The Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s 13th International Molecular Tri-Conference will be held February 21-24, 2006 in San Francisco, CA at Moscone North Convention Center.

Module One of the Third Annual Global Bioexecutive Program entitled Managing Risk in Development & Commercialization will be held February 8-10, 2006 at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. The course will address the R&D and Pre-Clinical Testing Phases, the Clinical Testing Phases, and the Commercialization Phases in drug development.

The Women’s Technology Cluster will be sponsoring the International Symposium on Stem Cell Collaboration on February 7, 2006 at the Mission Bay Conference Center at the University of California San Francisco, 1675 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA. Panel topics for the symposium will include building a common language; who must be at the table for the successful creation of the industry; the role of advocacy and nonprofit organizations; who must participate for the successful commercialization of research; an international review and perspective; and breakthrough research.

The Silicon Valley Chapter of LES will host the event Licenses in Bankruptcy on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 from 11:30 p.m -1:30 p.m. at Mariani’s, 2500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara. The speaker will be Larry Engel of White & Case LLP.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati will be sponsoring BIOCOM’s Monthly Breakfast at the La Jolla Marriott on January 25, 2005 from 7:30-9:00 a.m.

The Association for Laboratory Automation is sponsoring the event Lab Automation 2006 at the Palm Springs Convention Center in Palm Springs, California from January 21-25, 2006. This event will focus on emerging laboratory technologies, and will feature such plenary speakers as Kurt Wurtrich, Ph.D., Professor of Biophysics, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland and Cecil H. Ida M. Green Professor of Structural Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA USA; Harold Craighead, Ph.D., Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics, Charles W. Lake, Jr. Professor Engineering, Co-Director, Nanobiotechnology Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; William S. Rees, Jr., Ph.D., Program Manager of HSARPA’s Chemical Countermeasures Programs; Ruth West, Director of Visial Analytics and Interactive Technologies, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, University of California, San Diego, CA; and E.L. Kersten, Ph.D., Co-Founder, Despair, Inc.

The San Francisco Association for Women in Science is sponsoring the event Power Tools to Maximize Career Success: A Workshop to Promote Professional Development on Saturday, February, 26, 2005 from 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. at Genentech Corporation, Genentech Gateway Campus, Bldg 83, Rm 1A, 611 Gateway Blvd, South San Francisco, CA. Dr. Gail Schechter will be the speaker.

The UC San Diego Extension will be holding the series Biomedical Product Development beginning Tuesday, January 10, 2006 from 3-8 p.m. The course will run from January 10, 2006 through March 28, 2006 and take place each Tuesday from 3-8 p.m. The topics to be covered include: product development, management responsibility, quality system, contract review, design development and control, intellectual property, document and data control, among other issues.

Cambridge Health Talk’s Fifth Annual Pep Talk Conference will be held January 9-16, 2006 at the Hotel Del Coronado in Coronado, California.

The BioScience Forum will be sponsoring the event Year End Wrap Up: State of the Industry on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 at 6:00 p.m. The event will be held at The Clarion Hotel, 401 East Millbrae Avenue, Millbrae, CA. Scott Morrison, U.S. Life Sciences Director for Ernst & Young, Palo Alto, will be speaking.