BIO San Francisco Investor Forum Media Registration Now Available Online

WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 1, 2004) – Online media registration is now open for the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s (BIO) BIO Emerging Company Investor Forum, to take place October 13-15 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

Registration is complimentary for credentialed news media.  Advance registration is available until October 1.  To register, please visit www.bio.org.  Only reporters working full-time for print or broadcast news organizations with valid media credentials may register online.

The BIO Emerging Company Investor Forum will present over 250 emerging private and public product and technology focused companies and showcase a series of therapeutic and technology workshops, business roundtables, and topical plenary sessions led by the industry’s leading practitioners and thought leaders.

The Forum will provide a number of networking activities with an audience of the biotechnology industry’s most prominent venture capital firms and institutional investors.  It will also feature an extensive one-on-one meeting program with management and investors.

BIO represents more than 1,000 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations in all 50 U.S. states and 33 other nations. BIO members are involved in the research and development of health-care, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology products.

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