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JUNE
2009
BIOTECH CHINA will be held in Shanghai, China from June 1-3.
An International Trade Fair & Congress for Biotechnology, BIOTECH CHINA
is a member of the global BIOTECHNICA Family. The Asian offshoot of BIOTECHNICA
is a cooperative venture of the established trade fairs BIOTECHNICA ASIA,
the Chinese exhibitions BIOTECH & PHARM, ISCL as well as the BIOFORUM.
The combination of a three-day trade show, an innovation forum, a two-day
scientific congress represents the business platform and bridge to the Asian
market. For details, visit http://www.biotechnica.de.
The 2009 IFT Annual Meeting and Exposition will be held in
Anaheim, CA from June 6-10. The IFT Annual Meeting & Food Expo brings
together decision-makers from all of the many disciplines involved in food
science and technology for scientific education and career development. For
details, visit http://www.ift.org.
Euromedlab 2009 will be held at the Innsbruck Congress Centre
in Innsbruck, Austria from June 7-11. It is the 18th IFCC - EFCC European
Congress of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine National Congress of
the Austrian Society of Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Chemistry.
For details, visit http://www.innsbruck2009.org.
Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Eighth Annual World Pharmaceutical
Congress will be held at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel in Philadelphia,
PA from June 9-11. The focus of the conference is "Assays for Efficient
and Safe Drug Development". For details, visit http://WorldPharmaCongress.com.
The 10th Annual Drug Discovery Leaders Summit will be held
at the Fairmont Le Montreux Palace in Montreux, Switzerland from June 15-16.
Topics covered at the event include R&D Strategies, Drug Design &
Targets, Screening Techniques & Assay Development, Pharma/Biotech Alliances,
Collaborations & Outsourcing, Biomarkers & Translational Medicine,
Bioinformatic Approaches to solve Drug Discovery. For details, visit http://www.drugdiscovery-summit.com/index.asp.
CBI’s 5th Annual Medical Device and Diagnostics Marketing Compliance
Congress will be held in Washington, DC from June 16-17. For details,
visit http://www.cbinet.com.
The Drug Information
Association (DIA) will hold their 45th Annual DIA Meeting
in San Diego, CA from June 21-25. For details, visit http://www.diahome.org.
CPhI China, the country's premier international pharmaceutical
event, along with ICSE (International Contract Services Expo)
and P-MEC (Pharmaceutical Machinery and Equipment Convention),
will be held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre in Shanghai, China
from June 23-25. For details, visit
http://www.cphi-china.com/system/visitorform.aspx.
International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) wll be held
in Hamburg, Germany from June 23-26. This conference is Europe’s leading
Conference and Exhibition on High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage.
For details, visit http://www.supercomp.de/isc09/content.
The 12th Medexpo Kenya, International Trade Exhibition will
be held at the Sarit Centre, Nairobi in Nairobi, Kenya from June 27-29. This
is the main annual international trade event attracting visitors from Kenya
and its neighboring countries while exhibitors participate from over 20 countries.
For details, email "Intl Trade Exhibition" at medexpo09@yahoo.com.
HPLC 2009 will be held at the International Congress Centre
Dresden in Dresden, Germany from June 28-July 2. The HPLC Symposium Series
represents the premier conference for liquid phase separations and related
techniques. Traditionally, the HPLC Symposia provide new developments in the
field, a meeting point and discussion forum for scientists and users of high-performance
liquid chromatography, supercritical fluid chromatography, and electroseparation
techniques. For details, visit http://www.hplc2009.com.
The 3rd Annual Clinical Trials conference will be held in
London, UK frm June 29-30. The theme of the conference is "Improving
clinical trials efficacy while ensuring regulatory compliance". For detials,
visit http://www.visiongainglobal.com.
JULY 2009
The 34th International Symposium on High-Performance Liquid Phase Separations
and Related Techniques, HPLC2009, will be held in Dresden,
Germany from June 28 to July 2. The multifaceted program will reflect the
vitality of HPLC and related techniques. For details, visit http://www.hplc2009.com.
AgriGenomics World Congress will be held in London, England
from July 2-3. AgriGenomics is the detailed study of the genetic makeup of
plants and how all the genes work together to produce the crop. Recently there
has been great interest in genetically engineering plants to optimize yields
and their use in bio-fuels. There is also focus on the alteration of certain
genes to increase plant resistance towards disease and infection. So, now
is a good time for scientists, business people, bio-ethicists and patent experts
from around the globe to come together and catch up with the latest developments
in this fast expanding field. For details, visit http://www.selectbiosciences.com/conferences/AGWC2009/Agenda.aspx.
The 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication
and Management, KGCM 2009, will be held in Orlando, FL from July
10-13. For details, visit http://www.2009iiisconferences.org/kgcm.
The 7th International Conference on Computing, Communications and
Control Technologies: CCCT 2009 will be held in Orlando, FL from
July 10-13. For details, visit http://www.iiis2009.org/ccct.
The American Association for Clinical Chemistry's AACC Annual Meeting
will be held in Chicago, IL from July 19-23. For details, visit http://www.aacc.org.
