 Turning Edmonton into a Biotech Powerhouse
THECIS breakfast, February 25th, 2010, Royal Glenora Club, Edmonton.
Turning Edmonton into a Biotech powerhouse: Will the Cleaveland model work?
BioEnterprise, based in Cleveland, Ohio, is an organization that assists early stage biotech and medical devise firms. Since 2002 it has created 80 new companies, attracted more than $860 million of new funding to these companies, and concluded over 300 tech trasfer deals, AS a resutl of this activity Cleveland has become the US's "new healthcare innovation distination".
Tom Facklam is a former VP, Life Sciences at the Alberta Research Council, VP of Technical Operations and Development at Biomira and CEO of IFASA [Institute for Food and Agricultural Science of Alberta]. He has spent several years at BioEnterprise before returning to Alberta recently. Tom will describe the BioEnterprise model for growing the healthcare industry in Northeast Ohio.
Join us for a hot breakfast and interesting session.
Edmonton
Time: 7:00 am to 9:00 am Breakfast will be served
Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Place: Royal Glenora Club, 11160 River Valley Road
Cost
Members of the THECIS Innovation Club $36.00
Non-Members $52.00
Students: $21.00
THECIS GST number is 88075 0914 RT0001. It is THECIS policy that no-shows will be billed.
In partnership with Bio Alberta 
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