Council for Entrepreneurial Development Releases Podcast on 18th Annual Biotech 2009 Conference
Research Triangle Park, NC, February 05, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Joan Siefert Rose, president of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) (www.cednc.org), a private, nonprofit organization that promotes entrepreneurial efforts in the Triangle region of North Carolina, has announced the release of a podcast discussing CED’s Biotech 2009 conference scheduled for Monday, Feb. 16 and Tuesday, Feb. 17 at the Raleigh Convention Center, located at 500 S. Salisbury St.
In the podcast, Richard Kent, M.D. discusses the relevance of the conference and the state of biotech in North Carolina. Kent is a venture partner with Intersouth Partners, a venture capital firm in Durham, and previously served as CEO of Serenex. Kent will serve as a moderator for the “Leadership Issues in Changing Times” panel at the conference. Panelists include John J. Campbell, founder, chairman and CEO of Campbell Alliance; Colin Goddard, Ph.D., CEO of OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and H. Stewart Parker, former president and CEO of Targeted Genetics Corporation.
CED’s Biotech 2009 will feature opening remarks from North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue and U.S. Senator Richard Burr. Keynote speakers include James C. Mullen, president and CEO of Biogen Idec; Holden Thorp, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Victor J. Dzau, M.D., chancellor of Health Affairs at Duke University, president and CEO of Duke University Health System and James B. Duke Professor of Medicine; and Oliver Smithies, D. Phil., Nobel Laureate and excellence professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For more information on the conference, visit www.cednc.org.
CED’s Biotech 2009 podcast is available for download at www.mmimarketing.com/podcast/ced-releases-podcast-on-biotech-2009.
“This will be the first major biotech conference post President Barack Obama’s inauguration,” said Kent. “Given the economy and the state of funding of biotech conferences, there is a need for CEOs especially to be intensively networking to try to build and finance their companies. Biotech 2009 is a fantastic venue and I encourage anyone in the biotech industry to attend this conference.”
About the Council for Entrepreneurial Development:
The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high-growth, high-impact companies and accelerate the region’s entrepreneurial culture. Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and largest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 5,500 active members. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, programs and web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, service partners, researchers and public policy makers in diverse emerging industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to service companies, from one-person start-ups to 1000-person businesses. For more information, visit www.cednc.org.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, N.C.
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In the podcast, Richard Kent, M.D. discusses the relevance of the conference and the state of biotech in North Carolina. Kent is a venture partner with Intersouth Partners, a venture capital firm in Durham, and previously served as CEO of Serenex. Kent will serve as a moderator for the “Leadership Issues in Changing Times” panel at the conference. Panelists include John J. Campbell, founder, chairman and CEO of Campbell Alliance; Colin Goddard, Ph.D., CEO of OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and H. Stewart Parker, former president and CEO of Targeted Genetics Corporation.
CED’s Biotech 2009 will feature opening remarks from North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue and U.S. Senator Richard Burr. Keynote speakers include James C. Mullen, president and CEO of Biogen Idec; Holden Thorp, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Victor J. Dzau, M.D., chancellor of Health Affairs at Duke University, president and CEO of Duke University Health System and James B. Duke Professor of Medicine; and Oliver Smithies, D. Phil., Nobel Laureate and excellence professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For more information on the conference, visit www.cednc.org.
CED’s Biotech 2009 podcast is available for download at www.mmimarketing.com/podcast/ced-releases-podcast-on-biotech-2009.
“This will be the first major biotech conference post President Barack Obama’s inauguration,” said Kent. “Given the economy and the state of funding of biotech conferences, there is a need for CEOs especially to be intensively networking to try to build and finance their companies. Biotech 2009 is a fantastic venue and I encourage anyone in the biotech industry to attend this conference.”
About the Council for Entrepreneurial Development:
The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high-growth, high-impact companies and accelerate the region’s entrepreneurial culture. Headquartered in the Research Triangle Park, CED is the oldest and largest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 5,500 active members. CED provides know-how, networking, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, programs and web-based resources. CED has helped entrepreneurs, investors, service partners, researchers and public policy makers in diverse emerging industries and at all stages of development – from high-tech, production-based organizations to service companies, from one-person start-ups to 1000-person businesses. For more information, visit www.cednc.org.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, N.C.
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