CABA Annual Conference' 2008

“Trends and Drivers for Growth in the Biotech/Pharmaceutical Industry”
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Symposium, 12:00 pm -6:00 pm
Dinner reception, 7:00 pm—10:00 pm
MIT faculty club, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139

12:00 – 1:00 PM Registration and Vendor Exhibition

1:00 – 4:30 PM Symposium
Joseph Lehar, Ph.D., Sr. Director, Computational Biology, CombinatoRx, Inc.; Adjunt Assistant Prof., Bioinformatics, Boston University.
“Systems Biomedicine and the Multi-Node Drug Target”
Tomi Sawyer, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice-President, Drug Discovery and Innovative Technologies, AILERON Therapeutics,
“A Vision of Drug Discovery and Innovative Technologies: The Race for Chemical and Biological Space”
Richard Connell, Ph.D. Executive Director & Head of Chemistry Strategic Sourcing, Pfizer, Inc.
“Pfizer's Asia Sourcing Strategy:Context to Our Virtual Research Network”
Allison Robbins, Principal Business Analyst, Genzyme Corporation
“Corporate Venture Capital in the Life Sciences: Investing for Strategic Return”
Howard Yuwen, Ph.D., Sr. Director Regulatory Affairs, Shire Human Genetic Therapies
“An Introduction to Regulatory Affairs Profession and An Update on FDAAA”

4:30 – 5:00 PM Break, Vendor Exhibition

5:00 – 6:00 PM Panel Discussion
“Trends and Drivers for Next Wave of Growth in the Biotech/Pharma Industry and Opportunities for Chinese Companies and Scientists”
Panelists:

Steve Tam, Ph.D., Director, Wyeth Research
Yibing Xiang, Ph.D., Sr. Director, Genzyme Corporation
Vincent Ling, Ph.D., VP, Dragonfly Sciences
Wei Zhang, Ph.D., VP, Millipore Corporation
Phil Zhang, Ph.D., J.D., Esq. Cooley Godward Kronish LLP
Boke Zhang, Ph.D., VP of Product Development, Anteris, Inc.
Will W. Song, Ph.D., CEO, High Throughput Biology, Inc.
Jun Han, Ph.D. Global R&D Project Manager, Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc.


6:00 – 7:00 PM Social Hours and Vendor Exhibition

7:00– 10:00 PM Dinner Reception

Keynote Speech
Janusz M. Sowadski, Ph.D. Founder and CEO, Advanced Kinase Diagnostics,
“Innovating in Kinases”


Conference Organizing Committee

Chair:
Zhao-Kui Wan, Ph.D., Wyeth Research, 617-665-5635, zwan@wyeth.com
Co-chairs:
Liping Zhou, Ph.D., Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research, 617-871-7143, Lipingx.Zhou@novartis.com;
Zhiyong Yang, Ph.D., Wyeth Research, 617-665-5448, zyyang@wyeth.com.

For conference updates, see: www.cabaweb.org
Online registration for the meeting and CABA membership is available

Admission: $20 (free for CABA members, $10 for students)
Dinner tickets($20) are available for purchase separately.
For registration and payment, click here.

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