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30.06.2010 | 0 comments

A Catalan delegation of some fifteen research centers and biotech and pharma companies left for Montpellier today to participate in the 2nd Biotechnology and Healthcare Euro-Regional Meetings, which will be held 1 and 2 July. Participants include Oryzon, Arquebio, Trifermed, Salutis, Ninsar Agrosciences, Parc de l’Alba, Biopol, the UAB Research Park, the Barcelona Science Park, the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology, the Biomedical Engineering Research Center, among others.

Biocat, as a member of the driving committee for these meetings, is leading the delegation. The Meetings aim to foster knowledge among the main biotechnology and healthcare stakeholders in the Southern Europe Biocluster, which is a euro-regional network of life sciences clusters made up of Biocat (Catalonia), Innovalis and Prod’Innov (Aquitania), BioIB and the Government of the Balearic Islands Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs (Balearic Islands), Biomerides and Eurobiomed (Languedoc-Roussillon) and Cancer Bio-Santé and BioMedicalAlliance (Midi-Pyrénées). The meetings also aim to promote joint projects among members, accelerate existing scientific and economic cooperation, and help get a snapshot of the current state of innovation in these areas.

The Euro-regional Meetings offer an agenda of scientific sessions, partnering meetings, an exhibition space and a Technology Room, where the top fifty innovative biotech companies and research centers will explain their activities.  More than 260 people participated in the first Meetings, in 2007, with more than 235 business meetings held.

Meetings with European partners

In this framework, Biocat will also hold meetings with European partners in the Interbio project driven by the European Union, which aims to put South-West Europe at the cutting-edge of research. French, Valencian, Portuguese and Catalan bodies participate in this project in order to strengthen translational research and collaboration among technology platforms.

The meetings will also establish the details of the two most important upcoming events: the Second Summer School on Medicines (SSM2), which will be held from 31 August through 11 September in Toulouse and Barcelona, and the NanoBiotechnology & IT for Health workshop, which will be held in Barcelona from 4 to 6 October.

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