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Broad-Spectrum Antivirals: The “New” Holy Grail

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM on Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013


Description: Antibiotics gave us powerful weapons against bacterial infections. But viruses, with their interdependence on the cell and talent for mutation, have eluded similar clinical success. The goal is a new generation...
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Burrill State-of-the-Industry Report

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM on Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013


Description: G. Steven Burrill, CEO of Burrill & Company, a global financial services firm serving the life sciences industry, will discuss trends and hot topics from his new annual report, Biotech 2013:...
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Can Israel Become the Next Biotech Start-Up Nation?

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM on Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013


Description: In the last 20 years, Israel has become a model for high tech entrepreneurship. A country of 8 million people, Israel is home to a vibrant academic biomedical research sector, a...
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Can You Reap What You Sow? How the Necessity of Acquiring Early-Stage Assets Can Also Be Win-Win

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM on Monday, Apr 22, 2013


Description: How much is the focus on early stage assets driven by necessity or is the opportunity to fill pipelines with external expertise also an attractive opportunity? Can the increased risk be...
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Canadian Financial Incentives Spur Research and Development

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM on Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013


Description: SR&ED incentives promoted by the Government of Canada and certain Canadian provinces provide a significant financial incentive for companies to carry out research and development in Canada. Both Canadian and non-Canadian...
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Challenges and Opportunities for Small Companies in AgBiotech: Collaborating and Competing with the Majors

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM on Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013


Description: In an industry dominated by a few big, multinational corporations, it is easy to overlook the contributions made by small companies. Likewise, it can be difficult for small companies to develop...
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Choosing Both: Crop Engineering to Enable both Food and Fuel

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM on Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013


Description: Society’s needs for both affordable food and renewable fuels continue to grow. At a technological level, farmers, agronomists, and biotechnologists have constantly had to invent ways to improve to agricultural productivity,...
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Circulating Tumor Cells (CTC): From Enumeration to Comprehensive Molecular Characterization

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM on Monday, Apr 22, 2013


Description: Inexpensive, minimally-invasive diagnostics tests are important for the effective development of targeted cancer therapies because they can be used repeatedly throughout the course of disease to assess the effect, and even...
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Clinical Trials Modernization: Confronting Challenges to Study Start-Up - Avoid Delays, Improve Efficiency, Mitigate Risk

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM on Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013


Description: Conducting a modern clinical trial requires coordination of a large and diverse group of stakeholders – including patients, clinical investigators, physicians, regulators, and the research sponsors. Studies have suggested that barriers...
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Clinical Trials Modernization: The Promises and Challenges of Risk-Based Approaches to Monitoring

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM on Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013


Description: Monitoring the progress of clinical investigations typically involves frequent visits to each study site. However, general guidelines for Good Clinical Practice (GCP), FDA regulation, and International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) guideline...
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Clinical Trials Modernization: Tools for Developing the Clinical Trials of the Future

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM on Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013


Description: A variety of private-public partnerships focused on regulatory science are dedicated to new drug development tools (DDTs)—biomarkers, aids for patient-reported outcomes, novel clinical trial designs, new statistical approaches for analyzing clinical...
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7:00 AM - 7:00 PM on Monday, Apr 22, 2013


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8:00 AM - 5:00 PM on Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013


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8:00 AM - 5:30 PM on Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013


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8:30 AM - 11:30 AM on Thursday, Apr 25, 2013


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8:00 AM - 9:00 PM on Sunday, Apr 21, 2013


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Collaborating For Solutions: Public-Private Partnerships in Agricultural Development for Food Security

9:00 AM - 11:30 AM on Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013


Description: Format: Organizers will host a two-part symposium at BIO 2013 focused on public-private partnerships (PPPs). The first segment will explore three PPP case studies to demonstrate the challenges of scaling up...
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Companion Diagnostics: Demonstrating Value and Delivering Success

10:15 AM - 11:30 AM on Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013


Description: With a number of new partnership announcements between pharma and diagnostic companies, the companion diagnostics (CDx) field appears ripe to deliver. However, a number of strategic and technical pitfalls still need...
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Corporate Venture Capital in the AgTech Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM on Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013


Description: Major agriculture companies are increasingly looking externally to strengthen their R&D pipelines and develop new products. Corporate venture units within these companies play a vital role in sourcing this innovation and...
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Creating Value with Limited Liability Companies and Asset-Centric Investing

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM on Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013


Description: For decades, start-up companies across industries have been organized as corporations. Most investors insisted on this. However, to keep pace with the challenges facing the biotech industry, a handful of entrepreneurs...