The 6th Annual Peptide Therapeutics Symposium
will take place in San Diego on October 20 - 21, 2011.

Updated Agenda

The 6th Annual Peptide Therapeutics Symposium
San Diego, October 21 - 22, 2010

San Diego Marriott La Jolla
4240 La Jolla Village Drive,
La Jolla, CA  92037

Thursday, October 21st  
4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m. – 5.10 p.m. 
Registration Check-in
Welcoming Remarks
5:10 p.m. – 6.30 p.m.  Venture Capital Panel Discussion
Attractive Financing Structures for Emerging Biotechnology Companies

Panel Moderator Richard DiMarchi, Ph.D. , Symposium Chairman & Director, Peptide Therapeutics Foundation, Linda and Jack Gill Chair in Biomolecular Sciences & Professor of Chemistry, Indiana University
Panelists John Diekman, Ph.D., Founder & Managing Partner, 5AM Ventures
Shehan Dissanayake, PhD, CEO, Tavistock Life Sciences
Malcolm Finlayson, Ph.D., Venture Partner, Hamilton Bioventures
Pratik Shah, Ph.D., Venture Partner, Thomas McNerney & Partners

6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Opening Reception
Friday, October 22nd  
7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Registration Check-in
Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Opening Remarks
8:45 a.m. – 9:25 a.m. Stephen B.H. Kent, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago
Chemical Synthesis in the Development of Protein Therapeutics

9:25 a.m. – 10:05 a.m. Carlos Barbas III, Ph.D., Janet and Keith Kellogg II Chair in Molecular  Biology Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute
Chemically Programmed Immunity: Making Peptides Drugs and More

10:05 am. – 10:45 a.m. Erkki Ruoslahti, M.D., Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute
Tumor-penetrating Peptides in Targeted Tumor Treatment

10:45 a.m.  – 11:10 a.m. Beverage Break
11:10 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. Inder Verma, Ph.D., Professor, Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair in Exemplary Life Science, Laboratory of Genetics and American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Glioblastoma:  Cancer Stem Cells and Reprogramming

11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Kit Lam, M.D., Professor and Chief, Hematology and Oncology, University of California, Davis, Cancer Center 
From Combinatorial Chemistry to Nanoparticles to Cancer Imaging and Therapy

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Thomas Bumol, Ph.D., President, Applied Molecular Evolution & Vice President Biotechnology, Lilly Research Laboratory
Protein Engineering: A Key Innovation Path for Novel Biopharmaceuticals

2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Richard Jones, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Syntaxin
Early Clinical Development of Novel Biologics: A Comprehensive Overview

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Richard Ross, M.D., Chief Scientific Officer and Director, Asterion
Ligand-receptor Fusions for the Generation of Long-acting Biopharmaceuticals

3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Beverage Break
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Hans-Peter Gerber, Ph.D., Senior Director Pfizer
Antibody Drug Conjugates:  Current and Future Developments

4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Peter Senter, Ph.D., Vice President Chemistry, Seattle Genetics 
Enhancing the Activities of Monoclonal Antibodies for Cancer Therapy

 
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Ho Sung Cho, Ph.D., Chief Technical Officer, Ambrx Inc.
New Horizons in Protein Medicinal Chemistry Enabled with anExpanded Genetic Code

5:00p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Closing Remarks
5:15 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Networking Reception

Please visit our website to register for the meeting www.peptidetherapeutics.org.

Sincerely,

Program Committee
Peptide Therapeutics Foundation

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