Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society, PBSS

PBSS-San Diego Event Calendar:

All of our scheduled events are listed below.

For further event details, click on the event title and speakers’ names.

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Webcast from Other Chapters:

As a benefit to PBSS-San Diego members, we'll be webcasting the following San Francisco Bay Area workshops to those who register, at the same fee level as the in-classroom workshops.

Date & time: 2020-10-09; 12:30-17:00 Eastern Time
Webcast: "Webcast from PBSS Boston.: [Free Online Workshop] Recent Advancements in Bioanalysis for Emerging Therapeutic Modalities: Current practices, Challenges, Novel Solutions"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Sarah Bond (Alnylam), Melissa Pink (Intellia Therapeutics), Suryanarayan Somanathan (Pfizer), Guodong Zhang (Alnylam), Dong Wei (Takeda), Susovan Mohapatra (Wave Life Sciences), Jim McNally (BioAgilytix)
Place: Webcast from Boston-PBSS

Date & time: 2020-10-19-10/20/2020 8:00-13:30 Pacific Time
Webcast: "Free Online Symposium: Preclinical and Clinical Development of Cell-based Immunotherapies: Translational PKPD, Safety, Biomarker, CMC, Clinical Pharmacology & Clinical Trials"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: 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)
Place: Online via Zoom

Date & time: 2020-10-29-10/30/2020 88:88-88:88 Pacific Time
Webcast: "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"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: 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)
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2020-11-13; 11:00-13:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "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"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Andy Polson, PhD; Dale Miles, PhD; Donglu Zhang, PhD (all of Genentech)
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2020-12-10; 12:00-13:30 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Free Online Seminar] Engineering NK cells for Immunotherapy"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: JoAnne Tan, PhD (NKarta)
Place: Webcast from PBSS-San Francisco Bay

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About Us:

Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society - San Diego (formerly CACO-PBSS) is a non-profit 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 also includes PBSS-San Francisco Bay, Boston-PBSS, and Vancouver-PBSS. Combined, PBSS covers the largest life science clusters in North America.

Mission Statement:

The mission of PBSS - San Diego 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.

Organizing Committee:

Robyn Rourick, (Genentech, Inc.), Chair
Sam Sperry, PhD (eFFECTOR Therapeutics)
Jennifer Yang, PhD (UltragenyxÂ Pharmaceuticals)
Voon Ong, PhD (Trius Therapeutics)
Tarun Gheyi, PhD (Eli Lilly)

Click here, or email to info.sandiego@PBSS.org
Mailing address: P.O.Box 22339, San Diego, CA 92192-2339