Largest Investment Banking Healthcare Conference to Open Jan. 8 in San Francisco

Business Wire, Jan 6, 2001

Business Editors

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 2001

Record 300 Public and Private Companies to Present At J.P. Morgan

H&Q's 19th Annual Healthcare Conference

More than 5,000 institutional and venture capital investors from the U.S., Europe and Asia will participate in investment banking's largest and most comprehensive healthcare meeting when J.P. Morgan H&Q's 19th Annual Healthcare Conference opens on Monday, Jan. 8 for four days in San Francisco.

Over 220 publicly traded and 80 privately held companies, representing all major healthcare and life science sectors, will make presentations to investors. J.P. Morgan H&Q securities analysts will conduct special panels on pharma 2001, drug delivery technologies, biologics manufacturing and long-term care.

Daniel H. Case III, head of J.P. Morgan H&Q's West Coast Operations and global investment banking activities in Technology, Media, Telecommunications and Life Sciences will deliver the opening address on Monday, Jan. 8. Arthur D. Levinson, Ph.D., Chairman and chief executive officer of Genentech, Inc. will deliver the keynote address at Monday's luncheon on Jan. 8.

"The year 2001 marks the 19th renewal of this annual Conference and also the 25th anniversary of Biotechnology. For nearly two decades, this Conference anticipated and reflected the explosive growth of life sciences in the economy, highlighted emerging sectors and identified the companies that would define those sectors," said Case.

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM, www.jpmorganchase.com) is a premier global financial services firm with assets in excess of $705 billion and operations in over 60 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, asset management, private equity, consumer banking, private banking, e-finance, and custody and processing services. Headquartered in New York, J.P. Morgan Chase serves 32 million customers and over 5,000 corporate, institutional and government clients.