Include LifeScience Alley in your marketing plan! We can help you reach a targeted audience in the life sciences with your company's message. (Click for information about our members) Your marketing dollars help support LifeScience Alley programming and initiatives. We have several avenues available to help you effectively reach our member organizations and key decision makers.
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Advertising
E-Newsletter Advertising — LifeScience Alley News
Each month, our member e-newsletter is sent to 500+ businesses, which includes more than 8,000 individuals. Placing an ad in LifeScience Alley News provides an opportunity to create awareness of your product/service and organization with a highly targeted professional audience.
Recent newsletter examples
E-Newsletter advertising rates and specs (PDF)
Online Advertising
The LifeScience Alley website is a great place to extend your reach to members of the life science community. And, our new website offers placement throughout the Site, creating more opportunities for your message to be seen. Use online advertising in combination with our newsletter, and maximize your ad campaign reach!
Online advertising rates and specs (PDF)
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Annual Event Sponsorships
Networking Events
Alley Chats Networking Events are exclusively open to LifeScience Alley members and are held quarterly at member facilities. We also host a 3-hour boat cruise Alley Chats in the summer. Sponsoring an Alley Chats Networking Event has been a very successful method many organizations have used to showcase their products, services, and/or expertise in the life sciences to a highly targeted audience. Sponsorship is exclusively open to LifeScience Alley members and only two sponsors are accepted for each event.
View Alley Chats Sponsorship Form (PDF)
View Alley Chats Host Site Overview Information (PDF)
View upcoming Alley Chats on the Event Calendar
Special Alley Chats "Road Trip" Sponsorships
St. Cloud "Road Trip" Sponsorship form - Sept. 10, 2008
Rochester "Road Trip" Sponsorship form - Oct. 8, 2008
7th Annual LifeScience Alley Conference & Expo (Dec. 10, 2008, Minneapolis Convention Center)
The Annual LifeScience Alley Conference & Expo is a one-day event that focuses on identifying trends and building collaborations within an educational forum. This is the premier life sciences event in the upper Midwest and attracts over 1,200 regional and international attendees from a wide variety of disciplines. The conference features two general sessions, seven educational tracks, and an Exhibit Hall. Sponsorship opportunities are exclusively open to LifeScience Alley members, while exhibiting spots will be open to non-members this year. For sponsorship and exhibitor information, visit the conference website.
LifeScience Alley Conference Website
Scholarship Golf Tournament (Sept. 8, 2008, Golden Valley Golf and Country Club)
The Alley Institute Scholarship Golf Tournament is designed to raise money to help students pursue careers in the life sciences. A variety of sponsoring opportunities are available from the title sponsor, to contest holes, and the ever-popular beverage cart! The 2008 Scholarship Golf Tournament (scramble format) will be held September 8 at the Golden Valley Golf and Country Club. The event includes use of the practice facility, lunch, cocktail reception and awards banquet and is open to both members and non-members of LifeScience Alley.
Sponsorship Information
View sponsorship packages
Download the sponsorship reservation form
View Scholarship Golf Tournament Registration Information
8th Annual MedTech Investing Conference
The Annual MedTech Investing Conference is designed to bridge the gap between small and emerging medical technology companies and venture capital investors. In addition to regional attendees, the event attracts investors from both the east and west coasts, and provides entrepreneurs with a great opportunity to gain valuable insights in building and financing their companies. This event is known for its high quality information, excellent networking, and deal-making opportunities. LifeScience Alley partners with International Business Forum (IBF) to host this two-day event.
For Sponsorship or Exhibiting Opportunities, please contact Craig Simak, Conference Producer, at 516-765-9005 x 17 or via email at 
View MedTech conference website
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Education Program Sponsorships
BioGENEius Challenge Series
The BioGENEius Challenge is an annual competition for high school students (grade 9-12) that recognizes outstanding biotechnology research (it is sponsored on an international level by sanofi-aventis). Sponsorship support helps LifeScience Alley and Alley Institute underwrite the cost of hosting and coordinating the 12-state Midwest region event. The target audience for the BioGENEius Challenge is High school (public/private) students in the Midwest region and their parents.
BioGENEius Sponsorship Information
Breakthrough Series - NEW!
LifeScience Alley has joined with the Office of Clinical Research at the University of Minnesota to create a continuing series spotlighting
U of M research and to effectively connect the University with the medical technology industry
and healthcare. The target audience for the Breakthrough Series is leadership level researchers, scientists and business development life sciences professionals in academia and industry. Sponsorship funds go directly to support Residents in postdoctoral research at the U of M in the form of scholarship donations.
Breakthrough Series Scholarship Information
Crossroads Series - NEW!
The mission of our Crossroads Series is: To bring together leaders from all aspects of the life sciences and provide a forum for them to learn about broad-reaching trends in life sciences and health care, as well as to enter into multi-faceted dialogues on key issues.
Sponsorships for the Crossroads Series range from $1,500 - $3,000.
Contact Dana Boyle for sponsorship
information at LifeScience Alley: 952-746-3820 or 
Crossroads Series Sponsorship Information
Small Business Leaders' Forum - NEW!
Leaders of small scientific businesses are invited to meet on the last Wednesday of each month (November-different date, December-no meeting) to share best practices for supporting and growing an emerging organization. These breakfast meetings will provide attendees with an opportunity to network with each other and hear from seasoned experts about issues uniquely affecting heads of emerging companies.
2008 sponsorships are SOLD OUT. Please check back for sponsorship informatin for 2009.
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