This is part of a Biotech Enterprise Lecture Series on the Business of Diagnostics, Vaccines & Pre-Clinical Assays by Dr. Rey Garcia, Balik Scientist 2010. This is made possible together with the Balik Scientist Program of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the National Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, University of the Philippines-Diliman.

For this first part of lecture series, the theme for July 27, 2010 shall focus on New Technologies in Diagnostics. Topics included are:

• Multiplexed/ Molecular Diagnostics
• Diagnostics for Resource-Poor Settings
• Drug-Diagnostic Co-development
• Epigenetics in Diagnostics (and in Therapeutics)

Mobile Phones and Language Literacy in Rural Developing Regions
Matthew Kam, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University and Founder, the MILLEE project

While high profile initiatives like One Laptop Per Child tout the potential of low-cost laptops to extend learning opportunities to learners around the world, especially those in rural and disadvantaged communities, many of the target communities are being slowly saturated with a computing device of a different sort: the mobile phone.

Please catch Professor Matthew Kawm on July 22, 2010 (Thursday), 4:30 p.m., Room 313, CTC Building, Ateneo de Manila University.

For more details, please get in touch with Didith Rodrigo or Melinda Nicdao.

This is part of a Biotech Enterprise Lecture Series on the Business of Diagnostics, Vaccines & Pre-Clinical Assays by Dr. Rey Garcia, Balik Scientist 2010. This is made possible together with the Balik Scientist Program of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the National Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, University of the Philippines-Diliman.

For this first part of lecture series, the theme for July 20, 2010 shall focus on the Global Overview of In Vitro Diagnostics. Topics included are:

• Penetrating the IVD Space
• Commercial Opportunities in Diagnostics
• Central Labs Versus Point-of-Care (PoC)
• Diagnostics: Product Development Basics

Visiting professor, Dr. Stephen A. Edwards, from Columbia University will be giving a technical talk on Concurrency and Communication this July 5, 2010 (Monday) at 2:30 p.m. in the PLDT Lecture Hall of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) Bldg., along Velasquez Street, UP Diliman.  

Kindly RSVP here at the Brain Gain website events page or e-mail Nicole Paterno.

We invite you to STAC’s “Technology-Focused Business and Enterepreneuship in the Philippines” Networking Dinner on June 23, 2010 (Wednesday) at 6:00 p.m. in Korel Pavillion, Ziff Center at 565 Mayfield Ave., Stanford, CA 94305.

Registration fees: US $30 for professionals, US $15 for students

Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/732330420.

Registration closes on June 21, 2010. Email Angela Cheng after June 21 to check availability.

Join us on June 16, 2010 (Wednesday), 11:00 a.m., Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health (ASMPH) Auditorium.

Dr. Jessica Jerome, a sociologist from St. John’s College (New Mexico, USA). will engage with us on her recent HIV/AIDS study in Fortaleza, Brazil.

Dr. Jerome believes that Brazil and the Philippines have a lot of similarities; her research could help Philippine health policies on HIV/AIDS treatment especially for the economically marginalized women located in urban centers.

RSVP here or contact Nicole Paterno.

Bring your coffee mugs and tumblers as the Brain Gain Network, together with Dialogues@Starbucks and AyalaTBI, is having a one-of-a-kind coffee conversation with visiting Dr. Daniel Holz from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Starbucks Jupiter Street, Bel-Air, Makati on June 15, 2010 at 6:30pm.

Please RSVP with us here in the Brain Gain Network or contact Nicole Paterno.

Dr. Daniel Holz from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico will be giving a stellar talk on "An Accelerated History of our Universe" in the College of Science Auditorium in UP Diliman on June 15, 2010 (Tuesday) at 1:15 p.m.

This event is open to the public. 

Please RSVP with us here in the Brain Gain Network or contact Nicole Paterno.

Accelrys has pioneered the commercial applications of computational methodologies, largely developed by collaboration with leading commercial research organizations and the world's top government and academic research institutes.  

Computer simulation from its birth has matured enough now to design novel material of interest, simulation now finds its application more in material designing than in the validation of experiment.  

The key problems in the areas of semiconductors, microelectronics, nano-composite, fuel cell, solar cell, battery material and their tentative solution approach will be discussed with a background of the Accelrys tools.  

The aim of this talk to is to share the technology, its future in nano-science and more precisely to:
• Reduce the number of costly and often lengthy experiments needed to bring a product to market;
• Minimize the time needed to set up and solve complex calculations; and
• Make well-informed decisions in research on a wide range of systems

Please make sure that your systems meet the Materials Studio requirements as follows: http://accelrys.com/products/ materials-studio/system- requirements.html

Understand the worlds of digital online and mobile applications, how consumers are influenced by them, and how to harness them for your company's communication and marketing requirements.