2011 Agenda

Agenda


7:30	Registration & Morning Coffee
8:30	Morning Workshop Begins
10:30	Networking Break
11:00	Morning Workshop Resumes
12:30	Luncheon and Global Sample Management Benchmarking Symposium Registration

	Manage your Biorepository to Guarantee Ful Life-Cycle Specimen Quality
	Lori Ball, MBA, COO, BIOSTORAGE TECHNOLOGIES Lisa Miranda, President, BIOBUSINESS CONSULTING Helen Moore, PhD, Biospecimen Research Program Manager, NIH-NCI OBBR

1:30	Global Sample Management Benchmarking Symposium Begins
2:30	Networking Break
3:00	Symposium Resumes
4:30	Cocktail Reception for Symposium Attendees

Global Sample Management Benchmarking Symposium

Chair: Lori Ball, MBA, COO, BIOSTORAGE TECHNOLOGIES

John Bloom, PhD, President, BLOOM CONSULTING SERVICES

Karina Bienfait, PhD, Clinical Pharmacogenomics Operations Lead, MERCK & COMPANY

Steve Sweeney, PhD, Director of Clinical Operations, INFINITY PHARMACEUTICALS

Suzanne O'Shea, Legal Counsel, BAKER & DANIELS LLP


8:00	Registration and Coffee
8:30	Chairperson Opening Remarks Lori Ball, COO, BIOSTORAGE TECHNOLOGIES Anne Janssen, PhD, Senior Director, DNA & BioFluids Research Center of Emphasis, PFIZER
8:45	Map the Technology and Managerial Skill Sets Needed to Adapt your Biorepository to Changing Requirements and Environments Anne Janssen, PhD, Senior Director, DNA & BioFluids Research Center of Emphasis, PFIZER
9:15	KEYNOTE: Setting New Biorepository Performance Standards: What the Government Might Do, and what you Should Do Helen Moore, PhD, Biospecimen Research Program Manager, NIH-NCI OBBR
9:45	QuickFire Technology Spotlight Presented by Nexus Biosystems
10:15	Networking Break in Exhibit Hall

	TRACK I OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY	TRACK II INCREASING COLLECTION VALUE
11:00	Implement Success Strategies in Vendor Selection, Validation, and Ongoing Oversight Ashi Malekafzali, Applications Manager, Sample Repository, GENENTECH	Deploy Retention Algorithms to Guarantee Long-Term Specimen Quality Kenneth Wilke, MBA, Clinical Pharmacogenomics and Specimen Management, MERCK
11:45	Systems and Mindsets for Optimal Quality Management Cheryl Tow-Keogh, Scientist, DNA & BioFluids Research Center of Emphasis, PFIZER	Ultra-Rapid Biospecimen Procurement to Better Preserve the Disease Physiosome during R&D Michael Roehrl, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, BOSTON UNIVERSITY
12:30	Strolling Luncheon in Exhibit Hall

	TRACK I OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY	TRACK II INCREASING COLLECTION VALUE
1:45	Bullet-Proof Your Protocols and Set New Standards among IRBs to Better Facilitate Informed Consentt Sascha Ellers, Senior Manager – Development Sciences, GENENTECH	Optimize the Prospective Research Potential of your Collection Kenneth Wilke, MBA, Clinical Pharmacogenomics and Specimen Management, MERCK
2:30	Target the Cryopreservation Methods that Best Match your Research Goals and Business Model Robert James Gordon, Global Technical Director - Cryoscience Unit, TAYLOR-WHARTON	Incorporate Quality-Control Methodologies to Identify, Control, and Eliminate Threats to Specimen Longevity and Stability Andrew Brooks, PhD, Director, Bionomics Research and Technology Center, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Cathy Michael, Global Head of Sample Management Operations, BIOSTORAGE TECHNOLOGIES
3:15	Networking Break in Exhibit Hall

3:40	QuickFire Technology Spotlight Greener Biorepositories: Is it Time to Reconsider your Cold-Chain Storage Methodologies? Tom Herdman, Director of Engineering and Product Development, ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIALTIES
4:00	Strategies to Create Quality Attributes and Streamline Searches of Biorepository Specimens Renu Vora, Senior Associate Scientist, CENTOCOR
4:45	Pharmacogenomics and Biobanking: Tools for Success L. Scott Clark, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, GENTRIS
5:30	Networking Reception in Exhibit Hall


7:30	Breakfast
8:30	Chairperson's Opening Remarks
8:45	Target the Ideal Sample Selection and Preservation Techniques for the Needs of your Biomarker Pipeline Stephen Furlong, Safety Science Lead, ASTRAZENECA
9:30	Disease-Centric Biorepositories: Sharing Data with Partners and Patients to Improve Outcomes Shoibal Datta, Head of Translational Informatics Group in R&D IT, BIOGEN IDEC
10:15	Networking Break in Exhibit Hall
11:00	Integrating Technology Transfer Offices for Strategic Breakthroughs in IP and Data Management Moderator: Cathy Peacock, Technical Lead for Cell Banking, DOW AGROSCIENCES Lisa Miranda, President, BIOBUSINESS CONSULTING Erik Halvorsen, PhD, Director, Business and Technology Development TIDO, CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON Liis Leitsalu, Specialist, ESTONIAN GENOME CENTER
12:00	Build Successful Alliances in Biomarker and Companion Diagnostic Development on a Foundation of Assured Sample Quality and Availability Monte Wetzel, Head of Licensing, ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS
12:30	Lunch and Round Table Discussion Sessions
1:30	Innovation Panel: Surpassing the Challenges of Incorporating Next-Generation Technology Innovative Systems Pathology for Functional Interrogation of Biospecimens Michael Roehrl, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, BOSTON UNIVERSITY High-Throughput Techniques for Diagnostic Testing and Blood Banking, and Use of Excess and Discarded Materials in a CLIA Lab Lynn Bry, MD, PhD, Associate Director, PARTNERS HEALTHCARE Coupling Biorepositories with Electronic Medical Record Data Wendy Wolf, PhD, Executive Director - Biorepositories, CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON Technical Advances in Frozen Sample Aliquotting to Boost Sample Homogeneity and Renewability Dale Larson, Director, Biomedical Systems Group, DRAPER LABORATORY Testing the Effects of Anydrobiosis and Ambient Storage on RNA Sequencing Kristin Ardlie, PhD, Director, Biological Samples Platform, BROAD INSTITUTE
3:30	Conference Concludes