Athenix Selected to Present at Springboard Southeast 2002 Venture Forum.Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers BIOWIRE2K Springboard Southeast 2002 Venture Forum RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 2002 Athenix Corp., a leading industrial biotechnology The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. Industrial biotechnology (known mainly in Europe as white biotechnology company discovering microbial microbial pertaining to or emanating from a microbe. microbial digestion the breakdown of organic material, especially feedstuffs, by microbial organisms. traits and developing them for use in high-value products and processes in the Agricultural and Petrochemical Industries, announced it was selected as one of the 16 women-led companies that will present their businesses at the Springboard Southeast 2002 Venture Forum on September 27. "We are very pleased about the opportunity to present our company at this distinguished forum," says Nadine Carozzi, one of the founders and Vice President of Product Development of Athenix. "Athenix is focused on making innovative products such as genetically engineered genetically engineered adjective Recombinant, see there plants and microbes that will reduce our reliance on chemical pesticides and fossil fuels by replacing them with clean, renewable resources. There are tremendous opportunities to create value in this new industry and we have assembled a world class team with a proven track record of moving biotechnology products from the laboratory to the market." The venture capital forum, showcasing women-led high growth businesses, is hosted by Springboard Enterprises and the Council for Entrepreneurial Development. It is scheduled for September 27 at the Kenan-Flagler Business School The Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill serves the community as a world-renowned business education institution. History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Also known as The University of North Carolina, Carolina, North Carolina, or simply UNC . Finalists for the forum were selected by a committee of the area's leading venture capitalists and service providers from an impressive field of 100 candidates recruited from Florida to Maryland. The Southeast forum presenters join 214 past Springboard presenters from Silicon Valley, the Mid-Atlantic, New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. , Mid-West and Southwest, who have raised more than $750 million dollars for their companies since January 2000. "The women chosen to present at Springboard Southeast 2002 represent the next wave of successful entrepreneurs in this fertile region," said Monica Doss, president of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development. "These forums provide women entrepreneurs with access to the `who's who' within the investment community." About Athenix Athenix is a leading industrial biotechnology company discovering microbial traits and developing them for use in high-value products and processes in the Agricultural and Petrochemical Industries. These traits are used to develop enhanced plants, microbes, enzymes, and processes capable of providing renewable resources for a variety of industry sectors. Athenix is focused on two major market opportunities: 1) the discovery of genes and proteins for novel input traits and their use to develop transgenic trans·ge·nic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or being an organism whose genome has been altered by the transfer of a gene or genes from another species or breed: transgenic mice. 2. plants for the Agricultural Chemical and Seed Industries; and 2) the discovery of genes and proteins for improved biomass conversion in the Chemical, Alternative Energy and Animal Feed Industries. For more information about Athenix, visit www.athenixcorp.com About Springboard Enterprises Springboard Enterprises (www.springboardenterprises.org) is a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. based in Washington, DC, dedicated to increasing women-led high-growth enterprises' access to the equity markets. Springboard delivers its programs and services through local affiliate organizations and a national network of entrepreneurs, investors and business development professionals. Springboard's signature program is the Women's Venture Capital Forum, which is hosted in major markets throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . About CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) An earlier videodisc technology from RCA that was released in 1981 and abandoned five years later. Like phonograph records, the analog disc contained grooves that a stylus rode over. The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (www.cednc.org), located in Research Triangle Park, N.C., is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to stimulate the creation and growth of high-impact companies in the greater Research Triangle Region. As one of the nation's oldest and largest entrepreneurial support organizations, CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs. |
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