[IEEE-bhpjobs] (Fwd) IEEE Biotech/Health/Pharma JHC October 2003 information

[Esther L.]

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IEEE Biotech/Health/Pharma Job Hunt Collaboration 


At our next meeting, Monday Oct. 27th, Terri Fleming from GSK will give
a talk about Bioinformatics.


There is a guide to biotech-related events at Cato Research's website,
http://www.cato.com/news2.html


News:
- free web seminars from IBM about what they hope to sell to Life 
Sciences industry at 
http://www.ibmweblectureservices.ihost.com/life_sciences/102FGE12.
- NCRAF has a section on their website tracking new guidances from FDA
at http://www.ncraf.org/whats_new.htm 
- NCCU is starting a Master's program in BioInformatics. A professor of 
that degree program will probably attend the Oct. 27th meeting and say a 
few words about the program. 
- IEEE October newsletter available at www.ieee.org/enc/ then
click on Newsletter on the Left. 
- Harold Meder's list of job-hunting groups, 
http://www.unc.edu/~hwm/uoc/groups.html 
- Calendar and list of computer-related groups maintained by Steve 
Burnett,
http://www.pobox.com/~burnett/triangle/groups.html


Upcoming meetings:

Oct.  8, NCPMI Pharmaceutical Local Interest Group mtg, 5:30pm. Topic:
Project Management Office Implementation from Matt Supina, GSK. email 
e-
mail bruce.falcon at dsm.com for info.

Oct.  9, TriLUG meeting. Topic: Debian.  www.trilug.org

Oct. 13, NCSA meeting. Topic: 10th anniversary party. 
www.ncsysadmin.org

Oct. 13, Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) meeting,
Topic: 21 CFR Part 11.  http://www.acrpnet.org/chapters/rtpk/index.html
Lisa Olson is presenter (also presenting at NCRAF RAC group Oct. 14)

Oct. 14, NCRAF RAC study group, Topic is 21 CFR Part 11. Contact 
Alexandra McCormick, MCCOR025 at onyx.dcri.duke.edu, if you want to 
attend
as a guest.  At DCRI. Mention my name.

Oct. 14, IEEE PDI, Management Skills for New Supervisors, 
http://www.southeastcon.com/pdi/

Oct. 16, 9am, Triangle Part Eleven Electronic Records & Signatures group
meeting. http://peers.onsphere.com/

Oct. 16, NCRAF monthly meeting, 5:30pm.  Topic:  IRB Roles and 
Responsibilities   www.ncraf.org

Oct. 16, NCPMI Annual Event, Project Success Strategies, 8am-8pm (can
sign up for parts of day).  http://www.thotwave.com/ncpmi/

Oct. 21, NCCSQA quarterly meeting.  Topic:  GCP, GLP, and GMP. 
http://www.nccsqa.org/

Oct. 25, ACRP Fall Conference, Topic: Risk Management and Resolve in
Clinical Research. 8am - 4:30pm, $85.
http://www.acrpnet.org/chapters/rtpk/

Oct. 27, Monthly meeting of IEEE BHP JHC, 6:30pm. Topic: 
Bioinformatics.

Nov.  1, Regulatory Affairs Certification exam.

Nov.  4, IEEE PDI, Risk Management, http://www.southeastcon.com/pdi/

Nov.  6, ISO Support Group, Topic: Roundtable Discussion on Continual
Improvement Best Practices. http://rtpnet.org/~asq/isoug.html

Nov. 11, NCCSQA Roundtable (members only), 11:30am. Topic: Risky 
Business: Defining Risk Assessment. 
http://www.nccsqa.org/NCCSQA_Events.html

Nov. 12, ISPE quarterly meeting, 9am - 4pm. Topic: Clinical Trials
Materials. http://www.ispe.org/carolina-southatlantic/

Nov. 12, NCPMI Pharmaceutical LIG, 5:30pm. Topic: Lead Optimization. 
email e-mail bruce.falcon at dsm.com for info. Lead Optimization is the
name of the process step in drug development where drug companies
analyze drug compounds in lab, and decide which ones to do further
research on.

Nov. 13, NCRAF Annual Roundtable meeting, details TBD. www.ncraf.org

Nov. 17, Monthly meeting of IEEE BHP JHC, 6:30pm. Topic TBD.

Nov. 18, ASQ monthly meeting 5:45pm, Tour of Underwriters Labs in 
RTP.
http://rtpnet.org/~asq/programs.html

Dec. 10, NCPMI Pharmaceutical LIG, 5:30pm. Topic: Funding for Startup. 
email e-mail bruce.falcon at dsm.com for info.

Dec. 15, Monthly meeting of IEEE BHP JHC, 6:30pm. Topic TBD.

Jan. 20, ASQ monthly meeting 6pm, Topic:  Current Compliance Topics 
for
Medical Devices. http://rtpnet.org/~asq/programs.html



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