Press release

April, 12-15 2010 Moscow (the International Trade Center) hosted the II International Congress-Fair "EurasiaBio- 2010" organized by the Ya. A. Ovtchinnikov Russian Biotechnology Society (RBS) supported by the State Duma of RF, Federal Agency ROSSOTRUDNITCHESTVO, the Russian Society of Sciences, the Russian Trade and Industry Chamber , the Union of biotechnological enterprises. Leading specialists in the field of biotechnology, representatives of science, business, administration bodies from Russia and 40 countries participated at the congress activity. The Congress was welcomed by the Russian Minister of Education and Science Andrey Fursenko and by the President of the Russian Trade and Industry Chamber Evgeny Primakov.
The Congress was opened by the Honorary Chairman of the Organizing Committee, the First Deputy of the RF State Duma Chairman Oleg Morozov. In his speech Morozov underlined the high scientific, industrial and social importance of the biotechnology as the XXI century priority and enlightened the role of the International Congress "EurasiaBio" as the industrial instrument of collaboration between scientists and practitioners in the European-Asian space.
The Congress was marked by the high level of foreign specialists representation, Stephen Barril - the leading world known investor in the biotechnology field, USA, Leroy Hood - one of biotechnology pioneers, Professor , USA, Balasubraman Natesh - the biotechnology adviser of the Indian Government among them. Outstanding administrative persons such as Maive Root - Director of the EU biotechnology Department, Nijama Enhbold - the vice speaker of Mongolia, Tair Mansurov - the General Secretary of EurasEC and others participated at the Congress work.
The first plenary session including program lectures of the Russian Government representative and foreign guests have pulsed the business tone to the entire event. Alexandr Khlunov, the Director of the Science, High Technologies and Education Department in the Russian Government presented the position of the State in the biotechnology sphere. He stressed that the Russian Government and profile ministries have paid a great attention to the development of the contemporary pharmaceutics by establishing the target strategy "Pharma-2020" . He pointed that it is absolutely necessary to develop a separate bioeconomy program for Russia , all the efforts in the direction will be supported by the Russian Government. 

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