I am posting details for the InnovationWell Autumn Community of
Practice Meeting in October 2008 in Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia.  Please
note that abstracts are still being accepted for posters.

Innovation in Life Science & Healthcare Research and Product
Development

InnovationWell Autumn Community of Practice Meeting October 14-17,
2008 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia, USA

Conference Link:
http://innovationwell.net/comty_conferences

The InnovationWell program will be covering topics in systems biology,
computational biology, knowledge management, translational medicine,
metabolomics, and predictive toxicology. The eCheminfo program will be
covering topics in drug discovery informatics.

Abstracts (300-500 words) should be submitted to innovationwell -[at]-
douglasconnect.com or echeminfo -[at]- douglasconnect.com as soon as
possible, and be accompanied by a short biography of the presenting
author (300-500 words). Abstracts approved by the scientific
organizing committee will be selected for scheduling in meeting poster
sessions. Authors will be notified of acceptance as soon as a review
of submitted materials takes place.

Speakers
Keith Elliston (Genstruct), Debraj GuhaThakurta (Rosetta Inpharmatics,
Merck & Co.), Stephen W. Edwards (U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency), Paul McDonagh (Gene Network Sciences), Christopher M.L.S.
Bouton (Pfizer), James R. Brown (GlaxoSmithKline), John Wilbanks
(Creative Commons), Barry Bunin (Collaborative Drug Discovery),
Michael Liebman (Windber Research Institute), Jerry Wright (Johns
Hopkins Medical Institutions), Anastasia Christianson (AstraZeneca),
James Golden (Science Applications International Corporation), John
Speakman (National Cancer Institute), William Hayes (Biogen Idec),
Andrew McMurray (Harvard University), Eugene Clark (Partners
Healthcare), Alvin Berger (Metabolon), John Newman (USDA), Bruce
Kristal (Brigham and Women’s Hospital), Anton Hopfinger (University of
New Mexico), Heidi Einolf (Novartis), Yojiro Sakiyama (Pfizer), Olga
Obrezanova (BioFocus DPI, UK), Anthony E. Klon (Pharmacopeia), Artem
Cherkasov (University of British Columbia, Canada), Ann Richards (US
EPA), Curt Breneman (RPI),
Alex Tropsha (UNC), Barry Hardy (Douglas Connect), Weida Tong (FDA)

Pre-Conference Workshop, October 13.
Knowledge Management in R&D chaired by John Conway (Accelrys) and
Frank Hollinger (FRESH Directions Consulting)

We gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship support of the Chemical
Computing Group, Merck Research Laboratories, SimBioSys, Tibotec,
Tripos and MEDIT.

More information at:

InnovationWell Program
http://innovationwell.net/COMTY_conferences
http://innovationwell-bm810.eventsbot.com/

eCheminfo Program
http://echeminfo.com/COMTY_conferences
http://echeminfoBM810.eventsbot.com

Rob Reedijk
InnovationWell Community of Practice