The international Pharmaceutical Compliance Congress and Best Practices Forum brings together company compliance professionals, regulators, lawyers, and consultants working in this interesting and expanding field. It focuses on ethics, anti-bribery, transparency requirements and industry body code updates. In addition to the major topics, the whole conference agenda promises to deliver informative and useful discussions on the key topics that may be causing company compliance officers varied levels of concern. The speaker line-up for this conference is very impressive, as usual. Whether the discussions are led by those working in life science companies, industry bodies, regulators, or consultancy/solutions companies, the information imparted at these conferences is always of the highest quality. These conferences are also a good opportunity to network with fellow compliance professionals and build relationships that often last for many years of mutual support and assistance.
Contact: Global Healthcare LLC
registration@hcconferences.com

Bringing together professional investors, bankers, analysts and pharma business development and licensing professionals with leading public and late-stage private companies Dedicated to expanding the capital markets for investment in the life sciences in Europe
Contact: EBD

Central European Forum of Biotechnology & Innovative BioEconomy
Contact: Edyta Wodzinska, Bio-Tech Consulting Ltd.
bioforum@bioforum.pl

Module 4: Clinical Development
Clinical Phase I-II, Clinical Phase III, Pharmacovigilance & Trial Strategy, Keynote: HFG – Federal Act on Research involving Human Being
Contact: SBA

This conference will further economic research on cooperation and conflict at individual, group and international levels. Wageningen University has invited theoretical and empirical contributions from institutional, behavioral, experimental and mainstream economics. Bring together economists interested in research on cooperation and conflict at multiple levels, Generate insight in determinants of conflict and cooperation from a variety of economic perspectives, Apply economic theory on conflict and cooperation to empirical cases, Improve our understanding of how institutions affect conflict and cooperation.
Contact: Wageningen University

The Conference will discuss major issues for the biomass markets, in technical and business areas, from resource assessment to market and policy developments, drawing on leading experiences from all over Europe and worldwide.
Contact: Maddalena Grassi
Phone: +39 055 5002280
biomass.conference@etaflorence.it

Contact: Lauro Hollis, DIA

BioVaria brings together Europe’s top scientists and technology transfer professionals with potential licensees and investors from the international biopharmaceutical industry.
Contact: Ascenion GmbH
Phone: +49-3188-1422
info@ascenion.de

BioCon Valley and the German-Russian Cooperation Network Biotechnology will host a German-Russian Biotechnology Forum with the following topics:
• Bioenergy / Agrobiotechnologies / Animal health & Plant breeding
• Computational Systems Biology
• Industrial Biotechnology / BioEconomy
• Marine Biotechnology
• Regenerative Medicine / Personalized Medicine
Contact: Dr. Heinrich Cuypers, BioCon Valley GmbH
hc@bcv.org

Under the aegis of the CIFL – French interprofessional committee of laboratory suppliers - Forum LABO & BIOTECH will bring together professionals of analysis, monitoring, research and analytical process around main fields such as : agro food, environment, science of the living and industry.
Contact: Fleur Midon, GL events
Phone: +33 (0) 1 44 31 83 20
fleur.midon@gl-events.com

World Research and Innovation Congress - Pioneers in Healthcare provides a unique forum for those facilitating and effecting change on the critical issues facing healthcare research today. Bringing together researchers from across the world, this is more than just an event: it is the sharing of over 500 research stories and experiences, and will offer the opportunity to build partnerships, promote collaboration and drive innovation.
Contact: Rita Andrews, Research Media Ltd
Phone: +44 117 2232190
rita@researchmedia.eu

Delegates from university, industry, governmental and non-governmental organizations and venture capital providers will present their views on industrial biotechnology, sustainable (green) chemistry and agricultural policy related to the use of renewable raw materials for non-food applications and energy supply. The conference further aims at providing an overview of the scientific, technical, economic, environmental and social issues of renewable resources and biorefineries in order to give an impetus to the biobased economy and to present new developments in this area. The conference will provide a forum for leading political, corporate, academic and financial people to discuss recent developments and set up collaborations.
Contact: Els Vertriest, Ghent University/Dev. Agency of West Flanders
els@medicongress.com

The Annual Pricing and Profit Optimisation Forum will focus on 4 key themes: Balancing Global & Regional Pricing Strategies. Channel performance management, Financial control and compliance, and Organization & Change Management. Delegates from across the spectrum of pharma, generics and medical technology will again come together to share, discuss and debate the best approaches to optimising pricing and profitability management.
Contact: Britt Dejager, European Pricing Platform
Phone: +32-51-32-03-72, Fax: +32-51-32-03-72
britt.dejager@pricingplatform.eu

