Gov. Sam Brownback will host an economic summit on life sciences Tuesday at the Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.

Also participating in the event will be KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little; Executive Vice Chancellor Barbara Atkinson; KU Hospital president and chief executive officer Bob Page, and others.

The summit will be held from 8 a.m. until noon at KUMC, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, Kan. It is free and open to the public.

In addition, Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer, a physician, and Milo Medin, vice president of access services for Google Inc., will be making presentations.

Brownback has already conducted summits on aviation and tourism, and plans more meetings on the military and renewable energy.