BioVision begins
Cemil Giray Alyanak, the group's president, discussing the impacts of climate change on our cities with Rajendra Pachauri, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner with Al Gore.
Mobilising Life Sciences to meet the challenges of urban expansion and discuss the progress in various fields of Life Sciences. The Life Sciences Forum will gather experts from around the world for four days, with the first sessions in Lyon on Sunday at BioVision, attended and assisted by the mondofragilis group teams.
Nobel Prize winners, industry officials, researchers from the public and private sectors, and the highest ranked representatives from the multilateral sector and international civil society are meeting at the Cité Internationale de Lyon from 8 - 11 March 2009 with a specific goal: to seriously consider the call of science to serve society. BioVision's Life Sciences Forum is so important particularly because these various parties rarely have the opportunity to engage in debate. mondofragilis group have been involved in various ways, contributing to the quality of the debates and publicity of the Forum. This involvement with BioVision came about as a result of the strategic partnership between mondofragilis network and the Scientific Foundation of Lyon.
The partnership between mondofragilis and BioVision entails various tasks, including communications strategy, directing press relations, and design and production of the programmes, press packs and the visual materials that decorate the walls of the Cité International de Lyon. The involvement of mondofragilis staff does not end there though: Cemil Giray Alyanak, president of mondofragilis group, is among the speakers and moderators of various sessions. This Monday afternoon he will be handed the reins of the much awaited debate dedicated to climate change and its impact on health, with, among others, Rajendra Pachauri, president of the International Panel on Climate Change and Nobel Peace Prize winner 2007. He will also be the host of the dinner debate "What economic future for Africa" (Monday 09/03, 8pm) and of the "Biofuels for the City" session (Tuesday 10/03, 5.30pm), organised in conjunction with The EC-US Task Force on Biotechnology Research.
The fist episode of the ' Cancer is...' documentary series produced by mondofragilis network will also be shown this Monday morning to the participants of the Forum, a prelude to the session 'Cancer: Small victories are victories'.