Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society, PBSS

About Us:

Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society (PBSS) is a non-profit professional organization of scientists and other professionals in various pharmaceutical and life science fields, working in diverse organizations such as the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, instrumentation and analytical product suppliers, universities, government laboratories and contract research organizations. Our root in analytical chemistry, mass spectrometry, drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics is still reflected in some of the programs we organize. While our 3000+ members are largely concentrated in the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Diego Area, we also have members residing in other biotech / pharmaceutical clusters in North America.

Mission Statement:

The mission of PBSS is to promote the exchange of scientific and technical ideas and to provide educational and growth opportunities in the fields of pharmaceutical / life science and related disciplines. We foster interactions and disseminate information through seminar luncheons, targeted workshops (short courses), expert forums, vendor shows, and job opening announcements.

Event Calendar:

All of our scheduled events are listed below.

For further event details, click on the event title and speakers' names.
To register for an event, click here.
To suggest seminar or workshop topics / speakers, or to volunteer to lead/co-organize a workshop,click here.

Status	Date	Time	Place	EventName	Major Sponsor	Speakers	EventType
Registration:Closed; >>Registered Vendors	12/10/2019	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	Webcast from PBSS SF.	In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) & Companion Diagnostics (CDx); Guiding Clinical Trials and Patient Treatment through Precision Medicine >>Details...		Anne-Renee Hartman (GRAIL), Hua-Fen Liu (Dian Diagnistics), Chris Apfel (Sage Medic), Sean Zhang (Johns Hopkins), Kunbin Qu (Beigene), Mark Girardi (Boston Healthcare), Wen Huang (Vela Diagnostics) >>Details...	Webcast
Registration:Closed; >>Registered Vendors	12/10/2019	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) & Companion Diagnostics (CDx): Guiding Clinical Trials and Patient Treatment through Precision Medicine >>Details...	(1)Crown Bio;(Major Sponsorship - afternoon session still open)	Eric Fung (GRAIL), Sharon Pitteri (Stanford), Hua-Fen Liu (Dian Diagnistics), Chris Apfel (Sage Medic), Sean Zhang (Johns Hopkins), Kunbin Qu (Beigene), Mark Girardi (Boston Healthcare), Wen Huang (Vela Diagnostics) >>Details...	Symposium
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	1/10/2020	11:30-13:30 Pacific Time	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	All about half-life: which one should I use? (tentative title) >>Details...		Professor Les Benet (UCSF) >>Details...	Seminar luncheon
Registration:Closed; >>Registered Vendors	1/21/2020	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	Webcast from PBSS SF.	Webcast from PBSS SF.: Considerations for Successful Clinical Development: Fundamentals and Best Practices for Clinical Trial Design, Biostatistics, and Data Management >>Details...		Masoud Makhtarani, Douglas A Milikien, Hajime Arnold >>Details...	Webcast
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	1/21/2020	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Considerations for Successful Clinical Development: Fundamentals and Best Practices for Clinical Trial Design, Biostatistics, and Data Management >>Details...		Masoud Makhtarani, Douglas A Milikien, Hajime Arnold >>Details...	Workshop
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	2/11/2020	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Development of Drug/Device Combinations >>Details...		>>Details...	Symposium
General Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	2/11/2020	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	Webcast from PBSS SF.	Webcast from PBSS SF.: Development of Drug/Device Combinations >>Details...		>>Details...	Webcast
General Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	2/24/2020	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	Webcast from PBSS SF.	Webcast from PBSS SF.: MS Courses by Dr. Jack Henion: Advanced LC-MS/MS (Day1) & Interpretation of MS/MS CID Spectra (Day2) >>Details...		Jack Henion, PhD (Emeritus Professor of Cornell University) >>Details...	Webcast
