Grant Writing Series
Thursday, June 4, 2009 | 9:00 am -4:00pm | San Jose, CA

Speakers
Shauna Farr-Jones, Ph.D
Forrest Blocker, Ph.D
Amy F. Boggs, Ph.D

Agenda
· 9:00am: Registration
· 10:00am: Presentations
· 10:45am: General Q&A
· 11:00pm: Tour and Lunch
· 12:00pm: Private Meetings

Event Description
Join us for a 45 min initial presentation on grant writing basics and pitfalls. This discussion will cover general submissions and writing strategies, with a special focus on NIH SBIRs, as well as other agencies, grants, and deadlines. This event will be candid and very interactive. Following the presentation, the attendees will have an opportunity to meet with the presenter in a one-on-one meeting. Meetings will be scheduled on a first come first serve basis. For more information on PharmStatus, please visit http://www.pharmstatus.com.

What you will learn:
Why a grant?
· Eligibility
· How to get started
· Tips for a successful grant

Speaker Bios
Forrest Blocker, Ph.D., is a former academic with 20 years of experience in drug discovery and structural biology. In academia, she wrote extensively on structural determination of macromolecules using NMR and theory. She frequently consults and collaborates with scientists from various fields related to drug discovery. As a freelance consultant, she has been the point person to complete jobs requiring multiple types of expertise. She has experience in experimental physics and engineering, computer software and programming, statistical and data analysis, and editing and publishing. She has managed teams of medical writers, hardware technicians, and students.
Forrest is currently the President of the Northern California chapter of the American Medical Writer's Association.

Shauna Farr-Jones, Ph.D., has a record of writing successful government grant and contract proposals on diverse life science topics, providing strategic input on both research and business plans. For over eight years, she has consulted for life science companies and universities preparing research plans, marketing plans, IND’s, white papers and grant proposals. She also conducts technology assessment, competitive intelligence and primary market research on a wide variety of biotechnology platform technologies and disease therapeutic areas.

Amy F. Boggs, Ph.D., is an independent consultant with more than ten years experience in anti-infective drug discovery and development. In addition to grant-writing, she provides companies with help in the preparation of technical reports, INDs and NDAs, technology assessment, strategic research planning, and competitive landscaping. Prior to her work as a consultant, Dr. Boggs worked at Microcide and at IntraBiotics, where she managed an interdisciplinary technology in-licensing team that resulted in three screening technology partnerships and two product in-licenses. Dr. Boggs is an inventor on three issued patents and has worked on investigational new drug (IND)-enabling projects.

Venue:
San Jose BioCenter
5941 Optical Ct.
San Jose, CA 95138
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 | 3:00 - 6:30pm | San Jose, CA

Confirmed Speakers
Mark Edwards, Principal, Deloitte Recap LLC
Peter Condon, Associate Director Business Development, Genentech
Sara Hall, CEO, Tacere Therapeutics
Lee Bendekgey, former CFO and General Counsel, Nuvelo
Jim Schaeffer, Executive Director, Licensing And External Research, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., Inc.
Lead Facilitator: Gregory Heibel, Partner, Orrick

Event Description
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This event will be held at: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP 1000 Marsh Road Building 1100 Menlo Park, CA 94025-1015 Click here for Venue Directions»

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