About Us:

CACO Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society is a non-profit professional organization of scientists and other professionals in various pharmaceutical and life science fields, working in diverse organizations such as the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, instrumentation and analytical product suppliers, universities, government laboratories and contract research organizations. Our root in analytical chemistry, mass spectrometry, drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics is still reflected in some of the programs we organize.  Currently we have about 3000 members in the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Diego Area.

 

Mission Statement:

The mission of CACO is to promote the exchange of scientific and technical ideas, and to provide educational and growth opportunities in the fields of pharmaceutical and life science, and related disciplines. We foster interactions and disseminate information through seminar luncheons, targeted workshops (short courses), expert forums, vendor shows, and job opening announcements.

 

Event Calendar:

All of our scheduled events are listed below.  

 

·          For further event details, click on the event title and speakers’ names.

·          To register for an event, click on the Registration links in the Status column of the vent.

 

StatusDateTimePlaceEventNameMajor SponsorSpeakersEventType

>>Registered Vendors
9/10/2010
1100 - 1330
Embassy Suites: La Jolla
Metabolomics as a Unique Biochemical Approach for Therapeutic Discovery
(1)Agilent
Prof. Gary Siuzdak (Scripps Research Institute)
Seminar luncheon

>>Registered Vendors
9/13/2010
845 - 1730
Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza
Pharmacokinetics Course for industrial scientists I: the principles of pharmacokinetics and its role in drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion
(1)SRI International
Jiunn Lin (ex-Merck Executive Director)
Workshop/Expert Forum

>>Registered Vendors
9/14/2010
845 - 1730
Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza
Pharmacokinetics Course for industrial scientists II: human PK prediction
(1)Optivia Biotechnology
Jiunn Lin (ex-Merck Executive Director)
Workshop/Expert Forum

>>Registered Vendors
10/1/2010
1100 - 1330
Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza
Utility of nanowire technology in oral drug delivery
Professor Tejle Desai, UCSF
Seminar luncheon

>>Registered Vendors
11/4/2010
1245 - 1730
Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza
High Clearance and Poor Bioavailability: Case Studies
(1)Absorption Systems
Workshop/Expert Forum

>>Registered Vendors
12/3/2010
1100 - 1330
Embassy Suites: La Jolla
Site-specific labeling of proteins with NMR-active unnatural amino acids
Bernhard Geierstanger
Seminar luncheon

>>Registered Vendors
12/3/2010
1100 - 1330
Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza
Excipients in drug formulation (Jointly with AAPS-BADG)
(1)AAIPharma
TBA
Seminar luncheon

>>Registered Vendors
12/8/2010
1245 - 1730
Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza
Preclinical radiolabelled mass balance and metabolite profiling studies
(1)ABC Laboratories
Workshop/Expert Forum

>>Registered Vendors
1/11/2011
845 - 1730
Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza
Interpretation of CID Mass Spectra Level I
Professor Jack Henion
Workshop/Expert Forum

>>Registered Vendors
1/12/2011
845 - 1730
Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza
Interpretation of CID Mass Spectra Level II
Professor Jack Henion
Workshop/Expert Forum
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CACO-PBS News Bulletin:

 

CACO-PBS recognizes high-school talents at the 2010 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

 

CACO-PBS proudly participated in the 2010 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (San Jose, California May 9 – 14), as a Special Award Organization (SAO), to recognize projects that have potential applications in pharmaceutical research and biosciences.  We congratulate the following five bright students who were awarded these special CACO awards for their innovative work. View photos of the award ceremony.

 

First Place Award ($1,500): Emily Summerbell (Suwanee, GA)

Project Title: Targeting the MAPK Signaling Cascade and Its Effects on Trastuzumab Resistance in Metastatic Breast Cancers

 

Second Place Award ($1,000): Apurv Suman (Gainesville, FL)

Project Title: Inulin vs. Cellulose in Ethanol Fermentation

 

Third Place Awards ($500):

Joao de Castro David Junior (Maracanau, CE, BRASIL)

Project Title: Identification of Biological Insect-larvicides

 

Michelle Lowe, Peter Nelson (Snellville, GA)

Project Title: Low Cost, High Tech: Engineering a Gel Electrophoresis Apparatus

Local Chapters:

 

We currently have the following two local chapters under the CACO umbrella, though other local chapters may be established in the future. The upcoming events are shown in the Event Calendar table.

Please click on the following links to go to the website of the chapter of your interest, where you can sign up for the free membership and mailing list, and register for the upcoming events.

 

The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (CACO-San Francisco Bay Area)

The San Diego Chapter (CACO-San Diego)

CACO Governing Board:

 

Shichang Miao (ChemoCentryx, Inc.), President

Robyn Rourick (Genentech, Inc.), Secretary

Helen Yeo (Roche), Treasurer

Dave Toman (Elan)

Sam Sperry (Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)

Jennifer Yang (Ardea)

Contact us:

 

Email: CACO@CACO-CA.org

Mailing address: PO Box 2342, South San Francisco, CA 94083-2342.

 

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