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Silicon Alley Entrepreneurs Club Announces Biotech and Life Sciences Global Venture Congress 2004 at Madison Square Garden in New York City

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2004--

Legendary Nobel Laureate James Watson Is Keynote Speaker

The Silicon Alley Entrepreneurs Club (SAEC), the New York City-based entrepreneur and investor advisory group will hold its first of the Global Venture Congress(TM) Series conference on Biotech and Life Sciences at Madison Square Garden, New York (http://bio.saeclub.com) on Oct 29, 2004.

The one-day conference will address the venture capital landscape, identify current trends in innovation, learn key technologies and scientific discoveries and discover emerging Biotech and Life Sciences companies.

Legendary Nobel Laureate and double helix co-discoverer James Watson, President Coldspring Harbor Laboratory will do the keynote address. More than 20 top-tier biotech & life sciences venture capitalists will address various challenges and opportunities in the five panel discussions.

"I'm very excited by the support and interest we have received from everyone, particularly from our sponsors" said Dr.Gyan Parida, founder and president of SAEC.

"This new conference series," continued Dr.Parida, "provides a unique opportunity for investors, entrepreneurs, academicians and researchers to exchange ideas, identify and invest in new-frontiers of technology and medicine of the future. In 2005, we plan to conduct more conferences on various topics such as technology, software, security, healthcare, genomic, and new media."

Attendees will be venture capitalists, angel investors, corporate investors, strategic investors, institutional investors, investment bankers, commercial bankers, biotech and life sciences company executives, entrepreneurs, analysts, scientists, researchers, academicians, strategic partners, and service providers.

The speakers of Biotech and Life Science Global Venture Congress(TM) 2004 includes among others, senior investment members from companies like; Warburg Pincus, Commerce Health Ventures, Cardinal Partners, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Perseus-Soros Biopharmaceutical Fund, Schroder Ventures Life Sciences, Oxford Bioscience Partners, Sprout Group, KBL Healthcare Ventures, Euclid SR Partners, Foundation Medical Partners, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Collinson Howe & Lennox, JP Morgan Partners, Investor Growth Capital, Canaan Partners, Boston Millennia Partners, Domain Associates, Ascent Biomedical Ventures, Invest in Sweden, OrbiMed Advisors, Darby and Darby and Millennium Technology Ventures Advisors.

The conference is sponsored by SAEC Ventures, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Invest in Sweden Agency, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Darby and Darby, UK Trade and Investment and Pillsbury Winthrop.

Contacts:
SAEC
Dr.Gyan Parida, 732-729-7352
bios@saeclub.com

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