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Bio/Medical Technology Club of Houston Meeting Announcement

Meeting Topic:
“Raising the Bar in Protein Array Technology: Can Protein Arrays be Validated and Useful in Drug Discovery and Diagnostics?”

Speaker:
Helen R. Park
CEO
Bronco Technology, Inc.
www.broncotechnology.com


Ms. Park is an Entrepreneur, businesswoman, researcher, educator, inventor, speaker and volunteer. . 

She is Founder, President, and CEO of Bronco Technology Inc., a Texas Corporation in Huntsville, TX, founder and past CEO and Chairman of the Board of Advanced Bio/Chem, Inc., d.b.a. ProtēEx (now Power3 Medical) and Cofounder of FlowGenix Corporation.  Ms. Park has extensive experience in biotechnology business management and consulting.  While CEO of Advanced Bio/Chem, Inc .the Company made significant discoveries in Breast Cancer and Neurodegenerative Diseases, raised over $2 Million dollars, was the 17th largest biotechnology company in the Houston area.  Ms. Park took the company public.

Bronco Technology, Inc. recently contracted with Bayer Services Technology to launch the US Market for Zeptosens’ protein array technology. 

Ms. Park was in Diagnostics and Cancer Research at Baylor College of Medicine and UT MD Anderson Cancer Center.  One of her greatest accomplishments was the development of the first diagnostic blood test for detection of cancer in the livers of children without having to perform a liver biopsy.   She diagnosed and discovered she had a parathyroid tumor using this test.

Ms. Park is past President of the Houston chapter of The National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and Medical Center Business and Professional Women’s organization. Ms. Park sits on several Boards including Clinical Ligand Assay Society, Women's Chamber of Commerce of Texas, Downs Syndrome Foundation of Houston and others.  While president of Houston NAWBO, the organization achieved its first Healthy Chapter award, Bridge Builder award, and various other honors.  She raised over $40,000 after beginning the year in the red.  Ms. Park is charter member of The Woodlands Delta Zeta Alumni Chapter.  She was president of Annie Gibbs Society at Sam Houston State Teachers College the year national sororities came on campus.   Ms. Park always jumps in with a “lets go” attitude.

She is a former University and High School Instructor.  Ms. Park holds a BS degree in chemistry from Sam Houston State University and a MS degree in biochemistry from Baylor University College of Medicine.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
7:00 am - 8:30 am

New Location:
Trevisio Restaurant (Water Wall Building in the Texas Medical Center)
6th Floor
6550 Bertner Ave (Off Holcombe Blvd, East of Fannin)
Houston, TX 77030
(713) 749-0400

Map: www.bmtchouston.org/meetings/location.asp

Pricing: Includes Breakfast Hospitality and Parking
$15 - Members with online reservations
$20 - Members with no reservations or non-members with online reservations
$25 - Non-members with no reservations

Reservations:
Online reservation requires all members AND non-members to setup an account on the BMTC web site.

Registration Closed

Payments by cash or check prior to the event are to be mailed to:
BMTC
P.O. Box 66488
Houston, TX 77266-6488

January 2006 forward, pre-registration payments by credit card are non-refundable with no-shows billed.

Day of Event Registration:
On site registrations are welcome the day of the event. Payment on site is by
cash or check only. Correct change is appreciated.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you at this event.

Bio/Medical Technology Club of Houston
www.bmtchouston.org

 

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