More than 700 business people from across the Southeast gravitated to Winston-Salem for Biotech 2008, the largest industry conference in the region. View highlights from the 17th annual event, hosted by CED, which included presentations by thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, investors and researchers from the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and life sciences.
Featured speakers included former North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt Jr., Frederick Frank, vice chairman and a director of Lehman Brothers Inc., in New York; John Maraganore, president and CEO of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in Cambridge, Mass.; and Edward Saltzman, founder and president of Defined Health in Florham Park, N.J.
Among the companies represented at the conference were: AAI Pharma, AlphaVax, Bayer Cropscience, BD Technologies, Biogen Idec, Duke Energy, Genentech, GSK, Inc., Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Lehman Brothers, Merck, NovaQuest, Novozyme, POZEN Inc., PPD, Progress Energy, Quintiles, Serenex, Merz Pharmaceuticals, Targacept, Tranzyme Pharma and Wyeth Biotech. The wide range of attendees underscores the conference's relevance, and North Carolina's prominence, in the biotechnology industry.
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Hold the date for Biotech 2009 happening FEBRUARY 16-17, 2009 at the new Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, NC.