Organizers

The Life Sciences Summit is organized by the Center for Biotechnology, A New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Medical Biotechnology and Demy-Colton Life Science Advisors, an organization specializing in the development of high-value added conferences that address strategic needs and promote the growth of the life sciences industry.

The Center for Biotechnology is a cooperative research and development partnership between universities, private industry and New York State. It is involved in the discovery and early stage development of commercially promising technologies resulting from academic research, and the creation of strategic infrastructure that promotes the growth of the life sciences industry.

The Center for Biotechnology has contributed to the development of more than a dozen approved products including ReoPro, Oracea, Cavistat, V3D Colon Virtual Colonoscopy and Exogen Bone Healing System. It has also helped launch eighteen companies.

Demy–Colton Life Science Advisors was founded in 2008, by Sara Jane Demy, formerly a Vice President for Business Development and Investor Relations at the leading biotechnology trade association, BIO. Since its establishment, Demy-Colton has launched the Biotech Showcase, an investor conference that takes place in San Francisco; revamped the Life Sciences Summit with the Center for Biotechnology: conceived and developed Partnering for Cures, now a Milken Institute/FasterCures program, and, furthermore, Demy-Colton has provided strategic advice to select life science industry organizations.