Paris, September 20-22, 2010 - *National Muséum of Natural History (MNHN), Grand Amphithéatre, 57, rue Cuvier, 75005

The correct identification of organisms is fundamental not only for the assessment and the conservation of biodiversity, but also in agriculture, forestry, the food and pharmaceutical industries, forensic biology, and in the broad field of formal and informal education at all levels. In the last decades, important advances have taken place in the

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 ?

M-BIO-POWER empowers SMEs in biomedical engineering to participate in EU research. The consortium of ten partners helps SMEs to get their voice heard at the European Commission and gain international visibility for their company. SM-BIO-POWER also provides information on the latest trends in EU support for biomedical engineering research together with best practice examples from other SMEs in EU projects.

Experts in the Health industry

The Health Directorate at the European Commission is currently seeking top industrial/scientific experts to support the selection of the best FP7 proposal

You are welcome to check this event, the International Funding Forum.
Thanks for your support in advance!

http://www.fundingforum.eu/newsletter/newsletter20090403.html

Social Networking: Commission brokers agreement among major web companies

© European Commission

In support of the Small Business Act strategy implementation, the Commission Services have organised the workshop “SMEs in Health Research - Maximising outcomes of EU funded research projects - Tools for success” in Brussels on 26 February 2009, tageted to research-intensive SMEs participating to Health related EU funded projects.

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

The ICT Proposers' Day 2009 taking place in Budapest, Hungary on the 22nd of January 2009 is a unique opportunity to reflect on the new ICT Work Programme for 2009-2010 in the 7th Framework Programme for R&D, as well as to build quality partnerships in the attractive ambience of Budapest.

This event will be the sole occasion after the ICT 2008 Event in Lyon to obtain information on the challenges and objectives of the new Work Programme from more than 100 Commission officials.

Register free of charge on the website of the event!
http://ec.europa.eu/ictproposersday

Regards,

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

SMEs go Health - International Information and Training
Workshop on the 7th EU Framework Programme
at EuroBIO 2008 7th October 2008 – Paris!

EuroBIO 2008 is The Life Sciences Event of the EU French Presidency.

wawelDear Madam, dear Sir,

If you are working in the field of Health and Biotechnology and are interested in EU funding for research & technology development, get a 1 day training by experts on participation in FP7 research projects - free of charge!
Date and location :
7th October 2008 - PALAIS DES CONGRÈS DE PARIS - ROOM N°10

an updated document on IP policy of the IMI JU research actions has been recently published by the IPR- Helpdesk and is downloadable under the following link:

http://imi.europa.eu/docs/ipr-helpdesk-doc-on-imi-ipr-policy.pdf

Best

Hicham

First call for Innovative Medicines Initiative a success[Date: 2008-07-22]The first stage of calls for the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), which is supported by the EU with €1 billion in funding, was recently closed and is already being regarded as a success by many of those involved.

In the beautiful harbor city of Dalian, China, the 13th International Biotechnology Symposium (IBS) will be held from October 12th to 17th, 2008. The IBS has been held every four years since 1960 and it has become the premier International Chinese conference in the growing field ok biotechnology.
The exhibition will provide opportunities to the participants to the latest developments in biotechnologies, bio-products and instruments, as well as a platform to foster collaborations.

For registration: www.ibs2008.org or email loc@ibs2008.org

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

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

The University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and the Faculty of Economics are honoured to have been selected as the host of the 7th ECHE Conference. We want to provide a forum for delegates to learn together, share experiences, examine new systems that can reach across traditional boundaries, and explore collaborative approach in health economics among users, providers and policy makers. We wish to welcome the participants of the European Congress on Health Economics in an atmosphere of traditional Roman history and Mediterranean warmth.

EuroBIO is The Life Sciences Event of the European Union Presidency.

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

The Athens Branch of Food Allergens Laboratory, organizes workshop titled :
IMMUNOLOGICAL, ELISA & PCR TECHNIQUES IN FOOD ANALYSIS
LABORATORY, INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
Seventeen University, Lab and research Institute scientinsts from
eight European countries will present their expirience on new
techniques in food analysis.

Τhe workshop will take place in:
Athens Kaningos 21 Hotel (18-20/7/2008).

