Singapore - Pistoia Alliance Knowledge Sharing "Lunch & Learn"

The Pistoia Alliance is a global, not-for-profit alliance of life science companies, vendors, publishers, and academic groups that work together to lower barriers to innovation in Life Science R&D and healthcare.

The Pistoia Alliance is keen to reach out to the vibrant life science community in Singapore for knowledge sharing.

In pursuance of this mission, the Pistoia Alliance is holding a “lunch & learn” meeting on Thursday 31st January 2019. The Pistoia Alliance will set out to explain the projects and the other activities in which it is currently engaged, and also what it is planning to do in the near future. The Pistoia Alliance is particularly keen to learn how it can shape its activities such that it can be increasingly relevant to the life science community in Singapore

This meeting will be hosted by Merck (a member of the Pistoia Alliance) at their MSD Singapore IT Hub at: 1 Fusionopolis Pl, Singapore 138522

DRAFT Agenda – Thursday 31st January 2019 - REGISTER

10:00 Opening remarks / Julie Olszewski, ED of IT Innovation Hub and Data Science at MSD

10:10 Introduction of the Pistoia Alliance including: Projects, Communities of Interest, Conferences, Workshops, Symposia, Webinars, Publications, Start-up Company Challenges, Hackathons, etc. / Ashley George & John Wise, Pistoia Alliance

10:40 Introduction of the Life Science Community of Singapore / Professor John CW Lim, Executive Director, Centre of Regulatory Excellence, Duke-NUS Medical School and Senior Advisor, Ministry of Health, Singapore [TBC]

11:00 Singapore’s approach to precision medicine and the Asian phenotype / Dr Patrick Tan, Deputy ED of the Biomedical Research Council and co-chair of the National Precision Medicine Steering Committee

11:20 Pharmaceutical manufacturing – the Factory of the Future (including API, biologics & cell Rx manufacturing) / Dr Danny Soon, Senior Director, Biomedical Research Council

11:40 Coffee Break

12:00 Title to be confirmed / Rahul Pandey, Healthcare and IP Consultant Clarivate Analytics

12:20 Merck, Accenture and the Singapore Economic Development Board – Collaboration in action

Dr Bing Lim, Associate VP Research Science, Merck [TBC]

12:40 The Pistoia Alliance Project Portfolio and Strategic Themes / Ashley George & John Wise, Pistoia Alliance

13:00 Discussion and plans for next steps

13:30 Lunch

14:30 Meeting Close