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INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE

« Prestigious » is a clear understatement! Members of the EuroBiO 2008 International Steering Committee are indeed all eminent doers and shakers of the international Life Sciences community…

The active participation of these recognised leaders from Industry and Science has generated a spectacular new format for conferences that participants will enjoy…and drive… throughout EuroBiO 2008.

 

Co-Chairs

 
  Harriet Wallberg – Henriksson
President, Karolinska Institutet, Member of Karolinska Institutet’s Nobel Assembly

 
  Jonathan Knowles
Chair of EFPIA’s Research Director’s Group, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)
 


Werner Arber Nobel Prize Laureate, Medicine 1978
David Brown Chairman of the Board of Directors Babraham Bioscience Technologies
Hermann Bujard Executive Director, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
     
Steven Burrill Chief Executive Officer, Burrill & Company
Alice Dautry Director General, Pasteur Institute
 
Jennie Hunter Cevera President, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI)
Emmanuel Chantelot Executive Director, European Biopharmaceutical Enterprises (EBE)
Brian Clark Chairman, Task Group on International Relations (TGIR), European Federation of Biotechnology
Rita Colwell Distinguished Professor, Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Chairman of Canon US Life Sciences, Former Director, National Science Foundation
Malcolm Elliott Executive Director, The Norman Borlaug Institute for Crop Improvement
Brent Erickson Executive Vice President, Industrial and Environmental Section, BIO
Carl Feldbaum President Emeritus, BIO, Board of Directors, BIO Ventures for Global Health
Frank Gannon Director General of Science Foundation Ireland, EMBO
Matthew M. Gardner President, BayBio
Jean-Pierre Garnier Chief Executive Officer, Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK)
Bernward Garthoff EuropaBio Vice President, Chairman Agrifood Council, Chairman of the Board German Association of Biotechnology Industries (DIB), Head European Policy, Bayer AG, Former Member of the Board of Management, Bayer Crop Science.
Clara Gaymard President, National Executive GE France
Roger Guillemin Nobel Prize Laureate, Medicine 1977, Distinguished Professor, The Salk Institute
Victoria Hale Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chair of The Board of Directors, Institute for OneWorld Health
John Hodgson Editor-at-Large, Nature Biotechnology,
Director, Critical I
William B. Hurlbut

Consulting Professor, The Neuroscience Institute at Stanford University Medical Center, Member of the President’s Council on Bioethics

Bruce W. Jenett Partner, Co-Chair, Global Life Sciences Sector, DLA Piper US LLP
Alastair Kent President of European Genetic Alliances’Network (EGAN), Director, Genetic Interest Group
Gerald T. Keusch Assistant Provost & Associate Dean for Global Health, Boston University, Former Director, The Fogarty International Centerat NIH
 
Jonathan K.C. Knowles President of Group Research, Member of the Executive Committee, Roche; Member of the Board of Genentech; Chair of EFPIA’s Research Director’s Group; Chairman of the Governing Board of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI);
Carole A. Kovac Managing Director, Burrill & Company, Former General Manager, Life Science Solutions, IBM
Sir Peter Lachmann Past President, UK Academy of Medical Sciences
Federico Mayor Co-Chair of the UN High Level Group on the Alliance Civilizations, Former Director General, UNESCO
Eric M. Meslin Director, Indiana University, Center for Bioethics, Former Executive Director, National Bioethics Advisory Commission(NBAC)
Marc Van Montagu President, European Federation of Biotechnology, Chairman, Institute Plant Technology for Developing Countries, Ghent University
Osamu Nagayama Chairman of the Board of Directors, President & Chief Executive Officer, Chugai, Former President, Japan Pharmaceutical, Manufacturers Association (JPMA)
     
Klaus Plate Chief Executive Officer, Heidelberg Technology Park; Former President International Association of Sciences Parks (IASP)
Bernard Poussot President & Chief Executive Officer, Wyeth
 
Ysbrand Poortman Secretary General, International Genetic Alliance, Former Chairman of the European Platform Patient Organisations, Science and Industry (EPPOSI)
Steen Riisgaard Chairman, EuropaBio, President & Chief Executive Officer, Novozymes
Diane Romza-Kutz Attorney-at-Law, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Theodore J. Roumel Vice President, Research, Innovation and Commercialisation, University of Maryland Biotechnology; Former Assistant Director, Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health; Senior Advisor to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
Ellis Rubinstein President & Chief Executive Officer, The New York Academy of Sciences, Former Editor, Science
Albert Sasson Senior Visiting Professor, The United Nations University UNU-IAS, Former Assistant Director-General, UNESCO
Cynthia Schneider Executive Director, Perspectives in the Future of Science and Technology, Georgetown University, Former US Ambassador to The Netherlands
     
Jeff Solomon Chef Executive Officer, ERBI Biotech Membership Association for Cambridge and the East of England
Donny Strosberg Professor Biomedical Research, Department of Infectology, Scripps Florida, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Hybrigenics
Pierre Tambourin Chief Executive Officer of "Genopole Evry Ile de France"Biotech Science Park, Vice Chairman of Medicen Paris Region
Sandy Thomas Director of Foresight, Office of Science and Innovation, UK Government, Former Director, Nuffield Council on Bioethics
Johan Vanhemelrijck Secretary General, EuropaBio
Harriet Wallberg – Henriksson President, Karolinska Institutet, Member of Karolinska Institutet’s Nobel Assembly
 
Tony Weiss Director of the Molecular Biotechnology Program (MOBT), University of Sydney
Jean Weissenbach President, Genoscope National Sequencing Centre (CNS),
Member of the Pasteur Genopole Ile-de-France Steering Committee
Michael Zasloff Professor of Surgery and Paediatrics at Georgetown University, Senior Consultant, Life Sciences Investment Banking, Founder of Magainin Pharmaceuticals, Former Dean, Georgetown University School of Medicine

 




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