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SABPA Newsletter (Oct/Nov)
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2009-11-18 |
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Newsletter |
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SABPA |
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San Diego |
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SABPA |
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Table of Content
1. Report for the 5th Annual SABPA Pacific Forum on Life Science Alliances (Nov. 7, 2009)
2. The 5th SABPA Entrepreneur Symposium (Dec. 12, 2009)
3. SABPA Leadership Team Transition and Volunteers Wanted
4. SABPA New Website and Webmaster Volunteer Needed.
5. Suzhou Industrial Park Delegation Visited San Diego and Gave a Seminar
6. SABPA and Three Organizations Form a San Diego Delegation to Attend the 12th Guangzhou Overseas Chinese Scholars in Science and Technology
7. Community Event Announcement
1. Report for the 5th SABPA Pacific Forum on Life Science Alliances (Nov. 7, 2009)
The 5th Sino-American Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Professionals Association (SABPA) Annual Pacific Forum on Life Science Alliance-Riding the Wave, was co-chaired by Zhu Shen and Shuguang Zhu. The event attracted about 300 attendees in life science and business fields from southern California, New York City, China and Australia.
Like our previous annual Forums, this event invited an array of prominent speakers and panelists: BIOCOM’s CEO, Joseph Panetta, described BIOCOM’s Asia-Pacific Initiatives; Ted Plafker, bestselling author and Beijing Correspondent for The Economist, gave our morning keynote lecture and shared his view on how to profit in China-the world's fastest growing market; panel speakers from Australia, China, and Taiwan discussed pharmaceutical and biotech development around the Pacific Rim. Leaders from Suzhou Industry Park Minglong Ma and Yuwen Liu showcased the impressive growth Suzhou and its biotech cluster-BioBay experienced in recent years.
In the afternoon sessions, Forward Ventures’ Founding Managing Partner, Ivor Royston, gave our afternoon keynote lecture, which was an insightful speech on the trends and strategies of venture capital funding in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry. Peng Chen of Morrison Foerster shared his expert knowledge about the sweeping changes in IP laws and how they impact life science companies across the Pacific. Our final discussion panel consisted of outstanding professionals in both legal and biotechnology industries that discussed and shared insights on doing business in the currently shifting regulatory, investment, and economic environment.
This successful event was the culmination of excellent teamwork. Thanks to the organization committee, fundraising and all the support teams, as well as numerous SABPA volunteers who worked extremely diligently throughout the preparation to make this happen. Some event photos captured some memorable moments. A complete report and some speaker slides can be found here,
http://www.sabpa.org/web/news_details.php?ID=200.
2. The 5th SABPA Entrepreneur Symposium (Dec. 12, 2009)
When: 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009
Where: The Institute of Americas, UCSD
Lecture title: Overview of in vitro diagnostic product development
Speaker: Dr. Larry Mimms, Vice President, R&D at Quidel Corporation and the founder of VDx LLC
Sponsor: HOB Biotech Group
Registration: Free online before Dec.10th: http://www.sabpa.org/web/news_details.php?ID=217
$10 on site.
Pizzas and bottle water will be provided.
3. SABPA Leadership Team Transition and Volunteers Wanted
SABPA organizes many well-received events all year round. The success of each event is backed by a dedicated volunteer team. 13 committees/teams are responsible for various activities. Around 80 people including board members are in leadership team. Due to the dynamics of jobs, families and other obligations, the team members change from time to time and new blood fills in. Some of our team leaders stepped down in order to provide opportunities to new members. Here we have a few transitions to announce.
• Eric Hu, Chair of Communication Committee, has accepted a new job in Bay area and will move there. Chunze Li will take his proton and be in charge of this committee. Yinghong Gao will be Co-Chair. Bhawanjit Brar will be newsletter editor.
• Helena Fan stepped down from Career Development Committee. Rita Lim took the Chair position.
• Jiangli Yan will serve on Treasurer Team to provide additional help.
• Julie Yuan will serve as Co-Chair for Fundraising Committee.
• Yi Liu will serve as Co-Chair for Science and Technology Committee.
• Jingjing Ye passed Chair of Membership Committee position to Yiwen Tao. Jingjing and Kevin serve as Co-Chairs.
• Li-Ming Liang took Chair position for External Relationship Committee. Charles Huang serves as Co-Chair. Qiang Xu, Allan Pan, Kun Wang, and Chih-Cheng Yang joined the team.
• Zhu Shen stepped down from Chair of Pacific Alliance Committee and passed the proton to Shuguang Zhu. Zhu Shen and Zheng Liu serve as Co-Chairs for this committee. Stephanie Shi joined this team.
• James Zhao has passed webmaster team leader position to Wen Luo.
Both Zhu Shen and James Zhao have served on these positions for 5 years.
