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FEBRUARY 2 - 4, 2009, HYDERABAD, INDIA
VALEDICTORY SESSION The event concluded with the valedictory session, which had Dr. Manel Balcells, Hon'ble President, BioRegion of Catalonia, Former Minister of Research and Innovation, Govt. of Catalonia, Spain as the Chief Guest and presided by Prof. Seyed E Hasnain, Vice Chancellor, University of Hyderabad, Chairman, AP Biotech Advisory Council and BioAsia 2009 Advisory Board, in the presence of Mr. B. P. Acharya, I.A.S., Chairman and Managing Director, APIIC, Hyderabad, Dr. William Dar, Director General, International Crop Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad. Dr. Reddanna, Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad and Convener, Technical Committee of BioAsia 2009, presented a brief report on the highlights of BioAsia 2009 followed by Dr. Momme Christian Velmede, Managing Director, PharmABC and Biopartnering Associate of BioAsia 2009 on the B2B platform of BioAsia 2009. During this session a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between BioCat (Spain), Federation of Asian Biotech Associations (Hyderabad) and Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (Hyderabad) for cooperation in various areas of Biotech/ Biopharma space. Mr. Acharya addressed the gathering on the significance of this Memorandum. Further, as the chairman of the organizing committee of BioAsia, he announced the dates for BioAsia 2010: The Global Biobusiness Forum, which has been scheduled for February 3-6, 2009 at Hyderabad. This was followed by the Guest of Honour Address by Dr. William Dar. Later the BioAsia Innovation Award INR 1 Lac (Rupees one lac only) and a citation to Dr. Sunil Kumar Verma of CCMB, Hyderabad for his innovative research work on “Novel Universal technique to establish the identity of enormous number of animal species for forensic application”and BioAsia Young Minds Award consisting of INR 50, 000 (Rupees fifty thousand only) and a citation awarded to Ms. Abinaya of standard XII from Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School, Chennai for her novel conceptual idea titled “Project on Marine Actinomycetes”. Besides, BioAsia Exhibition Awards were presented for best exhibits to Vibha Seeds, Hyderabad (Winner), Lonza, Switzerland (First Runner Up) and Matrix, Hyderabad (Second Runner Up). Dr. B. S. Bajaj, Convener, BioAsia 2009, Chairman, AIBA-SC and Secretary General, FABA delivered the vote of thanks.