SABPA Newsletter, Jan 23, 2003
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Table of Contents
a. China Business Conference - Jan 25, Los Angeles
b. Committee Of 100 Leadership Forum - Jan 25, Los Angeles
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c. SABPA Sponsored Chinese New Year Celebration - Feb. 1
d. Women of Bioscience Happy Hour - Feb. 4
e. UCSD CONNECT 19th Annual Technology Financial Forum - Feb. 12
2. The 7th Beijing Biotech & Pharmaceutical Development Forum On May 22-24
3. Call For Paper: The 7th Beijing Biotech & Pharmaceutical Development Forum
4. Call For Paper: Frontiers Of Biotechnology And
Pharmaceuticals, Vol 4
5. SABPA/SAPA-West/CBA Member Founded Company Directory
6. Bejing Life Science Institute Recruitment
7. Summary Report-San Diego Hi-Tech Delegation To Guanzhou
c. Traditional Chinese Medicine in News of Science
d. San Diego World Trade Center’s MDCP Prorgam
A. Informatics Associate Research Scientist
1. EVENTS
AROUND TOWN
a. CHINA BUSINESS CONFERENCE - SAT, JAN 25, LOS ANGELES
There
will be a China business conference on 1/25/2003, Saturday in LA talking about
policy in China for oversea Chinese. Speakers are invited Chinese government
officers and experts. For more information, please visit
http://www.sdcausa.org/china_connections/business_conference_LA.php
b. COMMITTEE OF 100 LEADERSHIP FORUM-SAT JAN 25, LOS ANGELES
The
Committee of 100 is a national, non-partisan organization that brings a Chinese
American perspective to issues concerning Asian Americans and U. S. relations
with China. The Committee pools the
experience, knowledge and resources of Chinese Americans who have achieved
prominence in a variety of fields. The
two-fold mission is to promote the full participation of Chinese Americans in
all fields of American life and encourage constructive relations between the
peoples of the United States and Greater China.
The
Committee of 100 is going to hold the following leadership conference. The idea
for the leadership conference is to develop a forum that inspires Chinese
American young professionals and students to higher levels of achievement in
various fields such as government, business, education, media, etc.
Title: Asian American Regional Leadership Forum
Time: Saturday, January 25, 2003, 12 pm - 5 pm
Place:
University of Southern California, Davidson Conference Center, Los Angeles
Registration
and Info: http://www.committee100.org/leadershipforum/
c. SABPA SPONSORED CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION, SAT, FEB 1
SABPA
is sponsoring a Chinese New Year Celebration organized by local Chinese
Organizations: CSSA of UCSD, the San Diego Chinese Association, the San Diego
Chinese Arts & Music Association, and the Chinese Club of San Diego. For more information, please visit:
http://www.sdcausa.org/culture_entertainment/year2003cel.html
d. Womens of Bioscience Happy Hour, Feb 4
The Women of Bioscience organization was formed in 1997 to promote a collegial environment and facilitate networking amongst the women employed in the San Diego biomedical sciences community. The events are open to any women members of our biomedical community (pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices, diagnostics). The happy hour gatherings are entirely dedicated to social interaction/personal networking and do not involve speaker presentations. For more information, visiti: http://www.sdbiotech.org/WOB/Default.htm
WOMEN OF BIOSCIENCE HAPPY HOUR
Tuesday, February 4th 5:30 - 8:00pm
El Torito Restaurant & Cantina
8910 Villa La Jolla (near La Jolla Village Drive and I-5)
6:45pm Announcements 7:00pm Gift Giveaway
Sponsored by Patheon Incorporated
e UCSD CONNECT 19TH ANNUAL TECHNOLOGY FINANCIAL FORUM
UCSD
CONNECT's nationally acclaimed 19th annual Technology Financial Forum is
scheduled on February 12. Nearly 100
companies applied to present at San Diego's longest running investment
conference, all of which are making "dry runs" to local business experts.
