CARLSBAD, Calif. NEW YORK FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug 12, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) —
The twentieth annual BIO-Europe®

international partnering conference will take place November 3–5 in
Frankfurt, Germany, at the Portalhaus Messe Frankfurt conference center.

“BIO-Europe has continued to be the leading European life science
partnering event because of the high caliber companies that bring their
teams to partner,” said Florian Schoenhammer,
Group Managing
Director, EBD Group. “In fact, this year we are celebrating the 20th
anniversary of the event which has grown from just 97 attendees in 1995
to over 3,200 in 2013. The reason for this growth is simply that it
continues to successfully facilitate dealmaking in the industry.”

BIO-Europe is organized by EBD Group in collaboration with local hosts,
the Hessian Ministry of Economic, Transport, Urban and Regional
Development, aka Hessian Biotech; Hessen Trade Invest; and the Cluster
for Individualized ImmuneIntervention (Ci3), the City of Mainz and the
State of Rhineland Palatinate.

Register

for BIO-Europe before August 31 to receive a discount of EUR 200.

Highlights of the event are focused around partnering opportunities
between leading dealmakers from biotech, pharma and finance, as well as
a presenting companies track which provides direct access to innovative
new drugs and technologies. The 2013 edition featured 184 company
presentations from biotech and midsize pharma companies, next generation
companies representing early stage projects and small entrepreneurial
companies, and academic innovators.

The program of panels and workshops features industry thought leaders
and executives speaking on topics relevant to industry decision makers.
In addition to the regular program, there are featured pre- and
post-events at BIO-Europe, including the Advanced Business Development
Course, the China Forum, and an offering from Pharmaceutical Licensing
and Collaboration Agreements: Legal Partnering. More information is available
online
.

BIO-Europe is Europe’s largest partnering conference serving the global
biotechnology industry. Companies participate in one-to-one partnering
meetings facilitated by EBD Group’s highly reputable partneringONE®
platform.

The 2013 edition featured 17,874 one-to-one partnering meetings, an
all-time record. Over 3,200 delegates from 1,841 companies representing
56 countries attended. There were 184 company presentations with close
to 3,600 licensing opportunities on offer, and 95 exhibitors at the
event.

About
BIO-Europe
®
2014:

The 20th annual BIO-Europe is Europe’s largest partnering
conference serving the global biotechnology industry.

Delegates from all parts of the biotechnology value chain come to
BIO-Europe to quickly identify, engage and enter into strategic
relationships that drive their businesses successfully forward.
Investment and collaboration opportunities developed in prior BIO-Europe
conferences have produced many highly successful business partnerships.

Follow BIO-Europe 2014 on Twitter: twitter.com/ebdgroup

(hashtag:#BEU14). Or log on to the Life
Science Partnering discussion forum
on partnering360. The Group
is your go-to discussion forum for news and topics related to BIO-Europe.

About
EBD Group

EBD Group is the leading partnering firm for the global life science
industry. Since 1993, biotech, pharma and medical device companies have
leveraged EBD Group’s partnering conferences, technology and services to
identify business opportunities and develop strategic relationships
essential to their success.

EBD Group’s conferences are run with the support of leading corporations
and international trade associations and include:

• BIO-Europe
  ®
  and
  BIO-Europe Spring
  ®, Europe’s largest life science partnering
  conferences, supported by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)

• BioPharm
  America
  ™, the fastest growing partnering event in North America

• Biotech
  Showcase
  ™, a unique forum in San Francisco for presenting to
  investors and business development executives, co-produced with
  Demy-Colton Life Science Advisors

• BioEquity
  Europe
  , the investor conference co-organized with BioCentury
  Publications and BIO

• ChinaBio®
  Partnering Forum
  , the first dedicated biotech/pharma partnering
  conference in China, co-produced with ChinaBio® LLC

• EuroMedtech
  ™,
  EBD Group’s partnering event for the innovative medical technology
  industry

• The Global
  Impact Forum
  ™, a unique and innovative partnering conference in
  impact investing and venture philanthropy.

EBD Group’s sophisticated web-based partnering service, partneringONE®,
is used as the partnering engine at numerous third-party events around
the world, and partnering360® is the open
online community of life science dealmakers that enhances partnering
experiences throughout the year.

EBD Group is an Informa company. Informa is the largest publicly-owned
organizer of exhibitions, conferences and training in the world.

EBD Group has offices in the USA and Europe.

For more information please visit
www.ebdgroup.com
.

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SOURCE: EBD Group

EBD Group
Erin Righetti
+1-760-930-0500
erighetti@ebdgroup.com

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