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Greater Washington Initiative to Co-Host Event at
MEDICA in Dusseldorf

Human Genome Research Expert  to Discuss
Business Opportunities at NIH 

WASHINGTON , 11 November 2005 -- Claire T. Driscoll, Director of the Technology Transfer Office at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, will be the featured speaker at an event co-hosted by the World Cities Alliance and Greater Washington Initiative on Thursday, 17th November, at the 37th annual MEDICA trade show and congress in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Ms. Driscoll will speak on "Business Opportunities with the National Institutes of Health."  The event begins at 5:00 p.m. at the Berlin Pavilion in Hall 13, Booth 13/C04, and will be followed by a business networking reception.  NHGRI is the focal point in the U.S. for research into the genetics of human disease at NIH. In 2005, NHGRI received approximately $480 million in funding.

Greater Washington, the region encompassing Northern Virginia, Suburban Maryland and the District of Columbia, is one of the world's top bioscience clusters.  A unque combination of companies, government agencies, academic institutions and professional associations base their operations in Greater Washington.

Greater Washington is home to many colleges and universities with medical or bioscience programs, including the George Washington University Medical Center, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Applied Physics Laboratory and the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute.

Greater Washington is also home to many U.S. Government laboratories, including the National Institutes of Health, the National Humane Genome Research Institute, the U.S. Navy Medical Research Center, the U.S. Army Medical Center and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Many of the world's top bioscience companies have operations in Greater Washington, including Human Genome Sciences, MedImmune, Celera Genomics, Advancis Pharmaceutical, Digene, Gene Logic and United Therapeutics.

The Milken Institute calls Greater Washington "a life science heavyweight that has the rich, innovative infrastructure to support biotech knowledge and creativity." 

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