August 2006

PharmaMedDevice™ Partners with BEACON® to Bring Advanced Biomedical Engineering Focus to Premiere Conference Program

Norwalk, CT – To accelerate the pace of innovation in the converging pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device marketplace, the producers of PharmaMedDevice™ Conference and Exhibition have partnered with BEACON® (Biomedical Engineering Alliance & Consortium) to organize the Bioengineering Track at the event’s April 2007 premiere. As a PharmaMedDevice event sponsor and conference co-producer, BEACON brings in-depth perspective to the science and research behind the development of new medical technologies. The partnership creates a bridge to commercialization for the scientific and research community, while rounding out the conference program with biomedical engineering expertise. “We see real opportunity in medical devices that are combined with pharmaceuticals or biologics,” says Joseph Bronzino Ph.D., P.E, Executive Director at BEACON. “As the first event of its kind to address the comprehensive needs of the combination products market, PharmaMedDevice provides the ideal delivery platform for our biomedical engineering community.”

With sessions on such cutting-edge topics as bionanotechnology, molecular and infrared imaging, personalized medicine, virtual instrumentation, and vascular tissue engineering, BEACON’s Bioengineering Track will help conference attendees realize new generations of innovative medical devices that incorporate a pharmaceutical or biologic component.

Like the organization’s mission, these sessions are designed to foster collaborative efforts and industrial partnering to enable development and delivery of commercially viable innovations in biomedical science and engineering

“BEACON’s bioscience and biomedical engineering expertise complements and balances product development and regulatory conference programming provided by FDC Reports at PharmaMedDevice,” says Christina Giuliano, Conference Manager at PharmaMedDevice. “Together, BEACON, FDC Reports and PharmaMedDevice provide medical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies with a complete toolkit for speeding new convergent technologies from concept to commercialization.

We are pleased to have partnered with such a pivotal industry support leader as BEACON, and we are excited about the caliber of conference sessions that we will be able to offer in April.”

About PharmaMedDevice

PharmaMedDevice is the only comprehensive forum that fully illuminates the convergence of the medical device, pharmaceutical, and biologic industries.

The first annual PharmaMedDevice will be co-located with INTERPHEX at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York April 24-26, 2007.

Pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers will converge at these two events to find answers to their regulatory challenges, create new partners, and source solutions for new product development.

For additional information, visit www.pharmameddevice.com

Companies interested in submitting proposals for speaking can call Christina Giuliano at 240-221-4475. An online Call For Papers submission form is also available at www.pharmameddevice.com/cfp

For exhibiting or sponsorship opportunities, interested companies can contact Patrick Ruddy, Sales Director, at 203-840-5483 or pruddy@reedexpo.com.

About Reed Exhibitions

Reed Life Sciences – a division of Reed Exhibitions, which manages more than 420 trade shows annually worldwide, is a member of the Reed Elsevier Group plc, a world-leading provider of information-driven services and solutions. Reed Exhibitions offers integrated market access programs covering exhibitions, trade publications, direct marketing and the Internet to a database of 3.5 million in North America. Reed has North American offices in Norwalk, CT, Newton, MA, Palm Beach, FL, Las Vegas and Toronto, and sales operations offices worldwide.

Reed Elsevier Group is a publicly-traded company (NYSE:RUK/ENL).

About BEACON

BEACON – Biomedical Engineering Alliance & Consortium – based in Hartford, Conn., www.beaconalliance.org/, is a not-for-profit biomedical engineering consortium whose major goals are to facilitate collaborative research and industrial partnering as well as the nurturing of emerging medical technology companies.

For additional information, visit www.beaconalliance.org.

Those interested in becoming members can contact Terri Wilson at (860) 547-1995, toll free (877) 723-2266, or email theresa.wilson@beaconalliance.org
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