Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to invite you to the III Moscow International Biotechnology Congress that will focus on the state of the art and future prospects of biotechnology and be held from 14 through 18 March 2005.
Over the past several years the Congress has become a unique forum that is capable of hosting a wide range of avenues of modern biotechnology research.

I Moscow Biotechnology Congress was held in 2002. It was quite successful and showed that both biotechnological and wider communities as well were interested in and would really benefit from further regular global scientific biotechnology events of that scale.

II Moscow Biotechnology Congress was held in November 2003 and gathered some 2500 researchers and other experts from 36 countries including Germany, the U.S., Sweden, Switzerland, France, the U.K., Greece and Finland. The Congress included 376 presentations by contributors from Russia and other countries.

The upcoming III Biotechnology Congress will feature 2 congress plenary meetings on biotechnology & fundamental research and biosafety issues & bioethics, 9 sections on medical, agricultural, industrial, environmental biotechnology, biotechnology and foodstuffs, biocatalysis & biocatalytic technologies, biogeotechnology, biotechnology innovations, finance, business, and education.

There will be also a number of scientific symposia with researchers from Canada, Finland, Germany, Ireland, and Vietnam participating. The Congress will offer a good number of presentations and discussions.
The Biotech World’ 2005 International Specialized Exhibition will run simultaneously with the Congress. In 2003, the exhibition attracted 125 companies from 13 countries.

Best regards,
Vladimir E. Aleshnikov,
The Responsible Secretary of the Organizing Committee

III Moscow International Congress "Biotechnology: State of the Art and Prospects of Development" will be held on March 14-18, 2005 (the House of the Government of Moscow, Novy Arbat, 36/9).

"Biotech World 2005" International Specialized Exhibition will be organized in parallel to the Congress.

This Congress is intended to give a wide panorama of various fields of the up-to-date Biotechnology. The Organizers of the Congress also have the purpose to acquaint international scientific public with successes achieved by the Russian biotechnologists. The Congress in Moscow will promote the development of international scientific collaboration and further progress in the field of Biotechnology. The program of the Congress envisages plenary lectures on issues concerned. Oral presentations and posters will be given at special sessions and "round tables".

II Moscow International Congress "Biotechnology: State of the Art and Prospects of Development" has been held on November 10-14, 2003.

"Biotech World 2003" International Specialized Exhibition has been organized in parallel to the Congress.

Official support: Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Chamber of Commerce of the Russian Federation, the Government of Moscow, JSC P&I"MAXIMA".

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