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; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	9/13/2019	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Biotransformation and Disposition of Larger Molecules: Peptides, Nucleotides, Proteins, mAbs, and ADCs >>Details...	(1)Almac;(Major Sponsorship - afternoon session still open)	Donglu Zhang (Genentech), Mark Cancilla (Merck), Jing Li (Alnylam Pharmaceuticals), Srikanth Kotapat (Bristol-Myers Squibb), Mei Han (Amgen), Fang Xie (Amgen), Ben Shen (Genentech), Divya Samineni (Genentech), Dian Su (Genentech) >>Details...	Workshop
General Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	9/13/2019	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	Webcast from PBSS - San Francisco Bay	Webcast from PBSS SF.: Biotransformation and Disposition of Larger Molecules:Peptides, Nucleotides, Proteins, mAbs, and ADCs >>Details...		>>Details...	Webcast
General Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	10/3/2019	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	Webcast from PBSS - San Francisco Bay	Webcast from PBSS SF.: Small-Molecule Bioanalytical Method Validation & Regulated Bioanalysis: Fundamentals, the New FDA Guidance and Regulatory Trends >>Details...		Mark Rose, CHDI; David Humphries, Covance; Kristen Harman, ChemoCentryx; David Scharberg, Pharmaceutical Outsource Solutions; Steve Lowes, Q2 Solutions; Eric Woolf, Merck; Deqing Xiao, Gilead >>Details...	Webcast
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	10/3/2019	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Small-Molecule Bioanalytical Method Validation & Regulated Bioanalysis: Fundamentals, the New FDA Guidance and Regulatory Trends >>Details...	(3)Alturas Analytics; Eurofins Bioanalytical Services; WORLDWIDE CLINICAL TRIALS	Mark Rose, CHDI; David Humphries, Covance; Kristen Harman, ChemoCentryx; David Scharberg, Pharmaceutical Outsource Solutions; Steve Lowes, Q2 Solutions; Eric Woolf, Merck; Deqing Xiao, Gilead >>Details...	Workshop
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	10/11/2019	8:45-17:30 Pacific Time	Country Inn and Suites, 5975 Lusk Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121	Preclinical Development & IND (Investigational New Drug) Filing >>Details...	(2)Catalent Pharma Solutions; Wuxi	Cuiping “Tracy” Chen (Jazz Pharmaceuticals), Ph.D.; Xingrong Liu (Biogen), Ph.D.; Ajay Madan (Crinetics Pharmaceuticals), Ph.D., DABT; Gerry Burker (Crinetics Pharmaceuticals), Ph.D. >>Details...	Workshop
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	10/15/2019	8:00-17:00 Pacific Time	Boston Area: Marriott Kendall Square, 50 Broadway, Cambridge, MA	Immunogenicity Prediction and Assessment of Biotherapeutics and its Clinical Relevance >>Details...	(1)Eurofins Bioanalytical Servics	Amy Rosenberg, (FDA), Diana Montgomery (Merck & Co., Inc.), Boris Gorovits, (Pfizer), Shoshana Oberstein (PPD), Shobha Purushothama (Biogen), Lin-Zhi Chen (Boehringer Ingelheim), Daniel Baltrukonis (Pfizer), Tim Hickling, (Pfizer) >>Details...	Workshop
General Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	10/18/2019	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	Webcast from PBSS - San Francisco Bay	Webcast from PBSS SF.: Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Modeling: Fundamentals, Regulatory Guidance & Applications >>Details...		Yuan Chen (Genentech), Michael Bolger (Simulations Plus), Alice Ke (Certara), Susie Zhang (FDA), Ying Ou (BeiGene), Venkatesh Pilla Reddy (AstraZeneca), Ping Zhao (Gates Foundation) >>Details...	Webcast
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	10/18/2019	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Modeling: Fundamentals, Regulatory Guidance & Applications >>Details...	(1)Catalent Pharma Solutions;(Major Sponsorship - afternoon session still open)	Yuan Chen (Genentech), Michael Bolger (Simulations Plus), Alice Ke (Certara), Susie Zhang (FDA), Ying Ou (BeiGene), Venkatesh Pilla Reddy (AstraZeneca), Ping Zhao (Gates Foundation) >>Details...	Workshop
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	11/12/2019	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Antibody Drug Discovery and Development: Hit Generation, Engineering, Cell-line Development, IND enabling studies, and Biosimilars >>Details...	(2)Abzena; Cytovance Biologics;(Major Sponsorship - lunch session still open)	Donald McCarthy, Mohan Srinivasan, Bo Yu, Nicola Stagg, Richard Boismenu, et al >>Details...	Workshop
General Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	11/12/2019	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	Webcast from PBSS - San Francisco Bay	Webcast from PBSS SF.: Antibody Drug Discovery and Development: Hit Generation, Engineering, Cell-line Development, IND enabling studies, and Biosimilars >>Details...		Donald McCarthy, Mohan Srinivasan, Bo Yu, et al >>Details...	Webcast
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open >>Registered Vendors	12/10/2019	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	In Vitro Diagnostics, Companion Diagnostics and Precision Medicine >>Details...		>>Details...	Symposium
General Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	1/21/2020	8:45-17:00 Pacific Time	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Best Practices for Clinical Trial Design >>Details...		>>Details...	Workshop
General Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	2/11/2020	12:30-17:00 Pacific Time	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Drug-Device Combination >>Details...		>>Details...	Workshop
General Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	2/11/2020	12:30-17:00 Pacific Time	Webcast from PBSS - San Francisco Bay	Webcast from PBSS SF.: Drug-Device Combination >>Details...		>>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	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	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...		>>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 (Carmot Therapeutics), Chaitan Khosla (Stanford) >>Details...	Symposium
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
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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.