Thank you for your participation in this year's LIFE SCIENCE Regional Technology Symposium Series. Information on the 2010 Life Science series will be posted shortly. 2009 programs included:

Managed Outsourced Drug Discovery: Outsourcing drug discovery presents a more nimble, less capital-intensive model that is rapidly growing and enhancing pharmaceutical research. With the ability to access diverse resources globally, comes the challenges of managing projects, data, and people in multiple time zones, transcending cross-cultural barriers, and making decisions with data from multiple laboratories. How have your most successful colleagues done this? These case studies inform and stimulate discussions for the community of drug discovery scientists who continue to optimize their work in finding new therapeutics.

Advances Towards Personalized Medicine: Personalized medicine promises to resolve many problems in drug discovery. Medicines given to heterogenous patient populations may be more effective if the more susceptible individuals are differentiated from non-responders or the hypersensitive. Several tumor subtypes can already be identified and correlated with the optimal therapeutics. This session will provide insights to how and why disease profiling and clinical trials could be done better. We will also explore how existing or new technologies are being applied to map and analyze genetic and tumor types so that treatment protocols can be optimized for the best outcomes.