Boston Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society, Boston-PBSS

Event Calendar:

All of our scheduled events are listed below.

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Date & time: 2024-09-12; 8:15-16:30 Eastern Time
Workshop: "[In-Person] Biomarkers Enabling Clinical Development and Accelerated Drug Approval"
Status: General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open
Speakers: Lakshimi Amaravadi, Astrazeneca; Valerie Clausen, Alnylam; Tripti Gaur, AffyImmune Therapeutics; Thomas Klem, Solid Biosciences; Rama Boyanapalli, Bristol Myers Squibb; Anka Ehrhardt, Merck
Major Sponsors: (2)Frontage Laboratories, Inc.; PPD, Part of Thermo Fisher Scientific
Place: Marriott Cambridge, 50 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142

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Webcast from Other Chapters:

As a benefit to Boston-PBSS members, we'll be webcasting the following workshops hosted by our sister organization PBSS-San Francisco Bay.

Date & time: 2024-08-14-08/15/2024 8:30-13:15 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Free Online by PBSS-SFBay] Advances in Cancer Therapeutics (Organized by PBSS and BioScience Forum)"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Darrin Stuart, Scorpion Therapeutics; Jan Smith, Revolution Medicines; Shirley Liu, GV20 Therapeutics; Thierry Guillaudeux, CSO, Kineta; Sumith Kularatne, On Target Laboratories; Eric Blouin, Ipsos; Michael Pehl, Adcendo; Allen S. Yang, Summit Therapeutics; Samuel C. Blackman, Day One Biopharmaceuticals; Mark W. Frohlich, Indapta Therapeutics; Hequn Yin, Iovance Biotherapeutics; Jakob Dupont, Sofinnova Investments
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2024-08-22; 11:30-14:30 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Free Online by PBSS SFBay] Diabetes and Obesity Treatments: Current and Emerging Landscapes of GLP-1, GIP, and Beyond"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Oliver Philps, PhD, medicinal chemist; Scott Morano, Ipsos
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2024-09-10; 8:45-16:45 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Webcast from PBSS-SFBay] Translational PK/PD and Human Dose Projection for Antibodies/ADCs and Novel Therapeutic Modalities"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Sandhya Mandlekar, Genentech; Ben Maldonato, Revolution Medicines; Aline Bergesch Barth, Structure Therapeutics; Jay Tibbitts, Surrozen; Thomas Pillow, Genentech; Paulina Jakubiak-Fort, Genentech; Ramesh Palaparthy, Gilead; Kapil Gadkar, Genentech; Chee Ng, NewGround Pharmaceutical Consulting; Di Zhou, Amgen
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2024-09-11; 10:00-12:30 Pacific Time
Webcast: "For PBSS members outside Vancouver [Webcast from PBSS Vancouver] Antibody Engineering for ADCs"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Bernhard Geierstanger, PhD, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Firefly Bio
Place: Webcast from PBSS Vancouver.

Date & time: 2024-09-20; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Webcast from PBSS-SFBay] Non-clinical Safety Assessments of Biologics and Other Novel Modalities for IND/NDA/BLA Filings"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Christina de Zafra, Seagen; Kaushik Datta, BMS; Xiaoting Wang, Amgen; Haley Neff-LaFord, Seagen; Mayur Mitra, Genentech; Jessica Sims, Genentech; Majlinda Thomas, Gilead Sciences; Carolyne Dumont, CRL; Ijeoma Uzoma, FDA
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2024-09-25-9/25/2024 8:30-12:45 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Free Online by PBSS-SFBay] Development of Protein Degraders: Computational Modeling, Medicinal Chemistry and Early Development"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Hongtao Zhao, AstraZeneca; Anil Vasudevan, AbbVie; Jesus Medina, Arvinas; Donglu Zhang, Genentech; Elisia Villemure, Genentech
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2024-10-10; 8:45-17:30 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Webcast from PBSS-SFBay] Regulatory Global Submission: Strategies and Best Practices for FDA, EMA and PMDA"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: TBD
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2024-10-17; 8:30-12:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Free Online by PBSS-San Diego] Patient Centric Blood Sampling for Facilitating De-centralized Clinical Trials: Implications for ClinOps, PK/ClinPharm, Bioanalytical and Biomarkers"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Brian Booth, FDA; Jeff Silverman, Edgewise Therapeutics; Mitch Johnson, Veloxity Labs, LLC; Sally Fischer, Genentech, Inc.; Katty Wan, Pfizer; Jeff Plomley, Altasciences
Place: Webcast from PBSS SD.

Date & time: 2024-10-25; 8:30-12:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Free Online by PBSS-SFBay] Unleashing the Power of Real-World Evidence / Data (RWE/RWD) to Facilitate Drug Discovery, Development, and Beyond"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Lixia Yao, Polygon Health Analytics LLC; Aaron Mackey, Lokavant; Ying Li, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Daisuke Goto, Organon & Co.; Star Chen, Merck & Co.
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2024-11-01; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Webcast from PBSS-SFBay] Clinical Pharmacology Studies on Hepatic and Renal Impairments for NDA Filing: Strategies, Design, Conduct, Analysis and Regulatory Aspects"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: TBD
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2024-11-13; 8:30-11:30 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Webcast from PBSS-SFBay] Career Transition for Research Scientists: Business Development & BioPartnering"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: TBD
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2024-11-15; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Webcast from PBSS SF] Bioanalysis for Biologics and Cell/Gene Therapy Products: Refining Established Approaches for New Complex Therapeutics"
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Speakers:
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2025-01-22; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Webcast from PBSS SF] Small-Molecule Formulation for Discovery & Early Development (jointly by PBSS / AAPS-BADG / Syner-G)"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: TBD
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

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Past Event held by PBSS Boston:

Boston PBSS Past Events

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About Us:

Boston Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society (Boston-PBSS) is a Boston based 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 Boston-PBSS 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.

Executive Committee:

Chandra Prakash, PhD, Boston-PBSS Chair (Agios)
Jing-Tao Wu, PhD (Alnylam)
Kannan Karuppiah, PhD (Takeda)

Scientific Program Committee:

Prakash Bolleddula, PhD (EMD Serono)
Karen Cao, PhD (Alnylam)
Jaya Goyal, PhD (PepGen)
Jing Li, PhD (AbbVie)
Han Lin, PhD (Clover Biopharmaceuticals)
Diane Ramsden, PhD (AstraZeneca)
Haojing Rong, PhD (Kymera)

955 Massachusetts Ave, #340, Cambridge, MA 02139

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