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Jan. 31, 2006 – Montalier International Ltd., the producer of the PHARLEX® partnering forum, today announced a partnership with the Florida Tech Transfer Conference. The two conferences will be arranged back-to-back at The Ritz-Carlton in Sarasota, Florida, on May 23-25, 2006. The 3rd Annual Florida Tech Transfer Conference will take place on the first day, ie. May 23, followed by the PHARLEX® partnering forum on May 24-25. A reception in the evening between the two events will offer all attendees a joint networking opportunity. “Because one-to-one meetings have much greater impact than lecture-style presentations, we have made it our specialty,” said Vidar Bentzen, Montalier’s CEO. “Our objective is to offer a highly efficient partnering forum gathering a personable and focused group of participants that share one common purpose, namely to explore to best partnering opportunities and to build professional contact networks with relevant people.” PHARLEX® offers pre-scheduled one-to-one partnering meetings; no lectures, no panel discussions. Each participant selects their own meeting partners during the online pre-event information exchange, while the organizer, Montalier International Ltd., does all the scheduling, utilizing their tailor-made, proprietary scheduling technology. Individual meeting schedules are provided to each participant in advance of the event. PHARLEX® attendees are offered full access to the Florida Tech Transfer Conference at no extra cost. “Our partnership with the Florida Tech Transfer Conference adds significant value for the PHARLEX® attendees. The Florida pharma and biotech community offers numerous attractive licensing and business development opportunities,” said Vidar Bentzen. The two events complement each other and all parties will benefit from the synergies that are created..” “The Florida Tech Transfer Conference has become the premier event for the exhibition of the state’s top research university technologies available for commercialization and licensing,” said Jack Sullivan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Florida Research Consortium. “We are very excited about the partnership that has been established with PHARLEX® and look forward to an important, high value meeting between our university researchers, tech transfer professionals and industry executives.” “Our partnership with the PHARLEX® Forum this year strengthens our commitment to provide conference attendees with valuable networking and business development opportunities,” said Andy Hafer, Executive Director of the Tampa Bay Technology Forum. “Thanks to the two joint events, this year’s Florida Tech Transfer Conference will have even greater value for our participants and sponsors than ever before.” For further information and to register for the 9th PHARLEX® pharma license exchange, please visit www.pharlex.com . For more information about the 3rd Annual Florida Tech Transfer Conference, visit the web site at www.flatechtransfer.org . About the Conference Producers Montalier International Ltd. Montalier International Ltd., is a leading business development and licensing outsourcing service provider to the global pharma and biotech industry. The company also offers commercial outsourcing services to companies that chooses not to build up their own internal sales departments. The PHARLEX® partnering forum is offered as an extension of these activities. For more information, visit www.montalier.com . The Florida Research Consortium The Florida Research Consortium (FRC) is a not-for-profit strategic partnership between Florida’s universities, the business community and state government. For more information, visit www.floridaresearch.org . The Tampa Bay Technology Forum The Tampa Bay Technology Forum is a professional association whose members work together to make the Bay area a place where technology and innovation thrive. Member organizations represent 30,000 employees and include technology entrepreneurs, business and community leaders, investors, government representatives, researchers and educators. For more information, visit www.tbtf.org . Media Contact: Peter A. Davies, PhD Montalier International Ltd. Phone: 416 207 2088 'pad (at) montalier (dot) com' |
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