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EuropaBio
Press Release -
Biotech needs the right policies to stay on
track in new EU Member States
EuropaBio
and Venture Valuation, with the
collaboration of national stakeholders,
yesterday published a ground-breaking report
“Biotech in the new EU Member States: an
emerging sector”(1), evaluating the biotech
industry across the 12 newest EU Member
State, as well as Turkey and Croatia.
The report “Biotech in the new EU Member
States: an emerging sector” is available
here
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European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology
2009, 20-22 October - Lisbon, Portugal
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EuropaBio announces two new communications
appointments
Joanna
Dupont Inglis, formerly Communications
Advisor on Agricultural Biotechnology
issues, has been appointed as horizontal
Communications Manager for EuropaBio. She is
replaced by Joseph Buxton who will take over
communications responsibilities on Green
Biotechnology.
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Green Biotech
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World food output must rise 70 percent
by 2050: FAO
Global cereals demand for food and
animal feed is expected to rise to 3
billion tonnes by 2050 and more demand
may come from the biofuels industry, the
FAO said in a statement.
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EFSA holds two-day conference to debate GMO
risk assessment
Presentations are now available on EFSA
website.
This includes a presentation by Willy De
Greef who talked about the difference
between Risk Assessment and Risk Management
and the fact that EU’s risk research (e.g.
all the EU projects) is not used for policy
making.
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Red Biotech
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EMEA Press Release
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European Medicines Agency recommends
authorisation of two vaccines for
influenza pandemic (H1N1) 2009
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South Africa pledges to speed access to
new medicines
The South African
government has announced moves to clear
the massive backlog of drug approvals
and develop a recovery strategy for the
pharmaceutical industry.
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HIV vaccine cuts infection by 31.2% in
16,000 Thai trial
Huge excitement has greeted the news
that a major late-stage trial of a
combination AIDS vaccine is the first to
show some effectiveness in preventing
HIV.
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White Biotech
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Webinar
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Industrial Biotechnology: A Global
Market Outlook
When: 5 October, 2009 9:30 am Eastern /
14:30 London/ 15:30 CET
Cost: Free
Featured Speaker: Anindya Mukherjee,
Managing Director Industrial
biotechnology GmbH
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The presentations of the OECD workshop
on sustainability of bio-based products
are now available
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Other (top)
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'Innovation -
A creative way to measure innovation
Companies that accurately measure innovation
can acquire knowledge of how to pick winning
strategies and follow them through, argues
a September study by consulting firm
McKinsey & Company.
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Information and brokerage day on call
FP7-KBBE 2010
The European Commission, is organising an
event on the upcoming call for proposals
under the 'Food, agriculture and fisheries,
and biotechnology' theme of the Seventh
Framework Programme (FP7).
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