Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society, PBSS

Event Calendar:

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Date & time: 2019-12-10; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Symposium: "In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) & Companion Diagnostics (CDx): Guiding Clinical Trials and Patient Treatment through Precision Medicine"
Status: Registration:Closed;
Speakers: 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)
Major Sponsors: (1)Crown Bio;(Major Sponsorship - afternoon session still open)
Place: SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza

Date & time: 2020-01-10; 11:30-13:30 Pacific Time
Seminar luncheon: "All about half-life: which one should I use? (tentative title)"
Status: General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open
Speakers: Professor Les Benet (UCSF)
Major Sponsors:
Place: SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza

Date & time: 2020-01-21; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Workshop: "Considerations for Successful Clinical Development: Fundamentals and Best Practices for Clinical Trial Design, Biostatistics, and Data Management"
Status: General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open
Speakers: Masoud Makhtarani, Douglas A Milikien, Hajime Arnold
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Place: SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza

Date & time: 2020-02-11; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Symposium: "Development of Drug/Device Combinations"
Status: General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open
Speakers:
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Place: SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza

Date & time: 2020-02-24 ~ 2020-02-25 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Workshop: "MS Courses by Dr. Jack Henion: Advanced LC-MS/MS (Day1) & Interpretation of MS/MS CID Spectra (Day2)"
Status: General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open
Speakers: Jack Henion, PhD (Emeritus Professor of Cornell University)
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Place: San Francisco Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza

Date & time: 2020-03-09; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Symposium: "Preclinical Models for Oncology"
Status: General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open
Speakers:
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Place: SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza

Date & time: 2020-03-16 ~ 2020-03-20 12:30-17:00 Pacific Time
Workshop: "Clinical Trials Essentials: An Intensive One-Week Course (register for the full week or half day sessions)"
Status: General Registration:Open;
Speakers:
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Place: Santa Clara, CA (3175 Bowers Avenue)

Date & time: 2020-04-10; 11:30-13:30 Pacific Time
Seminar luncheon: "Development of Multivalent Protein Conjugates as a Strategy to Engineer Drug Pharmacology"
Status: General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open
Speakers: Wesley Jackson, PhD (CEO, Valitor Bio) & Jesse McFarland, PhD (Director Process Development, Valitor)
Major Sponsors:
Place: SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza

Date & time: 2020-05-12; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Workshop: "Regulated Large Molecule Bioanalysis: Fundamentals, the New FDA Guidance and Beyond"
Status: General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open
Speakers:
Major Sponsors: (2)KCAS Bioanalytical & Biomarker Services; WuXi AppTec
Place: SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza

Date & time: 2020-05-22; 8:30-17:00 Pacific Time
Symposium: "No More Undruggables: Unconventional Approaches for Drug Discovery and Design - prodrugs, PROTACS, fragment-based design, directed evolution and beyond"
Status: General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open
Speakers: 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)
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Place: SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza

Date & time: 2020-06-23; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Symposium: "Advances in Immuno-Oncology (A Joint Symposium by PBSS and BioScience Forum)"
Status: General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open
Speakers:
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Place: Crowne Plaza, Foster City, CA

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About Us:

Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society - San Francisco Bay (formerly CACO-PBSS) is a 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 PBSS - San Francisco Bay 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:

Chair: Dave Toman, PhD
Scientific Programs Co-Chairs: Shichang Miao, PhD (ChemoCentryx); Cuiping (Tracy) Chen, PhD (Jazz Pharmaceuticals)
Treasurers: Heather Zhang, PhD (Gilead Sciences); Ron Aoyama, PhD (Gilead Sciences)
Corporate liaison & Special Task Director: Thomas Tarnowski, PhDÂ (Gilead Sciences)
Job Links coordinator & Special Task Director: Ge (Snow) Xue, PhD (Nektar Therapeutics)
Special Task Directors:i Raju Gadiraju, PhD, Yalia Jayalakshmi, PhD (C2CBio Consulting), Surinder Kaur, PhD (Genentech), Kathleen Meyer, PhD (Sangamo BioSciences), Thomas Pillow, PhD (Genentech), Peter Staehr, M.D.(Abbott Vascular), Gregory Wagner, PhD, DABT.(G.S. Wagner Consulting), Minli Xie, PhD, Wenfeng Xu, PhD (Genentech), Jim Zhang, PhD (Pfizer); Donald McCarthy, PhD (Panorama Research, Inc); Betty Chang, PhD (Angarus Therapeutics)
Special Advisors: Kevin Grimes, MD (Stanford Medical School), Cyrus Khojasteh, PhD (Genentech)

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Mailing address: PO Box 2342, South San Francisco, CA 94083-2342