CACO Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society, CACO-PBS

Event Calendar:

All of our scheduled events are listed below. Click on the links in the Status column to register.

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Status	Date	Time	Place	EventName	Major Sponsor	Speakers	EventType
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	6/24/2013	12:45- 17:30	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Pro-drugs: Principles, Design, PK, and Regulatory Issues		Valentino Stella (Univ Kansas), Will Watkins (Gilead), Adrian Ray (Gilead), Bernard Murray (Gilead)	Workshop
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	7/12/2013	12:45- 17:30	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Minisymposium: DMPK/ADME Problem-Solving Case Studies	(1)BASi	Kevin Beaumont (Pfizer) & other presenters	Minisymposium
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	7/19/2013	11:00- 13:30	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Beyond PEGlation: the Next Generation of Polymer Conjugation Technologies to Enhance PK/Safety/Efficacy Properties of Small Molecule and Biologic Drugs		Stephen Doberstein, Ph.D. (CSO, Nektar)	Seminar luncheon
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	8/23/2013	12:45- 17:30	SF Bay Area	Clinical Formulation Development and Registration for Small-Molecule NCEs:		David Baker, (WriteResource), Zedong Dong (FDA CDER), Sanjeev Kothari (Genentech), Minli Xie (Genentech)	Workshop
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	9/6/2013	12:45- 17:30	SF Bay Area	Antibody Drug Conjugates: Chemistry, Bioanalysis, Clinical Pharmacology and Regulatory Issues	(1)Alturas Analytics	Steve Alley (Seattle Genetics), Leo Kirkovsky (Pfizer), Robin Marsden (Ambrx), Sandhya Girish (Genentech)	Workshop
General Registration:Open-Soon. Vendor Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	9/20/2013	11:00- 13:30	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Up Close and Personal with Cancer: The Success Story of Plexxikon's Zelboraf® (vemurafenib) for Melanoma Treatment and beyond		Peter Hirth, PhD. (CEO, Plexxikon)	Seminar luncheon
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	10/4/2013	8:45- 13:00	SF Bay Area: Santa Clara Convention Center (jointly with ACS Western Regional Meeting)	Polymorph and salt selection: Advanced approaches for screening, preparation and characterization of small molecule drugs	(1)Almac	X. Li (University of the Pacific), Peter Kitrinos (Gilead), Joe Lubach (Genentech), Jeff Stults (Genentech), Fang Wang (Gilead)	Workshop
General Registration:Open-Soon. Vendor Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	12/6/2013	11:00- 13:30	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Pharmacoeconomics: the Evolving Pharmaceutical Environment from the Managed Care Perspective		Elva Gao, PhD, MBA (Premara Blue Cross)	Seminar luncheon
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About Us:

CACO Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society (CACO-PBSS) San Francisco Bay Area 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 CACO-PBSS San Diego Area, Boston-PBSS, and Vancouver-PBSS. Combined, PBSS covers the largest life science clusters in North America.

Mission Statement:

The mission of CACO-PBSS San Francisco Bay Area 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, minisymposia, vendor shows, as well as career opportunity announcements.

Organizing Committee:

Chair: Dave Toman, Ph.D. (Elan Pharmaceuticals)
Scientific Programs Co-Chairs: Shichang Miao, Ph.D. (ChemoCentryx); Cuiping (Tracy) Chen, Ph.D. (Depomed)
Treasurers: Heather Zhang, Ph.D. (Gilead Sciences); Ron Aoyama, Ph.D. (Rigel Pharmaceuticals)
Corporate liaison & Special Task Director: Thomas Tarnowski, Ph.D.
Job Links coordinator & Special Task Director: Ge (Snow) Xue, Ph.D. (Nektar Therapeutics)
Special Task Directors:Surinder Kaur, PhD (Genentech), Jim Zhang, PhD (Infinity Pharmaceuticals), Peter Staehr, M.D. (Abbott Vascular), Kathleen Meyer, PhD (BioMarin Pharmaceutical), Minli Xie, PhD (Genentech)

Click here, or email to info@PBSS.org
Mailing address: 844 Dubuque Avenue #2342, South San Francisco, CA 94083