(Press-News.org) San Francisco, Calif., 13 October, 2010 - Elsevier Business Intelligence, publisher of PharmAsia News, IN VIVO and "The Pink Sheet," today announced the agenda for Windhover's 2nd PharmAsia Summit (Oct. 25-26). This year's Summit will bring top biopharma leaders from Asia and the U.S. to San Francisco to share what works and what doesn't in China, India, Japan and the Pacific Rim.
At the PharmAsia Summit, you'll hear Asia strategies and case studies from industry leading experts on dealmaking, commercial strategy, outsourcing, regulatory risks, IP protection, and pricing and reimbursement. Confirmed speakers include:
Biogen Idec's Gunther Winkler, Senior VP Asia Pacific & Global Government Strategy
Merck's Ramesh Subrahmanian, Senior VP & President of Asia Pacific Human Health
Takeda Research Investment CEO Graeme Martin
Pfizer's Neil Gibson, CSO Oncology Research
Gilead's Clifford Samuel, VP International Access
Advinus Therapeutics CEO Rashmi Barbhaiya
Onyx CEO Anthony Coles
S*Bio CEO Jan-Anders Karlsson
Piramal Life Sciences Managing Director Somesh Sharma
IMS Asia Pacific VP Jan Willem Eleveld
Piper Jaffrey China Healthcare Analyst Hongbo Lu
Plus, you'll have a rare opportunity to speak with top Asia regulators, including:
U.S. FDA China Office Director Chris Hickey
U.S. FDA India Office Director Bruce Ross
Shanghai FDA Deputy Director General Yi Chengdong
Korea FDA's Hong Soon-Wook, Director Pharmaceutical Safety Policy
"PharmAsia Summit is a rare opportunity for U.S. biopharma execs to gain an insider's perspective on the most important developments in China, India and Japan without having to cross the Pacific," said Gerry Stoia, president of Elsevier Business Intelligence. "Given the increasing importance of markets like China and India to the biopharma industry, we are honored to host this distinguished group in San Francisco, and hope the Summit will contribute to the dialogue between U.S. and Asia biopharma leaders."
Attendees will in addition learn the latest on China healthcare reform, U.S. FDA actions in China and India, case studies on Japanese dealmaking with U.S. biotechs, novel Asia investment strategies, tips for launching innovative therapies in India and China, opportunities for pre-competitive collaboration that will help de-risk R&D, and finding the right partner in Asia.
Moreover, attendees will catch up on the latest Asian market trends and data from IMS Health, which sees China becoming the third largest pharma market in 2011 and predicts explosive growth in other hot Asia markets like India and Korea.
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For further information: http://www.windhover.com/windhover/content/conferences/pharmasia.aspx.
About Windhover Conferences and Elsevier Business Intelligence
Windhover Conferences is an Elsevier Business Intelligence company, the leading provider of business intelligence and analysis to senior executives in the medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries. Publishers of "The Pink Sheet," PharmAsia News, "The Tan Sheet", IN VIVO: The Business & Medicine Report, Start-Up: Emerging Medical Ventures, and The RPM Report: Regulation • Policy • Market Access, Elsevier and Windhover also host a variety of industry meetings and webinars in both medical device and pharma/biotech, and produce a wide array of market research reports. For more on the companies' products and services, please visit www.ElsevierBI.com.
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including the Lancet (www.thelancet.com) and Cell (www.cell.com), and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), Scopus (www.scopus.com), Reaxys (www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com) and Nursing Consult (www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite (www.scival.com) and MEDai's Pinpoint Review (www.medai.com), which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.
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