The conference tracks at this event include Drug Discovery Automation, Environmental Analysis, Informatics for Automation, Liquid Handling & Robotics, Nano & Microfluidics, Next-Gen Sequencing Automation and Separation & Detection.
Contact: Aaron Woodley, Select Biosciences
Phone: +44 (0)1787 315129
a.woodley@selectbiosciences.com

Introducing and Networking Symposium will take place as the pre-conference symposium of the International Scientific Conference on Probiotics and Prebiotics – IPC2013.
Contact: European Commission

The partnering scope ranges from innovative to generic, from early stage candidates to approved, prescription or OTC drugs, medical devices and companion diagnostics. Delegates determine the focus, displayed and updated hourly on Internet as soon as sufficient data are submitted.
Contact: Dr. Norbert Rau, RauCon
Phone: +49-6222-9807-0, Fax: +49-6222-9807-77
meetyou@europlx.com

The scientific programme will focus on current advances in the research, production and use of probiotics and prebiotics with particular focus on their role in maintaining health and preventing diseases. The conference's goal will to provide a scientific forum for all stakeholders of probiotics and prebiotics and enable the interactive exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge. The conference will focus on evidence-based benefits proven in clinical trials and scientific experiments.
Contact: Pavol Jozef Šafárik University Košice
info@probiotic-conference.net

The Anglo-Nordic region continues to be one of the fastest growing biotech regions in the world. Now celebrating our tenth anniversary, the Anglonordic Biotech Conference provides the ideal one-stop opportunity to discover, collaborate and invest in this success. By invitation only, the select audience is restricted to decision makers representing drug discovery and medtech companies from the Anglo-Nordic regions and international pharmaceutical and investment firms. New for 2013 – the Anglonordic Biotech Conference is held in connection with the Anglonordic Medtech Conference (12th June), and the invited delegates may attend both events. New for 2013 – the partnering system is open during both events and the one-to-one meeting area has expanded from 120 to 180 pre-booked one-to-one meetings per conference. New for 2013 – for both events there will be an Exhibition room that offers invited small and medium enterprises the opportunity to book an exhibition stand.
Contact:

Reviewing the Latest Technologies, Policies & Strategies Shaping the Future of First & Advanced Generation Biodiesel & Bio-Oil Derived Jet Fuel in Europe
Contact: Cheryl Williams, Active Communications International
cwilliams@acieu.net

Annual Conference of the European Biosafety Association
17th-18th June: Pre-conference Courses
19th-20th June: Conference and Exhibition
Contact: Berrit Renaud, EBSA
ebsa-office@ebsaweb.eu

Annual Meeting on Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine
Contact: BioMedical Materials (BMM)
annualmeeting2013@bmm-program.nl

Presentations and workshops, and, above all, networking and the establishment of contacts between the various areas create as comprehensive a depiction as possible of the process chain of the diverse aspects of personalized medicine. The congress and workshops are accompanied by a specialized exhibition that provides additional interesting insights into specific projects and target group-specific issues.
Contact: Angela Zimmermann, Koeln Messe
Phone: +49-221-821-3878
angela.zimmermann@koelnmesse.de

interdisciplinary congress in Life Sciences organised within the Top Technology Region
(Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands)
Contact: LifetecZONe/BioLiége/LifeTech Limburg/LifeTec Aachen-Jülich e.V.
Phone: +49-241-88970-11
info@biomedica.com

NutrEvent gathers all the key actors that intervene in the innovation process (academics researchers, R&D directors, business development managers, marketing managers, service providers) with one objective in mind: to fill in the gap between research and market in the field of Nutrition & Health. The event is based on a business convention, a high-quality conference program and an exhibition allowing you to enhance your visibility at the heart of the event.
Contact: Ramona Pirv-Chicireanu, Eurasante
Phone: +33 (0)3 59 39 01 84
rpirv@nutrevent.com

This conference will provide information about the changes in the Annex 2 and the
impact of these changes on biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing.
Expert speakers from authorities, industry and laboratories with experiences on different
types of biopharmaceuticals, e.g. vaccines, gene therapeutics ATMP, will
present their experiences on implementation of the Annex 2. They show you the
regulatory requirements as well as practical approaches to realize GMP standards in
biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing companies. It will be a unique
chance to discuss the different points of view with speakers and colleagues.
Contact: CONCEPT Heidelberg GmbH
Phone: +49 (0) 6221/84 44-0
info@concept-heidelberg.de

