Biotech, medical learn to market new opportunities

Emily M. Smith
ASME NEWS

One of ASME's newest conferences will cover "Nanotechnology Growth Opportunities for the Biotech and Medical Device Sectors."

The conference, which is scheduled for April 15-16 in Irvine, Calif., will offer information for both the biotech and medical devices industry about how to capitalize on the next wave of new technology that will boost existing market shares and open up new markets and opportunities.

The meeting will be held in Orange County, Calif., which the meeting organizer, ASME's Nanotechnology Institute, says has the largest concentration of medical device companies in the United States. The nation's third-largest biotech industry is located nearby in San Diego, Calif.

Through the forum, nanoscience and nanoengineering experts will be able to interact with engineers and business professionals from the medical-device and biotech industries. As the Nanotechnology Institute points out, similar programs don't exist in the overcrowded nano training marketplace.

Lab tours of the Biomolecular Microsystems & Nanotransducers (BioMINT) Laboratory in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, will be offered.

For details and to register, visit www.asme.org/events/nanobio.

Registrants who make the early-bird deadline, March 1, 2004, will be charged $95 for students and $295 for members of academia, government and not-for-profit groups. The charge for general audience attendance will be $395.

After March 1, the fees will be $125 for students; $325 for member of academia, government and not-for-profit groups; and $425 for general audience attendance.

For information about exhibiting at the meeting, contact Raj Manchanda at (212) 591-7789 or e-mail: manchandar@asme.org.

Information is also available on the BME Web site at www.bme.uci.edu.

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