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Rod Mackenzie
Senior Vice President
Head of PharmaTherapeutics Research and Development Pfizer, Inc
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| Rod MacKenzie is Senior Vice President, Head of Worldwide Research for the PharmaTherapeutics division of Pfizer. He leads the organisation responsible for bringing forward the next generation of positive Proof of Concept molecules to... |
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Ted Torphy, Ph.D.
Vice President & Head, External Innovation
Research Capabilities Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals
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Ted Torphy is now Vice President & Lead, External Innovation
Research Capabilities but was recently Chief Scientific Officer and Head of External Research & Early Development (eRED) for Johnson & Johnson’s Pharmaceuticals Group... |
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Jean-Pierre Bizzari,
M.D.Senior Vice President Clinical Research-Oncology
Celgene
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| Dr Bizzari holds a medical degree from the University of Nice (France) and trained as an oncologist at the Pitie Salpetriere hospital in Paris. He trained successively in Toronto (Ontario Cancer Institute - Canada) and Montreal... |
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Claudine Grépin,
Assay Sciences and Screening,
Sanofi-Aventis, France
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| 2010-pres: Lead Generation Business Coordinator for Oncology and Head of Kinase and High Content Screening Expertise Center, Vitry . Lead Identification Technology, Sanofi-Aventis, France... |
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Dr Anthony Mitchell Davies
Director High Content Research Facility,
Trinity College Dublin
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| Dr Anthony Mitchell Davies has worked in cell based assay development for over a decade and now holds position the Director of the High Content Facility at Trinity College Dublin. Dr Davies has been responsible for the set up... |
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Jozsef Repasi
Managing Director
Ubichem Research Ltd |
| Jozsef Repasi is Managing Director at Ubichem Research Ltd. and director of Ubichem Plc. He has held his managing director position since the creation of the company in 1996. Répási earned a Masters Degree in Science, specializing in |
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Prof. Dr. med. Khusru Asadullah
Vice President, Head of Target Discovery
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals
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| Khusru Asadullah is Vice President and Head of Target Discovery at Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals.. Before this he headed Inflammation and Immunology research at Bayer Schering Pharma... |
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Tom D. Heightman
Director of Medicinal Chemistry
Astex Therapeutics
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| Tom Heightman is a Director of Medicinal Chemistry at Astex in Cambridge, UK. Tom studied Chemistry at Oxford, and gained his PhD at the ETH in Zurich. In 1998 he joined GlaxoSmithKline in Harlow, UK... |
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Dr Duncan McHale
Vice President, Translational Science,
AstraZeneca
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| After completing his medical degree at Newcastle University in 1991 Duncan trained in General Medicine gaining his Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1994. He spent 5 years training in clinical and molecular genetics at... |
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Dr. Thomas Bocan
Senior Director & Head of Pfizer’s PharmaTherapeutics Preclinical BioImaging facility
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| Dr. Bocan received his PhD in Physiology with an emphasis in Experimental Pathology from The Pennsylvania State University in 1983 and did post-doctoral research in atherosclerosis at the Baylor College of Medicine... |
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Steven Hutchins, Senior Vice President
Strategic Business Development,
Evotec
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| Mr. Hutchins has 20 years of pharmaceutical industry experience. He worked at Merck from 1990 to 2007 initially as a medicinal and combinatorial chemist. He began his career in outsourcing of chemistry services at Merck in 1995. |
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Joseph Donahue VP
SVP, Global Sales
Thomson Reuters
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| Joe Donahue is Vice President, Commercial Operations Life Sciences at Thomson Reuters Healthcare & Science. Mr. Donahue has more than fifteen years of executive level entrepreneurial and Board experience in global life sciences... |
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Eric D Perakslis PhD
Vice President of R&D Information Technology
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals R&D
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| Eric is currently Vice President of R&D Information Technology at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals R&D and is a member of the Corporate Office of Science and Technology. Eric is in his thirteenth year at J&J and has held the posts of... |
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Stevan W Djuric, PhD
Senior Director Abbott Laboratories
Illinois, USA.
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| Dr Stevan Djuric is responsible for the Medicinal Chemistry Technology and Structural Chemistry groups at Abbott Laboratories. Their current efforts are focused on new initiatives in the areas of high throughput synthesis and... |
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John Burkhardt
Global Head of Preclinical Safety
Abbott Laboratories
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| John Burkhardt is Global Head of Preclinical Safety at Abbott Laboratories, where he is responsible for all aspects of Toxicology, Pathology, Comparative Medicine, and related fields... |
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Dr. Joyce Peng
Marketing Director
BGI Americas
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| Dr. Joyce Peng has established herself as a prominent voice for the application of state-of-the art technologies in the life sciences field. Joyce has been promoting bioinformatics and elated products at various organizations and is now... |
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