The early registration deadline for EuroSciCon's (www.euroscicon.com) 'Molecular Farming - plant biologicals' meeting on January 29th 2008 is tomorrow! But don't worry if you miss this deadline, you can get 50% off the registration fee if you just enter the code slect50dis when registering online at www.regonline.com/molfarm08 .
Plant biotechnology offers an unprecendented 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 London
This agenda for this meeting features some very interesitng talks:
The developing regulatory oversight of plant made pharmaceuticalsProfessor Philip J Dale OBE, John Innes Centre, UK
Pharma-Planta – an academic consortium advancing Molecular Farming in Europe and South AfricaProfessor Julian Ma, St Georges Hospital, University London
Recombinant pharmaceutical proteins from cereal grainsDr Eva Stoger, Germany
Talk title to be confirmed Dr. Richard Colgan, East Malling Research, UK
New generation technologies for expressing recombinant proteins in green plantsProfessor Yuri Gleba, Icon Genetics GmbH, Germany
How does the plant endoplasmic reticulum cope with the synthesis of heterologous proteins?Dr Lorenzo Frigerio, University of Warwick, UK
Expression of self-assembling macromolecular complexes using a plant virus vectorDr George Lomonossoff - John Innes Centre, Norwich
Freedom to Operate and Molecular PharmingDr Harry Thangaraj, Director of Research, Centre for the Management of IP in Health R&D, UK
As always we welcome abstracts - those accepted for poster and oral presentations will also be published in the proceedings. There will be a prize for the best poster. Abstract guidelines can be found at http://www.euroscicon.com/absguidlines.html
