Drug Discovery/Development meetings & conferences

3rd Annual International Conference on Advances in Biotechnology (BioTech 2013)

18 - 19 March 2013 Singapore

Biotechnology is a field of applied biology that involves the use of living organisms and bioprocesses in engineering, technology, medicine and other fields requiring bioproducts. The concept encompasses a wide range of procedures for modifying living organisms according to human purposes - going back to domestication of animals, cultivation of plants, and "improvements" to these through breeding programs that employ artificial selection and hybridization.

This multi-disciplinary conference aims to provide a challenging forum and vibrant opportunity for researchers and industry practitioners to share their original research results and practical development experiences on specific new challenges and emerging issues.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Pharmaceutical / Medicine

• Structural Biology
• Proteomics
• Cell Cycle and Oncology
• Medical Microbiology
• Diagnostic Pathology
• Clinical Chemistry
• Haematology
• Diagnostic Imaging
• Medical Imaging and Methods
• Sonography
• Molecular and Cell Biology
• Biochemistry
• Immunology
• Genetics
• Neurobiology
• Drug production
• Pharmacogenomics
• Gene therapy
• Factors for transcribing DNA into RNA
• Monoclonol antibodies
• Pathogenesis of Human Diseases
• Presymptomatic testing

Food and Agriculture

• Genetic engineering
• Genomics
• Tissue culture
• Cell fusion
• Molecular biology
• Enzymology
• Fermentation processes
• Instrumentation and diagnostic methods
• Food processing
• Biofertilizer
• Waste Technology
• Environment Control
• Pest and diseases resistant crop
• High value addictives and chemical products
• Immunological techniques
• Signal transduction
• Conjugation
• Classical mutagenesis
• Conjugation process
• Hybridisation

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT

Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF)
10 Anson Road, International Plaza,
Singapore 079903
DID : +65 6327 0166
Fax : +65 6327 0162

For Conference Information info@advbiotech.org
For Registration, Accommodation or Visa Assistance secretariat@advbiotech.org

SLAS2013, the 2nd Annual Society for Laboratory Automation & Screening Conference and Exhibition

January 12-16, 2013 Orlando, Florida

Prepare Now to Experience Repeatable Inspiration

SLAS2013 inspires your scientific creativity. And, with what you'll experience and learn, you'll find repeatable inspiration for applying ideas to real-world challenges long after you leave Orlando, Florida.

Plan now to join more than 4,500 of your laboratory science and technology colleagues — innovative scientists, engineers, researchers and technologists from academic, government and commercial laboratories — at SLAS2013. You have access to 130 outstanding podium presentations comprising 30 unique scientific sessions, over 300 posters and new and emerging technologies from 300+ exhibitors from around the world. Your time is an invaluable investment that pays off for your personal goals and your professional success.

SLAS2013 Tracks:

Assay Development and Screening
Bioanalytical Techniques
Diagnostics
Drug Target Biology
High-Throughput Technologies
Informatics
Micro/Nano Technologies

Biannual Non-Clinical Statistics Conference

24-26 September 2012, Potsdam, Germany

Key Topics

-- Statistical methods in functional genomics
-- Design and analysis of drug stability studies
-- Statistical evaluation of studies in regulatory toxicology
-- Bioassays
-- Analysis of in-vitro and in-vivo studies for new non-neoplastic compounds
-- Transfer of analytical methods
-- Pharmacological studies
-- Bayesian statistics in pre-clinical drug development
-- Incorporating pre-clinical results in clinical development
-- Other non-clinical applications

Who should attend

Statisticians with an interest in the application of statistics to non-clinical areas of the drug development and production process. Whether you work in the pharmaceutical industry, contract research organizations, academia, regulatory and other government bodies, this event will be relevant to you.

