BIOVAL organizes the IV Edition of the upper course of biotechnology.

-Carlos Simón, prize King Jaime I of 2011 medical research, and Ken Morse, Member of the Committee on innovation and entrepreneurship of the Obama President, among the professors of the Fourth Edition

-the course is aimed at researchers and business professionals who want to enter or refocus her career in the biotechnology sector

Valencia, 2011-July the course senior biotechnology company organized by BIOVAL will begin the month of October its Fourth Edition with a teaching team made up of experts in this field at national and international levels, from enterprises and relevant entities of the sector of biotechnology and the corporate governance.

A biotechnology company requires a multidisciplinary team capable of regularly collaborate on projects with multiple departments such as finance, marketing and sales, r & d, legal, etc. BIOVAL launched this course four years ago with the aim of combining the scientific-technological profile and the profile of business management to respond to the specific needs of professionals who require biotech companies. The course is aimed at professionals with a scientific basis that need to incorporate a business training and, on the other hand, graduates in biology, law, economics, business and engineering who want to enter in the field of biotechnology.

Maria Eugenia Hernández de Pablo, Manager of BIOVAL stresses that in addition to being a key training for profile scientific professionals who need knowledge of business management, the course is an opportunity for executives of companies or sectors which have suffered the crisis and want to redirect their careers to a sector with great potential such as biotechnology ”.

In addition to developing the knowledge and skills needed to work in a biotechnology company, the completion of the course extends the network of professional relationships of the pupil, increasing its relational capital to have the opportunity to meet with the leaders of the sector. The training programme is completed with biotech companies associated to BIOVAL practices, and thanks to which many students of previous editions have joined definitely your template.

BIOVAL

BIOVAL is the Association that brings together more than 70 biotech companies in the Valencian Community, research centres and technological universities and hospitals whose research activity is linked to the biotechnology BIOVAL was formed in late 2006 to develop and take advantage of the opportunities for innovation in the biotechnology sector, as a vector of economic and social growth in the Valencian Community, Spain.

The biotechnology business fabric in the Valencian Community has increased more than 100% in the number of biotechnology companies, from 24 companies in 2003 to 70 in 2010, by which it is situated, at the national level, between the regions with the highest number of bio. The turnover of the 70 biotech companies in the Valencian Community exceeded € 80 million in 2010. It concerned employment, the figure rises to almost 1,000 employees, employment generation has been produced in recent years, this figure was 700 in 2008.

You can access the full course information (enrollment, faculty, program, etc.) on the website of BIOVAL www.bioval.org.