More than 300 people attended the Eleventh Annual Southeastern BIO Investor Forum on December 3-4th in Charleston, South Carolina. The Forum is the Southeast’s premier life sciences venture capital conference. (more…)

Southeast BIO (SEBIO), a regional nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the growth of the Southeast’s life sciences industry, announced the selection of four finalists in its third annual BIO/Plan Competition. The final four competitors are: EpiEP (University of Virginia); NeuroScience Pharmaceuticals (Duke University); Restorative Physiology Group (Medical University of South Carolina); and Compliant Therapeutics (Vanderbilt University). (more…)

Atlanta, GA - Southeast BIO (SEBIO) announces the selection of the best life sciences deals in the Southeast, as determined by a Selection Committee comprised of regional and national venture capitalists. These companies, both early- and later-stage, will participate in the upcoming SEBIO Investor Forum being held on December 3-4, 2009 at the Charleston Place Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina. (more…)

Atlanta, GA- Southeast BIO (SEBIO), a public/private partnership formed in 1999 to promote the growth of the life sciences economy in the Southeast, has named Jennifer Moore, Ph.D., as its new Executive Director. Dr. Moore replaces Stephanie Adams, SEBIO’s second Executive Director. (more…)

Atlanta, GA - Southeast BIO (SEBIO), a regional nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the growth of the Southeast’s life sciences industry, announced today that it has selected ten semifinalists in its third annual BIO/Plan Competition. (more…)

REGION’S PREMIER LIFE SCIENCES VENTURE CONFERENCE ATTRACTS EMERGING COMPANIES AND INVESTORS

Atlanta, GA March 26, 2009 - Southeast BIO (SEBIO) today announced its 2009 SEBIO Investor Forum, set for December 3-4, 2009, at the Charleston Place Hotel in Charleston, SC. (more…)

SE BIO Launches Regional Database and Site Visit Planner for Region’s Biotech Business

WASHINGTON, D.C. and ATLANTA, GA (March 19, 2009) – By hosting the 2009 BIO International Convention in Atlanta, Ga., May 18-21, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) is shining a light onto the Southeastern U.S. biotech hub.
To help attendees, exhibitors and journalists navigate the region, Southeast BIO (SE BIO), a regional nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the growth of the Southeast’s life sciences industry, has launched Southeast BIOtech Connect, an interactive database that outlines the over 1,200 biotech companies and centers throughout Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Southeast BIOtech Connect can be accessed at www.sebio.org and also on the BIO event website, http://convention.bio.org. (more…)

WASHINGTON, D.C. and ATLANTA, GA (March 9, 2009) – SEBIO and BIO announce today the signing of a trade agreement with the primary goal to showcase the Southeast’s life sciences industry to the world in conjunction with the 2009 BIO International Convention in Atlanta. (more…)

Atlanta, GA— Southeast BIO (SEBIO) announced four winners of the Second Annual SEBIO Awards in a ceremony held at its Tenth Anniversary Investor Forum in Palm Beach, FL on December 5th. The awards honored companies in the following categories: Southeast (SE) Deal of the Year: Initial Funding; SE Deal of the Year: Venture Capital Transaction and SE Deal of the Year: Strategic Transaction. In addition, the organization awarded its SE Leadership Award to an individual or organization that made a notable contribution to the growth of the life sciences industry in the region over the last year. The winners were ViewRay, Inc., Biolex, Inc., Serenex, Inc., and Rebecca Kaufman of King & Spalding, respectively. (more…)

Atlanta, GA – Southeast BIO (SEBIO), a regional nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the growth of the Southeast’s life sciences industry, has announced the winner of its second annual BIO/Plan Competition, a year long business creation competition. The winner is Cerene Biomedics, Inc. (Durham, NC). Cerene Biomedics will take home the $100,000.00 (non-dilutive) BIO/Plan 1st prize. (more…)