Winners of the First Alpe-Adria Regional Biocamp Announced

LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), 1 June 2011 -- InPR -- At the first regional BioCamp Alpe-Adria, which was held by Lek, a Sandoz company, from May 29 to 31, 2011 in Ljubljana with 35 of the most promising young science students from the Alpe-Adria region, the individual winners of the competition section of the three-day forum are Veronique Bos from Netherlands, who is studying at the Management Center Innsbruck in Austria, and Klemen A paninger from Slovenia, who is a phd student of biomedicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana. The winning team are: Ana Ogrinc (Slovenia), Biljana Govedarica (Slovenia), Matej A1/2nidaric (Slovenia), MatjaA3/4 Ravnikar (Slovenia), Samra HasanbaA ic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Veronique Bos (Netherlands) and Vita Majce (Slovenia). The members of the winning team received a special prize for their work, while the individual winners will participate in the Novartis International Biotechnology Leadership Campus (BioCamp) 2011 in Basel, Switzerland. BioCamp offers young scientists insight into the pharmaceutical industry and entrepreneurship through presentations and tours. At the same time, it gives them an opportunity to actively participate and test themselves in teamwork by developing case studies and in transferring already acquired knowledge into practice. The selection of the best team and the two individual winners was based on the participants' collaboration in business-oriented team tasks. Olga Lipic, Head of Talent Development at Lek, a Sandoz company, assessed the case studies on "How to develop and launch a pharmaceutical product" as a member of the selection committee for the winners of the competition section of the Regional BioCamp 2011: "We wanted to show the participants, who have already excelled in their studies, what it is like to work together in culturally and professionally diverse teams and in a results-oriented business environment. And in fact they are all winners. The event was also an opportunity for mutual exchanges of knowledge. We truly enjoyed meeting these promising students and learning what is important to them for their further development".