BayBioNEST Nuts & Bolts Workshop
“Ready, Aim, Fire” - Strategies for Drug Development
November 2, 2004
Orrick Herrington
1000 Marsh Road, Menlo Park, CA
8:00 am – 12:00 pm

• Ready, Aim, Fire - Pat Williams PDF)

• Entrepreneurial Perspective - Dinesh Patel (PDF)

“Ready, Aim, Fire” one in a series of BayBioNEST Nuts & Bolts workshops will guide entrepreneurs through the BEST STRATEGIES to get through the Drug Development Process successfully. This workshop will highlight how to get through preclinical, Phase I, Phase II, Phase IIIa/b, and Phase IV; but the meat of the workshop will cover the Strategic Plan, Discovery to Market, Drug Development Plans for Preclinical/Clinical, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Budgets and Timelines, Pearls of how to file, what to file, how to succeed, and what to avoid, Manage Projects for implementation, compound selection, manage teams, leverage resources, and get your product through the development process with a winning outcome.

Speaker - Dr. Patricia Williams, Cornucopia's President and CEO, a pharmaceutical executive with over 22 years experience in major pharmaceutical/biotechnology companies and the contract industry. Dr. Williams has created and established highly effective drug development teams which have successfully advanced over 50 small molecules and biologics into clinical development.

Speaker -Dinesh V. Patel, Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer has 18 years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech and biopharmaceutical industry. Dr. Patel was most recently Senior VP of drug discovery and licensing at Versicor (re-named Vicuron). He was part of the senior management team that incubated Versicor on the US West Coast in 1996 as a spin-off from Sepracor. At Versicor, he led their internal and collaborative research programs (Pharmacia, Novartis) and actively participated in various financing activities of the Company including its IPO, raising over $125 million.

For more information contact Caitlyn Waller.