Greeting the guests, CURE Co-Chair Peter Farina said that in the current economic climate, it is especially important for the bioscience community to take advantage of events on the CURE calendar, because of the fellowship and networking opportunities they provide.

Echoing Farina's comments was CURE Co-Chair David Keiser.

Paul Pescatello, president and CEO of CURE, thanked the sponsors who made the evening possible.

WinStanley Enterprises, as lead sponsor, underwrote the extensive buffet provided by Café George and arranged for convenient parking at 300 George, which is one of the WinStanley properties in New Haven.

CURE member Ricerca sponsored the DNA Game, which called for guests to seek each other out in order to match up the genetic codes on their respective name tags.

Guests who found a match had their names entered in a drawing for Amazon gift certificates. This year's winners were Yanming Du and Jim Dalton of Rib-X.

Other sponsors included PricewaterhouseCoopers, Wiggin and Dana, Makovsky and Company Public Relations, Cantor Colburn LLP, and Elm Street Ventures.

Wine was provided by The Wine Thief and catering by Paula at Café George.

Pescatello thanked his staff and HarveyMalis Communications for organizing the event.