Prime Minister of Tatarstan Ildar Khalikov met with President of investment fund Burrill & Company

Prime Minister of Tatarstan Ildar Khalikov met with President of investment fund Burrill & Company (USA) Mr Steven Burrill.

The meeting was held in building of authorized representative office of Republic Tatarstan in Russian Federation (Moscow).

In the course of meeting parties discussed creation of joint venture fund in the sphere of biotechnologies.

Officials of fund Burrill & Company informed that specialists had stored experience in development of further activity of such joint projects in Malaysia, India and China.

In case of founding Tatar-American venture fund in the sphere of biotechnologies officials of
Burrill & Company will invest shares of their companies.

In the event took part Director if RT Investment-venture fund Ainur Aideldinov, Director-general of JSC “Tatneftehiminvest-holding” Rafinat Yarullin, Chairman of “Ak Bars” bank management Robert Minnegaleev, Rector of Kazan Volga State University Ilshat Gafurov.

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Burrill & Company is a commercial investment bank founded in USA for financing projects in the sphere of biotechnologies. The bank specializes in following sectors: biotechnology, pharmaceutics, diagnostics, protection of human’s health and medical technologies connected with it; quality of life, agricultural biotechnology, industrial biotechnology (biomaterials and bioprocesses).

Steven Burrill is a founder of biotechnological assembly of heads of natural-scientific organizations (he has been working successfully for 23 years), congresses and conferences on biotechnologies of China, India, Japan and Indiana.

Before founding Burrill & Company in 1994 Steven Burrill had worked in company “Ernst & Young” for 28 years.

«Biotech 2009 - Navigating the Sea Change» is one of his latest publications.