Welcome to the Regional Biotech Council

The mission of the Regional Biotech Council is to provide a stimulating networking environment and strategic support for biotech entrepreneurs within the five county region of Southeastern Pennsylvania - Chester, Montgomery, Delaware, Philadelphia and Bucks.

The Regional Biotech Council is hosted by the Institute of Hepatitis and Virus Research, the research affiliate of the Hepatitis B Foundation, and funded in part by a grant from Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania.

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REGIONAL BIOTECH COUNCIL SEMINARS PRESENTS

2011 RBC Conference
"2011: A Biospace Odyssey" Exploration of Natural Products through Public/Private Partnerships

Was held on Friday, October 28, 2011 at the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center in Doylestown, PA.

Keynote Speaker: Roy Vagelos, M.D., Retired Chairman and CEO of Merck & Co., Inc., “Merck Experience in Drug Discovery”

Speakers:
Craig Hopp, Ph.D., Program Officer at NCCAM-National Institutes of Health, “Natural Products, Nutraceuticals and NCCAM: A First Hand Account of an Evolving Industry”
Ilya Raskin, Ph.D., Founder and Partner, Nutrasorb, “Developing Novel Botanical Products for Metabolic Syndrome”
Dennis Stevenson, Ph.D., Vice President, New York Botanical Garden, "Expeditions in Phytoprospecting: From the Field to Genomics"
Michael Goetz, Ph.D., Director, Natural Products Discovery Institute, IHVR, Perspectives on Natural Product Research and the NPDI”

For information
please email rbc@ihvr.org

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