The countdown starts...
With the countdown clock at the 2007 BIO International Convention site at 15 days, 7 hours, 3 minutes and counting, Nature Publishing Group is pleased to kick off our blog coverage of the biotech industry's biggest event ever. Join us as the editors of Nature Biotechnology, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery and Nature Network Boston fill you in on what's happening in Boston. From the sessions to the exhibit halls to the parties, we'll report the goings-on and try to make sense of what promises to be an exciting but hectic convention.
In addition, we'll be bringing you regular dispatches from 3 veteran biotech industry executives: Edmundo Muniz, president and CEO of Tigris Pharmaceuticals, Sara Hall, founder, president and CEO of Tacere Therapeutics and Scott Salka, CEO of Ambit Biosciences. Look for their daily insights on the most pressing business development, management and funding issues for biotechs.

