Biotechnica 2010 will focus on medicine, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, agriculture, food and environmental protection, and laboratory equipment and bioinformatics.
The European trade fair for biotechnology and the life sciences will be officially opened on the evening of 4 October by Lower Saxony's Minister for Economic Affairs, Jorg Bode; Dr Toralf Haag, a member of the Board of the Lonza Group in Switzerland; Peter Heinrich, senior spokesman for the industry association Bio Deutschland; and Dr Maharaj Kishan Bhan, government secretary for biotechnology in India's Ministry of Science and Technology.
500 companies from 23 countries will be exhibiting at this year's Biotechnica, including Analytik Jena, Eppendorf, Merck, Qiagen, Sartorius and Thermo Fisher Scientific.
The exhibition will be held in Hannover, Germany, and will run from 5 to 7 October.
