2004 Annual Symposium

2004 Symposium Report

In the early morning of June 5^th, more than a hundred chemists from the tri-state area (New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania) came to the Fiber Optics Auditorim at Busch Campus of Rutgers University for the Chinese American Chemical Society Annual Symposium. This year, the symposium was focused on a hot topic area in the field of chemistry: high throughput methodologies.

Dr. Qiang Kuangnan, the president of Tri-state CACS, gave welcoming remarks, and achieving scientists from both academic labs and corporate companies presented their work in High Throughput screening in the morning session. Dr. Jerry Bech, a director from ExxonMobil, talked about approaches towards catalytic materials of the future, and Dr. Jack Henion, President of Advion BioSciences, discussed trends in High Throughput MS and MS/MS analyses. Dr. Gerben Zylstra, a professor from Rutgers, gave a seminar on high throughput methods in microbial genomics, and Dr. Kent Chen gave a presentation on “patent trends in high throughput technologies”. While many scientists focused on technologies and methodologies, other renowned scientists and business managers presented other topics and brought up interesting responses and discussions, such as Dr. Helen Hsu, a senior director from Johnson & Johnson, who attracted the audience's attention by a touching talk on “career paths in a corporate setting”. Dr. Joseph Mo, CEO of MexMed, gave a presentation “how to best to start a company and develop it into a Nasdaq listed company in 3-5 years”. Dr. Lisa Yeh told newcomers about how to adapt to the US work environment.

Near the end of the all day symposium, Dr. Sun Yongkui announced the CACS mentor program, which will help new chemists get into chemistry field quickly and smoothly.

Registration forms for both mentor and student were given out on site. The forms are available on tri-state CACS website at www.tristatecacs.org.

Many chemists said afterwards the symposium is helpful and interesting and that they definitely come back next year (Sunny Wang reporting from Piscataway, NJ).

Tristate CACS Annual Symposium: Frontiers of High Throughput Technologies and Applications

Jointly sponsored by the Chinese American Chemical Society and the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University

Saturday, June 5, 2004

Fiber Optics Auditorium, Rutgers University, Busch Campus,
607 Taylor Road Piscataway, New Jersey 08854

Program at Glance

Web: www.tristatecacs.org

Registration: Shaoqing Chen (Roche) at 973-2354636,
Haiping Wang (Schering) at 908-7403996,
Guang Cao (ExxonMobil) at 908-7302103,
Tianhui Xia (Aventis) at 908-2314890,
Guaoqiang Shi (Merck) at 732-3550297
and Weiyi Zheng (Novartis) at 862-7785311

Speakers