The event GTCbio’s Enforcement & Litigation In the Biotech & Pharmaceutical Industry will be held April 19-20, 2007 in San Francisco, CA.  The event will address:  winning litigation strategies, minimizing product liability risks, controlling litigation costs, conducting successful internal investigation, and implementing anti-bribery compliance plans. 

The event GTCbio’s Enforcement & Litigation In the Biotech & Pharmaceutical Industry will be held April 19-20, 2007 in San Francisco, CA.  The event will address:  winning litigation strategies, minimizing product liability risks, controlling litigation costs, conducting successful internal investigation, and implementing anti-bribery compliance plans. 

The event  Biotech Demystified: The Science Behind the Business will be held at the UC San Diego Rady School of Management in San Diego, CA  on June 18th-21, 2007.  The program is designed toprovide executives and decision makers with a practical understanding of the basic science behind the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.  Topics will include:

• Science Fundamentals
• Cell and Molecular Biology
• Genetics
• Immunology
• Research Tools and Techniques
• Stem Cell Research
• Therapeutic Cloning
• Molecular Pharmacology
• Proteomics
• Cancer Biology: Targets and Therapies
• Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine
• Neuroscience: Disease Targets and Therapies
• Drug Development Process: Discover, Development, Biomanufacturing
• Risk Management in Life Sciences
• Case Studies
• Lab Experiences.

The event Tunnel Consulting Summit –  BioProcessing Throughout the Product Life Cycle  will be held on Thursday, April 19, 2007 at Office Pavilion, 6920 Carroll Rd, San Diego, CA 92121from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The event will cover the following topics:

This month’s Bioscience Forum event, Community-Based Approach to Neglected Infectious Disease Research, will be held on Wed., April 18, 2007 from 6 to 9 p.m. at The Clarion Hotel, San Francisco Airport, 401 E. Millbrae Ave., Millbrae, CA  94030.  The featured speaker will be Dr. Barry Bunin, CEO & President of Collaborative Drug Discovery Inc.  His presentation will provide perspectives on a new type of web-database to help scientists more effectively develop new drug candidates from commercial and humanitarian academic drug discovery research.

The sfAWIS April Networking Social will be held on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 in San Francisco, CA.  The event will be sponsored by Genentech and will take place at The Pub at UCSF, Mission Bay, 1675 Owens St., San Francisco, CA.

The event Clinical Quality Assurance and Management Policy: Two Case Histories will be held on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. by audio conference.  The event will look at two different case studies on clinical trials and what went wrong and how to avoid it, addressing the following:

• What corporate decisions occurred?

• Why did one site close down in response to the FDA enforcement action?

• Why does corporate management not share the clinical research or the regulatory perspective?

• What is the required corporate management CQA interface?

• Where and why did it fail?

• FDA sponsor obligations – what are they?

• What is the sponsor’s liability and exposure for FDA enforcement action?

• How do the concepts of misconduct, fraud, and sponsor due diligence impact the FDA application of enforcement actions?

• How can CQA enable corporate management to empower the CQA function?

• What is the role of clinical project management and regulatory affairs in ensuring FDA compliant sponsor corporate management decisions?

The event Entrepreneurship and Building a Sustainable Organization will be held on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 from 7:15 to 8:30 a.m. at the University of San Diego, Institute for Peace & Justice. The speakers will include Michael Gallegos, CEO of American Property Management Corporation; John Kontopuls, CEO of Elite Show Services; and Tina Nova, Ph.D., CEO of Genoptix Inc.

The event CEOSummit 2007 Presents: From Startup to Sustainability will be held Tuesday, April 17, 2007 from 11:30 to 5:00 p.m. at the Joan Kroc Center at the University of San Diego, 5998 Alacala Park, San Diego, CA  92110.   This event is by invitation only and will provide over 100 life science Chief Officers (CEOs and CFOs) and the BIOCOM Board of Directors with the opportunity to discuss issuees pertinent to their companies and to interact with one-another on a peer to peer level.

The event Third Annual Venture Capital Awards will be held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View on April 12, 2007 from 6 to 8 p.m.  The event will recognize and honor investments in women made in 2006, including the following: 

      •   Largest Percentage of Investments in Women CEOs
      •   Highest Number of Investments in Companies with a Woman CEO
             – current fund greater than $250M
      •   Highest Number of Investments in Companies with a Woman CEO
             – current fund smaller than $250M.