From biotechsig at mailman.yale.edu Mon Apr 4 08:56:32 2005 From: biotechsig at mailman.yale.edu (biotechsig@mailman.yale.edu) Date: Wed May 18 10:28:36 2005 Subject: Biotechnology Club - Special Lecture Announcement Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20050403102021.01b76978@rmr39.mail.yale.edu> LECTURE: DR. RAY SALEMME, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, LINGUAGEN CORPORATION Date: Friday, April 8, 2005 Time: 12:15-1:15pm Location: A-51, School of Management, 135 Prospect Street Lecture Title: Building A Biotechnology Company From Startup To Acquisition By A Major Pharmaceutical Dr. Salemme will join us for lunch after his presentation. If you are interested in joining us, please contact Patrick Lee (patrick.s.lee@yale.edu). Reservations are required and space is limited so do not delay. Dr. Salemme joined Linguagen Corporation (http://www.linguagen.com/home_flash.shtml), a biotechnology company that develops compounds to improve the taste of pharmaceutical, food, and beverage products, as its Chief Executive Officer in June 2004. Previously, Dr. Salemme was the founder, President, and Chief Scientific Officer of 3-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals, Incorporated (3-DP), a publicly-traded biotechnology company founded in 1993 and acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2003. Dr. Salemme established and directed the technical, operating, business, and financing strategies leading to 3-DP's successful IPO in 2000, and he was a co-inventor on 21 of 3-DP's key technology patents. Dr. Salemme holds a B.A. in Molecular Biophysics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at San Diego. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"All You Can't Eat" http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3809652 (A brief look into recent research on longevity and how decreasing caloric intake by a small percentage may increase lifespan.) **************************************************************************** CONTENTS: 1. YES Boston. 2. SBIR/STTR Grants Program Presentation. 3. April BioConnect Event. 4. Lecture: Dr. Francis Cuss, Senior Vice President, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. 5. Community Outreach Program's "Science In The News" Seminar: Genetically-Modified Crops: Weeding Fact From Fiction. 6. Laboratory Equipment For Sale. **************************************************************************** 1. YES BOSTON Join the Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES) on Thursday, April 7, 2005 from 6:30-9pm at Goodwin Procter, LLP in Boston. Bill Schnoor Jr., partner at Goodwin Procter, will moderate the evening's panel discussion on "Which Ventures Should Seek Outside Funding and Which Should Not." For more information, please visit www.yes.yale.edu. Registration is required for this event. Please visit www.yes.yale.edu to reserve your space today. A bus will depart for YES Boston from Phelps Gate at 3pm on April 7. It will make a stop at the Yale School of Management, 55 Hillhouse Avenue, at 3:15pm, after which it will leave for Boston. The bus will return to Yale after the event. The bus is free to all interested members of the Yale community. To reserve a spot on the bus, please email Michael Hurley (michael.hurley@yale.edu) with "YES Boston-Bus Reservation" in the subject heading. **************************************************************************** 2. SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR)/SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (STTR) GRANTS PROGRAM PRESENTATION Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 Time: 8:30-11:30am Location: N107 The Anlyan Center, 300 Cedar Street, New Haven This session will feature a presentation by Kathleen Shino, the acting SBIR/STTR Program Coordinator for the National Institutes of Health. She will present an overview of the SBIR/STTR Grants Program and will also introduce a panel of local SBIR/STTR grant winners who will discuss the challenges and opportunities of the grants. For more event details, please visit http://www.ccat.us/sbir/events.htm. Registration is required for this event. Registration is free for all Yale Biotechnology Club members. To register, please visit http://www.ccat.us/sbir/register.htm. The SBIR/STTR Grant Presentation is sponsored by the Yale Biotechnology Club, the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT), Connecticut United For Research Excellence (CURE), the Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES), and the Yale Office of Cooperative Research (OCR). **************************************************************************** 3. APRIL BIOCONNECT EVENT Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 Time: 5:30-7:30pm Location: Hot Tomato's, 261 College Street, New Haven To attend, please R.S.V.P. to Carolyn Drazinic (carolyn.drazinic@yale.edu) or Amy Enders (aenders@curenet.org). BioConnect is an informal social gathering, co-sponsored by the Yale Biotechnology Club and Connecticut United for Research Excellence (CURE), to help people interested in making professional connections with representatives of the biotechnology and pharmaceuticals industry. Students and post-doctoral fellows mix and mingle with representatives from biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and venture capital firms. BioConnect is ideal for helping scientists about to enter the job market develop their careers as they receive the latest advice from people already in the