L’INIZIATIVA
I mass-media si occupano sempre più spesso del mondo scientifico universitario, presentandone sia i successi (importanti) che le problematiche (purtroppo tante).
La cronaca si focalizza principalmente sui temi più gettonati: carenza di fondi e vuoti legislativi, cervelli in fuga e riforme incomplete, precari mal pagati e specializzandi non retribuiti.
Ma è tutto qui il panorama della Ricerca ?
Cosa significa oggi in concreto per un giovane affacciarsi al mondo scientifico italiano ?

Prague, Czech Republic
European and International Forum on Nanotechnology organized by the Technology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic with the support of the European Commission under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic as an official event of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

For further information:
CZECH-In s.r.o.
Lukas Marecek
Prague Congress Centre
5. kvetna 65
Prague 4, CZ 140 00
Phone: +420 261 174 304
Fax: +420 261 174 307
e-mail: info@euronanoforum2009.eu

http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference-09/

The 5th International Conference on e-Social Science will be held in
Cologne, Germany on 24th - 26th June 2009. The conference is held in
collaboration with the German Social Science Infrastructure Services
(GESIS). GESIS is an institution devoted to research and service, which,
by providing information, consultation and data, supports and
facilitates scientific work at every stage of the research process.

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On November, 17 - 19 , 2008, Mannheim (Germany) will host the BIO-Europe event, the 14th annual international partnering conference. Bio-Europe brings together international decision-makers from the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and financial sectors, offering networking opportunities, workshop participation, and private, pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings. Investment and collaboration opportunities developed in prior BIO- Europe conferences have produced many highly successful business partnerships.

For further information, www.ebdgroup.com/bioeurope/

During “Biotechnica”, on October the 8th - 9th in Hannover (Germany)-Convention Center, the European Association of Pharma Biotechnology is organizing “Science to Market”. As a European event, this conference aims at the promotion of partnering between academia, biotech and pharmaceutical industry. It covers a broad spectrum of topics in the fields of biopharmaceutical drug development and novel biotechnological approaches.
If you’re student, the registration fee is € 55,00.

The Marble arch Working Group on International Biobanking is organizing a Convention that will be held on October 9th 2008, in Milan, at Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, in order to discuss about the importance to harmonize approaches in regional and national Biobanks.

For more information, visit www.biorep.it

Dear Sir, Dear Madam,

The Directorate for Research in the economic, social sciences and humanities (SSH) of DG Research of the European Commission is organising on 23/10/2008 in Brussels an Information (half) Day on the "Social Platform on Research for Families and Family Policies" (Topic SSH-2009 - 3.2.2 of the SSH Work Programme 2009, called for under the Call Identifier FP7-SSH-2009-C published on 3 September 2008). Further information is provided in the attached leaflet.

The 2nd of October Cascade will arrange Open forum jointly seven other EU projects related to research on endocrine disrupters. Together with representatives from the European Commission regulatory authorities and different industries they will discuss how we can tackle the increasing threats caused by endocrine disrupters.
The Open Forum will take place at Radisson SAS Hotel in Brussels.
For more information:
www.cascadenet.org

EuroBio2008
The European Federation of Bioetchnology is organizing the 2nd annual “Tech Transfer Summit”, a two-day keynote presentations and debates on technology transfer. The event will take place in Paris, on 6-7 October at EuroBio2008.
EuroBio is organized in four interesting and different parts:

1. Conference
2. Partnering
3. Career Fair
4. Exhibition

For information about Eurobio2008, go to www.eurobio2008.com
For information about The Tech Transfer Summit, go to www.efb-central.org/tts

Since 15th to 17th of October, Monterrey City, the capital of State of Nuevo Leon in Mexico, will host the second edition of Biomonterrey08, the International Congress and Exhibition of Biotechnology. The topics of the Congress will be:
 Health biotechnology
 Agri-Food Biotechnology
 Environment and Industrial Biotechnology

The first Joint Meeting of the European Society for Clinical Analysis (ESCCA) and the German Society of Cytometry (DGfZ) will be held at the World Trade Center in Bremen, Germany.

Both annual meetings are recognized among the most relevant educational meetings for professionals dedicated to various fields of Cytometry, Cell Analysis, Cell Biology etc. In total we expect some 500 international participants, primarily arriving from Europe.

This international meeting is the most important in the field of limb development, and regeneration and provides a biennial forum for leading researchers from around the world to present their experimental advances, discuss hypotheses and models, exchange information and establish collaborations. The development of the vertebrate limb is a classic model system in embryology, and its study has made important contributions to our understanding of fundamental biological processes, above all the cellular interactions underlying the formation of organs.

