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UK Bioinformatics Forum, DTI Conference Centre, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1E 0ET, UK
21st November, 2005
The "Discovery Informatics Forum" to be held at the prestigious DTI conference centre, 1, Victoria St, London on November 21st 2005 will be a unique forum for biotech and pharma R&D managers to meet the bioinformatics and cheminformatics companies which are addressing some of the most pressing and problematic issues facing pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.The UK Bioinformatics Forum is a non-profit network of life and medical sciences informatics companies which includes the key players in the industry. Participants in our recent meetings include Accelrys, AstraZeneca, Bayer Technology Services, BioWisdom, GE Healthcare Biosciences, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, InforSense, LION BioScience, Nonlinear Dynamics, Oracle, and Oxford Gene Technology. The scope for the meeting will be decided by R&D informatics managers in the pharmaceutical industry, themes may include aspects of pharmacogenomics, PK-PD, ADME, QSAR, data mining or data integration. Upto three themed seminars delivered by executives of companies leading in the sector will run concurrently. The "Discovery Informatics Forum" will be an opportunity for life sciences informatics companies to showcase their offerings, bringing together appropriate solutions to an industry which is seeking to reverse falling R&D productivity, despite a growing global annual R&D budget of $88bn and an extending drug development lifecycle currently about 17 years. Although global R&D investment is escalating – it is falling in the UK (FT, 06.04.05 - ABPI), making it crucial that informatics solutions providers maintain maximum contact with their corporate customer base. Attendees will include UK and overseas pharmaceutical, biopharma and biotech companies.
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Organized by:
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Invited Speakers:
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Confirmed solutions providers presenting include Dr. John Savin (CEO) of Physiomics PLC, Dr. Simon Valentine of Scitegic, GenoLogics (US), Dr. Jonathan Sheldon (CSO) of InforSense, Dr. Jay Perrett (CTO) of Applied InSilico, Dr. Michael Kearns (CEO) of Amartus, Dr. Christian Neumaier of iAS interActive Systems (Germany), Dr. Nick Arini of Definiens and Dr. Neil Halliday of Science Partners. Confirmed key notes speakers include Dr. Andrew Hopkins, Knowledge Discovery, Pfizer Global Research & Development, Prof. Jun-ichi Tsujii, Director, National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTEM), Prof. Arun Holden - BioSim (EU Network of Excellence), and Dr. Sylvia Nagl (Head of Bioinformatics, UCL Oncology).
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Deadline for Abstracts:
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Not Applicable
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Registration:
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Registration is Online
Pricing*
Pharmaceutical, Biopharma, Biotech, or Solutions Provider - £150
OBN, LBN, ERBI member (paid up) or Academic - £100
Service Provider (limited places) - £250
*Corporate Sponsors of the UK Bioinformatics Forum may qualify for a fee waived place or 30% discounted speaker slot.
Press should contact the organisers for a complimentary pass.
To find out about Sponsorship, Exhibition Space or Presentation Opportunities please contact:
Dr Jon Rees (Project Manager)
UK Bioinformatics Forum
Oxford Brookes University
Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane
Oxford OX3 0BP
United Kingdom
Tel. +44 (0) 1865 484224
Mob. +44 (0) 7970 893371
Fax. +44 (0) 1865 484478
jon.rees@bioinformaticsforumuk.net
http://www.discoveryforum.net/
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E-mail:
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jon.rees@bioinformaticsforumuk.net
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