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:

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”

Hosted by:
Dr. Timothy A. Springer springeroffice@idi.harvard.edu

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2008 波士顿高校新春联欢活动

2008新春将至，在波士顿的你最期待什么呢？精彩纷呈的演出，还是互动热闹的Party...

那么你绝对不能错的就是2008 波士顿高校联合新春联欢活动。这是由Harvard Medical School,MIT, BU, BC四校中国学生学者联合会(CSSA)在2月2日联合举办的迎春联欢活动。这次联欢活动是继去年四校联办后的传承和又一次突破，不仅会献上多种风格的歌舞和小品，更有大型Party，游戏，抽奖等一系列互动等待着你。

CSSA at HMS presents "Life Sciences in China" by Boqin Qiang.

Time: 3:30-4:30PM Friday, Nov 30
Location: Cannon Room, Building C on the Quad

Biosketch of the speaker:
Boqin Qiang is the professor of Mol Biol, CAMS/PUMC and member of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Professional Societies:
Director of the Chinese National Human Genome Center, Beijing
(CHGB) 1998—2007.02;
Director of the Department of Life Sciences, National Natural Sciences Foundation of China ( NSFC ) 1996—2000;
Chief Scientist of the China National High-Tech Research and
Development Program in Bio-Tech Field. 1996—2001.5
Member of the Expert Committee for China National High-Tech Research and
Development Program in Bio-Tech Field. 1994—1996; 2001.6—2006.6;
Member of Adviser Group, for China National Basic Research Priorities Program, 2004—present ( special in Health field )

Associate Chief Editor of Progress in Biochemistry & Biophysics,
1996--present;
Associate Chief Editor of Acta Academiae Medicinae Sciencae
1998-present
Member, Editorial Board of Journal of Molecular Medicine
2000-present
Member, Editorial Board of Chinese Journal of Biochem. and Mol. Biol.
1994--2000
Member, Editorial Board of Progress in Natural Sciences ,1997--2003
Member, National Committee on Drug Evaluation, Ministry of Public Health,
1996--present
Memberships:
Member, The Chinese Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology(CSBMB),
Chairman of Medical Committee, CSBMB ( 2001-present)
Vice-President of Chinese Association of Medicinal Biotechnology
President, of Beijing Society of Biotechnology
Executive Member, Chinese Medical Association
Executive Member, Council of Chinese Society of Biotechnology
Member, Human Genome Organization ( HUGO );
Executive Member, HUGO Pacific;
Member, Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America ( SCBA )

CSSA at HMS

Welcome to join us for the weekly CSSA at HMS Aerobics Club! Every week we are having aerobics class and training under the guidance of a professional trainer.

* Who can join: This club open to Harvard Medical School Chinese students, faculty, staff, alumni, their friends and families.
* Cost: The classes are free admission.
* When: first kick-off session is on Wednesday Nov.14, 6pm-7pm; The following weekly classes (starting from Nov.21) will be on every Wednesday 6:30pm-7:30pm
* Where: To be announced
* What to bring: Participants attending classes are required to use separate footwear for indoor use. Water and comfortable trousers are strongly recommended.
* Contact: Yingjie Liu (yingjie.liu@joslin.harvard.edu )