From May 7Th to 10th , 2009 the meeting “Microbial stress: from Molecules to System” will take place in Semmering, Austria.
The meeting wants to highlight the most recent developments in all aspects of microbial stress responses and the organizers have an excellent list of top international speakers in the programme. Rather than run sessions based on different stresses or organisms, they have deliberately decided to have three themes in the meeting:
1. how organisms detect stress and turn the detenction into a response

SPICA 2008 is the 12th event in a series of symposia started in Paris in 1986. This has become over the past years a regular appointment for scientists and practitioners involved in the downstream processing of fine chemicals, natural products, food activities.
The meeting will be held in Zurich, Switzerland, from 28th September to 01st October 2008.
For more details
http://www.spica2008.ethz.ch/index.html

From 14th to 19th September 2008 a course on Bioprocess Engineering will take place on the Island of Brac (Croatia). The course covers all the full spectrum of bioprocess engineering, starting from genetic concept for micro-organisms used to produce pharmaceutical and other products via microbial physiology, bioreaction kinetics to bioreactor design scale-up. The course is directed specifically at Ph.D students and experienced biotechnologists from research institutes, universities and industries.
For more information:
http://www.hdb.hr/bec2008.html

Biotech Foru, Nanotech Norther Europe are organizing an event that will take place at Bella Center, in Copenhagen on September, 23-25. For the first time, a biotech forum and a nanotech forum are host in the same place with a special attention for partnering and matchmaking event between the companies that will attend the exhibition.
For more information:
www.biotechforum.it

European BioPerspectives 2008 will be the fourth conference which 21 major biotechnology and biosciences organisations in presenting an excellent scientific programme for many areas of research, such as bioinformatics, functional genomics, molecular and personalised medicine, chemical biology. This year the event will take place in Hannover (Convention Center of Hannover Fairgroung), 7-9 October. The Conference is organised in parallel with an exhibition for the European biotech industry.
For information:
www.bioperspectives.org

Following on from two highly successful conferences in Prague and Oslo, on October 1st-4th the 3rd ESF Conference on Functional Genomics and Didease will take place in Innsbruck. The programme will include plenary speakers covering topics including Genome Variation, Whole Genome Association Studies, Proteomic and Bioinformatics. Parallel symposia from 15 EC consortia will cover the areas of System Biology, Tcells, RNAi, Pathogenic Organisms.
For further information on the programme, exhibition and poster session visit
www.esffg2008.org

"NANOTECHNOLOGIES FOR CANCER" will take place in Padova on the 23rd of June.

SPEAKERS:
Prof. Mauro Ferrari
Professor and Director of Nanomedicine, Brown Institute of Molecular Medicine
Chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering
The University of Texas Health Science Center

Professor of Experimental Therapeutics
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX.

Professor of Bioengineering
Rice University, Houston, TX.

President, Alliance for NanoHealth
Houston, TX.

LOCATION:
Aula Ramazzini- Policlinico Universitario c/o Ospedale Civile di Padova

On September 23th , the Pharma Quality Europe is organizing the meeting “Europe-USA: two different points of view”, that will take place at Castello dei Pico in Mirandola – Florence.
The aim of the event is to open a discussion about key elements relevant to the cicle of medical devices, considering the ever greater impact of these “products” on health and medical expenses.

For more information
www.pqe.it

This VIRTUAL BROKERAGE EVENT (VBE) is designed to help identify research interests in the Health area at the European level and maximise the involvement of SMEs and academic organisations in research projects in the field of Health/Life Sciences of the 7th Framework Programme (FP7). http://www.smesgohealth.org/common/articles_details.asp?arid=92

The Bio International Convention is the global event for biotechnology that host more than 175 sessions, with more than 2.200 companies and 60 pavillons and business forum, with 12.000 one-on-one partnering sessions and with 60 countries represented. The 2008 edition will take place in San Diego, California on June 17-20. The attendees are a blend of international and domestic executives and management from research, business, and academic and investment communities.

For more information:
www.bio2008.org

AIDIC, the Italian Association of Chemical Engineering, is organizing the first biannual International Conference on Indutrial Biotechnology, that will take place in Naples, Italy, Conference Centre of Federico II University, Via Partenope n. 36, 8-11 June 2008.
IBIC 2008 represents the evolution of seven (2001-2007) one-day workshops performed on a national basis in the field of Industrial Biotechnology; the conference aims to exchange up-to the minute on industrial needs, new technology developments and research opportunities.

For more information:
www.aidic.it/IBIC2008

This VIRTUAL BROKERAGE EVENT (VBE) is designed to help identify research interests in the Health area at the European level and maximise the involvement of SMEs and academic organisations in research projects in the field of Health/Life Sciences of the 7th Framework Programme (FP7).
http://www.smesgohealth.org/common/articles_details.asp?arid=92

The conference and networking event is firmly established as Europe's leading gathering of biological manufacturing, production and cGMP specialists attending year on year to learn, network and do business. This year for the first time sees the inclusion of a Bio Innovation Day in association with GE Healthcare, giving you a unique opportunity to spend a day at GE Healthcare’s European facility and to experience first hand how it operates.
Conference highlights include:
- Capacity planning and utilisation – building in flexibility;

The European White Biotechnology Summit will take place in Frankfurt, Germany, May 21-22, 2008. It is a specialist event dedicated to the chemicals and materials industries in Europe whereby strategies for adoption of white biotech processes can be discussed and practical information on overcoming some of the associated challenges within this emerging field shared.

