The event Simon Ramo Distinguished Lecture: The Changing Pharmaceutical Industry will take place on October 26, 2006 at 4 p.m. at the Keck Graduate Institute, Building #517, 535 Watson Drive, in Claremont, CA. The guest speaker of this event is Dr. P. Roy Vagelos, who is the retired chairman and chief executive officer of Merck & Co., Inc. For more information, contact the Keck Graduate Institute at 909-607-7892 or events@kgi.edu. http://www.kgi.edu/x4156.xml.

The event New and Emerging Causes of Birth Defects will take place on October 27-28, 2006 at UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy at UC San Diego in San Diego, CA. This timely conference will address the environmental causes of birth defects. Key topics include: anticonvulsant medications, maternal diabetes, and isotretinoin and Vitamin A. Presenters hail from eight of the world’s premier medical institutions representing both the U.S. and Australia. For more information, contact UCSD at (800)711-5030.

The event New and Emerging Causes of Birth Defects will take place on October 27-28, 2006 at UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy at UC San Diego in San Diego, CA. This timely conference will address the environmental causes of birth defects. Key topics include: anticonvulsant medications, maternal diabetes, and isotretinoin and Vitamin A. Presenters hail from eight of the world’s premier medical institutions representing both the U.S. and Australia. For more information, contact UCSD at (800)711-5030.

Session X of the Women’s Technology Cluster Venture Catalyst Program, Angel Funding, will take place on October 27, 2006 from 8 to 10:15 a.m. at Fenwick & West LLP’s offices at 801 California Street, Mountain View, CA. The speakers will include Jaleh Daie, Band of Angels; Allan May, Life Science Angels; Susan Preston, Kauffman Foundation; Laura Roden, Angels Forum; Steve Stephansen, Sand Hill Angels; and Randy Williams, Keiretsu Forum. The registration price for the event is $27.17 (the registration price for the full series is $172.00).

The interactive audio conference Is Clinical Trial Noncompliance Allowed to Happen? will take place on October 27, 2006 from 1 – 2:30 p.m. This event is sponsored by publishers BioWorld Today and Medical Device Daily and is $299 per listening site. The conference will examine issues regarding compliance with the key focus on steps and programs to ensure compliance. The speaker will be Tamera Norton Smith, PhD, MT(ASCP), President and Senior Consultant at Norton Audits Inc.

The purchasing group event BIOCOM 401K – Lunch and Learn will take place on October 26, 2006 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at BIOCOM in San Diego. For more information, contact Kelly Aranaz at Karanaz@biocom.org or
858.455.0300 ext.100.

A BIOCOM Purchasing Event will be held on October 26, 2006 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. at BIOCOM’s offices at 4510 Executive Drive, Plaza Seven, San Diego, CA 92121. For more information, please contact Kelly Aranaz at Karanaz@biocom.org or 858.455.0300 ext.100.

The morning group BIOCOM Orange County CFO Breakfast will take place on October 26, 2006 from 8:00 a.m. -10:00 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency Irvine, 17900 Jamboree Road in Irvine, CA. This event is open to only industry CFOs: the discussion involves issues facing CFOs in the life sciences.

The event Simon Ramo Distinguished Lecture: The Changing Pharmaceutical Industry will take place on October 26, 2006 at 4 p.m. at the Keck Graduate Institute, Building #517, 535 Watson Drive, in Claremont, CA. The guest speaker of this event is Dr. P. Roy Vagelos, who is the retired chairman and chief executive officer of Merck & Co., Inc. For more information, contact the Keck Graduate Institute at 909-607-7892 or events@kgi.edu. http://www.kgi.edu/x4156.xml.

The event the Learning Consortium: Project Management That Works will take place on October 25, 2006 from 7:45 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. at The Rady Center for Executive Education at UC San Diego in San Diego, CA. This session covers the key concepts for executing projects in today’s complex information and knowledge-intensive settings. Topics include: How to mitigate technical and market uncertainty and how to manage the social aspects of project execution. For more information, contact Karen Cordero at kcordero@ucsd.edu.