Partners 2009

Newsletter 02

Newsletter / October 2008 / N°2

News

Registrations will be available from October 31! To register, go to www.biovision.org

The upcoming pre-conferences:

Cities And Public Health Crises Date and Venue: Lyon, France - October 29 and 30 Pre-conference host partners: Lyonbiopole and WHO.

RNA On Borders Of Biology Date and Venue: Paris, France - November 6 Pre-conference host partner: Académie des Sciences.

Visit BioVision.org on a regular basis to find out what new speakers have been confirmed and to collect updated information on the debates that will take place from March 8 to 11 at BioVision 2009.

Richard J. Roberts,
Nobel Laureate, Medicine 1996, UK

Daniel Zajfman,
President, Weizmann Institute, Israel

Rajendra Pachauri,
Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, India

Anna Tibaijuka,
Executive Director, UN Habitat, Kenya

Abdel Azim Mussa Wazir,
Governor of Cairo, Egypt

...and 75 more already confirmed their particpation in BioVision 2009

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Editorial

Shape our scientific FUTURE

Since 1999, BioVision has established itself as the leading international platform for presenting and debating the important contributions of Life Sciences to tomorrow’s world.

What happened at BioVision 2007?

A record number of world leaders, gathered in Lyon, France, from March 11-14 2007 to discuss the role of Life Sciences in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

What will happen at BioVision 2009?

75 renowned speakers have already confirmed their participation in BioVsion 2009. Among them: Nobel Laureates, French Ministers, CEOs and many other international officials will be attending the 7 plenary sessions and 23 debate sessions which will take place during these 4 days.

What will be discussed at BioVision 2009?

Brief descriptions of four sessions planned for BioVision 2009 are given below. Other sessions will be presented in the next newsletter.

Managing Urban Epidemics – Monday March 9 – 9:00am to 12:30pm

Unlike the big cities of the South, most megacities from the developed world have succeeded in providing health facilities to their inhabitants. However these big cities still face onerous health risks with the return of infectious diseases...

Feeding the City – Monday March 9 – 2:00 to 5:00pm

During BioVision 2007, experts acknowledged that ensuring adequate food supply is a great challenge due to population growth and limited water and land resources...

Biorobotics on the Move – Tuesday March 10 – 2:00 to 3:30pm

Can you imagine a rhesus monkey walking on a treadmill somewhere in the United States East Coast and moving the legs of a human shaped robot on another treadmill in Japan through the mere transmission of its brain motor commands?

See the Brain Cure the Brain – Tuesday March 10 – 3:30 to 5:00pm

Since the early 1970’s, the development of new techniques to observe the brain (such as Computerised Tomography, structural and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Positron Emission Tomography or Magnetoecephalography), as well as the perfection of older ones (such as Electoencephalography), have vastly expanded our knowledge...

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