Schedule of Events (tentative)

Monday, April 3rd Time Description
    7:30 AM Registration and Exhibit Hall opens. Continental breakfast available.
    8:45 AM Welcome Remarks
- Al Kolb, SBS President (Key Tech Solutions)
       
    8:50 AM Session I Introduction: Life sciences in the chemical genomic era
- Doug Burdette, SBS Regional Meeting Committee Co-chair
    9:00-9:45 Chemical Genetic Studies of the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System
- Randy King (Harvard)
    9:45-10:15 NIH Roadmap overview and the role of chemical genomics
- Chris Austin (NIH)
    10:15-10:45 Break - Exhibit Hall open
    10:45-11:15 MLSCN screening experiences
- Jim Inglese SBS Regional Meeting Committee Chair
    11:15-11:45 Academic centers, the MLSCN, and bridging the academic industry gap
- Scott Diamond, University of Pennsylvania
    11:45-12:30 IP - Open (MLSCN) approach vs. Protective (traditional corporate) approach
- Chris Austin (NIH), Marcy Glicksman (Harvard)
    12:30-2:00 Lunch - Exhibit Hall open
    2:00-3:00 Education workshops (choose one of these concurrent workshops)
    A) Modeling QSAR data and evaluation of HTS variability
- Viswanath Devanarayan (Merck Research Laboratories), Andy Liaw (Merck Research Laboratories)
    B) Designing and curating compound collections (filtering compound aggregation and data management)
- Jack Friday (Pfizer) and Tim Lease (Drug Discovery Partners International)
    C) NIH Roadmap Funding Opportunities for Assay Development and HTS (incl. assembling X01-RFA applications for NIH Center for Chemical Genomics)
- Caroline Shamu (Harvard Medical School),Mark Scheideler (NIH) and John Schwab
       
    3:00 PM Richard Eglen
Session II Introduction: Bridging industry and academics from the industry viewpoint
    3:10-3:40 Success Story from Pfizer's Drug Pfinder Initiative
- Patricia Soulard (Pfizer)
    3:40-4:10 HTS from the Industrial Perspective
- Angela Cacace (Bristol-Myers Squibb)
    4:10-4:30 Break - Exhibit Hall open
    4:30-5:15 Vendor tutorials (choose one of these concurrent tutorials)
      Invitrogen
      Cisbio international
       
    5:15-6:30 Networking Reception in Exhibit Hall
       
       
  Tuesday, April 4th 7:45 AM Registration and Exhibit Hall opens. Continental breakfast available.
       
    8:30 AM Session III: Target biology for rare disorders
- Jim Inglese, Regional Meeting Committee Chair (NIH)
    8:45-9:15 Alternative splicing as a drug target: The example of progeria
- Tom Misteli (NIH)
    9:15-9:45 Gaucher Disease
- Ellen Sidransky (NIH)
    9:45-10:15 Break - Exhibit Hall open
    10:45-11:15 Non Profit Rare Disorders
- Jill Jarecki (Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy)
    10:15-10:45 Anthrax: Biodefense Target and model system for other infectious diseases
- Thomas Bugge (NIH)
    11:15-12:00 Vendor tutorials
      BD Biosciences
      Corning, Inc.
      Guava Technologies
       
    12:00-1:30 Lunch - Exhibit Hall open
       
    1:30-1:45 Session IV Introduction: Translation of academic drug discovery to the clinic
- Al Kolb, SBS President (Key Tech Solutions)
    1:45-2:15 You've Got Hits Now What?
- Caroline Shamu (Harvard Medical School)
    2:15-3:00 Translational medicine: the hit to clinic process from an academic perspective
- Soumya Ray (Harvard)
    3:00-3:15 Closing remarks
Funding summary and the role of the SBS in Academia
- Richard Eglen, SBS Board Member (DiscoveRx)