Pharma-Bio Med 2006 - Preliminary Partial Programme

We are delighted to announce the Preliminary Partial Programme for Pharma-Bio-Med 2006 Conference & Exposition which will take place November 12th - 15th, 2006 in Lisbon, Portugal.

The Preliminary Partial Programme, listed below, features many authoritative speakers. Further presentations are being added to the programme and will be announced as soon as details become available. Be sure to bookmark the Pharma-Bio-Med website at http://www.pharma-bio-med.com/index.html and the Programme page at http://www.pharma-bio-med.com/programme.html and check this on an ongoing basis for the very latest programme details, including all current presentation abstracts and speaker biographies.

Pharma-Bio-Med 2007 Preliminary Partial List of Speakers

1. Approaches to Information Integration
Ben Gardner, Biology Data Manager with Research Informatics Scientific Information Services Group, Pfizer

2. Making External Information Management a Strategic Practice for Pharma Companies – Shortening Drug Development Time
Ann-Marie Ashton, Senior Info. Specialist (Bioscience), Global Info. Science and Libraries; AstraZeneca R&D

3. User, Author, Marketeer – Three Roles for Pharma in Scientific Publishing; Three Good Reasons for Partnering with Publishers
Henning P. Nielsen, Head of the Library & Information Centre, Novo Nordisk

4. Drug Discovery, Development, and to Market Faster – Strategic Practices for Using External Information
(To be confirmed)

5. Searching, Mining, and Analysis of Scientific & Patent Information for
Evaluating Drug Discovery Technologies: A Case Study
Luca Falciola, Patent Attorney, RiboVax Biotechnologies

6. Surfing the Pipeline: Tracking Changes in Drugs-in-Development Databases
John Willmore, BizInt Solutions, Inc.

7. Do End-Users Find the Right Information?
Aalt van de Kuilen, Senior Information Specialist, Solvay Pharmaceuticals B.V.

8. Competitor Information Retrieval & Analysis
(To be confirmed)

9. Integration of Information Retrieval & Analysis
(To be confirmed)

10. User Needs: New Content, Connected Content, Functional Content
Vincent Cassidy, Director of Marketing, Corporate Division, Elsevier

11. Shaping Up the Regulatory/Technical Pharmaceutical Intelligence Puzzle
Sara Furie, Regulatory & Information Consultant, Ramat HaSharon, Israel

12. Mining Chemical and Biomedical Information from the Literature, What’s Next?
(To be confirmed)

13. Evolving Information Needs During the Drug Life Cycle
(To be confirmed)

14. Avoid Pitfalls by Knowing your Databases to Get What You Want in Medical and Biomedical Information
Guillemette Utard, Chief Librarian, BIUM University (Largest Medical Library in France)

15. Text Mining Versus Indexed Databases – A Comparison Based on Tests and Studies
(To be confirmed)

16. The Drugs Don’t Work – Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine
Tracy Davis, Database Development Manager, Future Science Group

17. Digital Rights, Copyright Issues and Contract Development
(To be confirmed)

18. Workshop: New Tools to Monitor Publications on Your Products
Tessa Sterkenburg, Senior Product Manager Customized Services, EMSCOPES, Amsterdam

19. Workshop: Drug Safety and EMBASE
Lisette Cleyndert, Senior Product Manager EMBASE

20. Workshop: New Sources for Drug Safety Information
Phil MacLaughlin, Senior Product Manager, Drug Safety Group, Elsevier MDL

21. Workshop: Finding Efficiencies in the Search for Business Intelligence
Julie Gordon, Director, Emerging Products, Excerpta Medica, Amsterdam

22. Workshop: Why Should Your Organisation be Using SCOPUS?
Sheila Bennett, Product Sales Manager, Scopus & Emscopes, European Corporate Sales, Elsevier

23. Workshop: Keep Abreast of key Events and Obtain Informed Insight – in the Medical, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Sectors
Jeremy Snelling, Director, Reuters Health

24. Workshop: Knowledge Discovery in IP and Research Documents Using Text Mining and 3D-Visualisation
Anton Heijs, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, Treparel Information Solutions BV

Best Regards,
Cathie Anderson
Pharma-Bio-Med 2006