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 According to the Earth Day Network, "Earth Day marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.

The height of hippie and flower-child culture in the United States, 1970 brought the death of Jimi Hendrix, the last Beatles album, and Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. Protest was the order of the day, but saving the planet was not the cause. War raged in Vietnam, and students nationwide increasingly opposed it.

The Mid-Atlantic – Russia Business Council (MARBC) would like to cordially invite you to the Russian-American Innovation Technology, University Research & Commercialization Conference which will take place on September 27, 2013 from 1 to 5 pm at the University City Science Center (Quorum, 3711 Market Street) in Philadelphia.

This conference is the key event for the first part of the 18th Annual Russian-American Innovation Technology Week (RANIT), which will be held from September 23-27 and November 13-22, 2013.

As part of the Global Innovation Partnership Week hosted by Drexel’s School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems and the Office of International Programs from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2, Drexel will offer a look inside its Coulter-Drexel Translational Research Partnership program and the health care technologies that it is strives to guide into commercial use.

Despite mounting pressure from stockholders to discover the next blockbuster drug, R&D budgets are being reduced. Outsourcing drug discovery provides one solution, and China is an ideal partner for this. Among the benefits to outsourcing drug discovery in China:

* Instant market access to a growing local market;
* Lower operational costs;
* Access to new technology and its educated workforce,
* The Chinese government's financial commitment to the healthcare industry.