CBA 2014 Annual Conference
New Waves in the Biotech Industry
The 17th Annual Conference of Chinese Bioscience Association
October 4, 2014, Crown Plaza, Foster City, CA
Conference Agenda
9:00 – 9:30 am | Registration, Networking & Exhibitions |
9:30 – 9:35 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks Dr. Michelle Chen, President |
9:35 – 9:40 am | Conference Introduction, Dr. Patty Kiang, Conference Chair |
Session I | Entrepreneurship (Moderator: Michelle Chen) |
9:40 – 10:20 am | Keynote Speech “Targeted cancer therapy: successes and failures at ONYX Pharmaceuticals” Dr. Frank McCormick, Professor, UCSF, Founder of Onyx |
10:20 – 10:50 am | “The Three Certainties: Death, Taxes and Change” Mr. Stephen Isaacs, Chairman and CEO, Aduro BioTech |
10:50 – 11:20 am | “From Undergraduate Researcher to CEO: The Tactic Pharma Story” Dr. Chandler Robinson, CEO, Tactic Pharma |
11:20 – 11:50 am | “Venture Development and Venture Creation – A new take on ‘East meets West’” Dr. Joan Lau, Founder and Managing Partner of Militia Hill Ventures |
11:50 am– 12:20 pm | Networking & Exhibitions |
Lunch Session (Moderator: Patty Kiang) | |
12:20 – 12:30 pm | Youth Scholarship Award (Caesar Ho) |
12:30 – 1:00 pm | “From San Francisco to Taiwan & China- A Journey of Commitment” Dr. Jo Shen, Co-founder & former CEO, ScinoPharm |
Session II | Stem Cells/Regulatory/Drug Delivery (Moderator: Lin Sun-Hoffman) |
1:00 – 1:30 pm | “iPSCs for Cardiac Drug Discovery and Disease Mechanism” Dr. Joseph Wu, Professor, Stanford University, Founder of Stem Cell Theranostics |
1:30 – 2:00 pm | “Stem Cell Therapy: A Regulatory Perspective” Mr. Scott Cunningham, Partner, Covington & Burling, LLP |
2:00 – 2:30 pm | “Nektar’s Pipeline and Technologies” Dr. Maninder Hora |
2:30 – 3:00 pm | “Better Therapeutics Through Innovative Delivery” Mr. Zander Strange, VP Strategy and Corp. Dev., Zosano Pharma |
3:00 – 3:30 pm | Networking & Exhibitions |
Session III | Diagnostics/Digital Health (Moderator: Sydney Chen) |
3:30 – 4:00 pm | “Advanced Cell Diagnostics, Inc. – Developing breakthrough technologies for precision molecular diagnostics to enable more effective cancer treatment with targeted therapeutics” Dr. Christopher Bunker, VP Business Dev., Advanced Cell Diagnostics |
4:00 – 4:30 pm | “Mobile health: Rising tide in healthcare industry” Dr. Gabriel Chao |
4:30 – 5:00 pm | “The Percans Story” Dr. Yiyou Chen, CEO, Percans Oncology |
5:00 pm | Closing Remarks by Dr. Patty Kiang |
Post conference info.
Download the Conference Proceeding (PDF 19 MB)
Conference Video Highlights: New Waves in the Biotech Industry–YouTube Link