The dry runs are where the good financial presentations morph into stellar
presentations. Companies are being scrutinized for business, technology and
market potential as well as presentation skills. For more information, please
visit:
http://www.connect.org/newsletter/press_details.cfm?id=376
http://www.connect.org/programs/financialforum/index.htm
2. THE 7TH
BEIJING BIOTECH & PHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM ON MAY 22-24, 2003
With the aims to promote the biotech and pharmaceutical industry and economy of China, to probe into the further direction of biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry, the Forum can be originated back to 1997. It is commissioned and sponsored by Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, Beijing Drug Administration Beijing Municipal Health
Bureau and related organizations, institutes and companies. The consistent principles
of the Forum are to penetrate the present situation of international and
domestic bio-industry, to resolve the problems through the growth of the
business that is still in its infancy, to blueprint a healthier and worthier
future. Beijing Pharma. And Biotech. Center (BPBC) will host The 7th
Beijing Biotech & Pharmaceutical Industry Development Forum from May 22 to
24, 2003. For more
information, please visit
http://www.sabpa.org/About/Newsletters/23Jan2003/BJForum03Eng.doc
(English) or http://www.sabpa.org/About/Newsletters/23Jan2003/BJForum03CH.doc
(Chinese)
3. CALL FOR PAPER: THE 7TH BEIJING BIOTECH & PHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM
As the first effort to establish formal connections with Chinese biotech and pharmaceutical industry, SABPA will officially sponsor the 7th Beijing Biotech & Pharma. Development Forum in May 2003 by providing planetary and satellite session speakers as well as organizing a one-day workshop on Drug Discovery & Development. The Forum will be held in Beijing on May 22-24, 2003. The preferred planetary topics are Herbal Medicine Development as Drugs; Generic Drug Development and Registration; FDA Drug Registration Policies. The preferred satellite session topics are Drug Formulation and Delivery Technologies; CRO related issues; Drug Marketing; Biotechnology (proteomics). If you have other interesting topics that are important to Chinese biotech and pharmaceutical industry, titles outside the above scope can be submitted, too. SABPA Scientific Committee will carry out the initial screening. The selected abstracts will be submitted to the Forum organizers in Beijing, who will decide the final list of invited speakers (1-2 for planetary and 1-3 for satellite sessions). The Forum organizer will cover the travel and boarding cost for the invited speakers. SABPA members will have priority among abstracts of same quality. At the same time, non-members are also welcome to participate. If you are interested, please submit an abstract and a short C.V. to mguo@sabpa.org before Jan. 31, 2003.
4. CALL
FOR PAPER: FRONTIERS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY AND PHARMACEUTICALS, VOL 4
The annual book series Frontiers
of Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals is calling for chapters for its 2003
volume (Vol.4). If you are interested in contributing any topic as either a
paper or a review related to biotech and pharmaceutical industry, please e-mail
a tentative title to pharmtier@yahoo.com before Feb.15, 2003. Format
requirements and other details will be sent to those registered. The first
three volumes of the book series (2000-2002) have been indexed by major
scientific databases (e.g. CAS) and available in Amazon.com.
As a reference, the Table of Contents of Vol.3 is linked here: http://www.sabpa.org/About/Newsletters/23Jan2003/ChapterTitlesVol3.doc
5.
SABPA/SAPA-WEST/CBA MEMBER FOUNDED COMPANY DIRECTORY
SAPBA San Diego is planning
a US China Biopharmaceutical Forum Series 2003 with our sister organizations
CBA (based in Maryland) and SAPA-West (based in San Francisco Bay Area,
California). As one of the initiatives of this series we are in process of
generating a SAPA-West/CBA/SABPA Endorsed Company Directory. The Directory will
be professionally designed and printed. More detailed information can be found
in the attached document. For more information, please contact the Chair of
SABPA Pacific Connection Committee Sam Lou at slou@sabpa.org,
858-458-0866 X 109(O), 858-829-4326(C).
6. BEJING
LIFE SCIENCE INSTITUTE RECRUITMENT
Newly founded National
Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing (hereinafter called NIBS) invites
applications and nominations for various positions, Director General, Associate
Director, Principal Investigators, Senior Scientists.
A recent Science Article
also features NIBS: “With Help From Overseas Chinese, a Western-Style Institute
Takes Shape” Jeffrey Mervis and Yang Jianxiang, Science 2003 January 3; 299:30
For more information,
please contact
Yihong HU or Aimin ZHAO
China National Center for
Biotechnology Development
B7, Zaojunmiao, Haidian
District
P.O.Box 8118, Beijing,
100081
Tel: 0086-10-6211 1955,
6211 4416
Fax: 0086-10-6211 4106
E-mail: inter-coop@cncbd.org.cn
http://www.cncbd.org.cn/Recruitment.htm
http://www.cncbd.org.cn/zhaopin.htm
7. SUMMARY
REPORT-SAN DIEGO HI-TECH DELEGATION TO GUANZHOU
From Xiaoling LI, a SABPA Member
The Fifth Convention of Overseas Chinese Scholars (OSC) in Science & Technology was held at Guangzhou from Dec. 28 to 30, 2002. The meeting attracted more than 2,200 overseas scholars and 1300 proposals. Biotech has been one of the major focuses of the meeting. Scholars from the biotech area participated Biotech/Pharmaceutical Forum, Biotech Project Introduction Meeting, University President Forum, and Tours to Guangzhou Hi-Tech Zone. The variety of activity introduced the current domestic environment in china for biotech development, valuable experiences from previously landed overseas scholars, and what types of biotech projects may likely to succeed in the near future. San Diego Hi-Tech Delegation, including 8-9 biotech professionals, have built numerous connections and met the investment group from the Guangzhou government.
