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AUGUST
The International Association for Food Protection's IAFP 2008 Annual
Food Safety Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Columbus
in Columbus, OH from August 3-6. For details, visit http://www.foodprotection.org.
Enterprise-Wide LIMS for Pharmaceutical/Biotech Manufacturing
will be held in Philadelphia, PA on August 4. Pharmaceutical laboratories
must manage a huge amount of data, meet regulatory requirements, track schedules,
assess QA/QC guidelines and manage complex batches. In the lab,
they have to manage diversified lab work flows, such as: combinatorial chemistry,
screening, pre-clinical and clinical bioanalysis, analytical chemistry, manufacturing
R&D and production quality control. Laboratory Information Management
System (LIMS) build a paperless environment for pharmaceutical labs, allowing
for greater integration with other existing data systems and sustenance of
the demands of a global enterprise This one-day LIMS Summit, targeted specifically
for the life sciences industry, will be co-located with the 4th Annual
Pharma/Biotech MES Conference, which attracts 200 executives.
Attendees hear industry case studies of enterprise-wide LIMS implementations
and validation strategies. For details, visit http://cbinet.com/show_conference.cfm?confCode=PC08044L.
The 13th Annual Drug Discovery & Development Conference
will be held at the World Trade Center Boston and The Seaport Hotel in Boston,
MA from August 4-7. The conference will emphasize themes related to the application
of translational research and technologies across therapeutic areas, to help
move drugs to clinical proof-of-concept (POC) as quickly as possible. The
program will also feature special in-depth concentration sessions on strategic
applications and transforming technologies in discovery and development that
are cross-functional regardless of disease areas. Sessions on pipeline strategy
and partnering will complement the scientific sessions to provide a well-rounded
perspective on both scientific and business approaches to accelerate drug
discovery and development. For details, visit http://www.drugdisc.com.
Hosted by HUPO (Human Proteome Organization, HUPO 2008 will
be held at the Amsterdam RAI in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from August 16-20.
The theme of the meeting is "Proteome Biology" or details, visit
http://www.hupo2008.nl/index.php.
The 236th ACS National Meeting & Exposition will be held
in Philadelphia, PA from August 17-21. For details, visit http://www.acs.org.
SEPTEMBER
JAIMA SHOW 2008 will be held at the Makuhari Messe inToyyo,
Japan from September 3-5. Japan's premier exposition of Analytical Instruments
and Solutions, the 2008 show will focus on "Protecting the Earth, Creating
the Future with Analytical Technology". For details, visit http://www.jaimashow.jp/english/index.html.
3rd E-Discovery for Biotech, Pharma and Medical Devices will
be held at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown in Philadelphia, PA from September
8-10. With the global economy developing continuously, the evolving electronic
discovery arena presents numerous challenges for everyone associated. To counter
these needs, the International Quality & Productivity Center (IQPC) has
put together the E-Discovery Conference. For details, visit http://www.iqpc.com/us/3edisco.
Developing & Implementing HACCP for the Meat & Poultry Industry
will be held in Athens, GA from September 9-10. For details, visit http://www.efsonline.uga.edu.
2008 RAPS Annual Conference & Exhibition will be held
at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA from September 14-17. The conference
explores topics of interest to the global regulatory profession and ways regulatory
professionals can further establish and grow the regulatory profession, advance
scientific and technological innovation, enable conflict resolution and much
more. For details, visit http://www.raps.org.
ELN’s Advanced Lab Solutions 2008 will be held at the
Crowne Plaza in Brussels, Belgium from September 15-17. A leading event for
Electronic Laboratory Notebooks and closely associated technology, ELNs Advanced
Lab Solutions provides a complete update on the bioinformatics and data management
field. Co-hosted with Discovery Knowledge Informatics event, attendees
will have the opportunity to switch between both events.
Presentations, end-user case studies, panel sessions and interactive round
table discussions will be presented. For details, visit http://www.iqpc.co.uk.
IQPC will be hosting Discovery Knowledge & Informatics
at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Brussels in Brussels, Belgium from September 15-17.
