December 2011 Newsletter

Out and About

Upcoming Events

Biomarker Exchange Standards Kick Off Teleconference

18 January 2012

Sandor Szalma of Johnson & Johnson will lead a webex/teleconference to kick off a working group aimed at developing standards for exchanging biomarker information. Email the executive director for an invitation. 

 

SLAS 2012 »

4-8 February 2012, San Diego, CA

Ramesh Durvasula, former Board member of the Pistoia Alliance, will provide an update on the Pistoia Alliance portfolio via teleconference.     

 

Pistoia Alliance Face-to-Face Board and Operational Team Meeting  

7-9 February 2012, London, UK  

 

Pistoia Alliance London Dinner and Discussion » 

8 February, 2012, London, UK
Save the date for an engaging debate about the pros and cons of R&D outsourcing, which will be held in conjunction with the face-to-face board and operational team meeting at the Royal Society of Chemistry.  

 

7-10 November 2012, London, UK

Ashley George, Pistoia Alliance treasurer, will deliver a keynote address on behalf of the Pistoia Alliance at this meeting.   

 

Pistoia Alliance Annual Conference and Members' Meeting 

24 April 2012, Boston, MA
Details on this annual event, held just before the Bio-ITWorld Conference and Expo, will be announced shortly on the Pistoia Alliance website. 

 

More events » 

On the Blog

Vocabulary Standards: Helping Scientists Talk the Same Talk » 

Lee Harland uses a confusing sentence about buffalo to illustrate how a common vocabulary is necessary for both people and computers.

 

Four IT Themes from Gartner » 

Nick Lynch reviews a blog post summarizing takeaways from a recent Gartner IT conference, which included a prominent mention of the Pistoia Alliance.

 

SESL at Bio-IT World Europe: What's the future of knowledge brokering? »  

Lee Harland discusses the feedback he received from his presentation on SESL in October.

 

More blog posts » 

In the News

Why We Chose "Open Science" » 

Wall Street Journal, November 30, 2011

 

Empowering Industrial Research with Shared Biomedical Vocabularies » 

Drug Discovery Today, Volume 16, Issues 21-22, November 2011

 

More news »  

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