BIOFORUM 2005: Where science meets business
28 September 2005 - 29 September 2005
Italy
Bioforum 2005 is taking place on 28-29 September, at the Sede Bovisa of the Politecnico of Milan in via Durando 10, Milan. The University facility, thanks to its closeness with the centre of the city and to the contemporaneous presence of different transport services (railway lines, both extra-urban and metropolitan, and tramways), has turned out as an ideal candidate to hold visitors, exhibitors, promoters and speakers of the new rendezvous with bioforum.
The conference-exhibition aims to be a quality interface between the different sectors of biotechnological research and the wide field of relative industrial applications, further enlarging the offer of services proposed during the event. In the 2005 edition, indeed, besides a forum animated by authoritative representatives of research and industrial biotech worlds and an exhibition of technological solutions proposed by different bodies and companies of the sector, an international session has been organised as well to improve contacts with foreign experts.,Bioforum aims, therefore, to be an event of certain interest for an ample and diversified public, not only Italian. Businessmen especially, along with research and development responsible, and investors and services suppliers, besides researchers, professors and newly graduated, are expected to our date. The goal is to create a shared space for dialogue and comparison between science and industry, in order that the meeting between various competencies is translated in an opportunity for the country to grow.
The importance of the pursued goals, thanks to the passed edition as well, fostered the bioforum event promoting collaborations and contacts with different institutions, associations, companies, public and private research centres. The event is indeed patronised by the Instruction, the University and the Research Ministries, as well as the Innovation and Technologies Ministry. Moreover, it counts between its promoting bodies the Chamber of Commerce of Milan, the Province of Milan, the Region Lombardy and the Politecnico of Milan. Besides the authoritative Scientific Committee (made up, among other, of various researchers), the event's organisation avails itself on the collaboration of a number of partners as well: Assobiotec, CNR, HSR, IFOM, Politecnico of Milan, Università degli Studi di Milano, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca and Farmindustria, to mention a few.
The other novelty of this year is that the bioforum's ticket will allow entrance to Nanoforum: the first edition of a conference-exhibition dedicated to the world of micro and nanotechnologies that will be held in parallel on the same site (for more info please visit www.nanoforum.it/en).
For further information as well as for a detailed conference program and exhibiting companies overview, please visit http://www.bioforum.it/en(opens in new window) that is constantly up-dated. All this information will soon be available in paper format as well, on the guide-catalogue that will be freely distributed during the event.Between the event's collateral activities, besides the over quoted nanoforum (ran by the same organisation as bioforum), we report some interesting meetings that will be held contemporaneously to the conference-exhibition on biotechnologies. In the morning of the 28th a conference held by Laboratorio 2000 leader magazine for chemical and biological laboratory entitled "Stem cells: from research to therapy moderated by an expert par excellence of the field, professor Elena Cattaneo of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Milan (for info and registration, www.lab2000.com). In the afternoon, however, a workshop held by IHUPO (Sezione Italiana Human Proteome Organisation) will be organised. Less strictly scientific but not less important is the theme of the relation between media's and scientific communication, that will be the subject of the round table "La comunicazione dei contenuti tecnici e scientifici (Technical and scientific contents' communication) organised by bioforum for the 29th of September. Main representatives of Italian scientific communication, as the Director of the magazine "Le Scienze (Sciences), Enrico Bellone, the Director of the Science and Technique Museum, Fiorenzo Galli, and the President of UGIS (Unione Giornalisti Italiani Scientifici), Paola de Paoli, will be presenting.
The conference-exhibition aims to be a quality interface between the different sectors of biotechnological research and the wide field of relative industrial applications, further enlarging the offer of services proposed during the event. In the 2005 edition, indeed, besides a forum animated by authoritative representatives of research and industrial biotech worlds and an exhibition of technological solutions proposed by different bodies and companies of the sector, an international session has been organised as well to improve contacts with foreign experts.,Bioforum aims, therefore, to be an event of certain interest for an ample and diversified public, not only Italian. Businessmen especially, along with research and development responsible, and investors and services suppliers, besides researchers, professors and newly graduated, are expected to our date. The goal is to create a shared space for dialogue and comparison between science and industry, in order that the meeting between various competencies is translated in an opportunity for the country to grow.
The importance of the pursued goals, thanks to the passed edition as well, fostered the bioforum event promoting collaborations and contacts with different institutions, associations, companies, public and private research centres. The event is indeed patronised by the Instruction, the University and the Research Ministries, as well as the Innovation and Technologies Ministry. Moreover, it counts between its promoting bodies the Chamber of Commerce of Milan, the Province of Milan, the Region Lombardy and the Politecnico of Milan. Besides the authoritative Scientific Committee (made up, among other, of various researchers), the event's organisation avails itself on the collaboration of a number of partners as well: Assobiotec, CNR, HSR, IFOM, Politecnico of Milan, Università degli Studi di Milano, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca and Farmindustria, to mention a few.
The other novelty of this year is that the bioforum's ticket will allow entrance to Nanoforum: the first edition of a conference-exhibition dedicated to the world of micro and nanotechnologies that will be held in parallel on the same site (for more info please visit www.nanoforum.it/en).
For further information as well as for a detailed conference program and exhibiting companies overview, please visit http://www.bioforum.it/en(opens in new window) that is constantly up-dated. All this information will soon be available in paper format as well, on the guide-catalogue that will be freely distributed during the event.Between the event's collateral activities, besides the over quoted nanoforum (ran by the same organisation as bioforum), we report some interesting meetings that will be held contemporaneously to the conference-exhibition on biotechnologies. In the morning of the 28th a conference held by Laboratorio 2000 leader magazine for chemical and biological laboratory entitled "Stem cells: from research to therapy moderated by an expert par excellence of the field, professor Elena Cattaneo of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Milan (for info and registration, www.lab2000.com). In the afternoon, however, a workshop held by IHUPO (Sezione Italiana Human Proteome Organisation) will be organised. Less strictly scientific but not less important is the theme of the relation between media's and scientific communication, that will be the subject of the round table "La comunicazione dei contenuti tecnici e scientifici (Technical and scientific contents' communication) organised by bioforum for the 29th of September. Main representatives of Italian scientific communication, as the Director of the magazine "Le Scienze (Sciences), Enrico Bellone, the Director of the Science and Technique Museum, Fiorenzo Galli, and the President of UGIS (Unione Giornalisti Italiani Scientifici), Paola de Paoli, will be presenting.