Durham, North Carolina is home to the prestigious, private research institute, Duke University. Quakers and Methodists first founded Duke in 1838, and originally named it Trinity College, until 1924 when tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment. This Endowment is a private establishment designed to serve as the key supporter for North Carolina and South Carolina's higher education, health care, children's welfare, and spiritual life programs.
Duke now stands as one of the top-funded, most recognized research based institutes in the nation. In fiscal year 2010, Duke University's research expenditures exceeded an astonishing $983 million, bringing Duke in as the 5th largest research universities in the United States, and the 2nd largest private university.
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Here are some more Duke University top rankings:
- Ranked 8th by the U.S. News & World Report for undergraduate programs at institutions granting doctoral degrees
- Ranked 19th in the world by the QS World University Rankings
- Ranked 14th-best university in the world by Newsweek
- Duke graduates earn the 6th-highest median salaries in the nation
- Duke's Medical Schools ranked 8th for research
Throughout the institutes BioResearch history, researchers have made numerous, scientific breakthroughs, and scientific firsts, including:
- The world's first, real-time, three-dimensional ultrasound machine
- The first engineered blood vessels
- Mapping the final human chromosome
- The first computerized vital signs monitoring systems
- One of the first hospitals in the country to perform newborn screening for sickle cell anemia
- The first to successfully reattach a severed thumb more than eight hours after it had been amputated
At the past Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. Duke University BioResearch Product Faire™ Events, there was an average of 360 life science university researchers attending. Of the average 360, each lab supply company reported an average of 26 visitors to their booth with 15 excellent leads; each product or service had an average value of $770.
Advantages for research scientists attending Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. University based trade shows:
1. Close proximity to research labs
2. Easily accessible for every member of the lab
3. No cost to attend
4. Excellent networking opportunities for researchers, such as: other academic departments, nearby companies, exhibiting companies, off campus groups, purchasing groups, recruiting professionals, and university store and core facilities
5. Terrific forum for Q&A about current products, protocols, and resources including: demonstrations, quality control issues, product quality and price comparisons, new solutions for research challenges, protocol updates
Exhibitors will also benefit from attending and participating in a University BioResearch Trade Show:
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Access to interested research buyers
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Educate researchers about the newest laboratory technologies
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Make it easy to for researchers to do business with company
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Get visibility on that campus
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Reduce cost of sales
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Nurture relationships with current and up and coming researchers
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Network with other vendor companies
Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. plans and hosts more than 60 BioResearch Product Faire™ Events nationwide on an annual basis. Nearly all of these shows take place at top, research based universities across America.
Here are the Southern Region shows hosted by Biotechnology Calendar, Inc.:
Athens BioResearch Product Faire™ at the University of Georgia, Athens
Atlanta BioResearch Product Faire™ at the Emory Conference Center in Atlanta
Chapel Hill BioResearch Product Faire™ at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Birmingham BioResearch Product Faire™ at the University of Alabama, Birmingham
