Dear SAPA-NE members and friends:
SAPA-NE is proud to present you its 10th Scientific Symposium at Tang Center MIT Sloan School of
Management on Nov. 10th (Sat. 1:00PM-6:00PM). The theme of the symposium is “Seeding Innovation for
Break-through Therapies”.
In the symposium, there will be six distinguished speakers from Wyeth, Biogen-Idec, Novartis, Amgen,
Genzyme and Harvard. The presentation topics of the symposium range from drug discovery in Neuroregeneration and metabolic diseases to clinical development of new cancer therapies, and to novel strategic
partnering in cardiovascular drug discovery. Especially, Wyeth AVP Dr. Wozney, a finalist of 2007 Prix Galien
Award USA, will talk about how he and his team discovered and developed an innovative bone-inductive
therapeutic INFUSETM and its delivery system InductOsTM. The product has been launched and marketed
worldwide since 2005, and found widespread use in orthopaedics. Dr. Wozney was named R&D Directions
“Top 20 scientists” along with Nobel laureates Andrew Fire and Craig Mello.
Besides providing scientific learning in Drug discovery, the symposium will also be an excellent networking
opportunity with Pharma/Biotech managements and with scientists. Job openings and career opportunity from
companies such as Wyeth, Biogen-Idec and Pfizer, are available. For details of the symposium, please visit our
web site at www.sapaweb.org
Speakers:
Dr. John Wozney (AVP-Wyeth)
Dr. Axel Nohtufft (Prof.-Harvard University)
Dr. Gene Liau (Director-Novartis)
Dr. Sha Mi (Director-Biogen-Idec)
Dr. Vinod Patel (Director-Amgen)
Dr. Sam Wadsworth (VP-Genzyme)
When:
Saturday, November 10th, 1:00-6:00 pm
Where:
Tang Center, Building E51, Room# 315, Sloan Business School, MIT
Address: 2 Ambers Street, Cambridge MA
Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?state=0&prl.x=3948prl.y=123
Who:
All are welcome!
Registration Fee: Free for SAPA and MIT ETF members, unemployed, MIT, Harvard and all students.
10$ for non-members and other participants.
Contact Persons:
Xiaotian Zhong at 617-281-1922, xiaotian_zhong@yahoo.com;
Dongli Chen at 617-548-2782, chendb2000@yahoo.com
Mark Lin at 617-780-1450, hlin88@yahoo.com
Bingli Ma at 978-302-5476, bingli_ma@yahoo.com
We look forward to seeing you there.
Warmest Regards,
SAPA-NE Executive Committee
SAPA-NE, 7 Mohawk Road, Burlington, MA 01803
http://www.sapaweb.org