industry. **************************************************************************** 4. LECTURE: DR. FRANCIS CUSS, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY Date: Monday, April 18, 2005 Time: 12-1pm Location: T.B.A. More details to come. **************************************************************************** 5. COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM'S "SCIENCE IN THE NEWS" SEMINAR: GENETICALLY-MODIFIED CROPS: WEEDING FACT FROM FICTION Speaker: Dr. Carol Auer, Associate Professor, Department of Plant Science, University of Connecticut Date: Thursday, April 21, 2005 Time: 3-4pm Location: 119 Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street (across from the Sterling Memorial Library) The Community Outreach Program's "Science in the News" seminars aim to provide NON-SCIENTISTS in the Yale and local communities an opportunity to learn about current issues in biotechnology. This seminar will address such basic questions as: 1. How are genetically-modified crops made? How prevalent are they? 2. What are the benefits and risks associated with this technology? 3. Are genetically-modified crops safe for humans and the environment? 4. How do you make sense of the media's coverage of the genetically-modified foods controversy? **************************************************************************** 6. LABORATORY EQUIPMENT FOR SALE Hepaticus is selling its research equipment, office furniture, and other laboratory-related items. To view the list of available items, please visit http://www.imakenews.com/cure/e_article000371124.cfm?x=b4yHsns,b2JltGBk. **************************************************************************** SPONSORSHIP Diamond Partner: Wiggin & Dana Platinum Partner: Lyme Properties Gold Partner: Bristol-Myers Squibb, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, PolyPops Development Foundation Silver Partner: Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Compass Strategic Consulting Bronze Partner: BioWorld Online The Yale Biotechnology Club thanks its sponsors for their continued support. For further information regarding sponsorship or to make a donation, please contact our presidents, Patrick Lee (Patrick.S.Lee@yale.edu) and Richard M. Reznick (Richard.Reznick@yale.edu). **************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from the Yale Biotechnology Club Weekly Notes, please visit http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/biotechsig. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/private/ybps/attachments/20050404/ed696c32/attachment.htm From biotechsig at mailman.yale.edu Thu Apr 7 21:12:40 2005 From: biotechsig at mailman.yale.edu (biotechsig@mailman.yale.edu) Date: Wed May 18 10:28:36 2005 Subject: Biotechnology Club - Special BioConnect Event Announcement Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20050407211142.01ba6400@rmr39.mail.yale.edu> APRIL BIOCONNECT EVENT Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 Time: 5:30-7:30pm Location: Hot Tomato's, 261 College Street, New Haven To attend, please R.S.V.P. to Carolyn Drazinic (carolyn.drazinic@yale.edu) or Amy Enders (aenders@curenet.org). BioConnect is an informal social gathering, co-sponsored by the Yale Biotechnology Club and Connecticut United for Research Excellence (CURE), to help people interested in making professional connections with representatives of the biotechnology and pharmaceuticals industry. Students and post-doctoral fellows mix and mingle with representatives from biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and venture capital firms. BioConnect is ideal for helping scientists about to enter the job market develop their careers as they receive the latest advice from people already in the industry. From biotechsig at mailman.yale.edu Mon Apr 11 10:16:50 2005 From: biotechsig at mailman.yale.edu (biotechsig@mailman.yale.edu) Date: Wed May 18 10:28:36 2005 Subject: Biotechnology Club - Special BioConnect Event Announcement Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20050411101340.01b78d88@rmr39.mail.yale.edu> APRIL BIOCONNECT EVENT Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 Time: 5:30-7:30pm Location: Hot Tomato's, 261 College Street, New Haven To attend, please R.S.V.P. to Carolyn Drazinic (carolyn.drazinic@yale.edu) or Amy Enders (aenders@curenet.org). BioConnect is an informal social gathering, co-sponsored by the Yale Biotechnology Club and Connecticut United for Research Excellence (CURE), to help people interested in making professional connections with representatives of the biotechnology and pharmaceuticals industry. Students and post-doctoral fellows mix and mingle with representatives from biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and venture capital firms. BioConnect is ideal for helping scientists about to enter the job market develop their careers as they receive the latest advice from people already in the industry. From biotechsig at mailman.yale.edu Mon Apr 11 17:48:00 2005 From: biotechsig at mailman.yale.edu (biotechsig@mailman.yale.edu) Date: Wed May 18 10:28:36 2005 Subject: Biotechnology Club - Weekly Notes Message-ID: <200504112148.j3BLm0CT009500@pantheon-po07.its.yale.edu> **************************************************************************** YALE BIOTECHNOLOGY CLUB WEEKLY NOTES For more information, please visit www.yale.edu/biotech. **************************************************************************** BIOTECHNOLOGY AND PHARMACEUTICALS IN THE NEWS: "Promising Company, Bad Deal" http://www.forbes.com/strategies/2005/04/08/cx_sr_0408ipooutlook.html?partne r=yahoo&referrer= (a small company making a wireless glucose monitoring system for diabetics) "Quality Care" http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1047449,00.html (availability of a federal website which allows the assessment of care of over 4000 hospitals in US) **************************************************************************** CONTENTS: 1. SBIR/STTR Grants Program Presentation. 