The event Biotech in San Francisco: Development Issues and Opportunities will be held on Tuesday, October 4, 2005 at 6:00 p.m. at Genentech Hall (Mission Bay) at the Main Auditorium, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94143. The speakers will include Jesse Blout, the Executive Director of the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Workforce and Economic Development, Warren S. Browner, M.D., M.P.H, the Vice President Academic Affairs and Scientific Director for the Research Institute at California Pacific Medical Center, and Gail Maderis, Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc. The panel will discuss the future for biotech in the Bay Area and some of the advantages for biotech development in the Bay Area. The event is sponsored by Foley & Lardner.