October 2014

Dear SCBA Members and Friends:

As promised, our highly anticipated SCBA All-Member Meeting will take place on November 1st, Saturday, from 1:30pm to 6:00pm, at the UW Genome Sciences Building (Foege-060).

This year, we have lined up world class speakers from local academic and non-profit institutions, as well as biotech industry. The keynote speaker will be Dr. William A. Catterall, Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology at University of Washington, and a member of the US National Academy of Science and the Royal Society of London, UK. Dr. Catterall will speak on structural and functional studies of the voltage-gated sodium channels. In addition, we will have “2014 Gateway Cancer Researcher of the Year” Dr. Edward H. Lin from UW/FHCRC to share with us his award winning ADAPT trial for advanced colorectal cancer (CRC); Dr. Yiwu He, Associate Director of Translational Sciences from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to discuss vision and strategy for fighting global infectious diseases including Ebola; and Dr. Che-Leung Law, a Senior Director of Seattle Genetics, to talk about industrial perspective of drug development.

During the meeting, we will also elect new members to join the SCBA Board.

We highly encourage you all to come join us for this exciting event, discussing cutting-edge sciences, sharing the significant accomplishments of our members, and socializing.

The registration fee is $15, which covers the annual membership and a dinner.

Please RSVP to office@scbahome.org so that we can prepare logistics accordingly.

If you have any further questions, feel free to contact Dr. Ning Zheng (nzheng@u.washington.edu) and/or Dr. Qiang Tian (Qiang.Tian@systemsbiology.org).

We look forward to seeing you all on Nov. 1st.

Best regards,

SCBA Board

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