This B2B Matchmaking Partnering Event brings together innovative medtech, pharma, IT- & service providers as well as relevant suppliers from several countries seeking to collaborate to mutual commercial benefit. Activity will focus on one-to-one 30-minute pre-scheduled meetings.
Contact: Dr. Ilja Hagen, Forum MedTech Pharma e.V.
Phone: +49 (0) 911-20671-334
hagen@medtech-pharma.de

Regulatory Strategy, Human Ressources & Organising Growth, IP & Licensing, Keynote: Due Dilligence
Contact: SBA

China strategy has become important in the bio-pharmaceutical industry as it has seen tremendous growth in this market over the past decade. The low-cost R&D, large talent pool, critical clinical market size, investment in the bio-pharma industry and improvements in drug patent protection and administration law by the Chinese government have posed many opportunities for foreign companies. This coaching event targets companies who seek orientation on the essentials to consider when bringing pharmaceuticals to China, either with or without a local partner company. The event provides an overview of the regulatory and legal framework to be considered in China and of the principles of a partnership with a local company.
Contact: European Centre for Regulatory Affairs (EUCRAF)

This conference will be jointly organized by ten microscopical societies from 11 countries
and with local colleagues from the University of Regensburg, and with generous support by the European Microscopical Society EMS. As on previous conferences, MC 2013 will focus on Microscopy with imaging instruments, with the four major topics, Material Science, Instrumentation and Methods, Life Sciences, and  Multimodal and Interdisciplinary Microscopies, with about seven sessions each. In addition, the conference will host a major trade exhibition, which will bring together manufacturers of all different kinds of microscopies and microscopy techniques, as well as suppliers of accessories and consumables, preparation tools, image analysis systems, and important publishers in the field. The manufacturers are invited to present their latest equipment and developments and highlight new potential applications in technical lectures which will address a general audience. In the exhibition areas of the University of Regensburg, the commercial exhibition will form an integral part of the Conference and will contribute to the fact that MC 2013 will be a comprehensive source of information for anybody who is interested in microscopy for materials science and life science.
Contact: Francesca Rustler, Conventus
francesca.rustler@conventus.de

26th International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology
Yeasts are key model organisms in eukaryotic research and in addition play a significant role in many biotechnological processes. The conference is intended to attract all researchers using yeast in their research as model organism or in biotechnological applications. The main meeting covers highly significant research fields and is open for all yeast species. In addition Satellite Symposia will cover specific requests with non-conventional yeasts.
Contact: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
contact@yeast-2013.org

From 9 to 12 September 2013, Halifax, Canada will welcome the 4th edition of BioMarine business convention. BioMarine is a unique 4 days international business convention dedicated to marine bio resources, marine renewable energies, green shipping, ports and environmentals. It brings together the business, scientific, finance and civil society communities to draw out innovative and concrete solutions to advance ocean development.
Contact: Veronique Erwes
veronique.erwes@biomarine.org

The main idea of 1st International Conference on Biosorption and Bioaccumulation is to provide a platform for scientists working in the research area of biosorption and bioacumulation. This event brings an opportunity to exchange new ideas, comments, experiences, finding new research partners for future scientific collaboration. The conference provides a great occasion to set-up and establish contacts with colleagues involved in the research areas of Biosorption and Bioaccumulation.
Contact: Institute of Inorganic Technology and Mineral Fertilizers/Wroclaw University of Technology
contact@icbb.cba.pl

The 3 day conference programme has been put together by senior industry professionals from across Europe to ensure that the presentations are both topical and varied, with key industry speakers providing their views and opinions. The programme will be split into sections with each section featuring 3 presentations focusing on a particular theme that includes: Financing of Deals, Personalised Medicine, Mid-Late Stage Licensing In addition, there will be 6 workshops spread over 2 days on a range of subjects that will offer further insight and debate through interactive sessions.
Contact: Pharma-Lizenz-Club Deutschland (PLCD)

The conference aims to bring researchers from academia and industry together to discuss novel trends in analytical science. It will be focused on all approaches that aim to lower attrition, improve characterization of products and impurities and increase process knowledge and safety. International leaders in the field will present today's technology and an outlook on the future. Furthermore, the program offers an excellent opportunity to present your latest scientific results in oral and poster sessions; contributions are invited on all conference topics.
Contact: DECHEMA e.V.

