BALTIMORE -- Becton Dickinson Microbiology Systems and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, announce their second annual scientific symposium, "A Look Ahead II - Futures in Biomedical Research," to be held November 12, 1998, at 4 p.m. on the UMBC campus. The program is designed for life sciences researchers, health care professionals and science educators, and focuses on issues and trends in the dynamic biomedical research arena.

Featured speakers include Dr. Dinah Singer, senior scientific officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dr. Larry Gold, Professor, University of Colorado and founder of NexGen Pharmaceuticals; and Wayne Hendrickson, renowned AIDS researcher and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Columbia University.

For more information on the event, please contact Patricia Larrabee, Director of Corporate Relations, UMBC, at 410/455-6279 or visit the event website at: http://www.umbc.edu/Business