Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society, PBSS

Event Calendar:

For further meeting details, click the name of the event.

Date & time: 2020-12-08; 8:45-13:00 Pacific Time
Symposium: "[Free Online Symposium - Day 1] Preclinical Models to Guide Therapeutic Development in Oncology"
Status: General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open
Speakers: Mark Merchant, Genentech (Director, Senior Scientist; Translational Oncology); Maryland Franklin, Covance Preclinical (Executive Director, Scientific Development); Karen Rex, Amgen (Scientist); Willem Overwijk, Nektar Therapeutics (Vice President, Oncology Research); Shelley Ackerman, Bolt Biotherapeutics (Senior Scientist)
Major Sponsors:
Place: Online via Zoom

Date & time: 2020-12-15; 8:45-13:00 Pacific Time
Symposium: "[Free Online Symposium - Day 2] Preclinical Models to Guide Therapeutic Development in Oncology"
Status: General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open
Speakers: Mark Merchant, Genentech (Director, Senior Scientist; Translational Oncology); Saul Priceman, City of Hope (Assistant Professor, Hematology & Hematopoetic Transplantation); John Langowski, Kite Pharma (Executive Director, Research Site Head); Yorick Post, Surrozen (Scientist); formerly Hubredht Institute; Philippe Depeille, UCSF (The Mark Foundation Momentum Fellow); Dean Campbell, PhD, Crown Bioscience (Director, Scientific Engagement)
Major Sponsors:
Place: Online via Zoom

Date & time: 2021-07-29; 8:30-17:00 Pacific Time
Symposium: "Development of Inhalation Therapeutics (a joint symposium by AAPS-BADG / PBSS / Genentech)"
Status: General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open
Speakers: 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)
Major Sponsors:
Place: Genentech Campus, South San Francisco

More Detailed Info...

Webcast from Other Chapters:

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

More Detailed Info...

Past Event:

SF PBSS Past Events

More Detailed Info...

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)

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