From 8 to 10 March 2010 Barcelona will host one of the most important biotechnology partnering conferences: BIO-Europe Spring 2010. The event is being organized by leading life sciences partnering firm the EBD Group, and Biocat, which is also coordinating the Host Committee comprising the Catalan Government, ACC1Ó, Barcelona City Hall, Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, Genoma España, ASEBIO and INVEST IN SPAIN.

Attendees will include biotechnology, pharmaceutical, financial, and services sector professionals from around the world. The conference aims to enable participating companies and institutions to find potential investors and partners, sign agreements, stimulate markets, and promote the biotechnology sector in their respective regions of origin. Over the 3 days of the event, more than 2,000 professionals are slated to attend, representing 1,400 companies from 50 countries, and 7,000 one-to-one meetings are expected to take place.

The BIO-Europe conference is held twice per year: once in spring and once in autumn. The EBD Group has devised software to facilitate the search for potential partners and to coordinate the agenda of participants’ meetings, making their events the most effective in Europe.