2. April BioConnect Event. 3. Lunch & Lecture: Dr. Francis Cuss, Senior Vice President, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. 4. WISAY Events. 5. NYAS Science Alliance Program Event: "BEYOND THE BENCH: Alternative Careers for Scientists" 6. Community Outreach Program's "Science in the News" Seminar: Genetically-Modified Crops: Weeding Fact from Fiction. 7. BEACON event: "Challenges and Opportunities in Outsourcing Drug Manufacturing". **************************************************************************** 1. SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR)/SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (STTR) GRANTS PROGRAM PRESENTATION Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 Time: 8:30-11:30am Location: N107 The Anlyan Center, 300 Cedar Street, New Haven This session will feature a presentation by Kathleen Shino, the acting SBIR/STTR Program Coordinator for the National Institutes of Health. She will present an overview of the SBIR/STTR Grants Program and will also introduce a panel of local SBIR/STTR grant winners who will discuss the challenges and opportunities of the grants. For more event details, please visit http://www.ccat.us/sbir/events.htm. Registration is required for this event. Registration is free for all Yale Biotechnology Club members. To register, please visit http://www.ccat.us/sbir/register.htm. The SBIR/STTR Grant Presentation is sponsored by the Yale Biotechnology Club, the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT), Connecticut United For Research Excellence (CURE), the Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES), and the Yale Office of Cooperative Research (OCR). **************************************************************************** 2. APRIL BIOCONNECT EVENT Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 Time: 5:30-7:30pm Location: Hot Tomato's, 261 College Street, New Haven To attend, please R.S.V.P. to Carolyn Drazinic (carolyn.drazinic@yale.edu) or Amy Enders (aenders@curenet.org). BioConnect is an informal social gathering, co-sponsored by the Yale Biotechnology Club and Connecticut United for Research Excellence (CURE), to help people interested in making professional connections with representatives of the biotechnology and pharmaceuticals industry. Students and post-doctoral fellows mix and mingle with representatives from biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and venture capital firms. BioConnect is ideal for helping scientists about to enter the job market develop their careers as they receive the latest advice from people already in the industry. **************************************************************************** 3. LUNCH AND LECTURE: DR. FRANCIS CUSS, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY Date: Monday, April 18, 2005 Time: 1-2pm Location: Jane Ellen Hope Building, H-103 315 Cedar Street, Yale Medical School There will be catered Thai lunch for a limited number of students prior to the talk, 11:45pm-12:45pm. To reserve a spot, please RSVP to patrick.s.lee@yale.edu Francis joined BMS as Senior VP in October, 2003. Research efforts concentrate on understanding disease mechanisms in the areas of cancer, heart disease, neuroscience, immunology, virology, diabetes and obesity. Francis chairs the Drug Discovery Operating Committee within Bristol-Myers Squibb, which reviews and approves program progression both within drug discovery and from discovery into development. Francis is a physician-scientist who prior to joining Bristol Myers Squibb, worked at Schering-Plough Research Institute, beginning in 1989 as VP of Clinical Research for Allergy, CNS and Pharmacology. In 1994, he was named VP Biological Research (Allergy, Immunology and Inflammation and Cancer Immunotherapy), and in 2002, Francis was appointed Senior VP with the additional responsibility of Early Clinical Research and Experimental Medicine. During his tenure at Schering-Plough, Dr. Cuss chaired the Allergy and Inflammation Therapy Team responsible for the development and approval of several major products and line extensions. Previously, from 1986-1989, he worked at Glaxo Pharmaceuticals and held positions of increasing responsibility in clinical development. Francis earned a B.A. in Natural Sciences and medical degrees from Cambridge University, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine in the UK. Francis worked as a practicing physician and in several academic environments including the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Cardiothoracic Institute and Brompton Hospital, London. He has held adjunct appointments at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and has published book chapters and numerous articles in scientific journals. **************************************************************************** 4. WISAY (Women in Science at Yale) events Thursday April 14, 2005 SCL253 5pm "Negotiating a Job Offer" Dr. Erica Dawson will give a lecture on the basics of negotiation followed by an interactive session used