Sure does seem like 5:00 p.m. on a Saturday is a good time for beers.......
Thursday December 16, 11:39 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: BioSpace.com
BioSpace.com Announces Bay Area's Largest Life
Sciences Career Fair And Retail Investor Forum
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- BioSpace.com (http://biospace.com) today
announced its plans for Biotech Bay 2000, the largest combined life sciences event in Bay
Area history. Biotech Bay 2000 will attract all facets of the Northern California life sciences
community, including high-level executives, investors, students, researchers, and job seekers. The event, which takes place on
January 15, 2000 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, Burlingame, is designed to facilitate investment and employment
for the local life science industry.
BioSpace.com will be teaming with InformedInvestors.com, a leading producer of institutional-quality conferences and radio
programs for retail investors, to produce an information-packed biotechnology investment conference geared for individual
investors in the Bay Area. The event will provide a forum for retail investors to interact with management of public life science
companies. The program will include 35-minute analyst presentations from 20+ top biotech companies, 2-3 keynote speakers
giving additional insight into the industry, and an informational presentation on how to analyze the biotech industry.
Presentations will be broadcast live on the Internet at Biospace.com and InformedInvestors.com via Yahoo!'s Broadcast.com.
Concurrently, job recruiters from important life science companies will meet with job seekers during the day long Career Fair.
Prominent professionals will be speaking and hosting panels on topics such as ''Alternate Careers in Life Sciences.''
BioSpace operates eleven ''hotbed communities'' where news, company profiles, jobs, events and resources are made
available on a regional basis. The sixth edition of Northern California's Biotech Bay, the first of these communities, will be
highlighted at the concluding reception. The original Biotech Bay is on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institution, entitled,
''Snapshot of History in the Making.''
In the course of managing regional hotbed promotional campaigns over the last 5 years, BioSpace.com has developed strong
industry networks and branding that are well recognized and highly regarded within the life sciences. BioSpace.com is the most
heavily trafficked business-to-business (B2B) life sciences portal on the Internet, attracting 1.4 million page views per month
from over 200,000 unique visitors.
KEY FACTS:
Saturday, January 15, 2000
Investor Forum: 8:30am-4:30pm; $40 prepaid, $55 at the door
(lunch included)
Career Fair: 10am-4pm; Free admission, bring resume
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, Burlingame
Recruiting and Investor companies include: Genentech, Amgen, Roche Palo
Alto, CLONTECH, Incyte Pharmaceuticals, Cytokinetics, Science Magazine,
PRA International, Kelly Scientific, InGenuity Systems, Lab Support,
Agilent Technologies, ALZA Corporation, Sangstat, Medtronic AVE,
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Tularik, Gene Logic, Lynx Therapeutics,
Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Cygnus, SciClone Pharmaceuticals, Insite Vision,
Axys Pharmaceuticals, Hyseq, Valentis, Hollis-Eden Pharmaceutical,
LJL BioSystems, Inhale Therapeutic Systems, Sonus Corp., CV Therapeutics
(more to be added)
Launched in March, 1995, BioSpace.com is the most heavily trafficked business-to-business (B2B) life sciences portal on the
Internet, attracting 1.2 million page views per month from over 200,000 unique visitors to industry news, company profiles,
stock information, jobs, events, regional hotbed communities and an ever-expanding e-commerce marketplace. The company
was founded by Jennifer King in 1985, and has been dedicated to serving the life sciences industry for over a decade. The
combination of content, community and commerce make BioSpace.com the most comprehensive life sciences resource on the
Web.
SOURCE: BioSpace.com |