This 3rd annual DKI event will present a platform at which to discuss and
draw new inspiration from the most time specific, innovations in knowledge
and data management within the pharmaceutical industry. For details, visit
http://www.iqpc.com/ShowEvent.aspx?id=105616.
IQPC's Pharma IQ's Biobanking 2008 conference will be held
at the Thistle Marble Arch, London from September 17-18. The conference will
show professionals working in Labs, Biorepositories, Bioanalysis and R&D
how to set up productive biological sample management efforts; including assessing
the latest automation systems; how to accurately assess samples including
DNA, Blood and Human tissues; understand and work with Regulations and Bioethical
challenges; and effectively collect and manage patient information. For details,
visit http://www.iqpc.com/UK/biobanking/ediary.
CHI'S Drug Development China will be held at the Fairmont
San Francisco in San Francisco, CA from September 17-18. Sought by most international
pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, China has become a partner of
choice for international biopharmaceutical companies. In order to minimize
unnecessary expenses, time and risk involved in R&D, companies have found
an effective solution and worthy partner in this low-cost region populated
by a highly-skilled drug discovery and development talent pool. In addition,
due to its growing western-educated middle class, China presents valuable
commercial opportunities for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. For
details, visit http://www.healthtech.com/pcc/overview.aspx?c=547.
The 12th Annual SBS Conference and Exposition will be held
in Seattle, WA from September 17-21. The theme of the conference is "Advancing
Drug Discovery: From Better Hits to Better Candidates". For details,
visit http://www.sbsonline.org.
The 27th International Symposium on Chromatography ISC 2008
will be held at the University of Muenster in Muenster, Germany from September
21-25.ISC 2008 will cover all methods of chromatography in their various forms,
along with complementary techniques like electrodriven separations, coupling
techniques with mass spectrometry or NMR, and the field of microscale separations.
For details, visit http://www.isc2008.de/welcome.htm.
6th Annual Cold Chain Distribution for Pharmaceuticals will
be held at the Philadelphia Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA from Septmber
22-25. The theme of the conference is "Gaining greater control of your
global Cold Chain and ensuring international regulatory compliance".
For details, visit http://www.coldchainpharma.com.
The 122nd Annual AOAC Meeting & Exposition will be held
in Dallas, TX from September 21-24. For details, visit http://www.aoac.org.
CHI'S Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis will be held
at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, RI from September 22-23.
As new sequencing platforms are capable of generating gigabytes of data in
a single sequence run - leading to terabytes of data in an experiment; data
storage, transfer, and analysis will unquestionably be the rate limiting steps
in turning the new sequence data into knowledge. CHI's Inaugural Next-Generation
Sequencing Data Analysis convenes engineers who are developing the sequencing
platforms, biological researchers who are designing and running the experiments,
biosatiations who are analyzing and interpreting the data, and software developers
who are managing and storing the data. Each specialty provides perspectives
and must be integrated into a cohesive, comprehensive team to decipher the
sequencing data deluge. For details, visit http://www.healthtech.com/dtd/sda/overview.aspx?c=648.
Computerized Systems Auditing and Software Validation will
be held in Toronto, Canada from September 22-23. This two-day workshop addresses
topics from Regulatory Expectations for Computer System GxP Compliance to
Requirements for a Successful Validation Project to Validation for Laboratory
Information Management Systems (LIMS). For details, visit http://www.ipacanada.com/cvs_0908.html.
Drug Discovery 2008 will be held at the Bournemouth International
Conference Centre in Bournemouth, UK from September 23-24. Theconference will
encompass six sessions in two days. Each will focus on a different area of
Drug Discovery from selecting compounds for the corporate collection, liquid
handling and detection technologies, plus advances in assay development and
screening. Two sessions will address the biochemistry of two important different
target classes: Enzymes and G-protein coupled receptors. Biopharmaceuticals
will form the sixth session. For details, visit http://www.zingconferences.com/index.cfm?page=conference&intConferenceID=23.
The 12th Annual KMWorld & Intranets Conference and Exhibition
will be held at the San José McEnery Convention Center, in San Jose,
CA from September 23-25. The KMWorld & Intranets Conference and Exhibition
offers a wide-ranging program especially focused to meet the needs of executives
and strategic business and technology decision makers. For details, visit
http://www.kmworld.com/kmw08.
