Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association

Greater Philadelphia Chapter (SAPA-GP)

Workshop Series

 

Pharmaceutical and Biotech Business Development

 

1:00 PM – 5:30 PM, Saturday, December 13, 2003

 

Waldron Center, Gwynedd-Mercy College,

1325 Sumneytown Pike, Gwynedd Valley, PA 19437

 

Registration – 12:30  to 1:00pm

 (Free to SAPA Members, $10.0 for non-SAPA Members)

 

Opening Remark (1:00-1:05)

 

Bo Liang, Ph. D, President of SAPA-GP

 

Ge Li, Ph.D

Founder and CEO of Wuxi Pharmatech

“Service for Product” – A case study of WuXi PharmaTech

(1:05pm – 1:35pm)

 

Lance Y. Liu, Ph.D

Patent Attorney Pfizer 

Basics of US Patent Law

(1:35pm – 2:05pm)

 

Nanthan Xin Zhang, Ph.D, MBA

President, Shenzhen ChipScreen Bioscience

“Hidden Dragon, Crunching Tiger” - The Rising of Chinese Biotech Industry

(2:05pm – 2:35pm)

 

Break (2:35pm – 3:00pm)

 

George Y. Li, Ph.D

CTO, CombiPhos Catalysts, Inc.

From Scientist to Entrepreneur

(3:00pm – 3:30pm)

 

Alan L. Zeiger

Partner and Head of EmergingCompanies Practice , Blank Rome, LLC

Legal Issues of Starting a Hightech/Biotech Company

(3:30pm – 4:00pm)

 

 Mark Tang, Ph.D, MBA

President, World Technology Ventures, LLC

State of Biotech Financing and Pointers for Would-be Bioentrepreneurs
(4:00pm – 4:30pm)

 

 Huacheng Wei, MBA

Chairman, Beijing Pharmaceutical Group Co

The future of Chinese Pharmaceutical Industry

 (4:30pm – 5:00pm)

 

Panel Discussion will be held at SAPA-GP 2003 Holiday Dinner Party

(Start from 6:00pm at Golden City Chinese Restaurant, $25/person)

(118 Bethlehem Pike Rt. 309, Colmar, PA 18915)

 

 

Corporate Sponsor

 

CombiPhos Catalysts, Inc.