Biotech Conference: Tuesday, June 22, 2010

'Ultrasound: from Diagnosis to Therapy'

The French-American Chamber of Commerce was pleased to organize the panel discussion: "Ultrasound: from Diagnosis to Therapy". The discussion was moderated by Professor Matt O'Donnell, Dean of Engineering at the University of Washington, and featured the following panelists:

- Jacques Souquet Ph.D., Founder and CEO, SuperSonic Imagine (France)

- Larry Crum Ph.D, Principal Physicist and Research Professor, Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering, University of Washington

- Terry Sweeney, Vice President, Global Clinical Affairs, Philips Healthcare

- Jens Quistgaard Ph.D., President and General Manager, Medicis Technologies Corporation

After enjoying the panel discussion, guests went on to enjoy a networking reception featuring delicious French cheese and wine as well as smoked salmon. With more than 90 attendees, the evening proved a great success for the FACC, and has inspired much confidence in future biotech events.

Thank you to all the guests! For those of you who were enable to attend, please click here to review the video of this Biotech conference.

We look forward to seeing you at the next Biotech conference!

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French Biotech Tour California

March 15th-17th, 2010

UBIFRANCE organized a free event for Biotech companies specializing in the development of diagnostics and therapeutics for infectious diseases (small molecules, biologics and vaccines). The goal of the event is to increase collaboration between France and the United States.

***** Companies and organizations such as Sanofi-Aventis, Sanofi-Pasteur, Novartis, Merck, KKC, Advaxis, Sorrento Therapeutics, Vical and the Salk Institute participated in this year's event! *****

In addition to being a great networking opportunity, we were encouraging one-on-one meetings to increase international collaboration efforts.

Additionally, we introduced "FABS", a scientific seminar focused on infectious diseases at the Salk Institute in La Jolla on March 16th. Several prestigious French and American members of the scientific community were sharing their findings and taking part in panel discussions.

Biotech Conference: Wednesday, February 10, 2010

'Challenges and opportunities in Personalized Medicine'

On Wednesday, February 10, 2010 the French-American Chamber of Commerce held its first biotech conference. This conference is a part of the Biotech Series, a new initiative aimed at strengthening French-American relationships in the biotech sector.

Held at Stoel Rives LLP, the event featured moderator Richard Mitchell (FHCRC), as well as five panelists; Paul Yager (UW), Wylie Burke (UW), Howard Coleman (Genelex Corporation), Bassem Bejjani (Signature Genomics) and Sam Webb (Stoel Rives LLP).

After enjoying the panel discussion, guests went on to enjoy a networking reception featuring delicious French cheese and wine. The evening proved a great success for the FACC, and has inspired much confidence in future biotech events.

The FACC hopes that all our guests had a great time; the next biotech conference is due to take place in a couple of months on the subject of medical imagery. We hope to see you there!

To see more pictures of this event, please click here

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