PRINCETON, N.J., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- PharmaNet Development Group, Inc., a leading provider of clinical development services to innovative pharmaceutical, biotechnology, generic drug and medical device companies, today announced its participation at several international professional meetings during the month of June.

    June 23   45th Drug Information Association (DIA) Annual Meeting
              San Diego, California, Booth 321
              Betty Kuhnert, PhD, MBA, Executive Director, Training Services,
              will chair a session entitled Critical Success Strategies for
              Professional Development and will present "So You Have a New
              Job, Now What? Tactics for Surviving a Job Transition."

    June 24   Phacilitate's Active Immunotherapeutics Forum
              Barcelona, Spain
              Joyce Frey-Vasconcells, PhD, Executive Director, PharmaNet
              Consulting, will make a presentation on "Delivering Strategic
              Solutions to Manufacturing and Product Characterization
              Challenges with Allogeneic Therapies."

              AAPS National Biotechnology Conference
              Seattle, Washington, Booth 305
              Taylor Technology's Robert Dodge, PhD, Laboratory Director,
              Immunochemistry and Cell Biology, Jason Morse, Director,
              Information Technology and Lisa Werdal, Database Systems
              Manager, will be presenting their poster: "Development and
              Implementation of an Information Management System for Tiered
              Immunogenicity Sample Testing and Reporting."

              Robert Dodge, PhD, Marisa Castellana, Research Scientist and
              Dania Yaskanin, Associate Director, Immunochemistry, will also
              present their poster entitled "Optimization of Commercial ELISA
              Kits for the Quantitation of Human Luteinizing Hormone and
              Follicle Stimulating Hormone."

    June 30   4th Annual Biopharm Asia Conference
              Singapore
              Duu-Gong Wu, PhD, Executive Director, PharmaNet Consulting, will
              make a presentation entitled "Overview of Follow-on Biologics
              Regulatory and Scientific Issues in US." He will also lead a
              post conference workshop on July 1 on the topic of the FDA's
              approval process for biologics and biological products.

              49th Annual Meeting of the Teratology Society
              Rio Grande, Puerto Rico
              Bengt Danielsson, MD, PhD, Vice President, PharmaNet Consulting,
              will present "Exaggerated Pharmacology Versus True Toxicity."
              Dr. Danielsson's presentation is part of the International Life
              Sciences Institute and the Health and Environmental Sciences
              Institute's (ILSI/HESI) symposium on Maternal Toxicity and its
              Impact on Study Design and Data Interpretation.

About PharmaNet Development Group, Inc.

PharmaNet Development Group, Inc., a global drug development services company, provides a comprehensive range of services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, generic drug and medical device industries. The Company offers early and late stage consulting, Phase I clinical studies and bioanalytical analyses, and Phase II, III and IV clinical development programs. With approximately 2,400 employees and 40 facilities throughout the world, PharmaNet is a recognized leader in outsourced clinical development. For more information, please visit our website at www.pharmanet.com.

    Contact: Anne-Marie Hess
    Phone: (609) 951-6842
    E-mail: ahess@pharmanet.com

SOURCE PharmaNet Development Group, Inc.

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