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Article: BIO 2003 Ends With Optimism, More Biotech Political Awareness.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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Staff Writer
Only 10 years ago at the Biotechnology Industry Organization's first annual convention in Raleigh and Research Triangle Park, N.C., about 1,400 people attended.
This year, the media made up more than a third of that number and the 990 participants from Canada could have made up the rest. But that does not account for the thousands from the U.S. and other countries, or the numerous politicians who attended this year's event.
"It's a record year. It is the largest gathering that the biotech community has ever had," BIO President Carl Feldbaum told BioWorld Today Wednesday.
The six-week-old Washington Convention Center hosted ...