Agreements

Date: 2015-04-01

Type of information: Opening of new premises

Compound: Ipsen Bioscience in Cambridge

Company: Ipsen (France)

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Type agreement: opening of new premises

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• • On April 1, 2015, Ipsen announced the inauguration of its new R&D center, Ipsen Bioscience, in Cambridge (MA, USA), a recognized hub in the USA for biomedical research & innovation. Ipsen's strategic decision to invest in the Ipsen Bioscience facility in Cambridge is an important element of the company’s open innovation strategy and its goal of broadening its partnerships with the American biotechnology, medical and scientific communities. To mark the inauguration of the Ipsen Bioscience facility, the company has organized a scientific symposium with the theme of  "Connecting with Creativity". Several Nobel Prize laureates as well as other prominent scientists and researchers will participate in the scientific symposium. His Excellency, Gerard Araud, the Ambassador of France to the United States, will participate in the inaugural event ceremonies. The "Connecting with Creativity" scientific symposium brings together researchers from very different backgrounds in order to stimulate debate on creativity, reflecting what science should be: a system open to the world, searching for investigations rather than closed assumptions. Creativity is not just a word, but also a research topic for historical and cognitive sciences.Also present will beSteven Shapin (Harvard University) specialist in the history of scientific revolutions, Antonio Damasio (director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California) and Steven Pinker (professor at Harvard University), the Nobel Prize Laureates Michael Bishop (University of California, San Francisco), discoverer of oncogenes and Phillip Sharp (MIT), discoverer of alternative splicing of eukaryotic cells, Robert Langer (MIT) is the David H. Koch Institute Professor and is the most-cited bioengineer in history, David Edwards (Harvard University), who is responsible for the creation of "Le Laboratoire" in Paris and inCambridge (MA).

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* On April 1, 2015, Ipsen announced the inauguration of its new R&D center, Ipsen Bioscience, in Cambridge (MA, USA), a recognized hub in the USA for biomedical research & innovation. Ipsen\'s strategic decision to invest in the Ipsen Bioscience facility in Cambridge is an important element of the company’s open innovation strategy and its goal of broadening its partnerships with the American biotechnology, medical and scientific communities. To mark the inauguration of the Ipsen Bioscience facility, the company has organized a scientific symposium with the theme of \"Connecting with Creativity\". Several Nobel Prize laureates as well as other prominent scientists and researchers will participate in the scientific symposium. His Excellency, Gerard Araud, the Ambassador of France to the United States, will participate in the inaugural event ceremonies. The \"Connecting with Creativity\" scientific symposium brings together researchers from very different backgrounds in order to stimulate debate on creativity, reflecting what science should be: a system open to the world, searching for investigations rather than closed assumptions. Creativity is not just a word, but also a research topic for historical and cognitive sciences.Also present will beSteven Shapin (Harvard University) specialist in the history of scientific revolutions, Antonio Damasio (director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California) and Steven Pinker (professor at Harvard University), the Nobel Prize Laureates Michael Bishop (University of California, San Francisco), discoverer of oncogenes and Phillip Sharp (MIT), discoverer of alternative splicing of eukaryotic cells, Robert Langer (MIT) is the David H. Koch Institute Professor and is the most-cited bioengineer in history, David Edwards (Harvard University), who is responsible for the creation of \"Le Laboratoire\" in Paris and inCambridge (MA).

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