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
General Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	10/9/2020	12:30-17:00 Pacific Time	Webcast from Boston-PBSS	Webcast from PBSS Boston.: [Free Online Workshop] Recent Advancements in Bioanalysis for Emerging Therapeutic Modalities: Current practices, Challenges, Novel Solutions >>Details...		Sarah Bond (Alnylam), Melissa Pink (Intellia Therapeutics), Suryanarayan Somanathan (Pfizer), Guodong Zhang (Alnylam), Dong Wei (Takeda), Susovan Mohapatra (Wave Life Sciences), Jim McNally (BioAgilytix) >>Details...	Webcast
General Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	10/9/2020	12:30-17:00 Pacific Time	Online via Zoom	[Free Online Workshop] Recent Advancements in Bioanalysis for Emerging Therapeutic Modalities: Current practices, Challenges, Novel Solutions >>Details...		Sarah Bond (Alnylam), Melissa Pink (Intellia Therapeutics), Suryanarayan Somanathan (Pfizer), Guodong Zhang (Alnylam), Dong Wei (Takeda), Susovan Mohapatra (Wave Life Sciences), Jim McNally (BioAgilytix) >>Details...	Workshop
General Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	10/19/2020	8:00-13:30 Pacific Time	Online via Zoom	Free Online Symposium: Preclinical and Clinical Development of Cell-based Immunotherapies: Translational PKPD, Safety, Biomarker, CMC, Clinical Pharmacology & Clinical Trials >>Details...		Kristen Hege (BMS); Sascha Rutz, Karen Walker (Genentech); Neehar Bhatia (Stanford University); Justine Cunningham (Sana Biotechnology); Vicki Plaks (Kite, A Gilead Company); Xiaofei Wang (FDA CBER); Weirong Wang (J&J); Yu-Waye (Wayne) Chu (Fate Therapeutics) >>Details...	Webcast
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	10/19/2020	8:00-13:30 Pacific Time	Online via Zoom	[Free Online Symposium] Preclinical and Clinical Development of Cell-based Immunotherapies: Translational PKPD, Safety, Biomarker, CMC, Clinical Pharmacology & Clinical Trials >>Details...	(1)BioAgilytix Labs;(Major Sponsorship - Day 1 still open)	Kristen Hege (BMS); Sascha Rutz, Karen Walker (Genentech); Neehar Bhatia (Stanford University); Justine Cunningham (Sana Biotechnology); Vicki Plaks (Kite, A Gilead Company); Xiaofei Wang (FDA CBER); Weirong Wang (J&J); Yu-Waye (Wayne) Chu (Fate Therapeutics) >>Details...	Symposium
General Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	10/29/2020	See About the Topic section	Webcast from PBSS SF.	Webcast from PBSS SF.: [Free Online Symposium] No More Undruggables: Unconventional Approaches for Drug Discovery and Design - prodrugs, PROTACS, fragment-based design, directed evolution and beyond >>Details...		Carolyn Bertozzi (Stanford University); Michelle Arkin (UCSF); Adrian Gill (Revolution Medicines); Michael Keiser (UCSF); Mark Smith (Stanford University); Maureen Hillenmeyer (Hexagon Bio); Ian Seiple (UCSF); Daniel Erlanson (Carmot Therapeutics); Chaitan Khosla (Stanford University) >>Details...	Webcast
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	10/29/2020	See About the Topic section	Online via Zoom	[Free Online Symposium] No More Undruggables: Unconventional Approaches for Drug Discovery and Design - prodrugs, PROTACS, fragment-based design, directed evolution and beyond >>Details...		Carolyn Bertozzi (Stanford University); Michelle Arkin (UCSF); Adrian Gill (Revolution Medicines); Michael Keiser (UCSF); Mark Smith (Stanford University); Maureen Hillenmeyer (Hexagon Bio); Ian Seiple (UCSF); Daniel Erlanson (Carmot Therapeutics); Chaitan Khosla (Stanford University) >>Details...	Symposium
General Registration:Open-Soon. >>Registered Vendors	11/13/2020	11:00-13:00 Pacific Time	Webcast from PBSS SF.	Webcast from PBSS SF.: [Free Online Symposium] The Drug Discovery and Development Journey of Polivy™ (Polatuzumab Vedotin): An Antibody-Drug Conjugate for the Treatment of Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma >>Details...		Andy Polson, PhD; Dale Miles, PhD; Donglu Zhang, PhD (all of Genentech) >>Details...	Webcast
General Registration:Open-Soon. Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	11/13/2020	11:00-13:00 Pacific Time	Online via Zoom	[Free Online Symposium] The Drug Discovery and Development Journey of Polivy™ (Polatuzumab Vedotin): An Antibody-Drug Conjugate for the Treatment of Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma >>Details...		Andy Polson, PhD; Dale Miles, PhD; Donglu Zhang, PhD (all of Genentech) >>Details...	Symposium
General Registration:Open-Soon. Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	12/10/2020	12:00-13:30 Pacific Time	Webcast from PBSS-San Francisco Bay	[Free Online Seminar] Engineering NK cells for Immunotherapy >>Details...		JoAnne Tan, PhD (NKarta) >>Details...	Webcast
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	7/29/2021	8:30-17:00 Pacific Time	Genentech Campus, South San Francisco	Development of Inhalation Therapeutics (a joint symposium by AAPS-BADGE / PBSS / Genentech) >>Details...		Chris Brightling (University of Leicester); Guenther Hochhaus (University of Florida); Ram Mahato (University of Nebraska-Lincoln); Bill Williams (University of Texas at Austin); Winlei Jiang (CDER, FDA) >>Details...	Symposium
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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.