Wednesday December 15, 2004
8:00 am to 11:00 amNational Press Club, Washington DC
Equity International invites you to attend The BioDefense Briefing on Wednesday, December 15, beginning promptly at 8:00 am in the Ballroom of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington DC. The Briefing will provide you with the latest information on the fast developing multi-billion-dollar BioDefense Industry, including programs and funding for 2005 and details on BioShield I and II. Sponsors include McKenna Long & Aldridge, The Federal Market Group, Biomedical, Chimerix, FDANews, GSN, HSToday, Aviation Weeks Homeland Security & Defense, and Domestic Preparedness.com.
Panel topics include BioDefense Programs & Funding in 2005, Bioshield I and BioShield II, Business Development Strategies for the BioDefense Industry. Confirmed speakers include: Dr. Peter Jutro, Deputy Director, National Homeland Security Research Center, Environmental Protection Agency; Colonel Joseph Palma, Medical Director, Chemical and Biological Defense Program, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Major General Lester Martinez-Lopez, Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and Fort Detrick; Dr. Lance Brooks, Scientist, Biological Countermeasures, Office of Programs, Plans and Budgets, Science & Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security; Chuck Ludlam, Counsel, Office of Senator Joseph Lieberman; The Honorable Jerome Hauer, Former Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Dr. Stephen S. Morse, Founding Director, Center for Public Health Preparedness, Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health; Frank Rapoport, Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge; John Clerici, Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge; and George Lowell, Chief Scientific Officer, BioDefense, Biomedical Corporation.
The BioDefense Briefing is open to credentialed members of the news media. To pre-register, contact Kim Winn, Communications Manager, at 202.756.5026.
About Equity International
Equity International is a Washington, DC-based business development firm that facilitates corporate involvement in homeland and global security. Through its informational forums, Equity International brings together the business and government sectors to assess new security needs,entify programs requiring the involvement of the corporate sector, and brief corporate leaders on the programs and procurement procedures of the governmental agencies coordinating homeland and global security. More than 7,000 government officials and business executives have participated in Equity International's homeland security summits, briefings, and forums, including Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. For more information, please visit www.globalsecurity.bz .