You are cordially invited to attend
the annual
Southwestern Regional Life-sciences &
Biotechnology Conference
Life Sciences • Biotech • Nanotech/MEMS • Translational Technologies
Presented by:
Southwestern University, City of Georgetown, Georgetown Chamber of Commerce
Tuesday July 29, 2008
General Conference
10am-4:00pm
McCombs Ballroom
Southwestern University
Georgetown, Texas
Round table panel breakfast by invitation 8-10am
Dan Rather Room, McCombs Center
•Business Casual Dress
RSVP to:
Georgetown Chamber of Commerce at 512.930.3535 or Ednatlcc@aol.com
Individual Registration $50 Including Lunch*- Advanced Payment Encouraged
*Waived for full-time college and graduate students
Table-for-Eight sponsorship opportunities available through Texas Life-sciences
Collaboration Center. Email: executivedirector@texaslifesciences.com
Event Sponsors:
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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
SOUTHWESTERN TO HOST BIOTECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE JULY 29
Georgetown (Texas) – Biotechnology experts from across the region will participate in a conference to be held at Southwestern University July 29.
The Southwestern Regional Life-Sciences and Biotechnology Conference will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the ballrooms located on the second floor of the McCombs Campus Center (see campus map at www.southwestern.edu/tour/campus-map.pdf).
The conference is sponsored by the Texas Life-Sciences Collaboration Center (TLCC), a proposed 501(c)(3) organization that was founded in Georgetown last year to help take companies that have commercially viable biotechnology products to the next level. Southwestern University is one of the founding partners of the TLCC, along with the City of Georgetown and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce. The center recently signed a an agreement that will enable it to take a lead role in commercializing technology that will spin out of the health-science components of the Texas A&M System, including a new medical school that will be opening soon in Williamson County.
Healthcare professionals as well as those interested in bio and nanotechnology are encouraged to attend the July 29 conference at Southwestern. The conference will include a presentation on the new A&M medical school by Dr. Nancy W. Dickey, president of the Texas A&M Health Science Center and vice chancellor for health affairs for the Texas A&M System; an update on the Texas Healthcare and Bioscience Institute (THBI) by Tom Kowalski, president of THBI; and a preview of the 81st Texas Legislative Session that begins in January 2009 from Rep. Dan Gattis, Texas HD-20.
Pike Powers, a well-known technology attorney from Austin, and Dr. Brett Giroir, a physician-scientist trained at UT-Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and most recently director of the Defense Sciences Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., will present the luncheon keynote addresses. Their talks will focus on the Governor’s Texas Technology Initiative and a proposed Texas Center for Convergent Technologies that would include participation by research universities and organizations throughout the state, including Texas A&M, The University of Texas and the TLCC. Dr. Giroir recently joined the Texas A&M System as vice chancellor of research.
Dr. John X.J. Zhang, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, will also give a talk at the conference titled “Integrated Photonic Microsystems, Semiconductor Chips and Nanotechnologies for Imaging, Sensing and Regulating Cellular Processes.” The UT Department of Biomedical Engineering is a joint venture of three state research-component institutions − The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Cost for individual registration at the conference is $50 (including lunch), but the fee will be waived for full-time college and graduate students. Pre-registration is encouraged as conference seating is limited. Student poster paper presentations related to the conference are being solicited and will be available to the public beginning at 9 a.m. on July 29. For more information or to pre-register, call the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce at 512-930-3535 or write ednatlcc@aol.com.
For additional sponsorship opportunities at the conference or to submit student paper abstracts, contact TLCC Executive Director Russ Peterman at 512-864-1891 or executivedirector@texaslifesciences.com. The conference is being made possible through grants from the Rural Capital Area Workforce Development Board and the Texas State Technical College System. Many other local and regional organizations and companies are assisting with sponsorships, including St. David’s HealthCare, Georgetown Community Health Foundation, and Scott & White Hospital at University Medical Center in Round Rock.
This is the second conference Southwestern has hosted for TLCC. It also hosted a conference marking the official opening of the center in November 2007. That conference featured speakers from the first three companies in the center as well as a variety of public officials.
For more information on TLCC, visit http://www.texaslifesciences.com.
Southwestern University is a selective, nationally recognized undergraduate liberal arts college with an enrollment of 1,260 students. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in Texas. For more information on Southwestern, visit www.southwestern.edu.
Southwestern Regional Life-sciences and Biotechnology Conference Schedule
July 28, 2008 TLCC Sponsor, Donor, Speaker Reception
5:30 – 7:30pm “On the Square in Georgetown”, 714 South Austin Avenue Georgetown, Texas at McMichael & Company
July 29, 2008 Southwestern Life-sciences and Biotechnology Panel Discussion Round Table in Dan Rather Room
8:00 – 9:45a Panel Discussion: “Components for Successful Academic
Commercialization”
Facilitated by: Guy Diedrich (TAMU/OTC), Dr. Lou Brousseau, (QLD), and Dr. Tom Hedman (Orthopeutics)
Please note: This panel discussion by invitation only is limited to 25 participants is currently full.
General Conference Begins at 10:00a July 29, 2008
July 29, 2008 Southwestern Life-sciences and Biotechnology General Conference
8:30 – 9:00a Cash breakfast available at Southwestern University Cafeteria, McCombs Center.
9:00-10:00a Coffee and Networking for General Conference Registrants, McCombs Center Ballrooms
10:00a Welcome to Southwestern Regional Life-sciences and Biotech Conference: Brad Curlee
Invocation: Rev. John Aymond
K. Russell Peterman, TLCC Executive Director
M. Scott Alarcón, TLCC Chairman
10:10a Welcome to Southwestern University: Dr. Ronald Swain
10:15a 81st Regular Texas Legislative Session: Rep. Dan Gattis, HD-20
10:40a Texas A&M HSC Williamson Medical School: Dr. Nancy Dickey
11:05a Texas Healthcare & Biosciences Institute: Tom Kowalski
11:30a ACC Biosciences: Dr. Linnea Fletcher
11:45a East Williamson County Higher Education Center: Dr. Chuck McCarter
12:00n – 12:30p Lunch Buffet for Conference Registrants
12:30-1:30p Keynote Speakers:
Texas Technology Initiative Pike Powers
Texas A&M Research Dr. Brett Giroir
1:30p TLCC Advisory Council and Introductions Dr. Kerry Oliver
1:45p Commercialization Panel Report: Dr. Lou Brousseau, QLD
2:00p UT Department of Biomedical Engineering: Dr. Jack Hart
Zhang Research Group Commercialization: Dr. John Zhang
2:30-3:00p Coffee Break
3:00-3:15p BioAustin Dr. Curt Bilby, Terapio
3:15-3:30p Associate Vice Chancellor for Technology Advancement
Texas State Technical College System: Dr. Michael A.
Bettersworth
3:30p-3:45p Conference Wrap-Up/Q&A
4:00p Adjourn