Cambridge Healthtech Institute Inaugural Innovative Tissue-Based Diagnostics Conference

June 4-5, 2012 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Innovative Tissue-Based Diagnostics is designed to feature recent breakthroughs in the field of pathology such as testing for predictive cancer biomarkers, decoding cancer molecular profiles, next generation sequencing, circulating tumor cells, etc. The goal of the conference is to enhance knowledge and experience exchange among industry and research pathologists as well as other researchers working with human tissue. This meeting will highlight the new generation of tissue-based diagnostic technologies aimed primarily towards molecular diagnostics of cancer. In addition, a session dedicated to the fascinating field of in vivo pathology will be offered.

KEY TAKE AWAYS:
• Learn about pathology's contribution and role in cancer drug development
• Get updates on how cancer pathology helps create genetically informed cancer medicine
• Learn how next generation sequencing has revolutionized genomics and is now on the verge of being widely adopted for medical sequencing
• Hear insights into in vivo microscopy and intra-operative optical imaging – a fascinating new and rapidly developing field of diagnostic medicine
• Get instructed on the challenges and solutions in assay development for the clinical setting

SESSIONS:

• Pathology in Cancer Drug Development
• Molecular Pathology as the Driving Force for Personalized Oncology
• Bridging Radiology-Pathology Divide

PRE-CONFERENCE SHORT COURSE - June 4 (9:00 am - 12:00 pm) Next-Generation Sequencing as a Diagnostics Platform

Cambridge Healthtech Institute:
250 First Avenue
Suite 300
Needham, MA 02494
Phone: 781-972-5400
Toll-Free: 888-999-6288
Fax: 781-972-5425
Web: www.chicorporate.com

10th International Rotavirus Symposium

19 - 21 September 2012 Bangkok, Thailand

The 10th International Rotavirus Symposium will be held 19-21 September, 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand. It will bring together interested stakeholders to provide an update on new data and relevant research that will inform public health agendas related to prevention of rotavirus gastroenteritis.

Main Session Topics
Participants will discuss the latest results of trials of new rotavirus vaccines in developing country settings, issues in vaccine policy and introduction, and early post-marketing data on vaccine impact and safety. Scheduled sessions include:

* Update on rotavirus vaccines
* Early experiences with introduction of new rotavirus vaccines
* Epidemiology and burden of rotavirus disease
* The pipeline for rotavirus vaccines
* The next steps for rotavirus vaccines

Mathematical and Computational Medicine Conference 2012

Saturday December 1 2012 - Wednesday December 5 2012 Xcaret, Mexico

The purpose of the Zing Conference on Mathematical and Computational Medicine is to bring together eminent scholars with expertise in various fields of mathematical and computational medicine, as well as experimentalists and medical doctors interested in application of computational methods in clinical studies. The mathematical and computational medicine is now one of the most important and rapidly growing fields of modern medicine, and will become even more important in nearest future, when the cost of individual human gene sequencing becomes affordable for mass-scale clinical use (The $1000 Human Genome). New sequencing techniques, such as RNA-Seq produce enormous amount of information on the transcriptome in healthy and diseased cells, that need a development of new mathematical and computational methods to extract the most important medical information. The scope of the proposed Zing Conference will cover many different fields mathematical and computational medicine and biomedical informatics, such as genetics, genomics, epigenetics, and epigenomics of various diseases including mental and learning disorders, autism, and somatic diseases, with a special emphasis on cancer, protein misfolding disorders related to amyloid formation in neurogenerative diseases (such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease), gene regulation, biomarker development, computer aided drug development, computational pharmacodynamics, computational immunology, systems biology and its extension to systems medicine, machine learning methods in application to biomedical data, applicability of computational methods in personalized medicine, and regenerative medicine. A special session will be devoted to errors in measurements of biomedical data and statistical evidence-based medicine.

For general queries about conference attendance, registration, payment, accommodation, etc. please email info~at~zingconferences.com (replace '~at~' with '@').

European Molecular Biology Laboratory Conference Series: Chemical Biology 2012

EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Wednesday 26 September - Saturday 29 September 2012

Why You Should Attend

Chemical Biology is a quickly growing highly interdisciplinary field, which investigates biological questions by using chemical strategies and tools. It has emerged to become an important and central discipline by itself complementing areas such as medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, cell biology, structural biology and biochemistry. Researchers in Chemical Biology find themselves at home in the chemistry and the biology lab and fuse the experimental possibilities that both have to offer.