The topic of the EACME Annual Conference 2013, “Personalised medicine” – medicine for the person? Ethical challenges for medical research and practice, is offering a critical and interdisciplinary approach to so-called “personalised medicine” from an ethical, medical, socio-cultural, legal, and economic perspective.
Contact: European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME)
Phone: +49 234-32-23394
49 234-32-23394

Annual conference that offers a forum for the exchange of scientific ideas on topics covering the entire range of the life sciences. Now in its fourth year, the conference attracts around 1500 participants from Europe and worldwide. Scientific delegates include principle investigators, postdoctoral researchers and students. Policy makers, editors, career advisors, journalists, science bloggers and industry representatives figure strongly among the participant list. The EMBO Meeting represents the very fabric of what EMBO is about - recognizing and supporting talented scientists, empowering them to advance the life sciences and providing platforms for scientific exchange.
Contact: EMBO Heidelberg
embo@mci-group.com

5th EMBO-Meeting
Contact: Martin Cairns, EMBO Heidelberg
Phone: +49 6221 8891 106
martin.cairns@embo.org

AdvaMed 2013 is the leading MedTech Conference in North America, bringing more than 1,000 companies together in a uniquely multifaceted environment for business development, capital formation, innovative technology showcasing, world-class educational opportunities and networking. This must-attend event for the MedTech industry will be held September 23 - 25 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Contact: AdvaMed
Phone: +1 202 434 7213
info@medtechconference.org

Participants will be offered various opportunities for business networking, company presentations and panel discussions with first class speakers on current trends and strategies in biotech alliances. Emphasis will be placed on new types of strategies, new alliances across the biotech sector, best management practices and innovation leadership as key factors to biotech company success and value creation.
Contact: BIO Deutschland
Phone: +49-30-726-25-130
info@biodeutschland.org

The conference serves as a forum for international research institutes and industrial companies related to the area of sustainable manufacturing. It offers keynote speeches, panel discussions, parallel sessions and a poster forum.
Contact: Ina Roeder, Technische Universität Berlin
Phone: +49 30 314-26865
gcsm@mf.tu-berlin.de

This conference will seek the views and creative ideas on technologies for improvement and application of agriculture technology. The sessions will present the most recent advances in the fields of Plant Biology & Plant Biotechnology, New Energy Sources from Agriculture, Crop Production and Management, Pillar Industries, Food Science and Nutrition for Agriculture, and so on. Selected high qualified speakers will be from all over the world, and heads of the most important developing projects on the use of agriculture technology in many applications. These presentations will identify or offer solutions to problems, utilize case studies, identify knowledge gaps or collaboration opportunities, and discuss broader applications and implications of material presented.
Contact: Hedy Yu
hedy@bitconferences.com

The 4th International GK Symposium "Regulators of Adaptive Immunity" will address recent advances in B and T cell biology as well as new findings regarding the development of autoimmune and leukemic diseases. The symposium will also provide a communication platform for highly motivated doctoral students and renowned experts in the field of immunology. This symposium is organized by the graduate students of the DFG Research Training Programs (Graduiertenkollegs) GK1660 (Director: Hans-Martin Jäck), GK/SFB643 (Director: Martin Herrmann) & GK1071 (Director: Bernhard Fleckenstein.
Contact: Elisabeth Lang, Universität Erlangen
elang@molmed.uni-erlangen.de

The aim of this Conference series was always to especially focus on exciting new fields at the frontiers of fungal biology. These fields are often developed by young scientists, who will be therefore especially be chosen as speakers. The meeting will be organized by a local committee and the international steering committee. The program should be complementary to other recent fungal biology meetings, such as the Asilomar Fungals Genetics , the European Fungal Genetics and the recent Gordon Conferences. In addition, there will be multiple opportunities for young scientists to present their work in Concurrent Sessions as well as in Poster presentations. The meeting will be combined with the biannual German Molecular Mycology meeting.
Contact: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Contact: Ciaran Little, EFIB/EuropaBIO
Phone: +44(0)1372 802063

In the first European Biotech Week 19 country-based biotech associations, together with EuropaBio, will celebrate DNA's discovery and highlight biotech's achievements and opportunities through events across Europe.
Contact: Rosalind Travers, EuropaBio
r.travers@europabio.org

The EHFG is the leading health policy event in the EU and takes place annually. It provides a major platform for decision-makers in various fields of public health & health care. With its wide-ranging four-day programme, the EHFG offers an unparalleled opportunity to exchange information about a broad spectrum of contemporary health issues.
Contact: International Forum Gastein (IFG)
Phone: +43 6432 3393 270
info@ehfg.org

The international exhibition and conference is dedicated to functioning, reproduction and expedient evolution of living organisms and its environment.
The following products and services will be found in the exhibition:
- Biotechnologies and health protection
- Biotechnologies and biosphere resource resumption
- Information and communication technologies in biosphere
- Radiation control in biosphere and radiology
- Infrastructure of biotechnological industry
The conference covers topics such as:
- Medicine of the future: what is it
- Modern bio-industry for food security
- Biofuel: prospects of using
Contact:
info@expoforum.ru

