Day 1, Wednesday 2 June 2010

 

08:00 Registration and Breakfast

Keynote Speaker

09:30 Opening keynote address

• Professor Dame Julia Polak, Emeritus Professor attached to the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

Dame Julia's Slides final Cambridge - June 2010

10:00 Ernst & Young's Beyond Borders Global biotechnology report 2010

• Mr Ian Oliver (Senior Manager) & Mr Chad Whitehead (Partner), Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young BB2010 ERBI Session 2 june 2010 to erbi

10:30 Refreshments

Financial Models of the Future

11:10 Advances in science and technology are key to the development of disruptive technologies. Increasingly these reflect multidisciplinary teams and lead to the development of complex products. The routes for their development and commercialisation are therefore untried and untested. Come and hear how investors and businesses view these challenges and manage the risk of the "unknown"

Chaired by Dr Cathy Prescott, CEO Biolatris

Session Speakers

• Dr Eleanor Mitchell, Head of Commercialisation within Life Sciences, Scottish Enterprise
• Dr John Shields, Principal, Science and Technology Abingworth
• Dr Mike Mitchell, Healthcare Analyst, Seymour Pierce
• François M. Meurgey, Acting Head of Market Access, TiGenix nv

12:30 Lunch

Diseases Relating to Ageing

14:00 The socio-economic pressures to help people remain healthy throughout life are underpinned by new innovations and advances in technology. Yet the ageing process is accompanied by new challenges to which new solutions and management strategies must be found. This session will explore the factors associated with the ageing process, and highlight new innovations addressing a range of age-related conditions.

Chaired by Mark Treherne, CEO, Senexis Senexis_ERBI_June2010

Session Speakers

• Professor Nick Wareham, Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit
• Roger Hickling, Research and Development Director, Phytopharm Roger Hickling's slides
• Dr Jonathan Powell, Ex Director of Integrative Physiology in Unilever Discover Research
• Professor Michael Cawthorne, Director of Metabolic Research & Professorial Research Fellow, University of Buckingham

Mike Cawthorne's slides

 

• Dr Simon Ridley, Head of Research, Alzhimer's Research Trust Alzheimer's presentation ERBI June 2nd 2010

15:30 Refreshments

Company Presentations

16:15 Biotech and medtech companies will give short presentations on their businesses and technologies followed by questions from the floor.

Presentations from:

• Biotica Biotica_ERBI Meeting - 2 June 2010_sent
• Eagle Genomics
• Horizon Discovery Rob Howes Horizon Discovery
• Pathology Diagnostics Madhuri PD Ltd final ERBI conference presentation 2010
• Xention Xention - ERBI Presentation - 2 Jun 10
• Selcia Selcia ERBI June 2 Final
• Alcyomics Ltd Alcyomics Company Presentation June 2010

18:00 Day 1 Closing Address

• John Hodgson, Editor at Large, Nature Biotechnology  

19:00 Networking ceilidh and dinner