Hertfordshire

The key purpose of RRC 2007 is to demonstrate through an up-to-the-minute and expert seminar programme how investment in technology can be regarded not as a cost but, through best execution, as a way of adding value and achieving optimal ROI and competitive advantage across an enterprise. There will also be the opportunity to network and attend one-one-one meetings with the most innovative solutions providers. Delegates attending will include senior executives and industry leaders from exchanges, universal banks, investment banks, asset management firms, hedge/mutual funds and broker/dealers (securities firms) and insurance companies.

"Plant biotechnology offers an unprecedented opportunity to produce modern, recombinant pharmaceutical proteins at scale, quickly and at low cost. In essence, a “low-tech high technology”, it has the potential to address many of the global health issues that cannot be solved using conventional technologies. This meeting follows on from the first Molecular Farming meeting in January 2006, and will visit the latest advances and enabling technologies, and review the progress that is being made towards the first commercial products." Chair - Professor Julian Ma, St Georges Hospital, University of London, UK Confirmed Talks include: Pharma-Planta – an academic consortium advancing Molecular Farming in Europe and South Africa Professor Julian Ma, St Georges Hospital, University of London, UK New generation technologies for expressing recombinant proteins in green plants Professor Yuri Gleba, Icon Genetics GmbH, Germany The developing regulatory oversight of plant made pharmaceuticals Professor Philip J Dale OBE, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK Expression of self-assembling macromolecular complexes using a plant virus vector Dr George Lomonossoff, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK Recombinant pharmaceutical proteins from cereal grains Dr Eva Stoger, Germany Confirmed Speakers include: • Dr Harry Thangaraj, Director of Research, Centre for the Management of IP in Health R&D, UK • Lorenzo Frigerio, University of Warwick, UK The deadline for early registrations is 20th October 2007. Fees double after this date. Abstracts are still being accepted for oral and poster presentations. All presentations will be published in the meeting proceedings. Guidelines for abstract submission can be found at http://www.euroscicon.com/absguidelines.html For more information go to http://www.regonline.co.uk/molfarm08 We seek CPD accreditation from the IBMS for all our meetings