New Brunswick's celebration of National Biotech Week a big success

September 25, 2009
Fredericton, NB - New Brunswick's National Biotech Week program qualified as a best ever for the province's biosciences sector, and featured a number of first ever events and activities for the Province. This included:

• An official proclamation of National Biotechnology week by Premier Shawn Graham
  [PDF of Declaration]
• A launch event on September 22 that included a welcome from Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of State (Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency); and the Honourable Victor Boudreau, Minister of Business New Brunswick, and a guest speaker, Dr. Rainer Engelhardt from BIOTECanada on "The Emerging Bio-Economy”
• A three-hour "Let's Chat about BioSciences”, which included displays by over a dozen New Brunswick companies and institutions on their latest bioscience innovations
• Presentation of the 2009 New Brunswick BioSciences Achievement Award
• A presentation from W. Steven Burke, President and CEO, Biofuels Centre of North Carolina "Twenty years of nurturing the biotechnology endeavor in North Carolina”
• An official launch of New Brunswick's BioSciences Task Force

National Biotechnology Week is celebrated across Canada, and is coordinated by BIOTECanada - Canada's lead organization for biotechnology.

For more information on National Biotechnology Week and on the New Brunswick events, please visit the following sites:

http://www.imagenenation.ca/en/index.html
http://www.gnb.ca/cnb/news/pre/2009e1368pr.htm
http://www.bioatlantech.nb.ca/site/table
http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/journal/article/805858

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