When:

8:30 am - 5:00 pm, Saturday, October 6, 2012

Where:

Institute of Americas, UCSD

Registration: https://www.123signup.com/register?id=spstr

$20 for early birds by Oct. 1, $50 onsite registration（cash or check onsite）; $10 off for students and postdocs.  Fees include program brochure, continental breakfast, coffee breaks, lunch and onsite reception. Online registration closes on Oct. 3.

Event Program

8:30 am

Breakfast and Registration

8:50 am

Opening Remarks

• Peter Zhu, President, SABPA, San Diego Chapter
• Yung-Chih Wang, Ph.D., MBA, Chair, Pacific Alliance Committee, SABPA; VP, Corporate Development, China, HUYA Bioscience International

9:00 am

Enhancing the Pharmaceutical Innovative Engine through Strategic Outsourcing and Partnerships

• Valeria Fantin, Ph.D., Vice President, Tumor Cell Biology, Pfizer

9:30 am

Drug Discovery in the New Era：Winning Global Competition

• JinZi Wu, Ph.D., President & CEO, Ascletis, Inc.

10:00 am

Perspectives of Global Partnerships for Drug Discovery and Development

• Richard Soll, Ph.D., Senior VP of Integrated Services and Head of Corporate Alliances, WuXi AppTec

10:30 am

Coffee Break

10:45 am

Passion, Innovation and Execution--the Driving Forces of Novel Biotech Enterprises

• Guo-Liang Yu, Ph.D., President & CEO, Epitomics Inc.

11:15 am

Panel Discussion：Integrating Resources and Overcoming Obstacles for Pharmaceutical Innovation

• Session Leader:
  Bill Christiansen, Partner, Cooley LLP
• Panel Speakers：
  Chunlin Chen, Ph.D., CEO of Shanghai Medicilon
  Dana Hu-Lowe, Ph.D., VP and Head of Translational and Clinical Sciences of Shanghai ChemPartner  Co.
  Brian Maron, Site Executive Director, Covance
  David Miao, Ph.D., CSO, Concortis Biosystems Corp.
  Peng Wang, Ph.D., Director of Chemistry, Hamari Chemicals USA SDRC

12:15 pm

Lunch

1:20 pm

Opening of Afternoon Sessions

• Stephanie Shi, Ph.D., Co-Chair, Pacific Alliance, SABPA; Integrated Sourcing Lead, External Research Solutions, Pfizer

1:30 pm

Creating Pockets of Innovation in China

• John Oyler, Founder & CEO, Beigene

2:00 pm

A Decade of Changes and Opportunities：One Returnee’s Experiences for Biomedical Research in China

• Hongkui Deng, Ph.D., Professor Cell Biology and Genetics, Beijing University

2:30 pm

Impacting the Bottom Line：The Evolving Economics of Pharmaceutical Research and Commercial Information

• Tim Hoctor, Commercial Director, Elsevier

3:00 pm

Coffee Break

3:20 pm

Panel Discussion：Leveraging Cross-Pacific Investment in Life Sciences

• Session Leader:
  Paul Grayson, CEO, Anaphore
• Panel Speakers:
  Karl Handelsman, Managing Director, Life Sciences, CMEA Capital
  James Huang, Managing Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers China, Shanghai, China
  Andrew Wiseman, Ph.D. Corporate Business Development Officer, UC San Diego
  Guo-Liang Yu, Ph.D., President & CEO, Epitomics Inc.

4:20 pm

Introduction to Dongguan Songshanhu Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone（东莞松山湖科技产业园区）

4:50 pm

Closing Remarks

• Mingzhu Zhang, Ph.D., Executive VP, SABPA; VP of Business Development, Shanghai Medicilon

5:00 pm

Close of Forum

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