Innovation Days is designed to promote early-stage innovation biotech and to enable Pharma and investors in their business development & licensing efforts to source new platform technologies and innovative products.
Contact: Universal Medica Group
contact@universalmedica.com

International Trade Fair, Conferences, Partnering and Award for Biotechnology
Contact: Deutsche Messe AG
Phone: +49-511-89-0

The subject of the 5th Conference will be issues  concerning “White“ and  “Green” biotechnology as well as legal matters a connected with taking out a patent on biotechnological inventions. The crucial issue that will be discussed is the innovation in science and the problem of overcoming the barriers in transferring the scientific knowledge into practical applications.
Contact: Katarzyna Perlik-Myjak, Targi w Krakowie Ltd
Phone: +48 12 651 90 14
perlik@targi.krakow.pl

The focus is on partnering and face-to-face meetings, company presentations, as well as networking, plenary and parallel sessions on major Life Science industry issues.
Contact: Anette Amareh, SwedenBIO
anette.amareh@swedenbio.com

The Bioinnovation and ScanBalt Forum 2013 is organised by the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology University of Gdansk - Medical University of Gdask, ScanBalt, Innovation Synergy and PRO SCIENCE Poland Ltd. The event brings together key figures in biotechnology and life sciences representing the 12 countries of the ScanBalt BioRegion.
For diverse organisations from business and industry to research and public policy, the annual ScanBalt Forum provides an invaluable platform for collaboration and international networking, fostering the innovation and competitiveness of the region.
Contact: Peter Frank, ScanBalt
Phone: +45 27 14 10 78
pf@scanbalt.org

event for investment, tech transfer and life science executivs, supported by commerce, academia and government
Contact: Life Science Biznes Consulting (LSBC)
info@lsbc.pl

The World Health Summit is the annual conference of the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centres and Medical Universities, organized by Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin in collaboration with the National Academies of Sciences of more the 67 countries and their Interacademy Medical Panel (IAMP).
Contact: Sophie Spangenberger, K.I.T. Group GmbH
Phone: +49 (0)30 246 03 240
secretariat@worldhealthsummit.org

ICSE connects the pharmaceutical community with outsourcing solution providers, offering a forum for business development, networking and education. ICSE is made up of 6 zones for easy navigation: (Pre) Clinical Trials, CRO, Clinical Data Management Zone; New Exhibitor Zone; Logistics, Pallets (New for 2013) & Supply Chain Zone; North American Zone; Analytical & Lab Services Zone; Bio Services Zone
Contact: Elja Peeperkorn, UBM Live
Phone: +31 20 40 99 544
icse@ubm.com

The meeting will, as in past years, encompass a broad range of topics in regenerative medicine from biomaterials to biomarkers as well as regulation and stem cell technologies.
Contact: Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI

Biotechnology partnering conference. BIO-Europe features the industry’s most advanced Web-based partnering system, enabling delegates from all parts of the biotechnology value-chain to quickly identify, engage and enter into strategic relationships that drive their business successfully forward.
Contact: Thomas Voigt, EBD Group
Phone: +1-760-930-0500
tvoigt@ebdgroup.com

European and international exhibition & conference for innovation and technologies in the fields of molecular biology and current molecular diagnostics techniques.
Contact: Reed Expositions France
Phone: +33-1-4756-5079
jib@reedexpo.fr

The new PharmaLab Congress will cover various topics in 10 interesting conferences and lectures on analytics, bio analytics, microbiology and R&D. Parallel to the conferences, attendees will have the possibility to get to know companies exhibiting between the different conference rooms.
Contact: Concept Heidelberg

The partnering scope ranges from innovative to generic, from early stage candidates to approved, prescription or OTC drugs, medical devices and companion diagnostics. Delegates determine the focus, displayed and updated hourly on Internet as soon as sufficient data are submitted.
Contact: Dr. Norbert Rau, RauCon
Phone: +49-6222-9807-0, Fax: +49-6222-9807-77
meetyou@europlx.com

3rd Workshop European Network on Viral Vaccine Processes
Contact: DECHEMA e.V.

The conference covers the whole life cycle of a biomarker and discusses how personalized medicine will change our healthcare system.
In addition to the expert lectures, a poster session and an exhibition will complete the programme. A one-2-one biomarker partnering will support translation of excellent biomarker research into commercial utilization.
Contact: Dr. Almut Graebsch, BioM Biotech Cluster Development GmbH
Phone: +49 (0) 89 89 96 79 35
graebsch@bio-m.org