The 4th International Summer School on "Minimally Invasive Technologies and Nanosystems for Diagnosis and Therapies" will take place in Otranto (LE), ITALY , from June 9th to 13th, 2008

For more information:
http://www.ariser.info/events/4summer.php.

Sergio Casciaro
casciaro@ifc.cnr.it - casciaro@isbem.it
Tel. +39 0832 422 310
Mob. +39 349 25 35 183

Juliette Dubois
dubois@ifc.cnr.it
Tel. +39 0832 422 313

Sardegna Ricerche is organizing the workshop “Regulatory issues in the development of biological medicinal products”.
The event will take place on Friday, 30th May at 12.30pm at Science and Technology Park of Sardinia, Pula – Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.
The official language of the event will be English.

Due to limited space for this event, the organization invite guests to register filling the online form at www.sardegnaricerche.it/agenda/eventi/

For more information, contact the Organizing Secretary:
Vania.lafrancesca@bioflag.it
Tel. +39 070 92435145/5146

The First International Conference “Translational Research in Oncology” will be held on May 14-16, 2008 in Forlì.
The Conference aims to examine the link between research into cancer and clinical applications of laboratory findings, and to focus on the biomolecular development of new biological drugs. The conference also aims to promote open dialogue between laboratory researchers, clinical oncologists and pharmaceutical companies, of fundamental importance for the successful research into practice.
Areas of interest are as follows:

The Eu Workshop on Molecular Targets for Cancer will be held in Bergen, Norway, on July 11-12, 2008. It is organised by the European Commission DG RTD and the University of Bergen.
The aim of this workshop is to identify possible bottlenecks and put forward solutions that boost the commercial value of potentially innovative findings on molecular targets, emanating from European research on cancer.

The programme is focused on childhood cancers and cancers with a poor prognosis (pancreatic, ovarian, mesothelioma, esophageal/gastric and glioma).

For more information:

The Eighth International Symposium HEART FAILURE & Co. will take place in Florence- ITALY, April 18-19 2008.

For more info:
http://www.heartfailure.it/

The 10th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON IMMUNOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL AND CLINICAL PROBLEMS OF FOOD ALLERGY
will take place in Parma- ITALY, May 26-29 2008.

For more information:
http://www.foodallergysymposium.com/

The 43rd Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) will take place in the beautiful and sunny city of Milan, Italy, April 23 – 27, 2008.

The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) is the leading Association in Europe in the field of liver research. EASL brings clinicians and scientists interested in the liver together, providing an outlet for networking and learning.

MEDTEC Stuttgart is the fast-growing international showcase for top suppliers of medical grade materials, components, electronics, computer-aided design and manufacturing, production machinery, packaging, sterilization, quality systems, device communications. . . and much more.

There is no better way to effectively and efficiently see, compare, and evaluate the complete range of product and service resources for designing and manufacturing your current and next-generation medical devices and equipment.

A major information dissemination event is to be held in Brussels on Wednesday 30 April to allow all key stakeholders find out more about the Innovative Medicines Initiative. The one-day event will provide potential stakeholders with full details of the scientific priorities of the IMI. Participants will get initial guidance on the application procedures for consortia considering making applications for funding under the first IMI Call for proposals.

BioTrinity 2008 Oxford - BioPartnering Conference and Company Showcase.

BioTrinity 2008 - Oxford is uniquely placed to give access to key players from biotechs, pharmas, VC and to advisors to have up to thirty-three 30 minute one-to-one meetings over two days in large private partnering rooms, and access networking receptions, panel discussions, company showcases and workshops.

The 4th European Meeting in Oxizymes will be held in Helsinki. The meeting is a 2.5 day meeting starting on Monday June 16, 2008 and it is co-organized by VTT and the University of Helsinki.

IGBF is Greece’s top Biotechnology science and business event specially crafted to promote the leading edges of research in:

· Red Biotechnology (Medicine)

· Green Biotechnology (Agriculture)

· Blue Biotechnology (Environment)

· White Biotechnology (Bioengineering)

· Technology Transfer (Technology Transfer)

· Intellectual Property Rights (Patent Protection, Regulatory Frameworks)

· BioBusiness

February 4 - 7, 2008, Dubai, UAE

National Fair

VI National Congress on Information Technology and Pharma Industry

http://www.seis.es/jsp/base.jsp?contenido=/jsp/congresos/inicio.jsp&id=3...

http://www.ebdgroup.com/bioeurope

Location:
Rathaus/ Town Hall Hamburg
Rathausmarkt
20095 Hamburg

http://www.bmii.ktu.lt/?meniu=Conference_1&lng=en

BIOTECHNICA

International Fair

Fraunhofer IPA Conference Booth ; Dissemination on Spidera Project.

www.biotechnica.de

Kaunas, Lithuania International conference

Project Diseemination by Kaunas University of Technology

Events modules have now been installed an enabled

You can create both public and private (i.e. limited to a group) events.

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YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE ENTIRE BROCHURE AT  www.febs-iubmb-2008.org