Research and Markets, the world's largest market research store, will organise "Biotechnology for the Non-Biotechnologist” conference at The Rembrandt Hotel in London, UK from September 19-21, 2016. The conference is ideal for non-scientists and scientists needing to understand the basic theory, principles, techniques and potential of biotechnology.

People from diverse fields viz. quality assurance, regulatory affairs, legal and IP, business development, sales and marketing, engineering, finance, training, administration, management can attend the conference.

The seminar will introduce fundamental principles of biotechnology to them, improve their understanding of the key techniques used by biotechnologists, make them understand the importance of meeting regulatory requirements and the advances being made, help them learn how to identify potential patents, and why and how they must be protected, share knowledge and experiences with fellow attendees from across Europe.

The speakers include Mark Richardson, pharmaceutical/biotech drug development regulatory affairs consultant, director, Richardson Associates Regulatory Affairs Ltd; Philip Webber, European Patent Attorney & UK Chartered Patent Attorney, partner - Dehns, Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys (London and Oxford, UK); Kate Smith; Kate Smith, principal scientist, development services, at BioReliance, UK.

The other speakers are Alison Alison Sykes, associate director Physico-Chem Analytics, Biosimilars, at Merck Serono, Geneva; Dr Adekunle Onadipe, associate research fellow in Bioprocess R&D, cell line development at Pfizer Inc. USA; Adrian Haines, section head of process development sciences at Novimmune SA, Switzerland; Robert Young, principal group leader of Lonza Biologics New Expression Technologies Group based in Cambridge, UK.