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.
To register for an event, click here.
To suggest seminar or workshop topics / speakers, or to volunteer to lead/co-organize a workshop, click here.

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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: 2020-03-09; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "Webcast from PBSS SF.: Preclinical Models to Guide Therapeutic Development in Oncology"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Maryland Franklin (Covance-Preclinical Oncology), Karen Rex (Amgen), Michael Alonso (Bolt Biotherapeutics), Saul Kivimae (Nektar), Saul Priceman (City of Hope), John Langowski (Kite Pharma), Yorick Post (Hubrecht Institute - Hans Clevers Group; currently Surrozen), Philippe Depeille (UCSF), Mark Merchant (Genentech), Dean Campbell (CrownBio)
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2020-04-13; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "Webcast from PBSS SF.: Preclinical and Clinical Development of Cell-based Immunotherapies: Translational PKPD, Safety, Biomarker, CMC, Clinical Pharmacology & Clinical Trials"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers:
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2020-05-12; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "Webcast from PBSS SF.: Regulated Large Molecule Bioanalysis: Fundamentals, the New FDA Guidance and Beyond"
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Speakers:
Place: Webcast from PBSS - San Francisco Bay

Date & time: 2020-05-22; 8:30-17:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "Webcast from PBSS SF.: No More Undruggables: Unconventional Approaches for Drug Discovery and Design - prodrugs, PROTACS, fragment-based design, directed evolution and beyond"
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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)
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2020-06-23; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "Webcast from PBSS SF.: Advances in Immuno-Oncology (A Joint Symposium by PBSS and BioScience Forum)"
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Speakers:
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

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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