August 2008

3rd Baltic Meeting on Microbial Carbohydrates

Event dates: 2 - 4 August 2008
Event summary: Microbial diseases remain the most common cause of global mortality and morbidity. In particular, one of the most serious issues is the escalating prevalence of resistance to antimicrobials. Thus t
Event Venue: Sigtuna, Sweden

The 20th International Conference on Chemical Education (20th ICCE)

Event dates: 3 - 8 August 2008
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Event Venue: Le Meridien Hotel, 00230, Mauritius

7th Joint Meeting of AFERP, ASP, GA, and PSE

Event dates: 3 - 8 August 2008
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Event Venue: Athenaum Intercontinental Hotel, Athens, Greece

Green Chemistry Gordon Research Conference

Event dates: 3 - 8 August 2008
Event summary: This conference will bring together excellent scientists from industry and academia to exchange ideas at the cutting-edge of Green Chemistry. Sessions will be focused on designing greener chemical
Event Venue: Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, United States

Regulatory Affairs: Part I: The IND Phase, Part II: The CTD/NDA Phase

Event dates: 4 - 8 August 2008
Event summary: This course combines the two three-day courses into one extended five-day offering. It describes the regulatory background of the IND and NDA and provides an overview of the requirements and recomm
Event Venue: Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, Boston, 02115, United States

Resource Management at the Functional and Enterprise Levels

Event dates: 4 - 5 August 2008
Event summary: Learn how to build, implement, and maintain a Resource Management business system, as well as accommodate the reverberations of the cultural change and how to get buy-in from all the key stakeholder
Event Venue: DIA, Horsham, 19044, United States

Drug Discovery & Development of Innovative Therapeutics

Event dates: 4 - 7 August 2008
Event summary: Practical, Actionable Ideas for Accelerating Discovery and Early Development The Drug Discovery & Development of Innovative Therapeutics (DDT) World Congress is the ONLY international event that co
Event Venue: World Trade Center Boston & Seaport Hotel, Boston, MA USA, United States

Creating High-performance Medical Science Liaison Teams

Event dates: 7 August 2008
Event summary: This one-day conference will provide a focused forum for individuals from pharmaceutical/biotech companies to discuss issues of relevance to Medical Science Liaison teams. Whether you are a Medical
Event Venue: Hyatt Regency O’Hare, Chicago, United States

Gordon Research Conferences:Membranes: Materials & Processes

Event dates: 9 - 10 August 2008
Event summary: Graduate Research Seminar
Event Venue: Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH 03257, United States

Summer Walk

Event dates: 10 August 2008
Event summary: A summer walk from Bowlees to High Force along the River Tees and back (~6km).
Event Venue: Meet in the Bowlees Car Park off the B6277, United Kingdom

Staring at the Sun

Event dates: 11 August 2008
Event summary: An opportunity to view the Sun safely through the special equipment at Huddersfield Observatory
Event Venue: Huddersfield Observatory, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Project Risk Management

Event dates: 11 - 12 August 2008
Event summary: During this 2-day program, participants will learn the elements of a risk management plan and how to use the plan to deal with risks. Using a Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology example, a tool called a Ri
Event Venue: DIA, Horsham, 19044, United States

Overview of Drug Development in Japan

Event dates: 11 - 12 August 2008
Event summary: The Japanese pharmaceutical market, with sales of $60 billion in 2005, is the second largest market comprising approximately 11% of the global market. Despite the size of this market, many multinati
Event Venue: Hyatt Regency Bethesda, Bethesda, 20814, United States

CHI’S Cellutions Summit

Event dates: 11 - 13 August 2008
Event summary: Cells are potential solutions! Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Third Annual CELLutions SUMMIT is uniquely designed to explore the evolving field of next-generation cells, engineered 3D cellular mod
Event Venue: Boston Marriott Cambridge, United States

CHI’S Cellutions Summit

Event dates: 11 - 13 August 2008
Event summary: Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Third Annual CELLutions SUMMIT is uniquely designed to explore the evolving field of next-generation cells, engineered 3D cellular models, and therapeutic cellular-i
Event Venue: Cambridge, MA, United States

Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Event dates: 13 - 15 August 2008
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Event Venue: Bytes Business Park, Johannesburg, South Africa

CHI’S the Immunotherapeutics & Vaccine Summit

Event dates: 13 - 15 August 2008
Event summary: • Novel Vaccines: Bridging Research, Development & Production • Advances in Cancer Vaccines • Clinical Risk Management & Safety for Vaccines www.TargetedImvacS.com
Event Venue: Cambridge, MA, United States

19th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry

Event dates: 13 - 18 August 2008
Event summary: You are cordially invited to attend the 19th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry 2008. The Symposium will be held at The Royal University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, between 13-18 J
Event Venue: Univeristy of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Dioxin 2008

Event dates: 17 - 22 August 2008
Event summary: A full scientific programme covering all aspects of dioxins, “Stockholm” POPs, brominated flame retardants, perfluorinated chemicals, and "emerging” contaminants.
Event Venue: International Conference Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom

21st International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy

Event dates: 17 - 22 August 2008
Event summary: The scientific programme will include a wide variety of topics on Raman spectroscopy, and the conference offers an outstanding and unique opportunity for exchanging knowledge on leading edge develop
Event Venue: Brunel University, United Kingdom

Gordon Research Conferences: Single Molecule Approaches to Biology

Event dates: 17 - 22 August 2008
Event summary: The Gordon Conference on Single Molecule Approaches to Biology covers the rapidly evolving field of development and application of single molecule techniques to biological problems. Single molecule
Event Venue: Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH 03257, United States

