[October 18, 2007]

2007 Mid-Atlantic Bio Exhibitor Profiles

Company:           Anthem Capital
Media Contact:        William Gust
Phone:            410-625-1510
E-mail:            [email protected]
Web:             www.anthemcapital.com
Early stage venture capital firm investing in technology and life
science companies on the East Coast, especially the Mid-Atlantic
region.
Company:           Arnold & Porter LLP
Booth:            6
Media Contact:        Patricia O'Connell
Phone:            202.942.6336
E-mail:            [email protected]
Web:             http://www.arnoldporter.com
Arnold & Porter LLP's attorneys combine a wide range of legal
expertise and a deep understanding of the pharmaceutical, biotech,
device and healthcare industries. Our regulatory, transactional, IP
and litigation practice groups offer strategic advice and integrated
solutions, from small molecule drugs to biologics to platform
technologies to medical devices. Our practice is international in
scope, but Arnold & Porter has been active in the Maryland life
sciences community for decades on behalf of dozens of clients,
including being heavily involved at the forefront of the Maryland
genomics revolution in the early 1990s.
Company:           Atlantic Research Group
Booth:            7
Media Contact:        Tad Hewit
Phone:            540-213-0150
E-mail:            [email protected]
Web:             www.atlanticresearchgroup.com
Atlantic Research Group is focused on providing the highest quality
clinical monitoring, project management, and other clinical support
services to biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Atlantic
Research Group also recently launched TrialVista(TM), a clinical
trial management system which can be economically customized to
precisely meet individual study needs and reduce start-up costs.
Company:           Chesapeake Research Review, Inc.
Booth:            14
Media Contact:        Marianne Carter
Phone:            443-283-1556
E-mail:            [email protected]
Web:             www.chesapeakeirb.com
Chesapeake Research Review, Inc. is a leading provider of IRB Services
and consultative support in the area of human subject protection.
Fully AAHRPP accredited, CRRI is committed to meeting quality and
timeline requirements of our clients' fast-paced development
schedules. Our expertise spans the entire spectrum of human research
- from biomedical to social science.
Company:           Comerica Bank
Ticker Symbol & Exchange:   NYSE: CMA
Media Contact:        Barry Holtzclaw
Phone:            408.556.5111
Web:             www.comerica.com
Comerica Bank's Technology & Life Sciences Division is one of the
nation's leading technology banking practices, offering a wide range
of financial services tailored to corporate customers, entrepreneurs
and professions. Veteran bankers provide credit and financial
services and products to young, growing, professionally backed
technology and life sciences companies, as well as their more mature
counterparts. The Technology & Life Sciences Division serves all
major U.S. technology centers from offices coast-to coast with its
headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Comerica Bank is a subsidiary
of Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA), a financial services company
headquartered in Detroit that is among the 25 largest banking
companies in the U.S. with $58 billion in total assets at September
20, 2006. For more information, visit www.comerica.com.
Company:           Grant Thornton LLP
Booth:            30
Media Contact:        Melissa Ford
Phone:            703-847-7553
E-mail:            [email protected]
Web:             www.GrantThornton.com
Grant Thornton LLP is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton
International, one of the six global accounting, tax and business
advisory organizations. Through member firms in over 110 countries,
including 50 offices in the United States, the partners of Grant
Thornton provide personalized attention and the highest quality
service to public and private clients around the world.
www.GrantThornton.com
Company:           Hagerstown-Wash. Cnty Econ. Dev. Com.
Booth:            27
Media Contact:        Robin Ferree
Phone:            (240) 313-2282
E-mail:            [email protected]
Web:             www.hagerstownedc.org
New biotech wet lab space will be available at the Hagerstown
Community College's Technical Innovation Center (TIC) in January,
2008. The College has already stated a Biotechnology Program and the
students will be available to serve as interns to support the start-
up biotech clients in the incubator. The TIC is a full service
technology business incubator that fosters the growth of new and
expanding business by providing access to advanced technologies,
business development resources, and collaborative opportunities.
Company:           Saul Ewing LLP
Booth:            31
Media Contact:        Leslie Gross, Director of Communications
Phone:            215-972-7158
E-mail:            [email protected]
Web:             www.saul.com
Saul Ewing LLP is a full service law firm with approximately 270
attorneys in nine offices located in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New
Jersey, Delaware, New York and Washington, D.C. Its Life Science
Practice Group represents clients in all phases of development.
Services provided include clinical trial agreements, co-marketing
agreements, compliance issues, CRADAs, CROs, distribution agreements,
FDA advice, IPOs, inter-institutional agreements, joint research
agreements, license agreements, maintenance agreements, MTAs, patent
prosecution, patent litigation, recall issues, securities counseling,
SRAs, supply agreements, University technology transfer and venture
capital.
For information, contact Rob Spar, Co-Chair Life Sciences Group at
410.332.8654, or [email protected].
