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EuroapBio
Publications:
Presentation and feedback from EuropaBio
EP outreach event: Patient-centred
healthcare system in Europe: what role
for biotech?
MEPs and Members get together in
Strasbourg to discuss patient-centred
healthcare system in Europe and the role
of biotech.
Eleven
Members of the European Parliament,
including Vittorio Prodi, Alojz Peterle
and Milan Cabrnoch, amongst other joined
8 MEP assistants and around 20 Members
from the Healthcare Council and National
Associations for a 20 October event at
the European Parliament in Strasbourg
entitled ‘Patient centred healthcare
systems in Europe: what role for
biotech?’ Designed as an interactive
networking lunch with visuals and
videos, the aim of the 2-hour event was
to communicate to new and returning MEPs
the value of healthcare biotechnology
for patients and society.
Watch the pictures of the event
Watch videos from the event
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EuropaBio
Vodcast- SME-
14AllBio Project - Policy
Recommendations
Camille Burel presents policy
recommendations to foster biotech
development in the 12 new Member States
as well as Turkey and Croatia. The
14AllBio project provided an analysis of
the development of the biotech sector in
the region, thereby filling the
information gap compared to previous
studies.
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EuropaBio
Workshop -
Presentations of EuropaBio's workshop
Environmental Risk Assessment for the
cultivation of genetically modified crops
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SciTech Europe 2009: Innovation Across
Europe
A one-day networking conference aimed at the
Science & Technology sector.
For more information about how to register
contact j.dupont[at]europabio.org
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Events
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EUROTRANS-BIO 5th Call |
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European Course for Life Sciences Executives, Basel, Switzerland
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BIA committee seminars :The Use Of Safety And Efficacy Biomarkers For Risk Assessment Of Biopharmaceuticals,
20 November, London, UK |
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Science and Technology Conference:
Innovation Across Europe 09, Brussels,
Belgium |
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Green Biotech
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SANCO: Commission decisions on three
different types of GM maize
The
European Commission adopted today
three decisions authorising Genetically
Modified (GM) maize MON88017, MON89034,
59122xNK603, for food and feed uses and
import and processing.
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A Genetically Modified Proposal
An Irish farmer's plea for access to
technology in agriculture.
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Red Biotech
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Call to improve treatment for
Parkinson's disease patients
The levels of treatment being offered to
patients with Parkinson’s disease are
falling woefully short, hindered by a
lack of political will and a lack of
knowledge of the condition among the
medical profession.
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Scientists five years from
producing artificial sperm and eggs
Scientists ‘five years’ from producing
artificial sperm and eggs Artificial
sperm and eggs ‘in five years’
Researchers at Stanford University in
California have created primitive human
gametes from embryonic stem cells
Primitive human sperm and eggs and the
germ cells that make them have been
created from embryonic stem cells in an
experiment that promises new treatments
for infertility.
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White Biotech
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Borregaard received biorefinery funding
EU granted Borregaard €4 million to
demonstrate biorefinery concepts in
actionThe Norwegian company is involved
in two of the three projects selected to
receive funding under the EU’s seventh
framework programme for research and
development.
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Other (top)
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EResearch
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A crucial moment for US:EU science
cooperation
As India, China and others, increase R&D
spending, the US and Europe must work
together to set global standards in science,
says Alan Leshner, CEO of the AAAS.
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