By Kathy Bergen
| U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin will join a roster of heavy-hitters expected to speak at a biotechnology convention next month at the McCormick Place complex.
 
Dr. Benjamin will focus on increasing diversity, both within the biotechnology work force and within the pools of participants in clinical trials. Her speech will be May 3, the first day of the four-day 2010 Bio International Convention, the show’s organizers announced today.

Earlier, it was announced that former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill
Clinton would share the stage on May 4 as co-keynote speakers, and that
former Vice President Al Gore would speak on May 5.