Biden Cancer Initiative President & FasterCures Executive Director to Keynote Georgia Bio Innovation Summit October 24
October 20 2017 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
The Georgia Bio Innovation Summit will welcome patient advocate
and visionary strategist Greg Simon, who leads the Biden
Cancer Initiative, and Kim McCleary, Acting Executive
Director at FasterCures, a center of the Milken
Institute, as the plenary speakers for the October 24, 2017,
event at Cobb Galleria.
Immediately following her remarks, Ms. McCleary will moderate a
panel discussion on “Engaging for Success: Patient Centricity
Comes of Age” with: Robert K. Coughlin, President &
CEO of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council and a cystic
fibrosis patient advocate, and Jason Spangler MD, MPH,
FACPM, Executive Director for Value, Quality, & Medical Policy
at Amgen.
The Summit is the largest gathering of life science leaders in
the state. According to a 2016 TEConomy report, the bioscience
industry in Georgia is sizable and growing, reaching nearly 30,000
jobs across 2,047 business establishments. Georgia’s bioscience and
biomedical research complex is large with nearly $967 million in
bioscience academic R&D.
As many as 500 CEOs, senior executives, investors, university
scientists, physicians, and public policy experts are expected to
attend the day-long Summit. In addition to the keynote speakers,
the Summit will feature more than 50 experts in panel discussions
highlighting the full range of bioscience innovation in Georgia.
The day-long program will cover the span of life science sectors
including biotech/pharma, medical devices, diagnostics, academic
research, agricultural biotechnology, and healthcare IT. Details
are available on the Summit website at
www.georgiabiosummit.org.
This year’s conference will offer the opportunity to hear about
developments in the bioscience start-up community. The Company
Investor Presentations features several Georgia-based startups
describing their technologies, products and recent developments. To
get a glimpse of emerging technologies from Georgia’s universities
and companies, stop by the Innovation Stage during the
exhibition breaks. The always popular Life Science Leader
Chats provide the opportunity to learn from seasoned executives
about the skills every entrepreneur needs.
The Summit serves as the only life sciences exposition in
Georgia with an Exhibit Hall featuring the latest research,
technology and services at companies, universities and other
organizations. The Summit also features a Scientific Poster
Contest where representatives from Georgia-based academia,
research institutes and industry alike will showcase their
research.
The event will close with a Casino Night Gala and Silent
Auction where attendees can network and raise funds for the
Georgia BioEd Institute, which provides K-12 STEM programming in
bioscience and medtech throughout the state. Casino Night tickets
are available onsite.
Georgia Bio (www.gabio.org) is the state’s private,
non-profit life sciences association. Members include
pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies, medical
centers, universities and research institutes, government groups
and other business organizations involved in the development of
life sciences related products and services.
Editor’s Note: Registration is complimentary for
credentialed members of the news media. To request media
registration, please contact Maria Thacker at mthacker@gabio.org |
404-920-2042.
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