St. Petersburg International Forum IPhEB takes place on April 25 – 27, 2012. The Forum is held in Mariinsky palace (Isaacs sq.6) and in Nikolajevsky palace (4, Truda sq.)

The event is held with the support of Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian Federation in the North-Western Federal District, Administration of St.Petersburg. The Forum Organiser is RESTEC Exhibition Company.

In 2011 St. Petersburg Forum IPhEB was held for the first time with the support of the city Administration. The participants noted high efficiency of their participation in the events of the IPhEB business programme, as one of the Forum main tasks was solved – to create conditions for open dialogue between the experts of the sector and the representatives of state power. At the end of the Forum a decision to expand topic sections in 2012 in accordance with the programs of innovative development of pharmaceutical and medical industry was rendered.

IPhEB – 2012 main sections:

Pharmaceutical and medical industry (including equipment, materials and technologies), biotechnologies, radiology, healthcare.

 Topical sections:

• Condition and prospects for development of medicine, pharmacy and biotechnologies
• State regulation of medical and pharmaceutical sector
• Clusters as a basis to gain national and worldwide competitiveness of the region
• Innovations in the field of medical equipment and medical products
• Issues of conducting preclinical and clinical trials
• Innovative model of pharmacoeconomics in “education – science – production – business” chain
• Nanotechnologies for medicine and pharmaceutics: future programming
• Innovations in medical radiology
• International cooperation in the field of pharmacy and biotechnologies in order to boost export capacity of the Russian companies

An exhibition of medical, pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment and pharmaceutical products takes place within the frames of the IPhEB-2012 Forum in Manezh Exhibition Hall. The latest achievements, products and services in the field of medical, pharmaceutical and biotechnological industry will be presented at the exposition.

Awarding ceremony of IPhEB prizes for special achievements of the year (Expert of the year, Innovation of the year, Start-Up of the year) will be held at the Forum for the first time aimed at strengthening motivation in terms of innovative developments. You can trace the stages of awarding in the BioPharm Club social business-network for the specialists of the sector.

The registered BioPharm Club users are provided with the exclusive access to information materials of the IPhEB Forum, the opportunity to use the effective system of organization of business negotiations with the companies targeted, as well as online-discussion of the currently important issues of the sector, search for business and partner contacts and appointment of individual meetings.

The IPhEB Forum in 2012 is the key international level congress and exhibition event of pharmaceutical, biotechnological and medical sector in St. Petersburg, aimed at developing key solutions in creation, production and introduction into medical practice of innovative and strategically important medications in compliance with the pharmaceutical industry development strategy for the period up to 2020.