Biowales Back with Hot Topics for 2010
BioWales is the flagship event for a life sciences industry that involves over 330 companies, employs over 15,000 people and contributes over £1.3bn to the Welsh economy. It returns in 2010 to showcase the bioscience sector in Wales to an international, commercial and academic audience of 400 delegates with a brokerage event and exhibition, and a conference covering hot topics such as stem cells, in which a great deal of work is currently taking place in Wales.
BioWales 2010 at the Vale Hotel, Golf and Spa Resort near Cardiff on March 17 and 18 is in its eighth year, growing from a stand alone conference to an international event comprising a major exhibition and a biopartnering section, which has been expanded to allow even more than the 325 one-to-one meetings that took place this year.
Next year’s conference will be looking at the hot topics in the sector, amongst them the key theme of stem cells industrialisation for drug development and therapy, with a line-up of eminent speakers including Nobel Prize for Medicine winner Professor Sir Martin Evans, Professor of Mammalian Genetics at Cardiff University; Stephen Minger, Head of Research and Development for Cell Technologies at GE Healthcare; and Anthony Davies, VP Product
Development at Geron,
Nobel Laureate Sir Martin was the first to discover the existence of embryonic stem cells in mice and so he is often considered the ‘chief architect’ of stem cell research. In 2007 he was recognised with two colleagues by the Nobel Assembly for ‘a series of ground-breaking discoveries concerning embryonic stem cells and DNA recombination in mammals’.
