Electra Palace Hotel
Athens, 16 October 2008

On October 16, HBio and Praxi Help-Forward Network (www.help-forward.gr) held "Greek Life Sciences Business Day", a half-day event which focused on the emerging life sciences sector in Greece.

The event gave an overview of the life sciences industry in Greece and provided an opportunity for business networking by bringing together company executives from Greece and Europe, top-level scientists from Greek Research Centres, local policy makers, and key players of the Greek bio-business community.

Emphasis was placed on the needs and development potential of the life sciences sector in Greece and the event agenda focused on business development, international collaboration and technology transfer.

View the event Agenda [pdf, 100KB]
Read the Press Release in Greek [pdf, 150KB]

- Welcome Speech, Eleftherios Stavropoulos, Special Secretary for Competitiveness [presentation in pdf, 300KB]
- The Hellenic Bio Cluster (HBio, Spyridon Dimotsantos, HBio President & CEO, Medicon S.A. [presentation in pdf, 300KB]
- Experience from a large pharmaceutical company, Spiridon Fotinos, Executive Vice President Corporate Research & Innovation, Lavipharm [presentation in pdf, 700KB]
- Successful Product Design and Development in the Medical Device Industry, Torsten Gruchmann, Dipl.-Ing., Managing Director, Use-Lab GmbH [presentation in pdf, 150KB]
- Licensing and Development in the field of Oncology, Kostas Alevizopoulos, Managing Director, Medexis S.A. [presentation in pdf, 300KB]
- Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas, Dr. Dimitris Kafetzopoulos, Principal Researcher [presentation in pdf, 2000KB]
- Biomedical Sciences Research Center "Alexander Fleming", Dr. John Strouboulis, Associate Research Professor, Institute of Molecular Oncology [presentation in pdf, 650KB]
- Biomedical Research Foundation - Academy of Athens, Dr. Paschalis Sideras, Director of Center of Immunology & Transplantation [presentation in pdf, 1600KB]