Attend the Life Sciences Summit

Online registration has closed for the 9th Annual Georgia Life Sciences Summit, but attendees can still register onsite at the AmericasMart on October 28. Don’t miss the biggest bioscience event of the year in Georgia and the most efficient opportunity to network with your peers in the industry.


Among the features of the 2010 Summit will be the first-ever BioCareer Resource Center, offering career insights and recruiting resources to Summit attendees to help them with their job searches in this challenging economy. Preceding the official opening of the Summit, a panel of seasoned recruiters and career experts will share insights on the current job market, high-demand skills and experience, and tips on transitioning careers. The panel discussion, from 8:30 am to 9:30 am.


Human resource experts also will be available at the Career Resource Center throughout the day to offer 15-minute counseling sessions to Summit attendees, on a first-come, first-served basis. Attendees can sign up for sessions following the panel discussion.


Georgia Bio’s Georgia Life Sciences Summit will include more than 50 expert speakers discussing trends and issues. Here is a link to the full Summit Program and to Register for the Summit.


The opening plenary session begins at 10 a.m.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Find Out Why You Can't Miss the 2010 GA Life Sciences Summit

PRESS RELEASES

Summit Panel to Highlight Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cell Research in Georgia

Summit Panels to Discuss Cell-Based Therapies, Cancer Trials, Innovative Deal-Making

Biotech Investment Expert Steve Burrill to Deliver Keynote Lunch Speech at 2010 Summit

GaBio Life Sciences Summit to Feature First-Ever BioCareer Resource Center

GaBio Life Sciences Summit to Feature Roles of Big Pharma, Academia in Global Health

GaBio to Honor Bernie and Billi Marcus for Advancing Medical Innovation

Only 1 Week Until the Georgia Life Sciences Summit - Register Today

The much-anticipated 9th Annual Georgia Life Sciences Summit, October 28 at AmericasMart in Atlanta, is only one week away. It promises to be the best program ever, featuring nationally and internationally renowned headline speakers and another 40 experts exploring the hottest trends and issues in 12 panel sessions throughout the day.

Featured Panels:
  • Cell-Based Therapies to Address Unmet Patients Needs
  • Expanding Access to Cancer Clinical Trials and Treatments through a - Statewide Research Network
  • Funding and Partnering Innovation
In addition, Georgia Bio will honor Bernie and Billi Marcus for their deep and sustained commitment to bioscience research and medical innovation in Georgia.

About 800 bioscience professionals from across Georgia, the Southeast and nation are expected to attend the Summit. They include CEOs and senior executives of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies, university officials and scientists, hospital administrators and physicians, investors, economic developers and public policy experts. This year’s theme is “Innovation for a Healthier World…Meeting the Challenge.

Mr. Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot and Chairman of the Board of the Marcus Foundation, also will deliver a keynote address at the Life Sciences Summit. Other featured Summit speakers include Dr. Ricardo Azziz, President of the Medical College of Georgia; G. Steven Burrill, CEO of Burrill & Co., a biotechnology pioneer and investment visionary; Dr. Vasant Narasimhan, President, Vaccines USA and Head, Vaccines North America, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics; Dr. Mark Rosenberg, President and CEO of the Task for Global Health; and Dr. Michael Rosenblatt, Merck and Co.’s Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer.

REGISTER AT www.gabio.org/summit2010

Thursday, July 22, 2010

ATDC gets new chief - Atlanta Business Chronicle

Tech business incubator, ATDC, has a new chief — one with entrepreneurial and biotech roots.

Nina Sawczuk will take over as director of Startup Services and general manager of the Advanced Technology Development Center in August.

Sawczuk was picked for the top job because she is "the complete package," said Stephen Fleming, vice provost at Georgia Tech's Enterprise Innovation Institute.

Read more: ATDC gets new chief - Atlanta Business Chronicle

ATDC gets new chief - Atlanta Business Chronicle

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Healing, Fueling, Feeding: How Biotechnology is Enriching Your Life

BIO recently released a new report Healing, Fueling, Feeding: How Biotechnology Is Enriching Your Life, and companion web site (valueofbiotech.org) which underscores how biotechnology is benefiting society now more than ever, and is poised to help address some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

Monday, June 7, 2010

2010 Race for Governor: Candidates Respond to GaBio Life Sciences Questions

Georgia Bio asked all the gubernatorial candidates to submit written answers to three questions of critical importance to the Georgia’s life sciences industry and the state’s future.

Details Available at: http://www.gabio.org/content.aspx?pageid=137

Democratic Party Candidate Responses
Attorney General Thurbert Baker
Former Governor Roy Barnes
Bill Bolton
Mayor Carl Camon
General David Poythress

Republican Party Candidate Responses
Former Congressman Nathan Deal
Former State Senator Eric Johnson
Otis Putnam


Not all candidates submitted answers. Those candidates who have not responded can still send their answers. They will be posted as received.

Monday, May 3, 2010

GA Trend Feature: Georgia's Biotech Future

Georgia's Biotech Future

Jerry Grillo published May 2010

The industry accounts for 62,000 jobs, $3.6 billion in labor income and $517 million in tax revenues ...but we’re not there yet.


It was the kind of blockbuster news that gave hope to the dying, a bullish revelation that sent stock prices soaring. After decades of theorizing and testing and coming up with mostly nothing, medical scientists found a way of stimulating the body’s immune system to attack cancer cells and prevent the disease from recurring.

The company that makes this revolutionary immunotherapy drug, Seattle-based Dendreon, wants to be in Georgia – in Union City – and it will spend a lot of money and create hundreds of jobs for the privilege. Dendreon made the announcement a few months after Atlanta hosted the world’s largest gathering of biotech professionals, the 2009 BIO International Convention.

“It’s part of the ripple effect of hosting that convention,” says Charlie Craig, president of Georgia Bio, the nonprofit association that represents the state’s life science industry, with 300 members, including companies, universities, government groups and other industry associations.

Keep Reading at: http://www.georgiatrend.com/features-business-industry/05_10_biotech.shtml