| 8:00
– 9:00 |
Registration, Exhibition, and
Networking |
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|
| 9:00
– 9:05 |
Conference Opening, Welcome |
| |
Hui Cai,
Symposium Chair |
| |
|
| 9:00
– 9:15 |
Opening Remarks |
|
Yuan-Cheng
Fung, Professor Emeritus, UCSD |
| |
|
| 9:15
– 12:00 |
Drugs of the Future: Challenges
and Opportunities |
| Chairs:
|
Lin Zhi,
Director, Ligand Pharmaceuticals |
|
Yun
He, Associate Director, Genomics
Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation |
| 9:15
– 9:45 |
John
Kozarich, President, CEO and
CSO, ActivX Biosciences
“Enabling
Proteomics for Drug Discovery”
|
9:45
– 10:15 |
Nigel
Beeley, Vice President, Arena
Pharmaceuticals
“G-Protein
Coupled Receptors as Drug Targets”
|
|
|
10:15
– 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
|
|
10:30
– 11:00 |
James
Edwards, Research Fellow, Johnson
& Johnson PRD La Jolla
“The
Road not Taken” |
11:00
– 11:30 |
Ben
Munoz, Director, Merck Research
Laboratories
“High
Throughput Organic Synthesis: HTOS”
|
11:30
– 12:00 |
Scott
Kahn, CSO and Senior Vice President,
Accelrys Inc.
"Overcoming
Key Challenges in Chemo- and Bioinformatics" |
|
|
| 12:00
– 1:30 |
Lunch, Exhibition, and Networking |
|
|
| 1:30
– 2:00 |
2003 San Diego Bio-Pharma Award
Presentation |
| |
Award Recipient: Fang
Fang, M.D., Ph.D., Vice President
and Chief Scientific Officer, Perlan
Therapeutics
"ColdSol,
a solution for the common cold and a personal
journey of product invention"
|
|
|
| 2:00
– 3:20 |
Emerging Technologies |
| Chair:
|
Cathy
Chang, Associate Director, Diversa
Corporation |
2:00
– 2:20 |
Jian-Bing
Fan, Director, Illumina
"Fiber-Optic
Array: A Universal Platform for SNP Genotyping
and RNA Profiling"
|
2:20
– 2:40 |
Chi-Cheng
Wu, Principal Scientist, Neurome
"High-throughput
3D visualization and quantification of the
brain" |
2:40
– 3:00 |
Ying
Tang, Associate Director, Applied
Molecular Evolution, Inc.
"Directed
Evolution of Biotherapeutics" |
3:00
– 3:20 |
Richard
Lin, Scientific Investigator,
Ansata Therapeutics
"Intracellular
Delivery of Macromolecules via Molecular
Transduction" |
|
|
| 3:20
– 3:40 |
Coffee Break |
|
|
| 3:40
– 5:15 |
BioEntrepreneurship |
| Moderators:
|
Hongyue
"Howard" Zhang, Chairman,
President and CEO of Combi-Blocks, Inc. |
|
Eddie
Wang Rodriguez, Principal, Fish
and Richardson, P.C. |
Panelists: |
Lei
Wu, Founder and Chief Operations
Officer, Aviva Biosciences |
|
Paul
Mar, President and CEO, SynChem
Inc. |
|
Chun
Shen, President, Egen Corporation |
|
Henry
Li, President, ChemInnovation
Software Inc. |
|
|
| 5:15
– 5:30 |
Closing Remarks |
| |
Alan
Paau, Assistant Vice Chancellor,
UCSD |
