CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A longtime leader and promoter of biotechnology will speak about the potential for state and regional development of the industry at 2 p.m. Wednesday (March 17) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
G. Steven Burrill, chief executive officer of Burrill & Co., will speak in Room 102B of the Chemical and Life Sciences Lab, 601 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana. His talk, “Biotechnology 2004: A State and Regional Perspective for Bioeconomic Development,” is free and open to the public. The Institute for Genomic Biology and the Office of the Vice President for Technology and Economic Development are sponsors of the event.
Burrill founded Burrill & Co., a San Francisco-based private merchant bank dedicated to the life sciences, in 1994. For the previous 28 years he had represented Ernst & Young’s financial services with clients in the areas of life sciences and high technology. In 2002, Scientific American recognized Burrill as “biotechnology’s investment visionary.”
He currently is chairman of the board for Paradigm Genetics and Pyxis Genomics and is the author of several articles and books that focus on the field of biotechnology.