AUGUST 2009
The 12th Annual Drug
Discovery Technology & Development World Congress will be held
at the World Trade Center in Boston, MA from August 3-6, 2009. The popular
conference has been renamed “Drug Discovery & Development of Innovative
Therapeutics” (DDT) World Congress to better reflect the needs of a
changing industry and address the industry’s ultimate goal of bringing
innovative medicines to the marketplace while dealing with the hurdles between
the discovery and development phases. The 2007 world congress will highlight
numerous case studies of how companies are moving from discovery to the clinic
in creative ways and with fewer resources. It will have a special emphasis
on how drug discovery and development is being done by smaller and mid-size
companies in non-traditional ways and aims to challenge the conventional wisdom
of drug discovery and look at new approaches and new ways of thinking. For
details, visit http://www.drugdisc.com.
Lab-on-a-Chip World Congress will be held at the South San Francisco
Conference Center in South San Francisco, CA from August 6-7. The conference
will be co-located with the Microarray World Congress and
Molecular Diagnostics World Congress. For details, visit
http://www.selectbiosciences.com.
The 238th ACS Fall National Meeting & Exposition will
be held in Washington, DC from August 16-20. For details, visit http://www.acs.org.
Thermo Fisher Scientific will host their 2009 Laboratory Informatics
Symposium (LIS) at the Caesar Business Belo Horizonte in Belo Horizonte,
Brazil from August 18-19.
The symposium will focus on the specific data management requirements of the
mining industry and will include presentations from leading mining services
organization Sao Paolo-based Interfusao. Registration is free for the first
day of the symposium and a second training day is available at a fee for customers
who are using Thermo Scientific SampleManager LIMS and other Thermo Scientific
laboratory information management systems. For details and to register, visit
http://events.signup4.net/lis09belohorizonte.
The 18th International Mass Spectrometry Conference will
be held in Bremen, Germany from August 30-September 4. The scientific program
will deal with all areas of mass spectrometry from fundamental to applied
reseach in chemistry, physics, biology, medicine, geology and related disciplines.
For details, visit http://www.imsc-bremen-2009.de.
SEPTEMBER 2009
Drug Delivery Summit will be held in London, England from
September 2-4. For details, visit http://www.selectbiosciences.com.
The European Laboratory Robotics Interest Group (ELRIG) will be hosting the
ELRIG Drug Discovery 2009 conference at the BT Convention
Centre in Liverpool, UK from September 7-8. This
event is for academic and industrial scientists involved in early-phase drug
discovery offering opportunities for communication, networking and education.
The Drug Discovery Symposium will encompass seven scientific sessions and
one technical workshop. Scientific sessions will focus on many aspects of
early-phase Drug Discovery. Two sessions will focus on novel aspects of Enzyme
and G-protein coupled receptor pharmacology and the opportunities these create
for the identification of novel drugs. To address the challenges in compound
screening, we plan sessions focused on Sample Management, Assay Development
and Screening, Automation and Detection Systems, Structural Biology and Rational
Drug Design. The meeting will also contain a session on Biopharmaceutical
Drug Discovery and a Robotics Workshop. Attendees will hear world class speakers
discussing the challenges facing the drug discovery scientist. The scientific
sessions will be complemented by plenary keynote presentations, a poster session
and a vendor exhibition with over 80 exhibitors. Delegates will be able to
register for the event Free of Charge .For details, visit http://www.elrig.org.
The 123rd AOAC International Annual Meeting & Exposition
will be held at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown in Philadelphia, PA from
September 13-16. For details, visit http://www.aoac.org.
The Sixth Symposium on the Practical Applications of Mass Spectrometry in
the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries, Mass Spec 2009,
will be held at the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia, PA from September 15-17.
For details, visit http://www.casss.org.
World Biobanking Summit will be co-located with Stem
Cells Europe in Edinburgh, Scotland from September 24-25. Agenda
topics include: Sample Collection & Storage; Automation; Quality Assurance;
Bioethics & Regulations; and, Harmonization & Standardization. For
details, visit http://www.selectbiosciences.com.
Analytica-Anacon India will be held in HITEX, India from
September 29-October 1. Analytica Anacon India is an Indian trade fair with
conference with international character designed to take exhibitors to new-developing
marketplaces of significant interest. The concept has been transferred from
the world-leading trade fair analytica in Munich which guarantees a high participation
of international exhibitors and market leaders. For details, visit http://www.analyticaindia.com.
OCTOBER
2009
The inaugural Bio-IT World Europe Conference and Expo 2009
will be held at the Hannover Fairgrounds in Hannover, Germany from October
6-8. Building on the strong success of CHI's U.S. Bio-IT World Conference
& Expo, which takes place in Boston each Spring, this inaugural European
event will be co-located with BIOTECHNICA - Europe´s No.1 event in
Biotechnology and Life Sciences with a total of 16,000+ participants. For
details, visit http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com/Europe.
