The 2005 Medtech Breakfast Series sponsored by Women’s Technology Cluster will be sponsoring the event New Frontiers in Radiotherapy,on December 14, 2005 from 7:30-10:00 a.m. at Tomlinson Zisko, 200 Page Mill Road, Second Floor, Palo Alto California, 94306. Speakers for this event will include Lauren Selmeier, VP Channel Marketing, Accuray Incorporated and Karla Knott, Acuity Business Unit Manager, Varian. The event will address such issues as the next frontier in radiotherapy, the new avenues being explored to increase accuracy and impact, new developments to reduce treament time, and insights from genomics that can help in developing improved methods.

LES San Diego will be holding its holiday party on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at Il Fornaio Restaurant, 1555 Camino Del Mar, Suite 301, Del Mar, CA 92014. The event is being sponsored by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and SAIC.

The Biotechnology Roundtable, the Harvard Business School Alumni Association, the National Venture Capital Association, and BIOCOM will be hosting the 2005 Holiday Reception for the Life Sciences Community at the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club on December 13, 2005 from 6-9 p.m.

BIOCOM will be hosting the an event Legislative Lunch and Learn: Preservation of Industrial Land with Marney Cox on Monday, December 12, 2005 at the BIOCOM Boardroom from 12:00-1:30 p.m. Marney Cox, Chief Economist, SANDBAG, will be presenting on the collocation and the preservation of industrial land in San Diego.

The event CONNECT: Most Innovative Product Awards 2005 will be held on Friday, December 9th, 2005 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Hilton La Jolla Torry Pines, 10950 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037. The event will honor local innovation across multiple industries, including the biotech industry.

California’s Healthcare Policy Forum, sponsored by the California Healthcare Institute, will be held November 17-18, 2005 in San Francisco, and will bring together executives from biomedical device and pharmaceutical companies, leaders from academic research institutions in California, and state policymakers to discuss public policy challenges facing the bioscience community’s work and needs.

The event The Patenting of Life Forms: 25 Years since the Chakrabarty Patent will be held on Wednesday, October 26th from 6:00-8:00 at Palo Alto Research Center (“PARC”) , 3333 Coyote Hill Rd., Palo Alto, CA. The speakers will include Mark E. Andrews, BioTech Nation, National Public Radio; Mark Bosse, Gilead Sciences; Dr. Ananda Chakrabarty, University of Illinois at Chicago; George Elliot, Technology Center 1600, USPTO; Elizabeth Howard,Orrick, Herrington, and Sutcliffe LLP.

The event BayBioNEST’s Holiday Soiree for the Bioscience Community will be held at NASA Ames, 943 NASA Parkway, Moffett Field, CA from 6:30-9:30 on Thursday, December 8, 2005.

The Bioscience Forum will be held on Tuesday, October 18th through Thursday, October 20th, 2005 at two California Locations, the Clarion Hotel in San Francisco at 401 East Millbrae Avenue, Millbrae, CA and at the University of San Diego, Institute of Peace and Justice. The Symposium will present the latest information from the USPTO Examining Group 1600, which deals with Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, and Organic Chemistry, and will provide the most current information from the USPTO regarding a variety of issues, including registration practice, electronic filing of patent applications, sequence listings, and other matters.

The BIOCOM December Breakfast Meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 7, 2005 from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the Marriott La Jolla , 4240 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037. The guest speaker will be Rolf Benirschke, a member of the San Diego Chargers Hall of Fame in 1997, San Diego Hall of Champions and the Academic All-America Hall of Fame.