Aims of event
The biennial series aims to give an overview on the current status of the fast evolving field and an outlook to where the field is heading. The conference will provide a unique opportunity for scientists using diverse research approaches and methods to come together and to network. It is structured to enhance exchange and discussions between researchers, for the benefit of their own research as well as for the progress of the field.

Topics
The conference will cover a broad area of approaches and methods used in Chemical Biology including:

Molecular imaging and switching tools

Computational and structural approaches

Innovative drug design approaches

Chemical genetics and high throughput methods

Novel synthetic methods as applied to biological questions

Chemical protein engineering

Chemical cell biology

History of Conference

The conference Chemical Biology 2010 was held at the new Advanced training Centre at EMBL Heidelberg. Due to the large success of the initial conference in 2008, Chemical Biology 2010 and the following conferences in the biennial series became a member of the family of EMBO-funded conferences. With about 30 invited speakers, 20 oral presentations chosen from the abstracts, 180 posters and over 300 participants, the 2010 event was a truly impressive success.

Contact

EMBL Course and Conference Office
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Meyerhofstraße 1
69117 Heidelberg
Germany

Tel: +49 6221 387 8908
Fax: +49 6221 387 8158

13th International Congress of the Society for Ethnopharmacology

in collaboration with the

Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research

and

Eurasia Pacific Uninet

September 2 - 6, 2012 Graz, Austria

The International Society for Ethnopharmacology is a collaborative, interdisciplinary group of scientists - anthropologists, pharmacists, pharmacologists, ethnobotanists, phytochemists, and others - all fascinated by the study of the local and global use of traditional medicines.

The 13th International Congress of the Society for Ethnopharmacology will be organized in collaboration with the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research and Eurasia-Pacific Uninet, and will be hosted by University of Graz, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in Graz/Austria from September 2 - 6, 2012.

Traditional medicinal knowledge has been transferred over the centuries and also over wide distances, and develops into globalised herbal medicine. In this congress we want to focus in particular on the intercultural aspects of herbal medicine and its relevance in modern societies. As an example, we want to discuss the relevance of the Silk Road for the exchange of medicinal plants and medicinal knowledge between east and west.

The research topics presented in plenary and keynote lectures will in particular deal with a holistic approach and the application of systems biology in medicinal plant research. Special emphasis will be on traditional and modern herbal medicinal products in ageing related and infectious diseases. However, presentations from other areas of ethnopharmacology will also be accepted as short lectures and posters.

MAIN SCIENTIFIC TOPICS

Intercultural ethnopharmacology Ethnomedicine along the Silk Road Herbal medicines - from traditional knowledge to global commodities Holistic approach and systems biology in medicinal plant research Traditional and modern herbal medicinal products in aging related diseases Traditional and modern herbal medicinal products in infectious diseases

Research contributions (short lectures, posters) related to the main scientific topics of the conference or other fields of ethnopharmacological plant research are warmly welcomed.

All abstracts must be submitted in pdf-format via our conference management system not later than April 1, 2012.

All correspondence concerning scientific items should be addressed to:

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Bauer
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department of Pharmacognosy

Karl-Franzens-University Graz
Universitätsplatz 4
8010 Graz, Austria

Phone: +43-(0)316 380-8700
Fax: +43-(0)316 380-9860
E-mail: rudolf.bauer@uni-graz.at

All correspondence concerning registration and practical matters should be addressed to:

The Organizing Secretariat

Mag. Claudia Thenius
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department of Pharmacognosy

Karl-Franzens-University Graz
Universitätsplatz 4
A-8010 Graz, Austria

Phone: +43-(0)316 380-5525
Fax: +43-(0)316 380-9860
E-mail: ise13@uni-graz.at

International Symposium on Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics ISOPT Clinical 2013

March 7-10, 2013 Paris, France

ISOPT will reconvene in Paris March 7 – 10 for our 10th symposium. Over the years, ISOPT has repeatedly shaped its form so it can accommodate to provide a collaborative atmosphere for clinicians, clinical trialists, pharma industry and regulatory officers. Our formed vision has been to increase knowledge and awareness of drug usage in ophthalmology reflecting innovations and their utilization in practice. In order to achieve this vision ISOPT is set to implement the following missions:

Educate via updating and sharing current and evolving treatment algorithms for practitioners.