Oracle OpenWorld will be held at the Moscone Convention Center
in San Francisco, CA from October 11-15. The conference is a showcase for
the latest developments in virtualization, security, governance, business
process management, content management, and customer relationship management—all
areas where technology
delivers fast, significant ROI. For details, visit http://www.oracle.com.
MipTec 2009 will be held at the Congress Center Basel in
Basel, Switzerland from October 12-14. MipTec is the leading European event
for Drug Discovery and BioValley Life Sciences. For details, visit http://www.miptec.com.
The 2009 Gulf Coast Conference will be held on Galveston
Island, TX from October 13-14. The conference addresses chemical analysis
in the petrochemical, refining, and environmental worlds. For details, visit
http://www.gulfcoastconference.com.
GTCbio is hosting the 5th Modern Drug Discovery & Development
Summit (M3D) that will be held in San Diego, CA on October 14-16.
The goal of the summit is to provide a forum for critical discussion to advance
the understanding of the drug discovery and development field. For details,
visit http://www.gtcbio.com/conferenceDetails.aspx?id=110.
BCEIA 2009, the International Beijing
Conference and Exhibition
on Instrumental Analysis, will be held at the China National Convention Center
in Beijing, China from October 14-17, 2009. This biennial international event
promotes academic exchanges among scientists of various countries and regions
as well as trade cooperation between Chinese and foreign partners. There is
a significat life sciences compoent of the program that covers bioinformatics
applications. For details, visit http://www.bceia.org
or http://www.becia.cn.
The 36th FACSS will be held at the Marriott Hotel in Louisville,
KY from October 18 - 22. FACSS, the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and
Spectroscopy Societies, conference is an annual meeting that covers the whole
of analytical chemistry with an emphasis on spectroscopy. For details, visit
http://www.facss.org.
L.A.B. will be held in Birmingham, UK from October 27-29.
L.A.B. is a European trade fair and conference for analysis, bio and laboratory
equipment. L.A.B. is aimed at manufacturers and users of analysis, biotechnology
and laboratory equipment in the pharmaceutical, chemical, food and tobacco
industries, as well as public and private sector organisations in medical
and environmental engineering. L.A.B. is the only platform of its kind in
the UK presenting the world's leading manufacturers and a wide range of scientific
solutions. For details, visit http://www.lab-uk.co.uk,
or to register, visit https://www.lab-uk.co.uk/visitor/registration.
NOVEMBER
2009
An ACS Prospectives conference, Process Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical
Industry will be held at the Sheraton Imperial in Durham, NC from
November 2-4. The conferene will have a special emphasis on Continuous Manufacturing.
Conference co-chairs are Vittorio Farina of Johnson & Johnson and Mo Movassaghi
of MIT. For details, visit http://www.acs.org.
The 7th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference will
be held at the Radisson Hotel in Newport Beach, CA from November 4- 5. For
details, visit http://www.savantcompany.com/SoC7-Nov2009/main.htm.
The Kuwait Lab Technology Conference & Exhibition will
be held at the Radisson SAS Hotel in Kuwait from November 4-5. This comprehensive
multi-tracked conference and exhibition for the laboratory industry will cover
a diverse range of subjects relating to the science and technology used in
medical and non-medical laboratories, as well as their management. It will
provide scientists, technicians, laboratory managers and others involved in
analytical laboratory operations with the latest information about instrumentation,
applications and techniques. The conference provides a unique platform for
regional and international organizations to showcase their latest in technology,
products and services related to the laboratory industry to the largest gathering
of lab professionals in Kuwait. For details, visit http://www.kuwaitlabex.com.
Mass Spec Europe will be co-locatd with Proteomics
Europe in Barcelona, Spain from November 5-6. For details, visit
http://www.selectbiosciences.com.
The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists' AAPS Annual
Meeting will be held at the Los Angeles ConventionCenter in Los Angeles,
CA from November 8-12. For details, visit http://www.aaps.org.
The 2009 Eastern
Analytical Symposium (EAS) will be held at the Garden State Convention
Center in Somerset, NJ from November 16-18. The program includes invited sessions,
short courses, workshops, and seminars. Invited technical sessions are designed
to be of particular interest to those in the pharmaceutical, art and heritage
conservation, biotechnology, forensic science, and educational fields, as
well as sessions emphasizing particular techniques. These include various
applications of separation techniques, spectroscopy, microscopy, and nanotechnology.
For details, visit http://www.eas.org.
KMWorld 2009 will be held at the McEnery Convention Center
in San Jose, CA from November 17-19. KMWorld 2009 provides attendees with
all the essential pieces of the information engine that powers today’s
effective enterprise—including knowledge creation, publishing, sharing,
finding, mining, reuse and more. Well implemented and managed, these work
together to enable business problem-solving, innovation, and achievement.
For details, visit http://www.kmworld.com.
RICHMAC 2009 will be held at the Milan Fair Centre in Milan,
Italy from November 24-27. The conference is the only international historical
event held in Italy on instrumental and process and technology for the laboratoryFor
details, visit http://www.fieramilanotech.it.