Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society, PBSS

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Date & time: 2023-12-06 ~ 2023-12-07 8:30-13:00 Pacific Time
Symposium: "[Free Online] Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Drive Therapeutic Drug Discovery & Development"
Status: Registration:Closed;
Speakers: Alex Zhavoronkov, Insilico Medicine; Abraham Heifets, Atomwise; Stephen MacKinnon, Recursion; Charles Fisher, Unlearn; Karen Akinsanya, Schrodinger; Jason Rolfe, Variational AI; Sang Eun Jee, XtalPi; Ci Chu, insitro
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Place: Online via Zoom

Date & time: 2024-01-19; 8:45-17:30 Pacific Time
Workshop: "[In-Person] ADME/DMPK Studies for IND and NDA Filing for Small Molecules: Nuts, Bolts and Best Practices"
Status: General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open
Speakers: Simon Wong (Aditum Bio), Jan Wahlstrom (Amgen), Sean Zhu (Takeda), Cyrus Khojasteh (Genentech), Xinning Yang (FDA), Werner Rubas (Sutro), Ilaria Badagnani (Theravance), Upendra Dahal (Amgen)
Major Sponsors: (2)Fortrea CRO; Q2 Solutions
Place: Crowne Plaza, Foster City, CA (San Francisco Bay Area)

Date & time: 2024-02-06; 8:40-17:00 Pacific Time
Workshop: "[In-Person] Antibody Discovery and Development: Hit Generation, Engineering, Characterization, CMC and IND Enabling studies"
Status: General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open
Speakers: Joshua Park (Loxo at Lilly), Srinivasa Bandi (Nutcracker Therapeutics), Alex Yang (Vir Biotechnology), Deepali Sawant (Amgen), Lilia Koriazova (Erasca), Chris Frantz (Seagen), Yue Liu (Ab Studio)
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Place: Crowne Plaza, Foster City, CA (San Francisco Bay Area)

Date & time: 2024-03-07; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Workshop: "[In-Person] Project Management for Drug Development"
Status: General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open
Speakers: TBD
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Place: Crowne Plaza, Foster City, CA (San Francisco Bay Area)

Date & time: 2024-03-28; 8:45-17:30 Pacific Time
Workshop: "[In-Person] Antibody-Drug Conjugates from Discovery to Development: Chemistry, Engineering, Characterization, CMC, PK/Tox, Clinical design and Intellectual Property"
Status: General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open
Speakers: Mohan Srinivasan (Loxo Oncology at Lilly), Thomas Pillow (Gennetech), Bernhard Geierstanger (Firefly Biologics), Laurence Fayadat-Dilman (Merck), Travis Biechele (Merck), Seema Kantak (Exelixis), Maya Skubatch (Wilson Sonsini)
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Place: Crowne Plaza, Foster City, CA (San Francisco Bay Area)

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About Us:

Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society - San Francisco Bay (formerly CACO-PBSS) is a non-profit professional organization of scientists and other professionals in the life science sector, working in diverse organizations such as the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, instrumentation and scientific product suppliers, academia, government laboratories and contract research organizations. We are a member organization of Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society International (PBSS), which has 5000+ members and is active through five member organizations in San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego Area, Boston, Vancouver and Korea, some of the largest life science clusters in the World.

Mission Statement:

The mission of PBSS - San Francisco Bay is to promote the exchange of scientific ideas while providing educational and growth opportunities in the fields of pharmaceutical / life science related disciplines. We foster interactions and disseminate information through seminar luncheons, targeted workshops (short courses), expert forums, symposia, vendor shows, as well as career opportunity announcements.

Standing Committee:

Peter Staehr, MD, Committee Chair
Shichang Miao, PhD (ChemoCentryx), President of PBSS International
Betty Chang, PhD (Summit Therapeutics)
Tracy Chen, PhD (Jazz Pharmaceuticals)
Snow Ge, PhD (QED, a BridgeBio company)
Surinder Kaur, PhD (Genentech)
Donald McCarthy, PhD (Samsara Biocapital)
Kevin McLure, PhD (Ermaris Bio)
Thomas Pillow, PhD (Genentech)
Steven Richards, PhD (Ambagon Therapeutics)
Joanne Tan, PhD (Nkarta)
Gregory Wagner, PhD (Consultant)
Minli Xie, PhD (Erasca)
Wenfeng Xu, PhD (Henlius)
Doris Zane, PhD (Gilead)
Heather Zhang, PhD (Beigene)

Distinguished Advisors:

Kevin Grimes, MD (Stanford Medical School)

Emeritus Committee:

Dave Toman, PhD (Consultant)
Ron Aoyama, PhD (Gilead)
Thomas Tarnowski, PhD (Gilead)
Jim Zhang, PhD (Menlo)

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Mailing address: PO Box 2342, South San Francisco, CA 94083-2342