Released on: January 23, 2008, 3:47 pm

Press Release Author: GTCbio

Industry: Pharmaceuticals

Press Release Summary: Roderic Pettigrew, Director at the National Institute of
Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering, NIH will give the keynote presentation at
GTCbio's 3rd Imaging in Drug Development conference March 17-18, 2008 in San Diego,
CA.

Press Release Body: MONROVIA, CA - Roderic Pettigrew, Director at the National
Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering, NIH will give the keynote
presentation at GTCbio's 3rd Imaging in Drug Development conference March 17-18,
2008 in San Diego, CA.

Dr. Pettigrew will discuss the importance of imaging in 21st century healthcare and
its essential involvement in many aspects of the drug discovery process. Dr.
Pettigrew's research at the NIBIB focuses on combining the physical and biological
sciences to develop new technologies that improve health. Their goal is to
accelerate the pace of discovery and speed the development of biomedical
technologies that prevent and treat illnesses.

Dr. Pettigrew is the first director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging
and Bioengineering (NIBIB). Before being appointed as director, he was a Professor
of Radiology Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He also served as
Director of the Emory Center for Magnetic Resonance Research at Emory University
School of Medicine. He was also Professor of Bioengineering at the Georgia
Institute of Technology.

Presenting organizations at the 3rd Imaging in Pre-clinical & Clinical Drug
Development conference include GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Abbott, Schering-Plough,
Bristol-Myers Squibb, GE Healthcare, Siemens, NIH, UCLA, 3-D Imaging, and more.

The 3rd Imaging in Pre-clinical & Clinical Drug Development conference features
presentations on novel imaging methods and technology, imaging in drug development
and therapy, imaging applications in CNS, imaging applications in oncology and
imaging applications in the cardiovascular system. For more information, visit
www.gtcbio.com.


ABOUT GTCbio

GTCbio organizes conferences specifically for the biomedical and biopharmaceutical
industries. Our goal is to facilitate the exchange of biopharmaceutical and
biomedical intelligence between industry leaders, academic and government
organizations, and the financial community.

GTCbio is a subsidiary of Global Technology Community, LLC, a privately held company
founded in 2002.

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