[BBC] BE Live IT: Register before Friday!
Bert Coessens
bert.coessens at esat.kuleuven.be
Wed Sep 26 15:32:23 CEST 2007
Dear Madam, Sir,
We are pleased to invite you to BE Live IT, a one-day event which
focuses on the applications of bioinformatics and IT in the life
sciences. We selected excellent speakers from biotech research as well
as pharma industry. Topics will cover bioinformatics in drug discovery
and clinical research, biobanking, ... but also IT management and
bioinformatics business development.
****Registration ends this Friday September 26, 2007. Don't forget to
register!****
We hope to see you in Brussels on Tuesday October 16, 2007.
Kind regards,
The Organizing Committee
www.beliveit.be
Confirmed speakers include:
**/“//Systems Biology: the industry perspective//”/, *Jeffrey C.
Glennon* (Director In Vivo Neuropharmacology, Solvay Pharma)**
**/“Knowledge driven drug discovery – How can IT help?”./ *Gerhard
Noelken* (Director of R&D Informatics, Pfizer, Sandwich, UK).**
**/“Supporting the science in genomic research - The next generation of
bio-IT environment”./ *Phil Butcher* (Head of Information Technology,
Welcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK).**
**/“AMC Biobank in the Netherlands“./ *Guido Roumans* (Global Subject
Matter Expert Clinical R&D, IBM, BE)**
**/“Proposing a Molecular Target for a New Tuberculosis Drug“./
*Jean-Marc Neefs* (Senior scientist Bio-IT, Johnson & Johnson
Pharmaceutical R&D, Beerse, B)**
**/“Galapagos acquires Inpharmatica: the role of informatics in drug
discovery“./ *Andre Hoekema* (Senior Vice President Corporate
Development, Galapagos, Mechelen, B)**
**/“Application of genomics data in a clinical context: Robust analysis
of gene expression data from breast cancer patients“./ *Mark Lambrecht*
(Senior life sciences consultant, SAS Institute, Tervuren, B)**
**/“Finding our way in information space”./ *Philip Scordis* (Head of
Informatics Computational Research, UCB Pharma, Slough, UK).**
**/“Governing IT in research: simple rules and process to follow that
add value to discovery research”./ *Alexander Renner* (MBA, CIO, Head of
Information Systems and Organisation, Boehringer-Ingelheim Aus-tria
GmbH, Vienna, A).**
**/“Review of the bioinformatics space from a VC perspective//”//./
*Frank Bulens* (Executive Investment Manager, GIMV Life Sciences, B) **
**/“//Ontology and cognitive reach: powering intelligence applications
for healthcare//”, /*Gordon Baxter* (CEO, Biowisdom, Cambridge, UK).**
**/“The bio-IT business challenge”./ *Wim Van Criekinge* (VP Treatment
Solutions, OncoMethylome Sciences & prof. Bioinformatics University of
Ghent, B)**
**/“ILM, data retention strategy & standard“./ *Herbert Vander Elst*
(IBM, B)**
/**“Biotechs in alliance, what is the business logic?”./ *Walter Van
Dijck* (Director Institute for Life Sciences Business Economics, Erasmus
University Rotterdam, NL)**
**/“Pathway informatics in drug discovery”./ *Michael Barnes* (GSK
Pharma, Stevenage, UK).**
The first conference in Belgium focused on the applications of
bioinformatics in life sciences.
This one-day event will take place on *October 16th* 2007 at the *SAP
lounge Brussels*, Belgium.
The main purpose of the conference is to set up a Belgian-based meeting
platform where people involved in life sciences can meet on a regular
basis to exchange experience and new innovative ideas about *applied
bioinformatics*. This first edition will be focusing on *pharmaceutical
R&D*.
Register now at www.beliveit.be.
Associated partners:
BioWin, Bio.be, VIB, FlandersBio, BEA
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