SVP and Site Head of Pfizer La Jolla to Give Plenary Keynote Address at 4th Modern Drug Discovery and Development Summit

Released on: June 10, 2008, 10:25 am

Press Release Author: GTCbio

Industry: Biotech

Press Release Summary: SVP and Site Head of Pfizer La Jolla to Give Plenary Keynote
Address at 4th Modern Drug Discovery & Development Summit (Oct. 15-17, 2008 - San
Diego, CA)


Press Release Body: MONROVIA, CA - Dr. Keith James, Senior Vice President and Site
Head of Pfizer La Jolla will present at the Plenary Keynote session at GTCbio's 4th
Modern Drug Discovery and Development Summit on October 15-17, 2008 at the Hilton La
Jolla Torrey Pines in La Jolla, CA.

Dr. James' will speak on the challenges & opportunities of driving global R&D
performance. His presentation will explore approaches taken at Pfizer to transform
its R&D organization, encompassing changes in all these dimensions. It will also
highlight the progress made to date in terms of hard success measures and the
outlook for the future.

Dr. James' will discuss ideal business models where organizational, therapeutic,
technology, internal and external resources are all considered, explaining which
dimensions offers the largest potential opportunity for transformation of the pharma
R&D model to deliver innovative new therapies cost-effectively and how much progress
is being made in pursuit of these changes.

The 4th Modern Drug Discovery & Development Summit features over 150 speakers
participating in 6 concurrent conferences, 6 mini sessions and 3 short symposia.
Other plenary speakers at the keynote session include John Doll, Commissioner of
Patents at the US Patent & Trademark Office, David Nicholson, SVP of Global Project
Management at Schering Plough, Ashraf Hanna, VP of Business Development at Genentech
and Sandy Macrae, VP of Business Development at GlaxoSmithKline. The 6 tracks will
cover Biological Therapeutics, Translational Medicine, Drug Design & Lead
Optimization, Emerging Targets &, Pharmacokinetics & Pharmacodynamics and
Partnering, Licensing & Outsourcing. For more information, visit www.gtcbio.com.


ABOUT GTCbio

GTCbio organizes conferences specifically for the biomedical and biopharmaceutical
industries. Our goal is to facilitate the exchange of biopharmaceutical and
biomedical intelligence between industry leaders, academic and government
organizations, and the financial community.

GTCbio is a subsidiary of Global Technology Community, LLC, a privately held company
founded in 2002.

Contact: GTCBIO (626) 256-6405, (626) 256-6460 fax, raniah@gtcbio.com


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Monrovia, Ca 91016

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