BioPartnering @ BangaloreBio 2009 Launched

Technology Vision Group (TVG), and MM Activ have announced a joint collaboration to enable foreign life science companies to expand into India. This initiative is called "BioPartnering @ BangaloreBio 2009" and is aimed at facilitating foreign life science companies to meet their Indian counterparts. The conference is due to take place in Bangalore, India from June 18-20, 2009.

TVG's partnering tool, biopartnering.com, will be available to delegates to organize one-toone meetings at BangaloreBio.

India is one of the world's most important emerging centers of innovation. The biotechnology and pharmaceuticals sector in India is expected to become the fourth largest pharmaceuticals industry in the world in 2009. In 2008, Indian biotech was a US$2 billion industry, with goals of achieving US$40 billion in revenues by 2015.