[BiO BB] Integrated R&D Informatics Systems

[Jim Prudhomme]

Advance Registration Discount Ends this Friday!

 

Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Inaugural

Adopting Integrated R&D Informatics Systems 

Data Management & Integration - How Far Have We Come?


February 25-27, 2009 | Moscone North Convention Center | San Francisco,
California

Track 9 at CHI's 16th International Molecular Medicne Tri-Conference
(www.Tri-Conference.com)

 

 

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AGENDA-AT-GLANCE:

 

Wednesday, February 25

PLENARY KEYNOTE 

Therapy Development in a Networked World

Jay M. Tenenbaum, Ph.D., Chairman and Chief Scientist, CollabRx, Inc.

 

Scientific Workflows as Productivity Tools for Drug Discovery

John Shon, MD, Ph.D., Site Head, In Silico Sciences, Roche 

 

The Role of Informatics and Genomics to Drive Innovation in Pharma 

Jakob DeVlieg, Ph.D., Global Head Molecular Design & Informatics, Molecular
Design & Informatics, Schering-Plough

 

Evolution of an Innovation Model to Support Pharma R&D

Martin D. Leach, Ph.D., Executive Director, MRL IT Basic Research &
Biomarkers, Merck & Co. Inc.

 

RISé – Research Informatics System at RISé  

Ajay Shah, Ph.D., M.B.A., P.M.P., Director, Research Informatics, Elan
Pharmaceuticals Inc.

 

Resource Management Strategies Impacting Systems Integration in R&D

David M. Sedlock, Ph.D.. Senior Director, R&D Systems, Millennium
Pharmaceuticals The TAKEDA Oncology Company

 

Democratized Serendipity: Leveraging Consumer-Oriented Technologies into
Better R&D and Better Health Care Decisions

Joseph A. Cerro, President, The Schooner Group, LLC

 

Executive Panel: Integrated R&D, How Far Have We Come?

Moderator: Susan J. Ward, Ph.D.,Executive Advisor, Biotechnology & Pharma 

Panelists: All of the above speakers

 

Breakout Discussions in the Exhibit Hall

Translational Informatics

Moderator: John Russell

* When you’re new to the translational informatics game, where’s the best
place to start? 

* If you’re well into a project, how are you measuring results? 

* What organizational barriers and what technology challenges should you
expect? 

* What’s the best approach for getting budget for new products? 

* How much of the enabling technology (hardware and software) can you buy
and how much do you have to build yourself? 

* Does anyone have favorite tools in use today, and what make them
effective? 

 

Knowledge Management 

Moderator: Susan Ward, Ph.D., Executive Advisor, Biotechnology & Pharma

* How to capture, integrate, and make data accessible when and to whom it is
needed 

* Capture and integrate gene-related information, & distribute the data
across the company 

* Optimal or realistic decision making  

 

Effective Integration Strategies

Moderator: Joseph A. Cerro, President & Founder, Schooner Group LLC

* Driving Productivity 

* Driving Workflows 

* Managing resources 

* Managing costs 

 

Thursday, February 26

PLENARY KEYNOTE

Tissue Engineering Strategies for Musculoskeletal Regenerative Medicine in
Civilian and Military Applications

Michael J. Yaszemski, Ph.D., M.D., Brigadier General, United States Air
Force Reserves, Professor, Orthopedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering,
College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic 

 

Enterprise Information Integration to Inform Biomarker Discovery and
Development: Clinical Patient, Biosample and Omics Data

Gary Mallow, Ph.D., Director, Biomarker Programs, Information Services for
Basic Research, Merck & Co., Inc.