For workshop information updates please visit: www.foodallergenslab.com

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

Dear all,

The European project LifeCompetence was presented at the Bio 2008 in San Diago by COM. In this online platform, you can view all projects funded in the FP6 program with a categorisation according to instruments and with an overview of the organisations participating in these projects. This could be a good source for a search for results to be exploited but also for potential partners and expertise for new projects.

You can access the website under:
http://www.lifecompetence.eu/

Best regards,
Hicham

Ten4Health workshop

9 September 2008 Kiel, Germany

The workshop will focus on concrete steps towards improving pan-European healthcare provision and on policy needs to accelerate European integration also in this field so close to the daily needs of many European citizens. It is organised by the TEN4Health project which is supported by the European Commission. The TEN4Health project contributes towards improved healthcare provision for mobile European Union citizens.

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

ICT BIO 2008 - Registration is now open
23 October 2008 - 24 October 2008 Brussels, Belgium
Medical research at crossroads: combining the power of Information and Communication Technologies with Biomedical Sciences. For details on the different sessions of the conference and the parallel workshop on Multiscale Cancer modelling, check the website regularly.
Contact: infso-ictbio2008@ec.europa.eu

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

Forum MedTech Pharma e.V. of the Bayern Innovativ GmbH is organising the Congress ´Medizin Innovativ`
that will take place on 9 and 10 July 2008 in the CCN East (Fairgrond) in Nuremberg and to which
we would kindly invite you to participate.

During these 2 days decision-makers from research, development, production, services and clinical applications
will hold lectures and plenary speeches in pioneering thematic areas such as Process Optimization in hospitals,
Biomaterials, Computed Tomography, Diagnostics etc. in order to discuss current trends and push ahead project ideas.

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

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2009), which has currently an open call for papers. HEALTHINF 2009 will be held in Porto (Portugal) next year, on January 14-17.

The purpose of the International Conference on Health Informatics is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to healthcare and medicine in general and to the specialized support to persons with special needs in particular.

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 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:

EuropaBio,
the European Association for Bioindustries, is delighted to introduce you to
the European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology 2008 which will take place this
15-17 September in Brussels, Belgium. This inaugural event will feature two
workshops and a forum with approximately 30 industry leaders who will assess
the prospects for industrial biotechnology in Europe, through presentations,
question-and-answer sessions and panel discussions. The European Forum for
Industrial Biotechnology 2008 will, for the first time, bring together the

Regione Lazio and Sviluppo Lazio S.p.A., in close cooperation with the Italian Minister for International Trade, ICE, Filas S.p.A. and Zangani Investor Community, organised the Second Edition of Pharma Finance. This International event will be focused on New Technologies in LifeSciences, and, in particular, on Finance, Biotech, Nanotechnologies and New materials and will be held in Rome on May 22 and 23. An International Congress, an expositive place and a networking Business-to-Business section will be organized during the event.

A new draft (#3) of the work programme exist. It seems quite stable. Not much changes since last draft.

The current information about the next Call for proposals: there will be two calls: FP7-HEALTH-2008-A (one-step submission)/ HEALTH-2008-B (two-stage submission). Call budget: €590 million. Call publication: End July 2008. Estimated Call deadlines: HEALTH-2008-A: One-step: November 2008; HEALTH-2008-B: October 2008 first stage/ 2nd stage closure February-March 2009. Next call Health: Automn 2009.

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/

“European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership“ (EDCTP) opened a call for grants with a budget of 5 MIO. with a deadline of 5 June 2008. The objective of the call is to bring into concert the research done at the member states of EDCTP and the African partner countries in matters HIV, malaria, tuberculosis.

You can find further information under the following link:

http://www.edctp.org/JP_Activities.336.0.html

Best,

Hicham 

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.

EuroBioForum 2008, 17-19 September, Strasbourg, France
Abstract: EuroBioForum 2008 is the life sciences forum for leaders from science, public funding organisations, industry, finance and foundations.
Organisation: ESF
Date: 2008-03-28
Country: FRANCE
Category: Event
Link to record: http://cordis.europa.eu/wire/index.cfm?fuseaction=article.Detail&rcn=171...
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