Vancouver Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society, Vancouver-PBSS

Event Calendar:

All of our scheduled events are listed below.

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Live Webcast of San Francisco Bay Area Workshops:

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: 2020-08-18; 9:00-11:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "Webcast from PBSS SF.: [Free Online Symposium] Diagnostic Tools and Therapeutics for COVID-19: Overview and Forward Analysis"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Kevin Grime, MD (Professor, Stanford University), John Sninsky, PhD (Consultant in Translational Science and Medicine), Stephen Rabinowitz, D.Phil (Partner, Dechert LLP) and TBA
Place: Webcast from PBSS-San Francisco Bay

Date & time: 2020-09-17-9/18/2020 8:45-11:50 Pacific Time
Webcast: "Free Online Workshop: Regulated Large Molecule Bioanalysis: Fundamentals, the New FDA Guidance and Beyond"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Surinder Kaur, Cynthia Woods, Teresa Davancaza, Rachel Basile, Keyang Xu, Rebecca Elliott, Ihsan Nijem, Weili Yan (Genentech); Yanmei Lu, Daniel Richards (Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc); Christina M. Satterwhite (Charles River); Edward Tabler (PPD Laboratories)
Place: Webcast from PBSS - San Francisco Bay

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"
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Speakers: Kristen Hege (BMS); Sascha Rutz, Amrita Kamath, Karen Walker, Chunze Li (Genentech); Neehar Bhatia (Stanford University); Justine Cunningham (Sana Biotechnology); Vicki Plaks (Kite, A Gilead Company); (Genentech); Xiaofei Wang (FDA CBER); Weirong Wang (J&J); Yu-Waye (Wayne) Chu (Fate Therapeutics); Karen Thudium Mueller (Novartis)
Place: Online via Zoom

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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