Your Expert Speaker Panel for ELNs 2010 includes:
Conference Chairman:
Seth Pinsky
Director Scientific Informatics and Automation
Abbott Laboratories
Keynote Presentation:
Jim King
Director, R&D Business Technology
Pfizer Diversified Businesses
Ralph Haffner
Head of Scientific Information Systems
Roche
Ralph graduated with a master in Medical Informatics from the University of Heidelberg. He started his professional career in 1997 as a software engineer and consultant for Healthcare Information Systems at micom GmbH (subsidiary company of Jenoptik Jena AG). In 1999 he joined Roche as System Analyst for Workflow Systems. After several roles with increasing responsibilities he was appointed to lead the Therapeutic Modalities Informatics Department in Penzberg Germany. His main expertise is managing projects in the area of Lab Workflow Systems and Electronic Lab Notebooks.
Martin Vanderlaan
Director, Analytical Operations
Genentech
Ph.D. from New York University Medical School MBA from University of San Francisco
14-year Genentech employee
Currently: Director of Analytical Operations
Electronic Lab Notebook Implementation Team Business Lead
Technical expert in Analysis of BioPharmaceuticals using chromatography, immunoassays, and potency assays. Over 80 publications and patents.
Formerly: Director of Immunochemistry, Perseptive Biosystems
Head, Hybidoma Group, Lawrence Livernore National Laboratory
Ian Berry
Principal Scientist, Applications Developer and eScience Manager
Evotec UK Ltd.
Dr Ian Berry has been Head of eScience at Evotec for the past two years and has been in charge of the ELN project from its inception. Prior to this Ian led the development of a LIMS system for Protein Crystallization at Oxford University in collaboration with other universities across Europe. Ian has also worked as a developer in fields such as speech recognition and satellite communications after completing a PhD in space science.
Dr Jan Hauss
Head of Central Analytics Informatics
Merck
Originally trained inorganic Chemist and UNIX expert, Dr. Hauß has joined Merck KGaA in 1998 coming from the IBM, where he worked for two years as a consultant in the computer data storage area (ADSM or TSM).
He was project leader in the planning and implementation of a research LIMS at the Darmstadt site. This LIMS (now AWM sold by Waters) is focused on the integration of 400 users of an ELN system at the same site. He works in a GMP regulated environment within the central analytical service department of Merck.
He currently works on IT projects in the central analytics department.
Edward Reilly
LIMS Administrator
Baxter Healthcare
Edward Reilly is LIMS Administrator at Baxter Healthcare and has held this position since 2000. Having project managed many LIMS roll-outs and upgrades as well as maintaining the training core for LIMS. He holds a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Delaware.
Frédéric Paulart
Laboratory Manager
Institut d’Immunologie Médicale
Mats Dahlberg
Head, System Administration
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research
Alexander Botzki
ELN Project Officer
VIB
Alexander Botzki is currently the ELN Project Leader at VIB in Gent and has been since 2009.Prior to this Alex has worked at Algonomics NV and deVGen NV.
Colin Sandercock
Partner
Perkins Coie LLP
John Botta
Director of Corporate Compliance
AIT Laboratories
As former President of a pre-clinical toxicology laboratory, former Vice President General Manager, and former IT/Quality Consultant, John Botta brings 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry to his role as the Director of Corporate Compliance for AIT Laboratories. In his role at AIT, Mr. Botta has oversight of Compliance, Quality Assurance, Document Management, Training Records Management, Incident Management, and Validation activities. Mr. Botta has a passion for serving the business and enjoys bringing a fresh perspective to the role of Quality and Compliance within a regulated company. He brings a unique mix of real world business experience with a strong foundation of IT and software development practices to his role at AIT. He has a passion for helping others understand that the ultimate goal of IT, Quality, and Compliance is to serve the business. He has strong interests in solution development, process improvement, training, and helping others meet their own personal and business objectives. His unique talents in both QA and IT allow him to help design end-to-end processes that support the needs of the high-tech regulated laboratory. Mr. Botta has a BS in Computer Science and a BA in Chemistry from Indiana University.
Daniel Domine
Associate Director, Research Informatics
Merck-Serono
Dr Ying Ha
Senior Scientist and R&D Laboratory Manager
CSL Biotherapies
Dr Ralf Bitschenauer
System Analyst
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH
Since 2004, Ralf had held the position of global IT lead of Electronic Notebook for Chemistry at Boehringer Ingelheim and has been working for the company in the IT department since 1998. Ralf holds a PhD in Physical Chemistry at University Ulm, Germany
Patrick Marichal
Program Manager
Johnson and Johnson
Patrick Marichal, Programme Manager Pharma R&D IT for Research and Early Development, Johnson & Johnson, Beerse Belgium. Patrick Marichal holds degrees in Biochemistry/Chemistry and Informatics and obtained a PhD in Medical Microbiology. From 1981, he held positions with increasing responsibility within the antimicrobial research group of Johnson & Johnson, where he built expertise across the entire process of drug discovery from target identification, smart screening, up to new medical entity selection. From 2001 he is involved in the Discovery Informatics group. The last few years were focused on ABCD, the Johnson & Johnson Advanced Biology and Chemistry Discovery framework . He is author or co-author of 60+ scientific papers or book chapters.
