Program Schedule
8:30 Registration / Breakfast & Coffee
Morning Session
(Session Chairs: Drs. Lijuan Wang and Dachao Li)
9:00 Opening Remarks, Li Xu, Ph.D., President, Tri-State CACS
9:05 Welcoming Speech, Longqin Hu, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Medicinal Chemistry, Rutgers University
9:10 Peter K. Dorhout, Ph.D., ACS President, “Congratulating Speech via Video”
9:15 Nilesh Shah, Ph.D., Global R&D Director, Home and Personal Care, The Dow Chemical Company, “Consumer
Products: Doing more with less”
9:50 Ping Zhuang, Ph.D., Director, Analytical Research & Development, Merck & Co., Inc., “Analytical chemistry at
Merck: the value of measurements”
10:25 Vendor Show, Coffee Break & Networking
10:55 Walter Korfmacher, Ph.D., Director of Bioanalysis, Sanofi, “Meeting Pharmaceutical Industry Challenges with
Mass Spectrometry Solutions: Three Examples”
11:30 Jin Zhu, Ph.D., Attorney at Law, Fox Rothschild LLP, “Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer –
Battle on th IP Front”
11:55 Lunch Break and Vendor Show (on site)
Afternoon Session
(Session Chairs: Drs. Mingxiang Lin and Chii-Fen Wang)
1:30 Percy H. Carter, Ph.D., Vice President, Discovery Chemistry & Molecular Technologies, Bristol-Myers Squibb,
“Case Studies on ‘Undruggable’ Targets”
2:15 David Liu, Ph.D., Director, Analytical Development, Celgene, “Controlling Trace-level Pharmaceutical
Impurities: Current Regulatory Expectations and Their Impacts on Process and Analytical Chemistry”
2:50 Prize Drawing, Vendor Show, Coffee / Ice Cream Break / Networking
3:25 Gurmil Gendeh, Ph.D., Pharmaceuticals Marketing Manager, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, “Changing
Trends in Analytical Technologies to Meet Future Challenges in the Life Science”
3:45 Nancy Williams, VP for US R&I Communication and Sustainability, L’Oreal, “Sharing Beauty with All”
4:25 Closing Remarks, Yingchun Lu, Ph.D., 2018 President-Elect, Tri-State CACS
4:30 Prize Drawing
4:45 End
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