The 9th edition of Bangalore Bio, the annual biotech event, to be held from June 18-20, will focus on changing models of collaborative research, diagnostics and informatics and intellectual property.

To be inaugurated by Nobel Laureate Richard Roberts, the event’s theme will be ‘Biotechnology beyond boundaries – the promise of India’. According to Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, CMD, Biocon, “Economic downturn has forced biotech firms and countries to look new ways of developing new biotech products.”