The ninth annual George Washington Carver Award will recognize an individual who has made a significant contribution to building the biobased economy by applying industrial biotechnology to create sustainable and environmentally friendlier products. The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) will begin accepting nominations for the Award today, February 01, 2016. The deadline for nominations is February 20, 2016. The award will be presented at the 2016 World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology in San Diego, California, which will be held April 17-20, 2016 at the San Diego Convention.

The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) opened registration today for the 2016 World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology. The conference will be held April 17-20, 2016 in San Diego, California.

Washington, D.C. (January 21, 2016) – The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) applauds the Industry Declaration on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance, signed by 85 biopharmaceutical and diagnostic companies and released today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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Washington, D.C. (January 14, 2016) – The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) announced today that registration is now open for the 2016 BIO International Convention®. BIO 2016 will take place June 6-9, 2016 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. The BIO International Convention is where the global biotech community meets, connecting the people, companies and innovations that help to fulfill the promise of biotechnology through healing, fueling, and feeding the world.“We excited to bring the BIO International Convention back to San Francisco. Many biotech milestones hail from the Golden State: the first biotech company, the first biotech IPO and the first FDA-approved biotech drug to name just a few,” said Scott Whitaker, president of the BIO International Convention. “The BIO Convention, and our industry as a whole, have made tremendous strides since the last time our Convention was hosted in San Francisco in 2004.“In the decade since then, the number of partnering meetings has increased nearly four hundred percent, as companies and nonprofits continue to make connections and form partnerships that are critical to advancing their business interests. To keep up with the demand for partnering opportunities, I am pleased to announce that we will be adding an additional half-day to BIO One-on-One Partnering™ Monday afternoon.”BIO 2016 offers the chance to connect with more than 3,100 companies through BIO’s One-on-One Partnering™ system as well as the world’s largest biotechnology exhibition – the BIO Exhibition, which is now over eighty percent sold. The BIO Exhibition will once again feature the Start-Up Stadium, where start-up companies will have the opportunity to pitch to key members of the investment community, venture philanthropy groups, and BIO attendees, as well as the Innovation Zone, featuring select companies who have received SBIR/STTR grants from the National…