[LSG-RG] [LSG-RG} Meeting on Pharma

[Angulo, David]

Thanks, Abbas.  The naming was probably my mistake.  My feeling is yes, let's be inclusive.

Abbas, you said you had specific people at these companies.  Could you post their names, please?

Thanks - and thanks for your input.

Dave


David Sigfredo Angulo
Faculty
DePaul University
312-362-5041  dangulo at cti.depaul.edu




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        From: Abbas Farazdel [mailto:farazdel at us.ibm.com]
        Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 2:34 PM
        To: Angulo, David; lsg-rg at gridforum.org
        Subject: Re: [LSG-RG] [LSG-RG} Meeting on Pharma



        I suggest the presentation topic to be "Pharmaceutical R&D" instead of "Pharmacology" so that we would have a bigger umbrella to cover areas of interest. In particular, I suggest "In-silico Pharmaceutical R&D" (e.g., in-silico clinical development with simulated patients) which is of considerable interest to pharma companies for pre-clinical development and even patient care situations.

        Some of the Independent Software Vendor companies in this area are Gene Network Sciences, Immunetrics, Entelos, GenStruct, Optimata, Genomatica, and Pharsight. In fact we can have people from these companies or the customers of these companies present at the workshop. What do you think?

        Best Regards,

        Dr. Abbas Farazdel
        Blue Gene Solutions Executive - Petascale Computing
        IBM Systems & Technology Group
        Tel:        +1 603 707 6377
        Mobile:  +1 603 707 6377
        Fax:       +1 845 491 3569
        Email: farazdel at us.ibm.com <mailto:farazdel at us.ibm.com>

        http://www.ibm.com/servers/deepcomputing/bluegene.html <http://www.ibm.com/servers/deepcomputing/bluegene.html>





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        Dear all:

        This is an e-mail message regarding the Life Science Grid Research Group (LSG-RG) in the Open Grid Forum (OGF), formerly the Global Grid Forum (GGF).

        I sent out last month asking for input regarding a proposed meeting regarding proteomics for the next OGF meeting in Boston in February.  The leadership of OGF would like to make a workshop for Pharma, and they have asked us to participate with them in this effort.

        Thus, I would like to extend a call for presentations in Pharmacology.  We would like to specifically look for presentations relating to those areas in Pharmacology that involve intensive computational power, extensive communications, or massive amounts of data, but all will be considered.  I would like the membership of this e-mail list to help us in the solicitation of speakers, and would like to solicit your input into what topics and/or speakers we should pursue.

        Here are some suggested speakers

        * Piotr Sliz, PhD, Bioinformatics Specialist II, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
        * Steve Litster, Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research
        * Timothy Wagner, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
        * Jeffrey Mathers, Pharmaceutical Research & Development
        * Sanjoy Ray, Merck
        * Peter S. Shenkin, Schrodinger
        * WISDOM, Vincent Breton CNRS
        * Bridge, Martin Hofmann fron SCAI Fraunhofer
        * Share, Tony Solomonides from Univ West England
        * Ian Penny of Pfizer


        I'm looking forward to input from all.  Please post notices by 12/26/07

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        David Sigfredo Angulo
        Faculty
        DePaul University
        312-362-5041  dangulo at cti.depaul.edu

        David Sigfredo Angulo
        Faculty
        DePaul University
        312-362-5041  dangulo at cti.depaul.edu
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