EVENT: Genetic Revolution (5/19) - MIT/Stanford Venture Lab

[Oliver Muoto]

EVENT: Genetic Revolution (5/19) - MIT/Stanford Venture Lab

DATE: May 19, 1998
TIME: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
PLACE: Bishop Auditorium, Graduate School of Business,
Stanford University, STANFORD
COST: $30, Registeration: 408-394-6384 or http://www.vlab.org
INFO: Genetic industry experts debate the future of genetic
information and personal privacy.
Stanford's Mona Wan moderates a panel that includes:
Bob Swanson, (founder, Genentech),
Roy Whitfield (founder/CEO, Incyte),
Craig Taylor (Asset Management)

DETAILS:
Few developments have the potential for impacting our lives as great as
the explosion of genetic information and its applications in all areas
of human health. Driven by advances in fields from biology, chemistry,
and surface science, to mathematics, computers, software and databases,
the rate of increase in information and understanding of the basic code
of life and how to apply it is accelerating. Companies, such as Amgen,
Genentech, and Chiron which were founded on the first wave of
biotechnology and rose to values of multiple billions are being joined
by genetics based companies such as Incyte, Millenium, Affymetrix and
numerous aspiring start-ups.

Join us on May 19 when Mona Wan, senior licensing associate at the
Stanford Licensing Office, as she moderates a panel of genetic industry
people. The panel will include Bob Swanson, founder of Genentech, Roy
Whitfield, founder and CEO of Incyte Pharmaceutical, and Craig Taylor,
General Partner at Asset Management, discussing both the business
opportunities and potential impact of the genetic revolution.

Come hear the answers to some of the following questions. What advances
in instrumentation are key in generating genetic information and how
will that information be compiled and sold? Where will the winners be
in the diagnosis of disease encoded in our genes, and what is the impact
on treatments, insurance and even employment? What opportunities are
provided by the potential to modify the plants and animals that surround
us? What temporary, or permanent, modifications to our genes might we be
willing to pay for in ourselves or out offspring? The evening should
prove to be a provocative and insightful.

To register:
Online: http://www.vlab.org
Phone: 408-394-6384
Fax: 408-394-6382