AZBio 2012 - Arizona's Premiere Bioscience Event

The AZBio Expo is the place where you can connect with Arizona’s growing bioscience community to engage, collaborate, and move your bioscience business…. Forward Faster.

Showcase your products and Services…Show off your Expertise…

Find Partners and Resources.

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Each attendee completing the survey will be entered into a drawing for 2 free tickets to the AZBio Awards on September 26, 2012 at the Phoenix Convention Center.

Join us May 17, 2012 at the beautiful Grand Canyon University Arena for a full day of opportunities.

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AGENDA:

7:30 AM – Registration and Exhibit Floor Opens
- Continental Breakfast Served in the Exhibit Hall
8:30 AM – Opening General Session – Moving Forward Faster
- Arizona’s Bioscience Road Map – Moving Forward Faster in the Next 10 Years. (Joan Koerber-Walker, President and CEO, AZBio)
- Arizona’s Universities – Paving the Way for Acceleration (Laura Huenneke, Provost, Northern Arizona University and Lee Cheatham, Deputy Director The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, Jennifer Barton, Assistant Director, BIO5 Institute, Professor and Head, Department of Biomedical Engineering)
- Regulatory Affairs and the FDA (Michelle Wells, RAC, W.L. Gore and Associates)
10:00 AM – Networking Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall
10:30 AM – General Session – More than health care – the greener side of BIO
- How ARID and Arizona’s Collaborative Gene are Heating Things Up on the Algae Biofuels Scene. (Randy Ryan, Assistant Director, Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona)
- Innovation In Action: Glen Galster – Moderator (Algae Biosciences), Ben Cloud (PhyCo), Josh Hottenstein (CleanTech Open), Leif P. Christoffersen (Yulex Corporation)
11:30 AM – Lunch is served in the AZBio Bistro
- Upper Level of GCU Arena
12:00 PM – Networking and Connections in the Expo Hall
12:30 – General Session – Fueling Up – Access to Capital and Strategic Partnering in the New Economy
- The Missing Piece – Access to Capital (Peter N. Allison, IDM Technologies, Jock Holliman, Valley Ventures)
- Strategic Partnering in the New Age of R&D (Paul August, PhD, Sanofi, William Mulholland, Esq. Snell & Wilmer, and Babak Nemati, PhD, Strategic Intelligence)
- Tying it all together (Alan Nelson, PhD, VisionGate)
2:00 PM – Networking and Connections in the Expo Hall
2:30 PM – General Session – Gaining Momentum: Innovators and Thought Leaders
- The Convergence of Business and Innovation (Greg Yap, PhD, Ventana Medical Systems)
- Robert Bowser, PhD, Director of the Barrow ALS and Neuromuscular Research Center, Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital
- Cancer Genomics: the Future of Personalized Medicine – Robert Penny, MD, PhD, International Genomics Consortium – 2011 Jon W. McGarity Bioscience Leader of the Year
4:30 PM – Networking Reception in The Expo Hall
- Poster Presentations in the Poster Gallery
6:00 PM – Event Concludes
*Note: The Exhibit Floor will be closed during the General Sessions and reopened again during the Breaks.