We appreciate these leaders’ great contribution to SABPA. For those who leave San Diego, we wish them good luck. For these who stay in town, they are still our team members and continue to serve for our organization.
We welcome more volunteers to join our team. SABPA provides a great platform for you to develop your leadership capabilities and many of your hidden talents. Please take look of our team description under Career Info at http://www.sabpa.org/web/career.php, fill the volunteer application form, and submit. You will be contacted shortly.
4. SABPA New Website and Webmaster Volunteer Needed.
SABPA’s website is a window into the inner workings of the association. This website was established alongside SABPA in 2002. Since 2006, our website has more than 20000 visits. The goal of our website is to provide a broadcasting platform for each SABPA committee to broadcast news, association events and community information and provide service for SABPA members. As you may noticed, SABPA had its website face lifted since middle of October. Thanks to web design company, Avscientific.com, and joined efforts of SABPA communication and webmaster teams, the new website has a new head banner, slide show and re-arranged side panels on home page, and many modifications on other pages. The new functions, such as site-search function, member registration and group email delivery etc, are not only more user-friendly but also make it easier to maintain.
Currently, we are looking for volunteers who like to dedicate his/her time and talents to help maintaining SABPA website. The webmaster job request to communicate with broad members and other volunteers to keep the website updated in time, to create and/or modify new web pages when needed. It needs dedication and attention to details. Prior knowledge or experience with HTML or PHP is required. Experience of database and simple photo edition are desirable but not required. If you would like to volunteer to donate your time to become part of our webmaster team, please contact webmaster@sabpa.org.
5. Suzhou Industrial Park Delegation Visited San Diego and Gave a Seminar
Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) delegation led by Secretary Ma Minglong visited San Diego from November 5 to 8. The delegation and local companies Abgent and AEM organized a seminar introducing the development of SIP and their talent and business seeking policies at Holliday Inn North San Diego Mirama on November 6. Approximately 40 local professionals and entrepreneurs attended the seminar and dinner discussion. The CEO from AEM shared his personal story on why he made a decision to develop his business in SIP. To see photo report and more information about SIP, please go to http://www.sabpa.org/photos/SuZhou-SIP-20091106/photo-SIP.htm.
6. SABPA and Three Organizations Form a San Diego Delegation to Attend 12th Guangzhou OCS
Four local organizations (SABPA, SDCCA, UCEA, and CAST-SD) are teaming up to organize a San Diego Delegation to attend the 12th Guangzhou Convention of Overseas Chinese Scholars in Science and Technology (OCS, http://www.ocs-gz.gov.cn/). OCS aims to establish a platform for exchanges of projects, investment, intellectual and information between overseas scholars and internal institutions, and now it has been the largest in scale, most-widely opened to the outside world, and longest since establishment. Both talents and business ideas are welcome at the convention.
If you are interested in attending OCS, please download application form www.sabpa.org or www.sd4chinese.org, fill out the application form (table 1, 留学人员报名表) and send it to ocsgz@gz.gov.cn along with copies of your highest diploma. Under group name, please use San Diego Delegation (圣地亚哥代表团（美中生物医学和制药专业协会，圣地亚哥 中国人协会, 美中科技商务促进会和中国旅美科技协会圣地亚哥分会)).
In addition, please send an email to fellow@gmail.com before November 25, 2009 and indicate your desire to join the San Diego Delegation for OSC along with your email/mobile phone contact info. Delegation organizer will arrange specific contacts and activities during conference time.
The registration deadline is Nov 30, 2009. The convention will be held on December 26 - 28, 2009.
7. Community Event Announcement
A workshop on Preclinical Development and IND Filing: the nuts, bolts, and best practices.
Attend this timely and almost-free workshop to learn the objectives, expectations, and processes of assembling and filing an IND. This is the key to a successful filing and a promising clinical development path forward. It is paramount to stay current on regulatory requirements and industry best practices in many aspects including non-clinical safety, PK, CMC, and clinical plan. Speakers highly experienced with IND filings will discuss systematically the preclinical studies required for small molecule IND filings and the nuts, bolts, and best practices for putting together a high-quality IND package, as well as how to interact with various regulatory agencies.
Topics to be covered:
- Overview of preclinical development and IND filing
- Various preclinical studies required (Safety, DMPK & CMC)
- Clinical Development plans
- Interfacing with regulatory agencies including FDA
Speakers:
Dr. Cuiping "Tracy" Chen, Director, PK, Depomed Inc.
Dr. Linval Depass, Executive Director, Nonclinical Safety, Duret Inc.
Dr. Bert Ho, Head, Pharmaceutical Development, ChemoCentryx Inc.
Date: 2009-11-21
Organizers: CABS Scientific Committee
Location: UCSF Mission Bay, Genentech Hall Auditorium, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA, 94158
Admission: Online: $1 On-site: $5
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