Analytica China 2008 will be held at the Shanghai New International
Expo Centre in Pudong, Shanghai, China from September 23-25. For details,
visit http://www.messe-muenchen.de.
CHI'S Integrative Data Analysis will be held at the Rhode
Island Convention Center in Providence, RI from September 24-25. Genomic research
has become a discipline to be integrated with clinical medicine. Currently,
genomic technologies allow for the simultaneous quantification of gene activity
in tissues/cells from patients. Will these genomic technologies make it possible
to develop personalized medicine leading to a more accurate diagnosis and
prognosis for every patient and subsequently a tailored treatment strategy?
With the addition and linkage of clinical parameters disparate data points
are created. All agree data integration is crucial. Join innovators from technological
platform development, biostatistical analysis, biological, pharmaceutical,
and clinical research as they share their experiences and insights. For details,
visit http://www.healthtech.com/dtd/mda/overview.aspx?c=649.
Innovator's Summit, the knowledge exchange for analytic excellence,
will be held at the Sofitel San Francisco Bay in South San Francisco, CA from
September 24-26. For details, visit http://www.jmp.com/about/events/summit2008/?utm_source=rdmag&utm_medium=bnr&utm_campaign=summit.
Process Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical Industry will be
held in in Cambridge, MA from September 28-30. The conference will provide
case studies from big pharma, sessions on: what pharma can learn from crop
protection process R&D; the engineering aspects of process R&D, including
kinetics, process parameters, process analytical technology, and green chemistry;
and recent advances from academia. For details, visit http://www.acs.org.
The FACSS Annual Meeting will be held in Reno, NV from September
28 - October 1. For details, visit http://www.facss.org.
AgriGenomics World Congress 2008 will be held at the NH Grand
Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from September 29-30. Alongside
an exhibition of selected scientific posters and service providers, this two
day event gathers some of the most influential players in the field from Europe,
America and across the globe, including speakers from Mendel Biotechnology,
University of Reading, Bayer CropScience and CNRS, Rothamsted Research, the
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Dow AgroSciences,
the National Centre for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of
Health, and more. Experts from both academia and commerce will present timely
information from current research through to commercial implementation of
new technologies. For details, visit http://www.selectbiosciences.com.
Biomarker Discovery Summit will be held at the Lowes Philadelphia
Hotel in Philadelphia, PA from September 29 - October 1. For details, visit
http://www.healthtech.com/bmks/br+dl.aspx.
OCTOBER
The Gulf Coast Conference will be held on Galveston Island,
TX from October 14-15. For details, visit http://www.gulfcoastconference.com.
BIOTECHNICA 2008 will be held at the Deutsche Messe Exhibition
Grounds in Hanover, Germany from October 7-9. Turning ideas into values is
both the motto and the aim of the new BIOTECHNICA, enabling the event to focus
on research and product development in addition to the areas that have traditionally
been well represented at the show. For details, visit http://www.biotechnica.de/homepage_e.
Computer Validation (West) will be held in San Francisco,
CA from September 14-17. For details, visit http://www.ivtconferences.com.
3rd Annual FDA Inspections Summit will be held in Bethesda,
MD from Oct 15-17. During this two-and-a-half summit, participants will engage
in rigorous workshops that focus entirely on the latest inspection strategies,
listen to keynote presentations by current and former FDA officials and experts,
and choose from three specialized tracks — drugs/biologics, devices
and clinical trials. For details, visit http://www.FDAInspectionsSummit08.com.
The ASCP Annual Meeting will be held in Baltimore, MD from
October 16-19. For details, visit http://www.ascp.org.
Topics and Tactics in Current Drug Design will be held at
the Boston Marriott Cambridge in Cambridge, MA from October 19-21. Session
topics: optimizing drug-target interactions; reducing drug metabolism and
avoiding metabolic activation; circumventing off-target sources of drug failure;
and pharmaceutical properties and tactics for enhancing oral drug delivery.