Company:           SC&H Group, LLC
Booth:            18
Media Contact:        Katie Lochte
Phone:            410-785-8052
E-mail:            [email protected]
Web:             www.scandh.com
SC&H Group, LLC is one of the fastest growing CPA and Management
Consulting firms in the nation with clients ranging from emerging
businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Our services range from
traditional CPA firm services to State and Local Tax, Risk Management
(including Internal Audit, IT Audit and Sarbanes-Oxley Consulting)
and Mergers and Acquisitions Consulting Services. Our professionals -
comprised of CPAs, MBAs, CISAs, and former Big Four auditors,
understand the issues facing your organization.
Whether it is helping a start-up company understand and comply with
Sarbanes-Oxley, or saving millions of dollars in taxes for one of the
most sophisticated companies in the world, SC&H has the experience
you need to achieve your goals.
Company:           Spectrum Science Communications
Media Contact:        Emily Carone
Phone:            202-955-6222
E-mail:            [email protected]
Web:             www.spectrumscience.com
Spectrum Science Communications specializes in communications for
health care products, issues and missions. Founded 11 years ago and
independently owned, Spectrum's services include product marketing,
advocacy relations, PA, interactive communications and creative
services.
Spectrum achieves consumer and trade communications goals faster by
quickly understanding and translating complex medical issues and
working more efficiently with advocacy groups and consumer and trade
health media.
Spectrum conducts programs on a regional, national and international
scale and is a founding partner in GLOBALHealthPR, an international
group of independently owned agencies.
Clients include Genentech, Organon, Pfizer, King Pharmaceuticals,
American Diabetes Assn. and the Kennedy Krieger Institute.
Company:           Thomson Scientific
Booth:            37
Media Contact:        Sue Besaw
Phone:            215-823-1840
E-mail:            [email protected]
Web:             www.thomson.com
Thomson Scientific is a business of The Thomson Corporation, the pre-
eminent global information company with more than 20 million users
across the world. Our established and authoritative pharmaceutical
and biotechnology information solutions are delivered on powerful
platforms, accompanied by intuitive analytical tools, and supported
by dedicated teams. They include:
--BONDplus, the definitive repository of public and proprietary
biological information
--BINDplus, the foremost biomolecular interaction resource
--GENESEQ(TM), high quality, easy-to-understand annotated genetic
sequences from worldwide patents
--Thomson Pharma(R), the comprehensive global pharmaceutical
information solution bringing together the best of more than 40
content sources owned by Thomson
Company:           UM Biotech Res. & Educ. Program (BREP)
Booth:            38
Media Contact:        Eric Schurr
Phone:            301 405-3889
E-mail:            [email protected]
Web:             www.biotech.umd.edu
The Biotechnology Research and Education Program (BREP) delivers
education and bioprocessing services to support the success of
biotechnology companies and researchers in Maryland. A key BREP
component is the Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility (BSF), a facility with
expert staff specializing in non-cGMP fermentation and cell culture
projects. Cell culture and bioreactors up to 250 liters are employed,
along with a full range of equipment for cell harvesting, product
recovery and purification. More than 100 private companies,
government and academic labs have worked with BREP. BREP also offers
biomanufacturing productivity enhancement programs and customized
workforce training. See www.biotech.umd.edu.
Company:           Virginia Tech
Booth:            26
Media Contact:        Mark Owczarski
Phone:            540/231-5223
E-mail:            [email protected]
Web:             www.vt.edu
Virginia Tech (est. 1872) is the largest research university in the
Commonwealth of Virginia. The institution's eight colleges are
dedicated to Learning, Discovery and Engagement throughout the world,
from local communities to global businesses and corporations. The
university's faculty members in the biological sciences represent the
largest concentration of non-clinical biology emphasis in the state.
Specialized biomedical research adds to its portfolio. Virginia
Tech's biological researchers are consulted at state, federal, and
international levels for expertise on plant, animal, and microbial
genomics, as well as biotechnology applications. Special research
centers focus on integrating engineering, life sciences, and
medicine; increasing national efforts in infectious disease modeling
through bioinformatics; and reducing and managing emerging and re-
emerging infectious diseases.
Company:           WilmerHale
Booth:            19
Media Contact:        Lauren Coppola
Phone:            617.526.6998
E-mail:            [email protected]
Web:             www.wilmerhale.com
Life sciences leaders turn to WilmerHale for legal advice and business
advantage. Lawyers from our corporate, intellectual property,
litigation and regulatory practices form our life sciences group,
which provides incisive solutions to the business challenges facing
biotechnology, pharmaceutical, healthcare, laboratory services and
medical devices companies at all stages of growth. For over four
decades, we have represented life sciences clients in boardrooms and
courtrooms across the United States and Europe. As a result, we
understand the complex business of our clients and the regulatory,
competitive and consumer demands that the life sciences industry is
currently confronting.

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