 

A Nationwide Network to Enable Translational Research

Ken Buetow, Ph.D., NCI Associate Director, Bioinformatics and Information
Technology and Director, Center for 

Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute

 

Translating Between Pre-clinical Data and Clinical Outcomes: Successes and
Challenges

Anastasia M. Khoury Christianson, Ph.D., Senior Director and Global
Discipline Leader, Biomedical Informatics, AstraZeneca R&D Wilmington 

 

How to get the Most Out of Published Findings: Improving Information Flow
and Knowledge Enrichment Throughout Discovery 

Ilya Mazo, Ph.D., President, Ariadne

 

Scientific Informatics: The Integration of Information and Process to
Achieve Knowledge Re-Use

Frank K. Brown, Ph.D., Vice President & Chief Science Officer, Accelrys

 

Integrated Informatics - Are We There Yet?

Sandor Szalma, Ph.D., Director, R&D Informatics, Centocor R&D Inc.

 

Panel: Bridging the Divide

Moderator: John Russell

 

PLENARY KEYNOTE 

Engineering Cells to Death 

James A. Wells, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and
Professor of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California,
San Francisco

 

PLENARY KEYNOTE 

Brave New Age of Personalized Medicine

David Ewing Duncan, Chief Correspondent, NPR Talk’s “Biotech Nation” and
Best Selling Author “Masterminds”

 

Tales from the Edge: Advanced Approaches to Knowledge Integration & Search

Speaker to be announced, Roche Pharmaceuticals

 

A Strategy for Internal-External Data and Information Integration

Jason M. Johnson, Ph.D., Senior Director, Molecular Informatics, Merck &
Co., Inc.

 

Accelerating Research Through Information Exploitation

Leslie S. Sloan, Ph.D., Senior Program Manager, Chemistry Research
Informatics, Pfizer, Inc.

 

Integrating Public and Private Data

Reece Hart, Ph.D., Scientific Manager, Research Computing & Informatics,
Genentech Inc.

 

Friday, February 27

The Genomic Data Pipeline: Collecting, Cleaning, Analyzing, Integrating,
Sharing

Jeanette Papp, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Human Genetics, University of
California, Los Angeles

 

Surviving the Data Deluge: Informatics for Next Generation Sequencing

Toby Bloom, Ph.D, Director of Informatics, Genome Sequencing Platform, The
Broad Institute

 

Integrating Public Genomics Data into Pharmaceutical R&D

Hans-Martin Will, Ph.D., Senior Director, Genomics R&D, Rosetta Biosoftware

 

Search Strategies for Correlating Combined Public and Internal Large-Scale
Studies

Ilya Kupershmidt, Cofounder and Vice President Products, NextBio

 

Platform for the FDA Genetic Data Submission and Review Process 

Weida Tong, Ph.D., Director, Center for Toxicoinformatics, National Center
for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

 

Lilly’s Transition from Paper to Electronic Lab Notebooks

Keith DeVries, Ph.D., Director, Chemical Product, R&D, Eli Lilly and
Company, Lilly Research Labs 

 

Integration of Chemical Genomics and Structural Biology Informatics: Novel
Insights into the Kinase Gene Family?

Stephan Schürer, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, Miller School of
Medicine & Center for Computational Science, University of Miami

 

Techniques for Effective Integrated Access to Large Compound-oriented Drug
Discovery Databases

Michael, Lajiness, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Structural and Computational
Sciences, Eli Lilly & Company 

 

 

PRE-CONFERENCE SHORT COURSE*

Best Practices in Translational Medicine, Drug Discovery, and Informatics

Tuesday, February 24 - 2:00 - 5:00 pm

 

This course provides you with an inside look at several of the outstanding
Best Practices presented as a part of the 2008 Bio-IT World Best Practices
competition. Speakers will present their best practices, give updates to the
program and discuss pushing innovation, increasing ROI, and implementing
strategies that are the best in the industry. The forum will be invaluable
for building the innovative partnerships and strategies that will keep
pushing the industry forward. 

 

*Separate registration is required. 

 

Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities are Available

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Carol Dinerstein at 781-972-5471, dinerstein at healthtech.com

OR John Stroup at 781-972-5483, stroup at healthtech.com 

 

Group Discounts are Available

For details, contact:

David Cunningham at 781-972-5472, cunningham at healthtech.com 

 

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