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About Me - Dr Shara B.A. Cohen I have been interested in science for longer than I care to remember, being a member of the British Association of Young Scientists from the age of 15. In the 80's I studied Applied Biology (BSc-1985) and went on to focus on Immunology (PhD-1989). I then took my research to New York for a few years, returning to the UK in 90's where I became a senior scientist, university lecturer and head of a research group. I left mainstream science on the birth of my first daughter in 2000 and established and currently manage Euroscicon . I also founded and oversee Mums in Science. I have over 100 publications, including scientific papers, books and book chapters and have been active in bringing science to the non-scientist, by written communications and television. I am also a scientific consultant and sit on several advisory boards. I live in London with my husband, two daughters and two cats If you want to know even more about me (why?) please click here
About Me - Dr Shara B.A. Cohen I have been interested in science for longer than I care to remember, being a member of the British Association of Young Scientists from the age of 15. In the 80's I studied Applied Biology (BSc-1985) and went on to focus on Immunology (PhD-1989). I then took my research to New York for a few years, returning to the UK in 90's where I became a senior scientist, university lecturer and head of a research group. I left mainstream science on the birth of my first daughter in 2000 and established and currently manage Euroscicon . I also founded and oversee Mums in Science. I have over 100 publications, including scientific papers, books and book chapters and have been active in bringing science to the non-scientist, by written communications and television. I am also a scientific consultant and sit on several advisory boards. I live in London with my husband, two daughters and two cats If you want to know even more about me (why?) please click here
About My Work
I run a company called Euroscicon which specializes in producing unique Life Science Events. Our meetings offer scientists a valuable opportunity to move forward with current research, methodological and technical developments, with a good mix of high quality talks from both academic speakers and companies. I also established the popular science portal - Mums in Science - for busy mums who work or have worked in any area of science (and am currently the Chief Executive Officer). More information about Euroscicon and Mums in Science can be found in the right hand column My sites
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Sunday, June 25
What Makes a Great Life Science Event?
by
sharaco
on Sun 25 Jun 2006 07:49 PM BST
When I first started in the business of producing specialized Life Science events for scientific researchers we established our niche by researching the cutting edge technologies and methodologies that were driving (or were going to drive) current research. This makes our events unique and we assumed would also make them popular. Our events have certainly been a success. Our feedback from delegates and sponsoring companies is rarely negative and 99.9 % of our clients say they would return to another event and our glowing testimonials speak for themselves (many of these can be found at www.lifescienceevents.com). However from the beginning we very rarely filled the lecture theatres with delegates or our exhibition halls with sponsors. Some events were so difficult to fill that even when we offered fantastic incentives to attend we could not get more than 20 delegates. Our success was in our great agendas and excellent speakers and chairs, but as a business we made losses. more »
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