to envision different scenarios and role-playing communication options. Job negotiators often get tripped up on how to word their requests and suggestions will be explored on how to be assertive without being demanding. To register for the Dr. Dawson lecture, please send your name, year, and department to wisay@yale.edu Tuesday April 19, 2005 Bass 305 5pm "Negotiating a Job Offer" - A panel discussion in which representatives from academia and industry will discuss who extends a job offer to a potential employee and besides salary, what else can be negotiated. Panel Participants: Dr. Andrew Hamilton, Provost of Yale University Donald McAulay, Diversity representative for HR in Groton,CT and HR head for New Haven CRU of Pfizer Chelita Love, Staffing Account Manager T.J. Watson Research Center of IBM. **************************************************************************** 5. NYAS Science Alliance Program event Graduate Career Services presents New York Academy of Science Science Alliance Program BEYOND THE BENCH: Alternative Careers for Scientists Tuesday, April 19th, 2005, 11:30 am-1:00 pm The Anlyan Center (TAC) N107 (Corner of Cedar and College Streets) Pizza will be served Come hear a panel of Science Ph.D.'s who are using their training in exciting careers outside of the laboratory. Our panelists include representatives from science publishing, global non-profit organizations, management consulting, and more. Ample time for questions! PRE-REGISTER ONLINE by Friday, April 14th at: http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/careers/NonAcademicJobSearch.html **************************************************************************** 6. COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM'S "SCIENCE IN THE NEWS" SEMINAR: GENETICALLY-MODIFIED CROPS: WEEDING FACT FROM FICTION Speaker: Dr. Carol Auer, Associate Professor, Department of Plant Science, University of Connecticut Date: Thursday, April 21, 2005 Time: 3-4pm Location: 119 Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street (across from the Sterling Memorial Library) The Community Outreach Program's "Science in the News" seminars aim to provide NON-SCIENTISTS in the Yale and local communities an opportunity to learn about current issues in biotechnology. This seminar will address such basic questions as: 1. How are genetically-modified crops made? How prevalent are they? 2. What are the benefits and risks associated with this technology? 3. Are genetically-modified crops safe for humans and the environment? 4. How do you make sense of the media's coverage of the genetically-modified foods controversy? **************************************************************************** 7. BEACON (Biomedical Engineering Alliance & Consortium) event: "Challenges and Opportunities in Outsourcing Drug Manufacturing" 2005 SEMINAR SERIES: Seminar #4 Presented by Alex Mello and Dr. Merribeth Morin MicroTest Corporation Thursday, April 21, 2005 Networking Reception 5:00-6:00 PM Presentation 6:00-7:00 PM Due to the lead time and high costs of infrastructure many pharma and biopharma companies have decided to outsource their research and manufacturing needs to qualified vendors. The drivers for the move to contract manufacturing outsourcing are speed to market, resource allocation flexibility, expertise, and availability of appropriate manufacturing infrastructure. The implications are that the need for outsourcing will continue to grow and that the outsourcing companies that can provide a broad base of services, have the technical expertise, the infrastructure and customer focus will be successful. This presentation will include a discussion of outsourcing, the importance and need for virology testing, and examples of assisting small companies manufacture potential drugs. This presentation is a must for any biotech company interested in developing new drugs. OMNI New Haven Hotel 155 Temple Street, New Haven, CT 06510 Directions: http://www.omnihotels.com/hotels/default.asp?topic=location&h_id=4 Free for BEACON Members and STUDENTS $35 for Non-Members (cash, check, Visa or MasterCard accepted) RSVP: Leo Snow - 860-547-1995 or toll free: 877-723-2266 Email: leonor.snow@beaconalliance.org **************************************************************************** SPONSORSHIP Diamond Partner: Wiggin & Dana Platinum Partner: Lyme Properties Gold Partner: Chromocell Corporation, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Roche Laboratories, PolyPops Development Foundation Silver Partner: Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Compass Strategic Consulting Bronze Partner: BioWorld Online The Yale Biotechnology Club thanks its sponsors for their continued support. For further information regarding sponsorship or to make a donation, please contact our presidents, Patrick Lee (Patrick.S.Lee@yale.edu) and Richard M. 