Each session will provide a comprehensive synopsis of the kinds of tactics
and strategies that have led to the optimization of drug-target interactions
against the backdrop of enhancing drug safety and compound delivery in vivo.
For details, visit http://www.acs.org.
Discovery 2 Diagnostics will be held at the Manchester Grand
Hyatt San Diego in San Diego, CA from October 20-22. The conference hs tracks
for sequencing and detection technnologies, molecular diagnostics, and biomarkers.
For details, visit http://www.discovery2diagnostics.com.
Validation Week will be held in Philadelphia, PA from October
21-23. For details, visit http://www.ivtconferences.com.
The Pharmaceutical Regulatory Compliance Congress and Best Practices
Forum will be held at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington,
DC from October 27 - 29. For details, visit http://www.PharmaCongress.com.
Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Fourth Annual Bridging Pharma and
IT conference will be held at the Renaissance Providence Hotel in
Providence, RI from October 28-30. For details, visit http://www.healthtech.com.
NOVEMBER
Water Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring (WWEM 2008)
will be held at the International Centre in Telford, UK from November 5-6.
Conference themes will include MCERTS schemes for both water and soil sampling
and analysis in the laboratory. For details, visit http://www.wwem.uk.com.
The Montreaux Symposium on LC/MS & Related Techniques
will be held in Montreaux, Switzerland from November 12-14. For details, visit
http://www.iaeac.ch/lcms-montreaux.html.
The 2008 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) will be held
at the Garden State Convention Center in Somerset, NJ from November 12-14.
For details, visit http://www.eas.org.
AAPS Annual Meeting will be held in Atlanta, GA from November
16-20. For details, visit http://www.aaps.org.
The 2008 AICHE 100th Annual Meeting will be held at the Pennsylvania
Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA from November 16-21. In celebration
of AIChE's centennial, the AIChE Annual Meeting will feature special sessions
that highlight chemical engineering innovations over the past 100 years, as
well as a look into the future. It will also include 15 Core Programming Areas
and 17 Topical Conferences focused on the latest developments in areas ranging
from core chemical engineering fundamentals to emerging technologies in energy,
sustainability, pharmaceuticals, bioengineering and nanotechnology. For details,
visit http://www.aiche.org.
DECEMBER
Windhover Information & F-D-C Reports will present The 4th Annual
FDA/CMS Summit at the The Westin Grand in Washington, DC from December
4-5. For details, visit http://www.windover.com/fda-cms.
The American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting will
be held in San Francisco, CA from December 13-17. For details, visit http://www.ascb.org.
JANUARY 2009
LabAutomation2009 will be held at the Palm Springs Convention
Center in Palm Springs, CA from January 24-28. For details, visit http://www.labautomation.org.
Informex 2009 will be held in San Francisco, CA from January
27-30, 2009. The Gala Dinner is a particular highlight. Themed Flavors
of San Francisco: An Evening in Wine Country, the event, dressed
will pay homage to the city and surrounding areas. Attendees
will be transported into an "evening outing" in the wine
country complete with sommeliers, wine tastings with local experts and
a peek into the world of California wine-making. The highlight will
be the keynote address by former Secretary of State Madeleine K.
Albright. For details, visit http://www.Informex.com.
FEBRUARY 2009
Drug Discovery Latin America will be held in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil from February 26-27. The purpose of this meeting is to review the status
of drug discovery activities in Latin America and to assist its future
development. Business and research leaders from both developed markets
and BRIC countries will bring their knowledge and experience to share. Participants
will be encouraged to network and explore partnering opportunities. For
details, visit http://www.selectbiosciences.com/conferences/DDLA2009.
MARCH 2009
Pittcon 2009, the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and
Applied Spectroscopy will be held in Chicago. IL from March 9-12.
For details, visit http://www.pittcon.org.
The 237th ACS National Meeting & Exposition
will be held in Salt Lake City, UT from March 12-16. For details, visit http://www.acs.org.
APRIL 2009
CISILE, the largest Chinese laboratory exhibition, will be
held at the Beijing Exhibition Centre in Beijing, China from April 9-11, 2009.
For details, visit http://www.cisilecom.cn.