Dozens of high impact panel sessions, including:
• India & China: The Biotechnology Industry's Growing Powers
• What Early And Mid-Stage Biotech Companies Need To Know About the "New FDA"
• Wall Street Unplugged: Communicating With Wall Street
• Natural Selection In The Pharma Industry: Biotech Versus Big Pharma, Who Eats Whom?
• Are NY Universities Doing Enough to Commercialize Academic Technologies
• Surviving the Cash Crunch
• Adult Autologous Stem Cell Therapy Vs Allogeneic Stem Cell Therapy: Pros and Cons
• The New Normal in Biotech: A Strategic Approach To The Current Investing and Operating Environment
• Agricultural Biotech: Energy, Materials and Food
Innovation Alley Poster Session featuring more than 30 examples of the brilliant research coming out of our research universities and small companies.
Hundreds of your peers and colleagues to network with: find your next partner, customer, technology acquisition, or employee while you network, network, network!
Join hundreds of your peers and colleagues to network: find your next partner, customer, technology acquisition, or employee while you network, network, network!
Dr. Christoph Hergersberg Global Technology Leader, Biosciences, General Electric Global Research
Dr. Christoph Hergersberg joined the General Electric Global Research Center in August 2004 as Global Technology Leader, Biosciences. He has since then built the Global Technology Organization for Biosciences, now comprising of a multidisciplinary team of 60 scientists and staff. Before joining Global Research, Dr. Hergersberg served as the Vice President, Research, for the discovery systems group of Amersham Biosciences. Prior to Amersham, Dr. Hergersberg worked as Chief Scientific Officer at Xantos Biomedicine, Munich, Germany. Before joining Xantos in 2001, he was a Director of technology management within the Chief Technology Office (CTO) of Boehringer Mannheim/Roche Diagnostics division based in the US. Prior to his position in the CTO in 1997, in the Boehringer Mannheim biopharmaceutical R&D in Penzberg, Dr. Hergersberg was a group leader within the Diagnostics and Pharmaceutical R&D organization. A Biologist by training, Christoph received his doctorate in molecular cell biology and protein chemistry from the University of Munich and a postdoctoral training in immunology before joining Boehringer Mannheim in 1991.
Sponsored by Alexandria Real Estate Equities.
The Honorable Michael Bloomberg Mayor of New York City
(invited)
Well known as both a businessman and a politician, Michael Bloomberg is the 108th Mayor of New York City, having been elected to an unprecedented third consecutive term in November 2009.
With a vision of an information company that would use emerging technology to bring transparency and efficiency to the buyers and sellers of financial securities, he began a small start-up company called Bloomberg LP in 1981. Today, Bloomberg LP has over 275,000 subscribers to its financial news and information service in 161 countries around the globe. Headquartered in New York City, the company has more than 10,000 employees worldwide.
Luncheon Keynote
Tuesday, April 20, 12:30
Super Bowl champion Jerome "The Bus" Bettis
2006 Super Bowl champion Jerome "The Bus" Bettis is one of the National Football League's most popular players, the fifth-best rusher of all-time and a six-time Pro Bowl selection. 

"The Bus" finished his NFL career in January 2006 after 13 seasons, retiring immediately following the Pittsburgh Steelers' 21-10 win over the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XL in his hometown of Detroit.
Diagnosed with asthma at age 14, Bettis is a tireless advocate for asthma awareness. Bettis also established The Bus Stops Here Foundation in 1996 to help improve the quality of life for disadvantaged and underprivileged children. In 2002, he was named the NFL Walter Payton Man of the Year for his community involvement and work by his foundation.
NYBA thanks the following companies for their support of NYBA's Annual Meeting and appreciates their commitment to the growth of the biotechnology industry in New York State. To become a sponsor, contact Joe Tortorice at 631-444-8861
The 2009 Meeting is the largest and most important regional bioscience gathering in the Northeast area, annually attracting hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors, innovators, researchers and industry leaders to two days of high-caliber information and insight. Proposals for speakers and panels are being accepted through November 10, 2008.
Sponsorship and advertising opportunities are limited. Contact Joe Tortorice to be part of this elite group: jtortorice@nyba.org or 631-444-8861.
Dr. Christoph Hergersberg
The Honorable Michael Bloomberg
Super Bowl champion Jerome "The Bus" Bettis
Exhibit Hall & Evening Cocktail Reception