CHI’S Systems Integration in Biodefense

Event dates: 18 - 19 August 2008
Event summary: At this year ’s Systems Integration in Biodefense meeting, we will hear from industry leaders about their strategy for meeting the needs of the community and bridging the technology gaps that still
Event Venue: Washington, DC, United States

Overview of Drug Development

Event dates: 18 August 2008
Event summary: This course provides an overview of how new pharmaceutical products are identified and developed. The roles and interactions among marketing, clinical R&D, regulatory affairs, and manufacturing will
Event Venue: Renaissance Philadelphia Hotel Airport, Philadelphia, 19113, United States

Fat1124 as a good antigen delivery system

Event dates: 18 August 2008
Event summary: DNA vaccines express antigens intracellularly and effectively induce cellular immune responses .The immunogenicity and protective efficacy of DNA vaccines have been demonstrated in numerous animal m
Event Venue: Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases,, Tehran, 1985711151, Iran

CHI’S Enabling Point-of-Care Diagnostics

Event dates: 19 - 20 August 2008
Event summary: The POC diagnostics industry is rapidly expanding, and promises to answer the need for more integrated and immediate clinical results.
Event Venue: Washington, DC, United States

Molecular biology of Archaea

Event dates: 19 - 21 August 2008
Event summary: Abstract submission deadline: Monday 16 June 2008 Earlybird registration deadline: Monday 16 June 2008 The archaea constitute a separate domain of life, distinct from bacteria, with many as
Event Venue: University of St Andrews, Scotland, KY16 9AD, United Kingdom

Glutathione Transferases 2008

Event dates: 20 - 24 August 2008
Event summary: Glutathione, bioactive thiols and related enzymes are of fundamental interest in biochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology. Recent advances will be highlighted in sessions covering: •Functional g
Event Venue: Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Supergen Energy Storage: Progress and the Way Ahead

Event dates: 21 August 2008
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Event Venue: The Department of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, G1 1XJ, United Kingdom

CHI’S Cancer Diagnostics:Next Generation Molecular Technologies

Event dates: 21 - 22 August 2008
Event summary: Advances in molecular diagnostics has enabled the detection of early stage tumors that will lead to greater success rates with intervention and treatment.
Event Venue: Washington, DC, United States

European Conference on Dynamics of Molecular Systems - MOLEC XVII – 2008

Event dates: 23 August 2008
Event summary: The series of biennial MOLEC Meetings started in 1976, when the first Conference was held in Trento. Since that time the conference was held in Brandbjerg Hojskole (Denmark), Oxford (UK), Nijmegen
Event Venue: Education Center of the Academy of Professional Education, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

4th EuCheMS Conference on Nitrogen Ligands

Event dates: 24 - 28 August 2008
Event summary: This conference intends to highlight the role of Nitrogen Ligands in Coordination Chemistry, Metal-Organic Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis.
Event Venue: Kongresshaus Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 82467, Germany

EuCheMS Conference on Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids

Event dates: 24 - 29 August 2008
Event summary: The EUCHEM 2008 Conference on Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids aims to provide a forum to discuss the state-of-the-art in molten salt and ionic liquid research and to develop future perspectives of io
Event Venue: Copenhagen, Denmark

International Symposium “Supramolecular and NanoChemistry: Toward Applications”

Event dates: 25 - 29 August 2008
Event summary: design, synthesis, investigation and application of organic, organometallic, coordination, biological and inorganic supramolecular and nanoassemblies including self-assembled systems.
Event Venue: State Scientific Institution “Institute for Single Crystals”, Kharkov, Ukraine, Kharkiv, 61001, Ukraine

Correspondence between Concepts in Chemistry and Quantum Chemistry

Event dates: 25 - 28 August 2008
Event summary: Vålådalen is a special place for quantum chemists. The international meeting held there in 1958 marked the beginning of a long series of summer and winter schools in their subject. These schools - o
Event Venue: Fjällstationen, Vålådalen, Sweden

DevWeek india 2008

Event dates: 25 - 28 August 2008
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Event Venue: NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore, India

Eudravigilance - Electronic Reporting of ICSRs in the EEA

Event dates: 27 - 29 August 2008
Event summary: This course will be the only training programme officially recognised by the EMEA. The EMEA will present successful candidates with a 'Certificate of Completion' based on a competency assessment at
Event Venue: EMEA, Canary Wharf, E14 4HB, United Kingdom

Faraday Discussion 141: Water - From Interfaces to the Bulk

Event dates: 27 - 29 August 2008
Event summary: The meeting plans to achieve a unification of views towards the goal of understanding the microscopic structure and behaviour of condensed phases of water at interfaces and progressing into the bulk
Event Venue: Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, United Kingdom

Faraday Discussion 141: Water - From Interfaces to the Bulk

Event dates: 27 - 29 August 2008
Event summary: Faraday Discussion 141 was organised by the RSC Faraday Division. The conference was attended by 137 delegates from 21 countries around the world.
Event Venue: Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, United Kingdom

NanoteC 08

Event dates: 27 - 30 August 2008
Event summary: This year's event in this popular annual series on carbon nanoscience and technology
Event Venue: University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

Variety in Chemistry Education 2008

Event dates: 28 - 29 August 2008
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Event Venue: Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

Frontiers in Molecular Diversity and Medicinal Chemistry

Event dates: 29 August 2008
Event summary: The event is organized by the RSC High-throughput Chemistry and New Technologies Subject Group. It will feature six talks from UK and US speakers, and cover topics related to diversity-oriented synt
Event Venue: University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom