6th Annual SABPA Pacific Forum 2010 - Racing to the top

Date:                     8:30 am – 4:30 pm, Saturday, November 6, 2010
Location:             Institute of Americas, UCSD

For details: http://www.sabpa.org/web/news_details.php?ID=285

Conference Program

8:30 am                Breakfast and Registration

9:00 am                Opening Remarks: SABPA Pacific Forum co-chair

9:10 am                Asia Pacific - How to spot the real opportunities

Gunther Winkler, Ph.D. 
Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific and Global Government Strategy, Biogen Idec

9:40 am                Panel Discussion: Bio-Pharma R&D collaboration around Pacific Rim

Session Leader: Jerry Hefner, Ph.D. Partner, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

Bai Lu, Ph.D. VP of GSK in Shanghai

Xiaochuan Wang, Ph.D., CEO, Sundia MediTech Company, Ltd.

Assad J. Kazeminy, Ph.D., Chairman & Founder, Irvine Pharmaceutical Services 

Raymond Price, PhD, MBA, Director of Business Development, GenScript           

10:40 am              Coffee Break and Networking 

11:00 am              Pfizer global Strategy

                                Richard Connell, Ph.D., Vice President of Pfizer External Research Solutions       

11:40 pm              Understanding and Overcoming the Challenges Surrounding International Logistics of Biopharmaceutical Materials

Kevin Xu, General Manager, Biocair China

12:00 pm              Lunch and Networking

1:30 pm                Opening Remarks

1:40 pm                Story about a cross-Pacific CRO marriage: BioDuro and PPD

Lee Babiss, Ph.D., Executive Vice President of Global Laboratory Services, PPD, Inc.

2:10 pm                Panel Discussion:  Deal development, regulatory issues, licensing and Innovation

                                Session Leader: William Looney, Editor-in-Chief from PharmExecutive

                                Li Chen, Ph.D. CEO, Hua Medicine

                                Keiko Mitsunobu, President, UpWell

Dong Liu, Ph.D. Senior Partner, Boss & Young

Michael J. Reilly, Co-founder & CEO, Western States Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.

Yong Qian, Ph.D., CEO, BioMedicure

3:10 pm                Coffee Break and Networking 

3: 30 pm               IP Strategies for Acquiring Multinational's Business in China

Chuck Comey and Peng Chen, Partner, Morrison Foerster

4:00 pm                Shangdong’s business environment and incentive policies

                                Shandong delegation and Shandong BIOasos-Luye Pharma

4:30 pm                Closing Remarks

4:40 pm                Onsite Reception