BIO India International Partnering Conference (Sep,2011)

BIO India International Partnering Conference
September 21-22, 2011 , Hyderabad, India

About BIO India

This exclusive forum will bring together biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies from North America, Europe and Asia to meet and explore business opportunities with India’s emerging biotech sector.

BIO brings to India more than ten years of experience and expertise in biotech and pharmaceutical partnering. BIO is renowned for its successful partnering meetings in the U.S., Japan and Germany, including the biotech world’s largest partnering event, the Business Forum, at the BIO International Convention. ABLE, BIO’s partner in India, brings to the meeting extensive local expertise and its comprehensive network of Indian and Asian biotech and pharmaceutical companies.

Private one-on-one meetings between investors, large biotech and pharmaceutical companies and emerging Indian biotech companies will be arranged through BIO’s new state-of-the-art software.

Program

More information about the 2011 program schedule will be coming soon.

Last year’s program included topics on deal structures, IP and tech transfer and financing innovation in India.

2010 Program

Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Luncheon

• M.K. Bhan, MBBS, MD, Secretary, Dept of Biotechnology, Government
  of India (via telecast)
• Vijay Chandru, PhD, Chairman and CEO; Strand LS and ABLE
• Alan Eisenberg, EVP, Emerging Companies and Business Development,
  Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
• Jeremy Levin, MD, PhD, Sr VP, Strategic Transactions Group,
  Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairman and Managing Director, Biocon Ltd.

Plenary Session: Unique Deal Structures

Moderator:

• Karen Bernstein, PhD, Editor-in-Chief and Chairman, BioCentury

Panelists:

• Rashmi Barbhaiya, MD, CEO and Managing Director, Advinus Therapeutics
• Achin Gupta, Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals
• Sri Mosur, President and CEO, Jubilant Biosys Ltd.

Plenary Luncheon: IP and Tech Transfer in India

Moderator:

• Thomas Moga, Shook, Hardy and Bacon LLP

Panelists:

• Pravin Anand, Managing Partner, Anand and Anand
• Deepam Mishra, CEO, i2india
• Arundeep Pradham, Associate VP, Tech Transfer and Business Development, Oregon State University

Closing Plenary Session: Financing of Innovation in India

Moderator:

• Jasmin Patel, PhD, Managing Director, FIL Capital Advisors

Panelists:

• Srini Akkaraju, MD, PhD, Managing Director, New Leaf Venture Partners
• Hitesh Sharma, Partner and Leader, Life Science Practice, Ernst & Young
• Sunny Sharma, MD, Senior Managing Director, OrbiMed Advisors
• KV Subramanian, CFA, President and CEO, Reliance Life Sciences

BIO One-on-One Partnering

BIO One-on-One Partnering will open in spring 2011.

To request access to BIO One-on-One Partnering, you must:

1) Register for the conference (registration opens Spring 2011)
and
2) Indicate an intent to partner on your registration record. Upon approval, an e-mail confirmation with login information will be sent within 3 business days of receipt.

BIO One-on-One Partnering is proprietary software developed by BIO that allows registrants to utilize an online database tool to:

• Search company and investor profiles
• Evaluate potential collaborations and funding opportunities with participating companies
• Communicate directly with prospective investors and senior business and scientific management
• Pre-schedule private one-on-one meetings

With the overall objective of creating a friendly environment to initiate business contacts, scheduled meetings take place in 30-minute intervals in booths provided by BIO onsite at the conference. Prior to the conference, pre-scheduled meetings are arranged via BIO One-on-One Partnering by a BIO team member. This industry-specific, Web-based interactive software enables participants to move efficiently from the identification of prospective partners to discussion and negotiations.

Organizers

BIO India is an international partnering conference organized by BIO (the Biotechnology Industry Organization) and ABLE (Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises)

About BIO (the Biotechnology Industry Organization)
BIO represents more than 1.100 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations across the United States and in more than 30 other nations. BIO members are involved in the research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology technologies. BIO also produces the annual BIO International Convention, the world’s largest gathering of the biotechnology industry, along with industry-leading innovator and partnering meetings held around the world.

Biotechnology Industry Organization
1201 Maryland Ave SW, Suite 900 | Washington DC, 20024
202-962-6200

About ABLE (the Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises)

ABLE is a national forum that represents the India biotechnology sector. ABLE was launched by leaders in the biotech industry and has over 200 members from various verticals in the biotech sector. ABLE’s objectives are to promote entrepreneurship, investments and partnerships in the biotech sector, working with the government in their biotech initiatives and disseminating information on the biotech sector.

ABLE
# 123/C, 16th Main Road
5th Cross, 4th Block
Near Sony World showroom / Headstart school
Koramangala
Bangalore - 560034 India
Telefax : +91 80 41636853 / 2563 3853