Global Policy Platform

02.28.2013

How Countries Can Boost Their Biotech Industry

How can countries and regions boost the biotech industry within their borders? Working with several member companies, BIO developed a Global Policy Platform to serve as a roadmap for policymakers seeking to create an environment for the biotech industry to grow and prosper...

BIO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION

Orphan Disease Forum

Today we celebrate Rare Disease Day to recognize the path to treatments and cures paved by families, caregivers, advocacy groups, medical advisors, and dedicated researchers. The Orphan Disease Forum at the 2013 BIO International Convention will provide unique perspective on the orphan drug marketplace.

AGRICULTURE

More Farmers Around the World Plant Biotech Crops

A record 17.3 million farmers in 28 countries are growing biotech crops on 420 million acres. That marks a stunning 100-fold increase since they were first commercialized in 1996...

PARTNERING

BIO One-on-One Partnering Opens for BIO International Convention

The 2013 BIO International Convention and BIO Business Forum is kicking in to full gear! And today is a big day! The BIO One-on-One Partnering System for the event has officially launched!

BIOFUELS

When it Comes to Biofuels Driving the Economy, The Sky is the Limit

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack wrote a column about the unlimited opportunities for biofuels to grow the rural economy. He highlighted what the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has already done to support biofuels including loan guarantees and research centers...

RARE DISEASES

Rare Disease Day: Families and Advocacy Groups Drive Treatments for Rare Diseases

Of the many people touched by and involved in the world of rare diseases, patients and their families are inarguably the most passionate advocates for rare disease research...

HEALTH CARE

Orphan Drugs: Making Rare Diseases Rarer

A panel at the BIO CEO & Investor Conference provided analysis of the thriving orphan drug market opportunity featuring industry, clinical and regulatory experts specializing in rare diseases...

Parallel Importation

Parallel Importation: A Disincentive for Developing World Access to Medicines

Parallel importation serves as a challenge to improving access to medicines in the developing world. Parallel importation occurs when a country imports a product from a 3rd country to take advantage of a cheaper price than what is present for the same product in-country...

FOOD LABELING

What do you want to know about biotech food labeling?

Administered by the Center for Food Integrity (CFI), the BestFoodFacts.org website gives the food-consuming public the opportunity to connect with food system experts...

BIOFUELS

BIO Welcomes EPA Final Rule on New Advanced and Cellulosic Biofuels

On Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued long-awaited approval for new feedstocks and biofuel processes under the Renewable Fuel Standard...

EVENTS

BIO World Congress to Address Industrial Biotech's Role in Building a Biobased Economy

BIO announced its plenary session programfor the 2013 World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology featuring biofuel and biobased product company executives, scientists and government officials from across the globe...

GENE PATENTS

Gene Patents: Common Sense from Down Under

The U.S. Supreme Court is currently reviewing briefs to consider whether preparations of DNA molecules are patentable. Possibly unnoticed to the Justices is a recent decision from the Federal Court of Australia...

AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

Show Me the Money: Reimbursement in an ACA World

With many key provisions of the ACA slated to take effect in 2013 and beyond, the industry is facing sweeping changes to the managed care and reimbursement road map...

Conferences & Events

04.22.13

2013 BIO International Convention

BIO One-on-One Partnering is the most efficient and economical way to find a business partner in Chicago. BIO offers biotech's largest partnering event, hosting a record breaking 25,291+ partnering meetings in 2012...

03.12.13

Legislative Day Fly-In 2013

Once a year, BIO hosts the Legislative Day Fly-In, inviting biotechnology executives from across the country to come to Washington D.C. for a day and a half of legislative briefings and advocacy...

03.25.13

BIO IPCC Conference

Over the past nine years, BIO's semiannual IP Counsels Committee Conference has become a popular and growing event among our members' IP and legal professionals...

04.19.13

BIO Executive Training Programs

The Business Development Basics and Advanced Business Development courses support the activity that takes place at our partnering, investor and venture capital conferences...

06.16.13

World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology

The BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology is the world's largest industrial biotechnology event for business leaders, investors, and policy makers in biofuels, biobased products, and renewable chemicals...

10.08.13

BIO Investor Forum

The BIO Investor Forum is an international biotech investor conference focused on early and established private companies as well as emerging public companies...

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November 2013

BIO Convention in China

The BIO Convention in China brings together executives from biotechnology, pharmaceutical companies and investment firms from North America, Europe and Asia to meet and explore business opportunities with China's emerging biotech sector...

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12.08.13

Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioenergy

The Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy is the original conference dedicated solely to the growth of the industrial biotechnology and bioenergy sectors in North America and the Asia-Pacific region...

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