DELEGATES from around the world will head for York tomorrow, at the start of the two-day White Rose Bioscience Forum.
The forum, at the Central Science Laboratory in York, will, for the third year running, showcase the best of the region's bioscience companies.
The booming bioscience sector employs more than 1,000 people in Yorkshire.
Organised by the White Rose University Consortium of Leeds, Sheffield and York, record numbers of delegates are expected to converge on this year's event.
More than 200 scientists and business representatives from a wide range of industries have so far signed up to attend the conference, which will take a closer look at the business of bioscience - the use of biological processes in the development or manufacture of products and services.
Delegates from as far away as Texas and Canada will attend presentations and workshops to encourage more scientists to commercialise their research, and to provide opportunities for other businesses to form partnerships with the region's world-class bioscience companies.
Among the speakers will be Professor Norman Maitland, from the University of York company Pro-cure Therapeutics Ltd.
Updated: 09:46 Tuesday, November 18, 2003
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