Dr Adrian Brüngger-Brecht
Head of Discovery Informatics
Basilea Pharmaceutica
Samy Hernandez
Manager, Analytical Operations
Genentech
Samy Hernandez is a Manager in the Analytical Operations Department supporting Process Development at Genentech in South San Francisco, CA, USA. She has been with Genentech for 18 years and has a BS in Cell and Molecular Biology from San Francisco State University.
Dr Barbara Valastro
Director, in vitro Screening Drug Discovery & Development
Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH
Dr Paul Denny-Gouldson
Product Manager
IDBS
Paul joined IDBS in 2005, bringing over 12 years experience in pharmacology, pharmaceutical drug development and ELN software development. Paul brings to IDBS scientific domain expertise as well as experience in the management of software development programs, having started his own software company in 2000 (Deffinity Solutions) which was purchased by IDBS in 2005. Prior to this, he was Senior Scientist at Sanofi-Synthelabo (now Sanofi-Aventis) for just under 5 years, where he managed a multidisciplinary department of scientists whose remit spanned target validation, primary efficacy testing and pharmacology, assay development, mechanism of action, cell biology and molecular biology. Paul obtained his PhD. in Computational Biology from Essex University in 1996, and has authored over 20 scientific papers and book chapters.
Debra Toburen
Senior Product Manager, Informatics
Agilent Technologies
Debra started her career in discovery research developing assays for high-throughput screening and lead optimization. She has been in the research informatics industry for over 10 years responsible for products in biology data management, content databases and electronic lab notebook solutions. She has been with Agilent for nearly three years through the Velocity11 acquisition and has a B.S. in Microbiology with an M.B.A.
Dr Bernhard Schirm
Managing Director
quattro research GmbH
Bernhard Schirm is co-founder and managing director of quattro research GmbH. After receiving a doctorate in chemistry, he started his career at 4SC, a German based pharmaceutical company. As Head of Information Management he was responsible for the development of a generic ELN which went productive 1999. In addition, his group was responsible for all aspects of data management at 4SC. Based on these experiences, he founded quattro research 2004, together with his colleague Markus Weisser, a biologist. Since then, quattro research assists chemical and pharmaceutical companies of all sizes to optimise their data management and scientific documentation.
Michael Elliott
CEO
Atrium Research
Michael H Elliott, founder and president of Atrium Research & Consulting LLC, started his 30 year technology career as an analytical chemist. He then spent the next seventeen years at Perkin-Elmer Corporation, beginning as a software technical consultant and finishing as division VP and general manager. Later, he joined Scientific Software, Inc., (now part of Agilent Technologies) as SVP responsible worldwide operations, growing the company from a small supplier of chromatography software to a major player in laboratory data management. Mr. Elliott has been quoted for his expertise in numerous international publications, presented at conferences in over 25 countries, and has multiple works published on laboratory informatics. He is on the editorial review board of Scientific Computing, the industry advisory board of the Life Sciences Informatics Technology (LSIT) Institute, and advises leaders in the biopharmaceutical sector on industry dynamics, emerging trends, and strategy formulation.
John Trigg
Director
phaseFour Informatics
John Trigg is Founder and Director of phaseFour Informatics, a UK –based consultancy specialising in the Electronic Laboratory Notebook market and laboratory integration. He has over 25 years’ experience working in the field of R&D data, information and knowledge management, including 10 years experience of the world’s first enterprise level implementation of an Electronic Lab Notebook in the Eastman Kodak Company. John is author of a number of publications on Electronic Laboratory Notebooks and Knowledge Management in the Laboratory and has presented papers and run workshops at conferences in the UK, Ireland, Germany, USA and Australia. John is also the founder of The Integrated Lab website. He was the recipient of the 2000 International LIMS Award and is currently the Chairman of the Automation and Analytical Management Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Gloria Metrick
Principal Consultant
GeoMetrick Enterprises
Gloria Metrick is the Owner of GeoMetrick Enterprises (www.geometrick.com/), which provides LIMS and Laboratory Informatics consulting services. She has worked with LIMS and other Laboratory Informatics software for over twenty years in a variety of industries, products, and activities. As an expert from her continued hands-on project work, she also speaks and writes on topics relevant to the LIMS/Laboratory Informatics industry in publications such as “Scientific Computing” and “Lab Manager Magazine.” She is the author of “Out on a LIMS™: The Newsletter for People Who Risk Life and LIMS™ on a Daily Basis” (www.geometrick.com/newsltr_signup.htm) and “Out on a LIMS™: The Blog for People Who Risk Life and LIMS™ on a Daily Basis” (outonalims.wordpress.com/). She is the founder of the LinkedIn LIMS/Laboratory Informatics group, and a contributor to TheIntegratedLab.com .
Dr Timea Polgar
Applications Scientist
ChemAxon
Timea Polgar is a Senior Application Scientist at ChemAxon Ltd. in Budapest, Hungary. She earned her MSc in molecular biology and chemistry from University of Szeged, Hungary. She defended her PhD thesis at Budapest University of Technology and Economics on Virtual screening in early phase drug design. She had been working as a computational chemist for seven years in the pharmaceutical industry first for Gedeon Richter and then Servier.
Dr. Thomas Schmidt
Senior Product Manager Informatics
Waters GmbH
Thomas Schmidt was born in 1969 and received his chemistry education at the Kekulé-Institute for Organic Chemistry at the University of Bonn, After earning his Ph.D in 1997, he worked for CreonLabControl as a software developer in the area of workflow and e-record management systems. He is now working as a Senior Product Manager for Waters focusing on workflow management systems for analytical laboratories.
John Egerton
Product Specialist
STARLIMS