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Date: Monday, April 18, 2005 Lunch: 11:45am - 12:45pm (catered Thai) Location of lunch: RSVP to patrick.s.lee@yale.edu Date: Monday, April 18, 2005 Lecture Time: 1-2pm Location of Lecture: Jane Ellen Hope Building, H-103 315 Cedar Street, Yale Medical School Francis joined BMS as Senior VP in October, 2003. His research efforts concentrate on understanding disease mechanisms in the areas of cancer, heart disease, neuroscience, immunology, virology, diabetes and obesity. Francis chairs the Drug Discovery Operating Committee within Bristol-Myers Squibb, which reviews and approves program progression both within drug discovery and from discovery into development. Francis is a physician-scientist who prior to joining Bristol Myers Squibb, worked at Schering-Plough Research Institute, beginning in 1989 as VP of Clinical Research for Allergy, CNS and Pharmacology. In 1994, he was named VP Biological Research (Allergy, Immunology and Inflammation and Cancer Immunotherapy), and in 2002, Francis was appointed Senior VP with the additional responsibility of Early Clinical Research and Experimental Medicine. During his tenure at Schering-Plough, Dr. Cuss chaired the Allergy and Inflammation Therapy Team responsible for the development and approval of several major products and line extensions. Previously, from 1986-1989, he worked at Glaxo Pharmaceuticals and held positions of increasing responsibility in clinical development. Francis earned a B.A. in Natural Sciences and medical degrees from Cambridge University, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine in the UK. Francis worked as a practicing physician and in several academic environments including the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Cardiothoracic Institute and Brompton Hospital, London. 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"Eli Lilly Wins Patent Ruling On Zyprexa" http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7B0977C14C%2D3F3D%2D4C3A%2DBC0F%2D80CA18CEBD86%7D (A U.S. district court gives Lilly patent protection on Zyprexa until 2011.) **************************************************************************** CONTENTS: 1. TODAY!!! Lunch & Lecture: Dr. Francis Cuss, Senior Vice President, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. 2. Panel Discussion: Negotiating A Job Offer. 3. Community Outreach Program's "Science In The News" Seminar: Genetically-Modified Crops: Weeding Fact From Fiction. 4. BEACON Seminar Series Presentation #4: Challenges And Opportunities In Outsourcing Drug Manufacturing **************************************************************************** 1. LUNCH & LECTURE: DR. FRANCIS CUSS, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY Date: Monday, April 18, 2005 Time: 1-2pm Location: H-103, Jane Ellen Hope Building, Yale School of Medicine, 315 Cedar Street, New Haven The Yale Biotechnology Club will host lunch with Dr. Cuss prior to the lecture. Lunch will begin at 11:45am. Space is limited so reserve your spot now. R.S.V.P. to Patrick Lee (patrick.s.lee@yale.edu). Dr. Cuss joined Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) as Senior Vice President in October 2003. He leads research efforts centered around cancer, heart disease, neuroscience, immunology, virology, and diabetes and obesity. Dr. Cuss also chairs BMS' Drug Discovery Operating Committee, which reviews and approves each program's progression both within drug discovery and from discovery to development. Dr. Cuss is a physician-scientist who, prior to joining BMS, worked at the Schering-Plough Research Institute, as Vice President of Clinical Research For Allergies, the Central Nervous System, and Pharmacology. Dr. Cuss earned his B.A. in Natural Sciences and his M.D. from Cambridge University, U.K. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine in the U.K. **************************************************************************** 2. PANEL DISCUSSION: NEGOTIATING A JOB OFFER Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Time: 5-6pm Location: 305 Bass Center, 266 Whitney Avenue, New Haven This panel discussion will focus on how to negotiate salary and the intangibles of a job offer. The panel includes Dr. Andrew Hamilton, the Provost of Yale University, Mr. Donald McAulay, the Head of Human Resources of the New Haven Clinical Research Unit of Pfizer, and Ms. Chelita Love, the Staffing Account Manager for the T.J. Watson Research Center of IBM. **************************************************************************** 3. COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM'S "SCIENCE IN THE NEWS" SEMINAR: GENETICALLY-MODIFIED CROPS: WEEDING FACT FROM FICTION Speaker: Dr. Carol Auer, Associate Professor, Department of Plant Science, University of Connecticut Date: Thursday, April 21, 2005 Time: 3-4pm Location: 119 Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street (across from the Sterling Memorial Library) The Community Outreach Program's "Science in the News" seminars aim to provide NON-SCIENTISTS in the Yale and local communities an opportunity to learn about current issues in biotechnology. This seminar will address such basic questions as: 1. How are genetically-modified crops made? How prevalent are they? 2. What are the benefits and risks associated with this technology? 3. Are genetically-modified crops safe for humans and the environment? 4. How do you make sense of the media's coverage of the genetically-modified foods controversy? **************************************************************************** 4. 2005 BEACON (BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING ALLIANCE AND CONSORTIUM) SEMINAR SERIES PRESENTATION #4: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN OUTSOURCING DRUG MANUFACTURING Date: Thursday, April 21, 2005 Time: 5-6pm (Networking Reception); 6-7pm (Presentation) Location: The Omni Hotel, 155 Temple Street, New Haven Presented by Alex Mello and Dr. Merribeth Morin MicroTest Corporation Due to the lead time and high costs of drug manufacturing infrastructure, many pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutica companies have chosen to outsource their research and manufacturing needs to qualified vendors. The implications of this trend are that the need for outsourcing will continue to grow and that companies that can provide a broad base of services, along with technical expertise and infrastructure, will be the most successful. This presentation will encompass a general discussion of outsourcing and will offer some specific examples of how outsourcing can be done properly and poorly with small companies. This presentation is free for BEACON members and students. For non-members, the fee is $35 (cash, check, Visa or MasterCard accepted). Please R.S.V.P. to Mr. Leo Snow via telephone (860.547.1995; toll-free 877.723.2266) or email (leonor.snow@beaconalliance.org). **************************************************************************** SPONSORSHIP Diamond Partner: Wiggin & Dana Platinum Partner: Lyme Properties Gold Partner: Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chromocell Corporation, Roche Laboratories, PolyPops Development Foundation Silver Partner: Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Compass Strategic Consulting Bronze Partner: BioWorld Online The Yale Biotechnology Club thanks its sponsors for their continued support. For further information regarding sponsorship or to make a donation, please contact our presidents, Patrick Lee (Patrick.S.Lee@yale.edu) and Richard M. Reznick (Richard.Reznick@yale.edu). **************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from the Yale Biotechnology Club Weekly Notes, please visit http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/biotechsig. From biotechsig at mailman.yale.edu Tue Apr 19 04:36:55 2005 From: biotechsig at mailman.yale.edu (biotechsig@mailman.yale.edu) Date: Wed May 18 10:28:36 2005 Subject: Biotechnology Club - Special Naturejobs/NYAS Career Fair and Symposium Series 2005 Field Trip Announcement Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20050418215807.01b71648@rmr39.mail.yale.edu> **************************************************************************** NATUREJOBS/NYAS CAREER FAIR AND SYMPOSIUM SERIES 2005 FIELD TRIP The Yale Biotechnology Club is organizing a field trip on Friday, April 29, 2005 to New York City to attend the Naturejobs/New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) Career Fair and Symposium Series 2005. Note that the Career Fair and Symposium are two separate events, but they are being held on the same date at the same place at approximately the same time. **************************************************************************** BENEFITS This trip offers enormous opportunity for our members and not just those actively seeking employment in industry. If you are actively searching for a industry position, at least Pfizer, Novartis, Wyeth, Genentech, OSI Pharmaceuticals, Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, and Mylan Labs will have recruiters available to meet with you about job opportunities (for more information, please visit the event's website at http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/career_fairs/nj_and_nyas.html). Even if you are just starting to consider your options after graduation, this represents an excellent opportunity to see how a career fair works and to practice the skills necessary to be successful at a career fair without all of the pressure to perform. And by joining us on the field trip, you will be able to meet other members of our organization who are currently going through the same job-searching process. And lastly, spending the day in New York City will be a good time. To attend this event with the Yale Biotechnology Club, please email Richard M. Reznick (Richard.Reznick@yale.edu). **************************************************************************** FIELD TRIP DETAILS Date: Friday, April 29, 2005 Time: 8am-11pm Location: Union Station, New Haven (We will board a train to New York City and walk from Grand Central Station to the New York Marriot Marquis Hotel, 1535 Broadway, New York (about 10 minutes from Grand Central Station), where the event is being held. Likewise, we will take the train home to New Haven at the end of the day. The train ticket cost for all attendees will be approximately $32.50.) **************************************************************************** CAREER FAIR DETAILS Time: 10am-4pm Pfizer, Novartis, Wyeth, Genentech, OSI Pharmaceuticals, Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, Mylan Labs, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Kelly Scientific Resources, ManKind BioPharmaceuticals, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will all be present to talk about job opportunities within the companies. Registration is required to attend the Career Fair. To register, please visit http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/career_fairs/nj_and_nyas.html. **************************************************************************** SYMPOSIUM DETAILS Time: 9am-5pm The Symposium will feature speakers from a wide range of companies including Pfizer (Peter B. Corr, Senior Vice President), IBM (Joanna Batstone, Senior Manager), Nature Publishing Group (Adam Smith, Publisher), Actokine Therapeutics (Grace Wong, Chief Scientific Officer). The topics they are scheduled to cover include how scientific ideas become marketable products, the differences in drug discovery between companies, and how us, the next generation of scientists, fit into this intricate system. The symposium costs $20 for NYAS members