The event BayBio:IMPACT 2007 will take place on December 5, 2006
from 8:00 – 10:00 a.m. (breakfast included) at the J. David Gladstone Institutes, 1650 Owens Street, in San Francisco, CA. In this annual BayBio event, a report highlights the contributions, challenges and global impact of Northern California to the biotech industry. Keynote presentations are from top Northern California life sciences executives whose companies have contributed to this year’s findings. Speakers are Matt Gardner, President, BayBio;
Dr. Daniel Perez, Venture Partner, Bay City Capital; and Pierre Cassigneul, President and CE.
Information: Impact@baybio.org.
The event UCSD Extension: Biomedical Product Development will take place from January 11-March 29, 2007 on Thursdays, from 3:00-8:00 p.m. at Room 116 , UCSD Extension Sorrento Mesa Center, 6925 Lusk Blvd., in San Diego, CA. This course will redefine product development and will discuss issues related to the design, development, manufacturing, launching, and servicing of biomedical products from Quality System Regulations and ISO viewpoints. For more information, contact UCSD Extension by phone at (858) 882-8027 or by email at unexbio3@ucsd.edu.
The workshop Medicinal Chemistry Online Certificate Program will take place from January 8 – March 30, 2007. This online program is designed to teach the essential principles of drug discovery to biologists and chemists and to provide scientists with knowledge to help them reach their full potential.
The event The Year in Perspective will take place on December 15, 2006, from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at Fenwick & West, 801 California, in Mountain View, CA. This event will be sponsored by FountainBlue’s Connections Event, and the speakers will include: Ysabel Duron, “KRON 4 Weekend Morning News”; Facilitator Martin Kan, Silicon Valley Bank; Jay Phillips, Senior VP, Cornish & Carey; and Keith Virnoche, Virnoche-Frigon Group at Merrill Lynch.
The teleconference Adverse Event Reporting in Clinical Trials: How to Minimize Your Liability by Working With Investigators will take place on December 14, 2006 from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. EST. The cost is $299 per listening site, and the persenter will be Stephen Schwartz, director of clinical services for Solaris Research Corporation. This presentation will cover the following issues:
- How to avoid underreporting—and equally dangerous overreporting;
- The role of evaluating study patient AEs; and
- Which specific events are considered “adverse” and which should be reported.
To register, call toll-free at 800-688-2421.
The event Recruiter Roundtable will take place on December 14, 2006, from 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at Bay Café Clubhouse, 1875 Embarcadero Rd. in Palo Alto, CA. This event is sponsored by FountainBlue, and the speakers will include Roy Fiebiger of Sanford Rose Associates-Silicon Valley, who will represent the life science management market; Jim McFadzean of DHR International, who will represent senior-level positions in advanced technology companies; Sue Salvesen of STRe Solutions, who will represent senior-level finance positions; Gretchen Sand of Skyline Recruiting Corporation, who will represent engineering, product management and marketing for early stage companies; and Max Shapiro of PeopleConnect, who will represent the early stage company market.
The event Growing the Business – Taking Sales to the Next Level will take place on December 11, 2006 from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson & Graham, 650 Hansen in Palo Alto, CA. Sponsored by FountainBlue’s High Tech Entrepreneurs’ Forum. Speaker: Antony Awaida from StartLeap Corporation.
Information:
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The event Creating a Work/Life Balance will take place on
December 8, 2006, from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at UCSC Extension, 1180 Bordeaux, in Sunnyvale, CA. Sponsored by FountainBlue’s WhenSheSpeaks Women in Leadership. Speakers: Michele Bolton, ExecutivEdge of Silicon Valley, LLC; Jan Dukes-Schlossberg, Manager, CDO HW Operations, Cisco Systems; Jennifer Gill Roberts, Maven Ventures; Nivisha Mehta, South Asian Heart Center at El Camino Hospital; and Kristi Royse, KLR Consulting.
Information:
http://www.fountainblue.biz/executiveevents/whenshespeaks.html
BIOCOM’s Holiday Breakfast Event with Comedian Will Durst will take place on December 8, 2006 from 7:00 – 9:00 a.m. at the Marriott La Jolla, 4240 La Jolla Village Drive, in La Jolla, CA. A Midwestern baby boomer with a media induced identity crisis, Durst has been called a “modern day Will Rogers” by the LA Times while the SF Chronicle hails him as “heir apparent to Mort Sahl and Dick Gregory.” To attend, register before December 6, 2006.
