“Plant biotechnology offers an unprecedented opportunity to produce modern, recombinant pharmaceutical proteins at scale, quickly and at low cost. In essence, a “low-tech high technology”, it has the potential to address many of the global health issues that cannot be solved using conventional technologies. This meeting follows on from the first Molecular Farming meeting in January 2006, and will visit the latest advances and enabling technologies, and review the progress that is being made towards the first commercial products.”
Chair – Professor Julian Ma, St Georges Hospital, University of London, UK

Confirmed Talks include:

Pharma-Planta – an academic consortium advancing Molecular Farming in Europe and South Africa Professor Julian Ma, St Georges Hospital, University of London, UK

New generation technologies for expressing recombinant proteins in green plants
Professor Yuri Gleba, Icon Genetics GmbH, Germany

The developing regulatory oversight of plant made pharmaceuticals Professor Philip J Dale OBE, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK

Expression of self-assembling macromolecular complexes using a plant virus vector Dr George Lomonossoff, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK

Recombinant pharmaceutical proteins from cereal grains Dr Eva Stoger, Germany

Confirmed Speakers include:

• Dr Harry Thangaraj, Director of Research, Centre for the Management of IP in Health R&D, UK
• Lorenzo Frigerio, University of Warwick, UK

The early registration deadline is 20th October 2007.

Abstracts are being accepted for oral and poster presentations. All presentations will be published in the meeting proceedings. Guidelines for abstract submission can be found at http://www.euroscicon.com/absguidelines.html

For more information go to http://www.regonline.co.uk/molfarm08

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