or $45 for non-NYAS-member students. To register and submit payment for the symposium, please visit http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/career_fairs/nj_and_nyas.html. **************************************************************************** From biotechsig at mailman.yale.edu Mon Apr 25 19:15:24 2005 From: biotechsig at mailman.yale.edu (biotechsig@mailman.yale.edu) Date: Wed May 18 10:28:36 2005 Subject: Biotechnology Club - Weekly Notes Message-ID: <200504252315.j3PNFKkF009565@pantheon-po06.its.yale.edu> **************************************************************************** YALE BIOTECHNOLOGY CLUB WEEKLY NOTES For more information, please visit www.yale.edu/biotech. **************************************************************************** BIOTECHNOLOGY AND PHARMACEUTICALS IN THE NEWS: "Seeking a cure for legal headaches" http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3883595 (Legal issues concerning "Big Pharma" and generic drug makers) "Gene Therapy Eyed as Alzheimer's Treatment" http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2005/04/25/hscout525335. html (Gene therapy slows mental decline) **************************************************************************** CONTENTS: 1. Jorgensen Symposium 2. Naturejobs/NYAS Career Fair and Symposium Series 2005 Field Trip 3. Harvard Biotechnology Club Biotechnology Business Plan Competition **************************************************************************** 1. Jorgensen Symposium - 30 years in the trenches Colleagues and former students of Yale chemist William L. Jorgensen are gathering on campus Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30, to celebrate his three decades in academia. "The Jorgensen Symposium: 30 Years in the Trenches" will bring the professor's former students from such far-flung locals as France, Japan, England, Spain and the United States to Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, where they will present talks about their current research. Jorgensen, who holds the Conkey P. Whitehead Professorship in Chemistry, uses modern theoretical methods and computers to solve problems concerning structure and reactivity for organic and biomolecular systems. His research group is a leader in the development of force fields for water, organic and biomolecular systems and in the development of software for molecular modeling and drug design. A member of the Yale faculty since 1990, Jorgensen recently received the Sato International Award (see related story, below). His other honors include the American Chemical Society Award (ACS) for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award and the Annual Medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences. He was an A.P. Sloan Foundation Fellow in 1979 and a Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar in 1978. In 2003, Jorgensen was named editor of the Journal of Chemical Information & Computer Science, which is published by the ACS, the world's largest scientific society. He also has been editor of the Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry since 2001 and editor of the Journal of Computational Chemistry since 2002. He has authored or co-authored about 275 scientific papers. "The Jorgensen Symposium: 30 Years in the Trenches" is open to the Yale community free of charge. A detailed schedule can be found at http://zarbi.chem.yale.edu/symposium.html. **************************************************************************** 2. Naturejobs/NYAS Career Fair and Symposium Series 2005 Field Trip The Yale Biotechnology Club is organizing a field trip on Friday, April 29, 2005 to New York City to attend the Naturejobs/New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) Career Fair and Symposium Series 2005. Note that the Career Fair and Symposium are two separate events, but they are being held on the same date at the same place at approximately the same time. BENEFITS This trip offers enormous opportunity for our members and not just those actively seeking employment in industry. If you are actively searching for a industry position, at least Pfizer, Novartis, Wyeth, Genentech, OSI Pharmaceuticals, Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, and Mylan Labs will have recruiters available to meet with you about job opportunities (for more information, please visit the event's website at http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/career_fairs/nj_and_nyas.html) . Even if you are just starting to consider your options after graduation, this represents an excellent opportunity to see how a career fair works and to practice the skills necessary to be successful at a career fair without all of the pressure to perform. And by joining us on the field trip, you will be able to meet other members of our organization who are currently going through the same job-searching process. And lastly, spending the day in New York City will be a good time. To attend this event with the Yale Biotechnology Club, please email Richard M. Reznick (Richard.Reznick@yale.edu). FIELD TRIP DETAILS Date: Friday, April 29, 2005 Time: 8am-11pm Location: Union Station, New Haven (We will board a train to New York City and walk from Grand Central Station to the New York Marriot Marquis Hotel, 1535 Broadway, New York (about 10 minutes from Grand Central Station), where the event is being held. Likewise, we will take the train home to New Haven at the end of the day. The train ticket cost for all attendees will be approximately $32.50.) CAREER FAIR DETAILS Time: 10am-4pm Pfizer, Novartis, Wyeth, Genentech, OSI Pharmaceuticals, Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, Mylan Labs, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Kelly Scientific Resources, ManKind BioPharmaceuticals, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will all be present to talk about job opportunities within the companies. Registration is required to attend the Career Fair. To register, please visit http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/career_fairs/nj_and_nyas.html. SYMPOSIUM DETAILS Time: 9am-5pm The Symposium will feature speakers from a wide range of companies including Pfizer (Peter B. Corr, Senior Vice President), IBM (Joanna Batstone, Senior Manager), Nature Publishing Group (Adam Smith, Publisher), Actokine Therapeutics (Grace Wong, Chief Scientific Officer). The topics they are scheduled to cover include how scientific ideas become marketable products, the differences in drug discovery between companies, and how us, the next generation of scientists, fit into this intricate system. The symposium costs $20 for NYAS members or $45 for non-NYAS-member students. To register and submit payment for the symposium, please visit http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/career_fairs/nj_and_nyas.html. **************************************************************************** 3. Harvard Biotechnology Club Biotechnology Business Plan Competition Thekla Diehl, Director tdiehl@thebiotechclub.org The GSAS Harvard Biotechnology Club Announces the Sixth Annual Biotechnology Business Plan Competition Brown Rudnick and Merck Research Laboratories Sponsor Competition to Foster Emerging Technology Companies The GSAS Harvard Biotechnology Club announces the sixth annual Biotechnology Business Plan Competition with sponsorship from the international law firm of Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP, Merck Research Laboratories (MRL)-Boston and the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH). The GSAS Harvard Biotechnology Business Plan Competition is unique in that it focuses exclusively on biotechnology start-ups. The 2005 Biotechnology Business Plan competition is open to entrepreneurs, students and professionals worldwide, and does not require Harvard University affiliation. The competition offers a $5,000 cash award for the first prize, and a $1,000 cash award for second prize. It also presents the opportunity for early stage biotechnology companies to have their business plans reviewed by seasoned venture capitalists and other biotechnology experts in the Boston area. Leading up to the competition, the GSAS Harvard Biotechnology Club is hosting a series of workshops designed to assist applicants. Workshops will teach the basics of writing a business plan and how to tackle some of the corporate, intellectual property and organizational hurdles faced by start-up companies in the biotech sector. This series will conclude with our annual Venture Capital and IP/Tech Transfer Q&A panels. All of the events are open to the public and will be held in the rotunda of the Harvard Medical School NRB building in Boston, MA. For additional information about the Biotechnology Business Plan Competition, the Biotech Club, or becoming a sponsor, please contact Thekla Diehl, tdiehl@thebiotechclub.org or Patrick Loerch, patrick@thebiotechclub.org or visit www.thebiotechclub.org. Schedule of Events: Thursday, April 28th, 4:00 - 6:00pm Speakers: Dr. Lee Fleming and Dr. Noam Wasserman, Harvard Business School 4:00 - 4:50pm Founders and Teams in a Start-up Company 5:10 - 6:00pm Cambridge vs Silicon Valley as Start-up Environments Thursday, May 5th, 4:00 - 6:00pm Venture Capital and IP/Tech Transfer Panels Panelists: To Be Announced Sunday, May 15th Business Plan Competition Submission Deadline Thursday, June 2nd, 7:00 - 9:00pm Final Awards Ceremony and Reception About the GSAS Harvard Biotechnology Club In the five years since the GSAS Harvard Biotechnology Club was founded by three former Harvard graduate students, the Club has grown to include over 2500 academic members and 2500 members from industry, including members from around the world. A central fixture in the Boston biotech community, the Biotech Club constantly strives to bridge the gap between industry, academia, and the general public on matters relating to biotechnology and its applications. The Club's web-content and seminars cover the many facets of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry, as well as providing career assistance to its members. Many of the Club's sponsors include top biotech and pharmaceutical research firms, numerous intellectual property law and venture financing firms. The Club's mission is to explore and raise awareness on every aspect of biotechnology. **************************************************************************** SPONSORSHIP Diamond Partner: Wiggin & Dana Platinum Partner: Lyme Properties Gold Partner: Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chromocell Corporation, Roche Laboratories, PolyPops Development Foundation Silver Partner: Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Compass Strategic Consulting Bronze Partner: BioWorld Online The Yale Biotechnology Club thanks its sponsors for their continued support. For further information regarding sponsorship or to make a donation, please contact our presidents, Patrick Lee (Patrick.S.Lee@yale.edu) and Richard M. 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