Dear SAPA-NE Members and Friends

Dear SAPA-NE members and friends:

SAPA-NE is proud to present you its 10th Scientific Symposium at Tang Center MIT Sloan School of Management on Nov. 10th (Sat. 1:00PM-6:00PM). The theme of the symposium is “Seeding Innovation for Break-through Therapies”.

In the symposium, there will be six distinguished speakers from Wyeth, Biogen-Idec, Novartis, Amgen, Genzyme and Harvard. The presentation topics of the symposium range from drug discovery in Neuro- regeneration and metabolic diseases to clinical development of new cancer therapies, and to novel strategic partnering in cardiovascular drug discovery. Especially, Wyeth AVP Dr. Wozney, a finalist of 2007 Prix Galien Award USA, will talk about how he and his team discovered and developed an innovative bone-inductive therapeutic INFUSETM and its delivery system InductOsTM. The product has been launched and marketed worldwide since 2005, and found widespread use in orthopaedics. Dr. Wozney was named R&D Directions “Top 20 scientists” along with Nobel laureates Andrew Fire and Craig Mello.

Besides providing scientific learning in Drug discovery, the symposium will also be an excellent networking opportunity with Pharma/Biotech managements and with scientists. Job openings and career opportunity from companies such as Wyeth, Biogen-Idec and Pfizer, are available. For details of the symposium, please visit our web site at www.sapaweb.org

Speakers: Dr. John Wozney (AVP-Wyeth) Dr. Axel Nohtufft (Prof.-Harvard University) Dr. Gene Liau (Director-Novartis) Dr. Sha Mi (Director-Biogen-Idec) Dr. Vinod Patel (Director-Amgen) Dr. Sam Wadsworth (VP-Genzyme)

When: Saturday, November 10th, 1:00-6:00 pm

Where: Tang Center, Building E51, Room# 315, Sloan Business School, MIT Address: 2 Ambers Street, Cambridge MA Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?state=0&prl.x=3948prl.y=123

Who: All are welcome!

Registration Fee: Free for SAPA and MIT ETF members, unemployed, MIT, Harvard and all students. 10$ for non-members and other participants.

Contact Persons: Xiaotian Zhong at 617-281-1922, [email protected]; Dongli Chen at 617-548-2782, [email protected] Mark Lin at 617-780-1450, [email protected] Bingli Ma at 978-302-5476, [email protected]

We look forward to seeing you there.

Warmest Regards,

SAPA-NE Executive Committee

SAPA-NE, 7 Mohawk Road, Burlington, MA 01803 http://www.sapaweb.org