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Dear all,

Summer is almost over but we still have last chance to enjoy! We are glad to announce the last summer event of SAPA-NE:

When: Sept 13, Saturday from 11 am to 4 pm.

Where: The Hopkinton state park is at 268 Cedar Street, Hopkinton, MA 01748 (http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/northeast/hpsp.htm).

What: moon cakes, barbecue, volleyball ---

Who: Free for SAPA-NE members and family

Contact: Liqiang Derek Tou liqiangtou@gmail.com

Xiang Niu xniu99@yahoo.com

Jun Zhao junezhao99@hotmail.com

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We will have a Health, Medicine, and Biotech related round-table discussion meeting on the 17th day of July, a much requested meeting over the past few months. We will have two discussion leaders, both well-known to the local high-tech Chinese entrepreneur community in the Great Boston area. They will lead us a fun night on subjects ranging from hot areas in biosciences to the practical matters on drug registration and approval in China. Their brief CVs are in the attachment.

Topic 1: Prelude to drug discovery: New faces, Same old stories

Hello everyone,

New Issue of JHMI-CSSA Quarterly Journal is available online now!!!!
Please check out our website!!!
http://journal.jhmi-cssa.org

If you can not read the Chinese introduction of the new issue, please check out the attached pdf file. Enjoy the new issue.
Thanks

Editor Board of JHMI-CSSA Quarterly Journal
June 2008

霍普华风季刊第六期 要与大家见面了！请登陆季刊网站:http://journal.jhmi-cssa.org阅读最新文章。

Dear SAPA members and friends:
You are invited to attend the coming 10th Sino-American Pharmaceutical Association New England (SAPA-NE) Annual Conference, which will be held on June 14th, 2008 at MIT. This conference is titled “From test tube to pharmacy shelf, the opportunity and challenges for biopharmaceutical industry” and focuses on the frontiers of: 1) Breakthrough of R&D in the Industry, 2) Intellectual Property and Business Development and 3) China and Globalization.
The conference would feature outstanding speakers including:

Dear friends,

SAPA-NE, teams up with NESACS, proudly present to our members an excellent work shop titled "Challenges and Trends of Drug Discovery Outsourcing in Asia"

The strong panel of speakers include:

Dr. Ge Li, Chairman and CEO, Wuxi Pharma

Dr. Micheal Song, CEO, Beijing PharmaScience

Dr, Roger Xie, Associate Director, Sirtris Pharmaceuticals

Dr. Vincent Ling, VP, Dragonfly Sciences

Dr. Don Wang, CEO and President, PharmaAdvance

Dr. Chunlin Chen, CEO, Medicilon

Dr. Kerry Spear, Executive Director, Drug Discovery, Sepracor

Mr. John Oyler, CEO, Bioduro

Seminar:
China, Asia and America: A Dangerous Confusion - Myths and Realities in Politics and Business

Organized by: MIT Economics and Talent Forum (MIT ETF)
Speaker: Dr. William H. Overholt

Time: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm, February 23, 2008, Saturday
Venue: Room E51-325, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139
Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=E51&Buildings=go
Parking: Free
Ticket: Free

Event description:

By Zihe Rao (饶子和教授，南开大学校长，清华大学教授，中科院院士）

Seminar Announcement
The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
New Research Building 133
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
Thursday, February, 14th at 12:00 PM

President Zihe Rao, Nankai U.
Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences;
President, Nankai University;
Professor of Structural Biology, Tsinghua University;
President, Tianjin International Academy for Biotechnology and Medicine

“Current Initiatives in Universities and Biotechnology in China”