CACO Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society, CACO-PBS

About Us:

CACO Pharmaceutical & BioScience Society (CACO-PBS) 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. While our 3000+ members are largely concentrated in the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Diego Area, we also have members residing in other biotech / pharmaceutical clusters in North America.

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 / 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 here.
To suggest seminar or workshop topics / speakers, or to volunteer to lead/co-organize a workshop, click here.

Status	Date	Time	Place	EventName	Major Sponsor	Speakers	EventType
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	2/24/2012	1100 - 1330	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Metabolic activation and potential drug toxicity: the knowns and unknowns, the sense and non-sense	(1)Almac	Professor Alan Buckpitt, University of California, Davis	Seminar luncheon
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	3/23/2012	1100 - 1330	San Diego Area: Embassy Suites La Jolla	Protein Biochemistry in the Discovery and Development of Antibody Therapeutics		Bryan Jones, PhD., Applied Molecular Evolution/Eli Lilly & Co	Seminar luncheon
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	3/26/2012	1245 - 1730	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Large molecule bioanalytical: immunoassays and LCMS methods	(1)Thermo Fisher Scientific	Surinder Kaur (Genentech), Binod DeSilva (BMS), Keyang Xu (Genentech), Montserrat Carasco (Genentech)	Workshop
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	4/24/2012	1245 - 1730	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Getting the Most from Your CRO Collaboration: in vitro/in vivo studies and analytical/bioanalytical assays	(1)Pacific Biolabs	Steven Smith (Consultant), Kenjie Amemiya (Genentech), Dave Toman (Elan)	Workshop
General Registration:Open-Soon. Vendor Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	5/11/2012	1100 - 1330	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Clinical Development of Peptide Therapeutics	(1)Vince & Associates Clinical Research	Chris Rhodes (ex-Amylin)	Seminar luncheon
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	6/4/2012	845 - 1700	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	Bioanalytical method validation and regulated bioanalysis for small molecules	(2)Alturas Analytics, Inc.; Ricerca Biosciences	Mark Rose (Amgen), Naidong Weng (J&J) and Qin Ji (BMS)	Workshop
General Registration:Open; Vendor Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	6/5/2012	845 - 1700	San Diego: La Jolla Embassy Suites	Bioanalytical method validation and regulated bioanalysis for small molecules		Mark Rose (Amgen), Naidong Weng (J&J) and Qin Ji (BMS)	Workshop
General Registration:Open-Soon. Vendor Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	9/14/2012	1100 - 1330	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	TBD		TBD	Seminar luncheon
General Registration:Open-Soon. Vendor Registration:Open; >>Registered Vendors	12/7/2012	1100 - 1330	SF Bay Area: Foster City Crowne Plaza	TBD		TBD	Seminar luncheon
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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; San Diego Chapter Chair
Dave Toman (Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), Treasurer; San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Chair
Sam Sperry (Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)
Jennifer Yang (Ardea BioSciences, Inc.)

Jim Zhang (Affymax, Inc.)

Contact us:

Click here, or email to CACO@CACO-PBS.org
Mailing address: PO Box 2342, South San Francisco, CA 94083-2342.