| Conference Program | Vendors | Poster Presentations | |||
| 7:30 AM | Registration and Networking; Coffee and Pastries Available | ||||
| 8:30 AM |
Welcome Steve Sosik, Chairman, Bioscience Summit Committee Stephen Curry Ph.D., D.Sc. (Med.), Chairman, Rochester BioCluster Howard Federoff, MD, Ph.D., Sr. Assoc. Dean of Basic Research, University of Rochester Medical Center |
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| 8:45 AM |
Plenary Session "Integrating Outside Research and Biotechnology Products to 'BigPharma'" John Amatruda, MD, Vice President, Clinical Research Merck & Co. |
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| 9:30 AM | Break | ||||
| 9:45 AM | Plenary Session | Vendors will be set up before lunchtime on Day 1 and remain open through lunchtime on Day 2. | |||
| Coating Technology: Key to Rochester's Past, Present and Future, Dave Glocker, Isoflux Incorporated | |||||
| New Initiatives in Vaccine and Antibody Therapies, Maurice Zauderer, Ph.D., Vaccinex | |||||
| Biomarkers, Stephen Dertinger, Ph.D., Litron Laboratories | |||||
| Neurodegeneration, Howard Federoff, MD, Ph.D., University of Rochester Medical Center | |||||
| Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Lipidic nano particle Mediated Enhancement of Therapeutic Efficacy of Proteins, Sathy V. Balu-Iyer (S. Balasubramanian), Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Buffalo | |||||
| 12:00 PM |
Lunch and Networking Introduction by Douglas Merrill, Rochester Institute of Technology |
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| Poster Presentations Exhibited | |||||
| 1:00 PM |
Roundtable Discussion with Western New York
Business Organizations "How We Help You and Your Business" Stephen Curry, Ph.D., Rochester BioCluster David Tyler, BuffLink Heather Erickson, CNY MedTech Facilitated by Jim Denn, NYSTAR |
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| 2:00 PM | Break | ||||
| 2:15 PM | Business Track | Research/Scientific Track | Education/Training Track | ||
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Defining and Protecting Your Intellectual
Property Michael L. Goldman Lawrence M. Sung, Ph.D. Nixon Peabody |
Stem Cells Mark Noble, Ph.D., University of Rochester |
Biotechnology Education in Upstate NY-
Turbo-training, the CBET Certificate Program Roy Snoke, Ph.D., Rochester Institute of Technology |
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The Incubation Experience Paul Wetenhall High Tech Rochester Jose Mir, Infotonics |
Biologically Activated Drug Storage Materials Emmanuel Giannelis, Ph.D., Cornell University |
research-driven Project Management (rPM) in the Life Sciences business environment: "It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it!", Rodney Brown, PharmaNova | |||
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Risk Managemen Strategiest/Bio-Specific
Insurance Issues Cindy Bostley, First Niagara Risk Management; Catherine Brady, Chubb Insurance; and Michael D. Smith Jr., Commerce Banc Insurance Services Inc. |
Development of an Effective, Licensed Vaccine
for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer Robert C. Rose, PhD, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry |
Overview of Statistical Experimental Designs (DOE) Applied to Biochemical Engineering, Eric Otto, Genencor | |||
| Label-Free Array-Based Techniques for Biomolecular Sensing: Towards Novel Diagnostics, Benjamin L. Miller, Ph.D., University of Rochester Medical Center | |||||
| Biological Adhesion for Stem Cell and Cancer Therapy, Michael R. King, Ph.D., University of Rochester | |||||
| 4:30 PM | Break | ||||
| 5:00 PM |
Keynote Address Staying Ahead: Innovation for the Day After Tomorrow James Burke |
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| 6:15 PM | Wine Cheese Reception with Cash Bar; Simultaneous VIP reception with James Burke with conference sponsors. | ||||
| 7:15 PM | Dinner and Awards Ceremony | ||||