Connect data arising from clinical studies to actual daily practice.

Facilitate innovation via panels and discussions of early and late “development related topics”.

We invite you to join us in Paris, and become a part of ISOPT, bring your own experience and insights of treating your patients, be exposed to the last two year clinical experience gained in major industry supported studies and be part of the efforts to reflect scientific data to clinical reality and patient care.

ISOPT has become famous for its informal atmosphere and the ability to meet experts and faculty leaders for “out of the lecture hall” discussions.

Whether your field of interest is in retinal diseases, inflammation, cornea and external diseases, glaucoma or basic science you may contribute and be part of the ISOPT spirit.

Focused Update in Medical Management

Retina

Dry AMD

Wet AMD

Diabetic Retinopathy

Diabetic Macular Edema

Retinal Vein Occlusion

Retinal Degeneration

Devices & Drug Delivery

Inflammation & Infection
Allergic Conjunctivitis

Treatment Updates

Clinical Studies for Uveitis

Cases Presentation

Ocular Infections

Basic Science

Therapy of Neovascularization

Inhibition of Diabetic Retinopathy

Antioxidants and Nutrition

Vascular Targets

Gene Therapy

Glaucoma

Conventional & Potential Glaucoma Therapy

Glaucoma Therapy & Ocular Surface

Inraocular Pressure & Glaucoma

Blood Flow & Glaucoma

External Eye Diseases
Dry Eye Treatment Innovations

Dry Eye-Ocular Surface Clinical Trials

Wound Healing

External Eye Diseases

Anterior Segment Imaging

Devices

Drug Development

Drug Delivery

Imaging

Toxicology

Nano Technology

Regulation of Ophthalmic Products

Ethics

A platform for informal communication with experts in drug development

Symposium Secretariat

Paragon Conventions
18, Avenue Louis-Casai
1209 Geneva, Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0)22 5330 948
Fax: +41 (0)22 5802 953
Email: isopt@isopt.net

ITBAM '12 3rd International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics

Vienna (Austria) September 3 - 7, 2012

Data intensive disciplines, such as life sciences and medicine, are promoting vivid research activities in the area of databases. Modern technologies, such as high-throughput mass-spectrometry and sequencing, micro-arrays, high-resolution imaging, etc. produce enormous and continuously increasing amounts of data. Huge public databases provide access to aggregated and consolidated information on genome and protein sequences, biological pathways, diseases, anatomy atlases, and scientific literature. There has never been more potentially available information to study biomedical systems, ranging from single cells to complete organisms. However, it is a non-trivial task to transform the vast amount of biomedical data into actionable information triggering scientific progress and supporting patient management. Major biomedical application scenarios for research in the database community include but are not limited to:

Systems biology
Genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics
Genome-wide association studies
Drug target discovery and personalized medicine
Neuroscience and neuroinformatics
Electronic patient records
Patient monitoring
Surgery planning and support
etc.

Various emerging database technologies for coping with the challenges of these application scenarios have been developed and are an active area of research in information technology:
Administration of vast amounts of data
Integration of heterogeneous data sources
Federated and distributed databases
Data warehouses
Data mining techniques such as classification, clustering, association rule mining, etc.
Decision support systems
Information and image retrieval
Signal processing and streaming databases
Privacy protection and data security
Data quality assurance
Process management and collaborative work
User interfaces and visualization
Interoperability and standardization
etc.

Designing database technology to support applications in life sciences and medicine is an inspiring field of interdisciplinary research. The path from an idea to a practical application is often long and laborious, involving intensive interactions between experts in information technology, life sciences and the medical field. ITBAM accompanies and supports this path by providing an excellent venue for the exchange of ideas, fruitful discussion, and effective interaction among interdisciplinary researchers.