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	2/24/2020	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	San Francisco Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	MS Courses by Dr. Jack Henion: Advanced LC-MS/MS (Day1) & Interpretation of MS/MS CID Spectra (Day2) >>Details...		Jack Henion, PhD (Emeritus Professor of Cornell University) >>Details...	Workshop
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	3/9/2020	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Preclinical Models for Oncology >>Details...		>>Details...	Symposium
General Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	3/9/2020	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	Webcast from PBSS SF.	Webcast from PBSS SF.: Preclinical Models for Oncology >>Details...		>>Details...	Webcast
General Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	3/16/2020	12:30-17:00 Pacific Time	Santa Clara, CA (3175 Bowers Avenue)	Clinical Trials Essentials: An Intensive One-Week Course (register for the full week or half day sessions) >>Details...		>>Details...	Workshop
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	4/10/2020	11:30-13:30 Pacific Time	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Development of Multivalent Protein Conjugates as a Strategy to Engineer Drug Pharmacology >>Details...		Wesley Jackson, PhD (CEO, Valitor Bio) & Jesse McFarland, PhD (Director Process Development, Valitor) >>Details...	Seminar luncheon
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	5/12/2020	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Regulated Large Molecule Bioanalysis: Fundamentals, the New FDA Guidance and Beyond >>Details...	(2)KCAS Bioanalytical & Biomarker Services; WuXi AppTec	>>Details...	Workshop
General Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	5/12/2020	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	Webcast from PBSS - San Francisco Bay	Webcast from PBSS SF.: Regulated Large Molecule Bioanalysis: Fundamentals, the New FDA Guidance and Beyond >>Details...		>>Details...	Webcast
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	5/22/2020	8:30-17:00 Pacific Time	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	No More Undruggables: Unconventional Approaches for Drug Discovery and Design - prodrugs, PROTACS, fragment-based design, directed evolution and beyond >>Details...		Carolyn Bertozzi (Stanford), Michelle Arkin (UCSF), Adrian Gill (Revolution Medicines), Michael Keiser (UCSF), Mark Smith (Stanford), Maureen Hillenmeyer (Hexagon Bio), Ian Seiple (UCSF), Daniel Erlanson (Frontier Medicines), Chaitan Khosla (Stanford) >>Details...	Symposium
General Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	5/22/2020	8:30-17:00 Pacific Time	Webcast from PBSS SF.	Webcast from PBSS SF.: No More Undruggables: Unconventional Approaches for Drug Discovery and Design - prodrugs, PROTACS, fragment-based design, directed evolution and beyond >>Details...		Carolyn Bertozzi (Stanford), Michelle Arkin (UCSF), Adrian Gill (Revolution Medicines), Michael Keiser (UCSF), Mark Smith (Stanford), Maureen Hillenmeyer (Hexagon Bio), Ian Seiple (UCSF), Daniel Erlanson (Frontier Medicines), Chaitan Khosla (Stanford) >>Details...	Webcast
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	6/23/2020	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	Crowne Plaza, Foster City, CA	Advances in Immuno-Oncology (A Joint Symposium by PBSS and BioScience Forum) >>Details...		>>Details...	Symposium
General Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	6/23/2020	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	Webcast from PBSS SF.	Webcast from PBSS SF.: Advances in Immuno-Oncology (A Joint Symposium by PBSS and BioScience Forum) >>Details...		>>Details...	Webcast
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Local Chapters:

We currently have the following two local chapters under the PBSS umbrella, though other local chapters may be established in the future. The upcoming events are shown in the Event Calendar table. Please click on the following links to go to the website of the chapter of your interest, where you can sign up for the free membership and mailing list, and register for the upcoming events.

The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (PBSS-San Francisco Bay Area)

The San Diego Chapter (PBSS-San Diego)

PBSS Governing Board:

Shichang Miao (ChemoCentryx, Inc.), President
Robyn Rourick (Genentech, Inc.), Secretary; San Diego Chapter Chair
Dave Toman (Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), Treasurer; San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Chair
Sam Sperry (eFFECTOR Therapeutics)
Jennifer Yang (Ardea BioSciences, Inc.)
Jim Zhang (Affymax, Inc.)

Click here, or email to info@pbss.org
Mailing address: PO Box 2342, South San Francisco, CA 94083-2342.