Senator Tom Daschle to Speak at CED's Biotech 2007.16(th) Annual Conference Will Also Feature Panels on Emerging Trends in Biotechnology 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. -- The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (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. ) today announced that former Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle - a proponent One who offers or proposes. A proponent is a person who comes forward with an a item or an idea. A proponent supports an issue or advocates a cause, such as a proponent of a will. PROPONENT, eccl. law. of healthcare reform and alternative energy - will deliver featured remarks at Biotech bi·o·tech n. Informal Biotechnology. biotech Noun short for biotechnology Noun 1. 2007. The 16th annual conference, scheduled for May 14-15 at the Marriott at the Civic Center in Durham, N.C., is presented by CED in partnership with the North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. Biotechnology Center and the North Carolina Biosciences Organization (NCBIO). Senator Daschle is currently a Special Policy Advisor in Alston & Bird's Washington, D.C. office and is a member of the Legislative and Public Policy Group. With over 25 years of service in the House of Representatives and the Senate and 10 years as Senate Democratic Leader, Senator Daschle has made a significant impact on the development of U.S. legislative and regulatory policy, particularly with regard to energy and health care. "Senator Daschle has a long and supportive history with the biotech community," said CED President Monica Doss. "We are honored to have him share his thoughts at Biotech 2007 on the political climate for life sciences in 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. ." In addition to comments from Senator Daschle, Biotech 2007 will also feature concurrent panel sessions led by industry visionaries and leaders. Panel session topics will include fundraising, biofuels, emerging technologies, biotech and pharmaceutical exit strategies, cell ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a , and trends among large pharmaceutical companies. Visit www.cednc.org/biotech for additional details on the conference, including registration and sponsorship information. About CED: The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, 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. formed in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high growth, high impact entrepreneurial companies and to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina. Headquartered in the Research Triangle with a divisional office in Wilmington, CED is the largest and oldest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 4,000 members representing over 1,100 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops and programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. www.cednc.org |
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