Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society, PBSS

PBSS-San Diego 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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Webcast from Other Chapters:

As a benefit to PBSS-San Diego members, we'll be webcasting the following San Francisco Bay Area workshops to those who register, at the same fee level as the in-classroom workshops.

Date & time: 2025-02-06; 8:45-17:30 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Webcast from PBSS-SFBay] Intellectual Property (IP) Strategies and Best Practices"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Maya Skubatch (Wilson Sonsini), Julia Minitti (Wilson Sonsini), Robert Hess (Life Science Angels), Janet Xiao (Morrison & Foerster), David Pirko (Wilson Sonsini), Wendy Devine (Wilson Sonsini), Adam Cole (Wilson Sonsini), Jennifer Holmes (Encoded Therapeutics)
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2025-02-13; 8:30-12:15 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Free Webcast from PBSS SF] The Science and Stories of Promising Biotech Startups"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Catherine Sabatos-Peyton, Larkspur Bioscience; Cyriac Roeding, Earli; Yonglei Shang, Amberstone Biosciences; Brad Niles, ARIZ Precision Medicine
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2025-02-26; 8:45-17:30 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Webcast from PBSS SF] Demystifying Biopharma Business Development: Understanding the Process and Thriving as a BD Professional"
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Speakers: Lesley Stolz (J&J), Jimmy Zhang (previously Merck, J&J, Lilly), Jennifer Leeds (Retired from Novartis), Sarah Bodary (Darwin Bodary Consulting)
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2025-03-07; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Webcast from PBSS SFBay] Clinical Trial Planning and Conduct: Fundamentals, Strategies and Best Practices"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Peter Staehr, MD (Respira Therapeutics); Sara Glickstein Bar-Zeev, PhD (Genentech); Chen Chen, PhD (Genentech); Shichang Miao, PhD (ex-Chemocentryx/Amgen); Daniel Repplinger, MD (Genentech); Amanda Chanda, MA (ReCode Therapeutics); Amar Patel, MD (Scorpion Therapeutics); Lena Nasser (Genentech)
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2025-03-11-03/12/2025 11:30-16:10 Eastern Time
Webcast: "[Free Webcast from PBSS Boston] Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Drive Therapeutic Drug Discovery & Development"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Nicola Richmond, Recursion; Theresa O’Keefe, PraNa Biosciences; Parthiban Srinivasan, Vinayaka Mission Research Foundation; Julia Minitti, WSGR; Tom Miller, Lambic Therapeutics; Keith Mikule, Insilico Medicine; Rachael Brake, former Zephyr AI
Place: Webcast from PBSS Boston.

Date & time: 2025-03-27; 8:30-12:30 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Free Webcast from PBSS SF] Biotech Financing 101: from Angels, Government Agencies, Foundations and VCs"
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Speakers: Winnie Wan, PhD; Keith Wycoff PhD (Planet Biotech); Jian Lou , PhD (NIH/NCI); Donald McCarthy, PhD (Dawn Biopharma); Stephanie Oestreich, PhD (Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation)
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2025-04-09; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Webcast from PBSS SF] Cell Therapy Discovery and Development: Fundamentals, Strategies and Best Practices (jointly by PBSS and RAPS-SF)"
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Speakers: Katy Spink, Dark Horse Consulting Group; Shon Green, PhD, Adicet Bio; Toufan Parman, PhD, Sangamo Therapeutics; So-Ching Brazer, PhD, Adicet Bio
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2025-04-22; 8:30-13:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Free Online Webcast from PBSS SF] Career Transitions for Research Scientists: BD/Sales in CROs, CDMOs, and Lab Products & Instruments"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Andrew Setikas (KBI Biopharma); Li-Ming Liang (Symeres); David Lustig (Evotec); Mark Warren (BioIVT)
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2025-04-25; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Webcast from PBSS SF] Drug Metabolism Fundamentals and Metabolite Identification"
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Speakers: Cyrus Khojasteh, PhD (Genentech), Bill Fitch, PhD (independent consultant), Shichang Miao, PhD (ex-Chemocentryx/Amgen), Raju Subramanian (Gilead); Shuguang Ma (Pliant Therapeutics); Bin Ma (Genentech); Lionel Cheruzel (Genentech)
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2025-05-05; 11:30-13:30 Pacific Time
Webcast: "Webcast from PBSS SF.: [Free Online] Highlights of 2024 FDA Drug Approvals"
Status: Check status and register.
Speakers: Xingyu Jiang, PhD (Genentech) & Lionel Cheruzel, PhD (Genentech)
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2025-05-12; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Webcast from PBSS SF] Preclinical Pharmacology Studies and Translational Medicine for Drug Discovery and Development"
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Speakers: Beth Pysz, AbbVie; Saswata Talukdar, Merck; Dan Xia, Denali; Gundula Min-Oo ,Gilead
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

Date & time: 2025-06-02; 8:45-17:00 Pacific Time
Webcast: "[Webcast from PBSS SF] Metabolism and Transport-mediated Drug-Drug Interaction: Current Practices, Regulatory Guidances, and Their Impact on Drug Development"
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Speakers: Mary Paine, Washington State University; Xining Yan, FDA; XIaoyan Chu, Merck; Cuiping (Tracy) Chen, Jazz Pharmaceuticals
Place: Webcast from PBSS SF.

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About Us:

Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society - San Diego (formerly CACO-PBSS) is a non-profit 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 also includes PBSS-San Francisco Bay, Boston-PBSS, and Vancouver-PBSS. Combined, PBSS covers the largest life science clusters in North America.

Mission Statement:

The mission of PBSS - San Diego 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:

Co-Chairs:

Robyn Rourick (Genentech)
Lilia Koriazova, PhD (Erasca)

Treasurer:

Jennifer Yang, PhD (Erasca)

Committee Members:

Carolina Caffaro, PhD (Janux Therapeutics)
Ariane Jansma, PhD (Point Loma Nazarene University)
Lina Ma, PhD (Janux Therapeutics)
Mangala Hariharan, PhD (Mirati Therapeutics)
Jaimie Rueter, PhD (Sequoia Consulting Group)
Barbara Saechao (Mirati Therapeutics)

Click here, or email to info.sandiego@PBSS.org
Mailing address: P.O.Box 22339, San Diego, CA 92192-2339