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Canon Communications Announces New MD&M Event for Massachusetts' Converging Medical Device and Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Industries
BIOMEDevice - an MD&M Event Exposition and Executive Forum to Debut April 22-23, 2009 in the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
| Source: Canon Communications
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - May 13, 2008) - Following the successful October 2007
launch of BIOMEDevice -
an MD&M Event in San Jose, California, Canon Communications today announced
plans to produce another such event on the East Coast to serve the heavily
concentrated medical device and biopharmaceutical markets in Massachusetts
and New England. The
New England BIOMEDevice - an MD&M Event exposition and executive forum
will take place April 22-23, 2009 in the Boston Convention & Exhibition
Center.
The dynamic convergence of the high-growth medical device and
biopharmaceutical industries is clearly underway, and a wide range of new
drug delivery systems and combination devices are already a commercial
reality. Drug-eluting stents, metered dose inhalers, transdermal patches,
anti-microbial coated catheters, pacing leads with steroid-coated tips,
biologics in orthopedic implants and many others are already valued in
excess of $8 billion in annual revenues.
Nowhere is the demand for events to serve these converging industries
greater than in Massachusetts and California. As reported in the
prestigious MoneyTree Report -- a collaborative effort of
PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based
upon data from Thomson Financial -- those two states have attracted fully
60% of the $58 billion in venture capital funding for medical devices and
biotechnology companies in the U.S. during the past decade. Further
underscoring the importance of these industry segments to Massachusetts is
the Life Sciences Initiative currently making its way through the
Massachusetts state legislature, containing $1 billion in capital, tax
incentives and bond issues.
"The launch of BIOMEDevice in San Jose last year was met with such
enthusiasm from exhibitors and attendees that an East Coast edition
positioned in the highest concentration of medical manufacturers after
California seemed a natural next step," said Kevin O'Keefe, Canon's Senior
Vice President of events. "BIOMEDevice offers a full-scale MD&M exposition to meet the
demands of this $6 billion medical manufacturing region as well as an
industry platform to facilitate the dynamic convergence of the medical
device and biopharmaceutical industries. At the same time, the event's
executive forum will attract medical executives from around the U.S. to
meet with their counterparts in the biopharma industry and explore
investment, partnering, technology sharing, and licensing agreements."
The Boston
BIOMEDevice exposition will include 300 leading suppliers to the
medical device industry and the nation's top resources for
biopharmaceutical manufacturing. The BIOMEDevice executive forum, which is
supported by the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council (MassMEDIC), will focus on the latest
technologies, designs, manufacturing methods, testing protocols, and FDA
regulations and compliance procedures for new drug-device combinations,
drug-delivery systems, molecular diagnostics, sophisticated imaging systems
and other advances that are shaping next-generation disease detection and
treatment -- as well as the future of the medical device industry.
To receive complete details on BIOMEDevice - an MD&M Event in Boston,
please e-mail joshua.dome@cancom.com or call 310-996-9427.
About Canon Communications
Canon Communications LLC, a portfolio
company of Apprise Media LLC, is the leading producer of trade events,
publications, and electronic media for the $3 trillion advanced,
technology-based manufacturing industry, including medical device,
packaging, design engineering, process technology, automated assembly,
electronics, quality control, and plastics processing. Further information
about Canon's trade events is available at www.canontradeshows.com.