Vancouver Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society, Vancouver-PBSS

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 Vancouver-PBSS members, we'll be webcasting the following workshops hosted by our sister organization PBSS-San Francisco Bay.

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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Past Event:

Vancouver PBSS Past Events

About Us:

Vancouver Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society (Vancouver-PBSS) is a Vancouver-based 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 Vancouver-PBSS 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.

Executive Committee:

Harvey Wong, PhD, Co-Chair (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia)
Beth Allison, PhD, Co-Chair (viDA Therapeutics)
Renee Mosi, PhD (Alectos Therapeutics)
Walter Korz, MBA (WEX Pharmaceuticals)
Donald Wong, PhD (WEX Pharmaceuticals)
Alistair Stewart, PhD, AJS Consulting
Steve Arns, PhD, AdMare Bioinnovations
Evelina Rubinchik, PhD, Non-clinical Consulting
Senior Advisor: Clara Faan (BRI Biopharmaceutical Research)

405 – 8623 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC, V6P 5A2, Canada.
General: click here, or email to info.vancouver@PBSS.org