2018 CBA Annual Conference Agenda
Date& Time: Oct. 6, 2018 (8:00am-5:00pm PDT)
Location: Crowne Plaza, Foster City, CA
Theme: Building Bridges to Biotech Innovations
CBA 2018 Annual Conference
8:00 – 8:30 am
Registration, Networking, and Exhibitions
8:30 – 8:35 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Mark Chen, Ph.D., CBA President
8:35 – 8:40 am
Conference Introduction
Thomas Wei, Ph.D., CBA Conference Chair
Morning Keynote Presentation (Moderators: Mark Chen and Lin Sun-Hoffman)
8:40 – 9:20 am
Marker-guided targeted therapy, PARP inhibitors, and immune checkpoint therapy
Mien-Chie Hung, Ph.D. (Basic Research VP, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas)
9:20 – 10:00 am
Entrepreneurship in China
Wei Wang (Sinopharm Group, President)
*Interpreter: Tom Zhang
10:00 – 10:15 am
Networking and Exhibitions
Session I: Drug Regulation (Moderator: Kai Zheng)
10:15 – 10:45 am
Regulatory considerations in the IND submission of antibody and related products
Audrey Jia, Ph.D. (Principal Consultant, DataRevive LLC)
10:45 am – 11:15 am
Regulatory consideration for clinical development in product life cycle management
Ardelle Ying, Ph.D. (Program Director, Genentech)
11:15 am – 11:45 am
Accelerate new drug development: Paradigm shift in the post-ICH regulatory systems in China, and US
Dan Zhang, Ph.D. (Chairman and CEO, Fountain Medical Development Ltd)
Special Talk (Introduced by: Huifang Li)
11:45 am – 12:15 pm
Career Development for Life – IQ, EQ, and SQ / Career Opportunities in the FDA
George Chang, Ph.D.(Senior Pharmacologist, FDA)
12:15 pm– 12:25pm
Sponsor Presentation
Eirgenix
12:25 – 1:15 pm
Lunch, Networking and Exhibitions
1:15 – 1:25 pm
CBA Scholarship Award
Afternoon Keynote Presentation (Introduced by: Thomas Wei)
1:25 – 2:05pm
Engineering Biological Computers for Human Health Applications
Timothy Lu, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, MIT)
Session II: Digital Health and Big Data (Moderator: Michelle Chen)
2:05 – 2:35pm
Online dermatology transition from dermatologists to artificial intelligence
Alexander Börve, MD (Founder & CEO, First Derm)
2:35 – 3:05pm
Genomic revolution and blockchain
Huijun Zhou, Ph.D. (Co-founder, Doctor Chain)
3:05 – 3:35pm
Using Genomic Features to Make Smart Clinical Decisions: the Power of Machine Learning and RNA-seq
Jing Huang, Ph.D. (SVP of Bioinformatics and Data Science, Veracyte Inc.)
3:35 – 3:50pm
Networking and Exhibitions
3:50 – 4:50pm
Investment and Entrepreneurship Panel Discussion (Moderator: Lin Sun-Hoffman)
Jo Shen, Ph.D. (Vivo Capital)
Keting Chu, Ph.D.(Lyfe Venture)
Jimmy Zhang, Ph.D. MBA (Lily Asia Venture)
Guoliang Yu, Ph.D. (Global CEO of CBT Pharmaceuticals)
4:50 – 4:55 pm
Closing Remarks
Thomas Wei, Ph.D., CBA Conference Chair
Tickets
Early Bird (by 9/28/2018)
Regular(9/29/2018 – 10/5/2018)
On-site(10/6/2018)
Member
$35
$55
$100
Non-member
$55
$75
$100
Student (with .edu email)
$10
$10
$30
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