From Ming LI, Chair of San Diego Hi-Tech Delegation
Our trip to attend Guangzhou convention is just beginning to build another hi-tech bridge between San Diego(USA) and China. Through this trip, we built our connection and networking between our members, between San Diego and China; also we got direct feeling about opportunities and challenges in China. It's very important that we can share our experience and networking with each other and build higher networking.
Considering some members
are still in China, we plan to hold our first meeting on Feb 8. During that
meeting, we can share our experience and focus on future events. Meanwhile, we
plan to invite some delegation from China to attend our meeting. As always,
we'd like to co-sponsor this meeting with main local Chinese associations.
After talking with some
agencies and Chinese companies, they would like us to continue to build a
hi-tech bridge between San Diego and China, so that both them and us can
benefit from it. We are working on the best way to conduct this business and
try to make it profitable.
For more information
about San Diego Hi-Tech Delegation’s plan, please regularly check their
discussion group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sd_cn_ht_bridge.
8. FOR
YOUR INFORMATION
a. BIOTECH
2002 REPORT
Burrill
& Company is a San Francisco-based life sciences merchant bank. Burrill
& Company’s core business is venture capital investing across the entire
spectrum of life sciences including human healthcare biotechnology,
agricultural biotechnology, nutraceuticals, human healthcare diagnostics,
biomaterials and bioprocesses.
Burrill & Company publishes an annual report on the state of Biotech & Life Science by its CEO, G. Steven Burrill. While the cost of the recent report, "Biotech 2002", is somewhat high for individual ($275 per copy), you could view the presentation, "Life Science: State of the Industry", by Steven Burrill online to get his prospective on Biotech and Life Science.
http://www.burrillandco.com/presentation/bio_pdf.pdf
b.
INNOCENTIVE IN CHINESE
InnoCentive
was an e-business venture lunched by Eli Lilly more than a year ago. The website that gives cash rewards from
$10,000 to $100,000 for the best solutions to posted scientific problems,
mostly in chemistry and biology. It is now in four languages: English, Chinese,
Germany, Russian. The site has awarded a total of $350,000, with another $805,000
still up for grabs. For more information, please visit
c.
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE ARTICLE IN SCIENCE
“The
New Face of Traditional Chinese Medicine” Dennis Normile, Science 2003, January
10; 229:188
The
article provided a view of current Asian countries/regions efforts to unlock
the secrets of accident herbal remedies using high-throughput screening and
rigorous clinical trials.
d. SAN DIEGO WORLD TRADE CENTER'S MDCP PRORGAM
San
Diego World Trade Center has initiated a new program "Inside Track for
Exports to Asia" to boost telecommunications and bio-medical exports from
San Diego to Asian countries/regions including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan,
offering continued economic growth opportunities for the region. This is program is designed to assistance
San Diego based company to expand their business in Asian regions.
For
more information, please contact Scott Wang, MDCP Program Manager at
swang@sdwtc.org or 619 615 0868 x118.
http://www.sdwtc.org/trader/index.cfm?type=article&Record=457
e. WEB
BITS
9. CAREER
RESOURCES
While
these links are provided by ACS, American Chemical Society, information could
be used for people of various fields.
CAREER
PLANNING RESOURCES
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/8047/8047employment5.html
BREAKING
DOWN THE JOB INTERVIEW
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/8047/8047employment3.html
10. JOBS
OPPORTUNITIES
a. INFORMATICS ASSOCIATE RESEARCH SCIENTIST
A
BS/MS level informatics Associate Research Scientist positions is available in
the Computational Drug Design Department for a drug discovery company in the
San Francisco Bay Area.
The
company is looking for cheminformatics experience (as opposed to
bioinformatics). A BS or MS in Biology or Pharmacology and 2+ years of
laboratory experience and NT experience is required. Informatics experience also is a must.
The
salary range starts around $65K/year (or more) depending upon experience. The company provides relocation assistance
and will transfer an H1B visa.
For
more information, please contact:
Maureen
McCarthy
Biotech
Specialist
MRI-Fresno
(800)
881-4139 x105
(559)
432-9937 (fax)
maureen@mri-fresno.com
b.
BIOANALYTICAL CHEMIST
GNF
have an immediate opening for an entry level bioanalytical chemist. This
position will support GNF’s drug discovery effort in the department of
Pharmacology. Specific duties will include the conduct of PK sample
organization, standard solution preparation, and in-vivo sample extraction to
support routine bioanalytical quantitation work. The qualified candidate will
have a BS/BA degree in Chemistry/Biology with one or more years of relevant
laboratory experience and good quantitative skills. He or she must be
self-motivated, willing to learn and apply new techniques, and be able to
perform multiple tasks, and function as a team player. Additional experience in
Liquid Chromatography Mass, Spectrometry (LC/MS) technology will be a plus. http://web.gnf.org/employment.html#74
