2016

5th BIO.NRW Business Angel Congress

Venue: 1 March 2016, Hyatt Regency Dusseldorf, Speditionstrasse 19, 40221 Dusseldorf, Germany

„Next level - investing into the high-tech future:
financing biotech and life sciences“

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Click here to see the schedule:
http://www.bio.nrw.de/lw_resource/datapool/_items/item_1500/bac_2016_program_and_registration.pdf

EU Brokerage Event on KET in Horizon 2020

Venue: 12 May 2016, Favorite Parkhotel, Mainz, Germany

This brokerage event could be very interesting for future collaborations and for the development of new project ideas. This event is dedicated to Key Enabling Technologies such as biotechnology!

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Partner RWTH is participating today in an information session

This information session is about funding opportunities in biotechnology and start-up challenges.
Read more: http://www.bio.nrw.de/index.php?index=371

The local Aachen television made a film about P4SB!

We will post the result here soon. Really exciting!

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An interesting article about "Prospects for microbiological solutions to environmental pollution with plastics"

Read the article here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26318446

The BBC features a compact and clear piece of the need-to-know facts on ocean pollution by different types of plastic

More information: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34414710

EU-project BioClean under the 7th Framework Programme

Anyone who could bring us in contact with them for an exchange of future ideas?

More information: BioClean

Bioeconomy Impact 2016 - Connecting People, Projects and Purse Strings to Deliver Innovation in the Bioeconomy

Venue: 10 - 11 February 2016, Castleknock Hotel & Country Club Porterstown Road, Castleknock, Dublin, Ireland

CommBeBiz is excited to announce the conference “Bioeconomy Impact 2016”, the first in a series of annual events which will challenge bioeconomy researchers to critically think about the value, impact and relevance of their research.

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Metabolix will produce amorphous PHA as performance additives for PVC and PLA

Read more: Metabolix Introduces Biobased PHA Grades as Additives for Polymers

CARBIOS Depolymerizes 100% of PET-based Plastic Waste via Biorecycling

Finally we found an English press release, before we shard this information in French only. Thanks to CSIC!

Read more: CARBIOS Depolymerizes 100% of PET-based Plastic Waste via Biorecycling