Photo opportunity, 12.05pm, Reception area, Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, when the health care managers will be meeting representatives of Scottish Enterprise Tayside and Biodundee.
Twenty six US health care senior managers arrive in Dundee tomorrow to familiarise themselves with the University of Dundee's internationally reputed work in life sciences research. The group, all pursuing a Masters of Business Administration in health services management at Washington University, are from an area in the United States which has been identified as a possible future centre of life sciences.
The group will meet Professor Peter Downes from the School of Life Sciences - recently rated a five star department in the Research Assessment Exercise - who will give a presentation on scientific achievements of the Wellcome Trust Biocentre accounting for its international reputation and show how the School of Life Sciences is developing technology transfer capability to fuel local biotechnology developments.
Professor Downes: "Dundee does not just have a great international reputation in Life Sciences research, it also puts new knowledge to work in the biotechnology and healthcare sectors. As a result, new companies are being spawned or relocating here and the world's leading pharmaceutical companies actively participate in Dundee's science programmes."
Deputy Principal of the University Professor David Boxer said: "We are delighted to welcome such a large group of extremely well qualified visitors from this sector in the USA. It is a mark of Dundee's success in the biomedical sciences that the Biocentre is being used as an international model in this way."
Jennifer Caswell from Biodundee will speak to the students about the cluster of biotech industries that are based in and around the city and how they work together to promote the city as a centre of science and investment.
The group will also hear presentations on biotechnology and health care management in Scotland.