Symposium 2006

The Globalization of Pharmaceutical Development: Race, Markets and Ethics

Thursday, March 16, 2006

4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Reception at The Adobe Lounge, SCU Campus

6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Dinner Speaker: Troy Duster (Professor of Sociology, New York University)

7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Dinner

Friday, March 17, 2006 The Benson Memorial Center, SCU Campus

7:30 - 8:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:15 - 8:30 a.m. Welcome & Opening Remarks

Welcome by: Donald Polden (Dean, Santa Clara University School of Law)

8:30 - 9:45 a.m. Keynote Speaker: John Barton (Professor of Law Emeritus, Stanford University)

9:45 - 10:00 a.m. Break

10:00 - 11:45 a.m. PANEL I: The Implications of Personalized Medicine/Genetic Differences for a Global Market the important of broad racial and ethnic categories, as opposed to individual differences.

Moderator:
Dr. Anula Jayasuriya (Managing Director and Founding Partner of the LifeScience-India Fund).

Panelists:
Pilar Ossorio (Assistant Professor of Law & Medical Ethics, University of Wisconsin).
Dr. Edison Liu (Executive Director and Professor of Medicine, Genonomics Institute of Singapore).
Dr. Rob Lipshultz (Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Licensing, Affymetrix Inc.).

11:45 - 1:00 p.m. Networking Lunch

1:15 - 3:00 p.m. PANEL II: Who Overseas Pharma International? (working with the conference for Harmonization of Clinical Standards to develop international criteria for keeping track of genetic variations in the responses to new medicines).

Moderator:
Michelle Oberman (Professor of Law, Santa Clara University).

Panelists:
Jonathan Kahn (Professor of Law, Hamline School of Law).
Tracey Evans Chan (Assistant Professor of Law, National University of Singapore).
Kevin Outterson (Associate Professor of Law, West Virginia University College of Law).

3:00 - 3:15 p.m. Break

3:15 - 5:00 p.m. PANEL III: Ethics in a Global Pharmaceutical Environment (case study approach, taking a look at the Harvard Millennium Pharmaceutical controversy regarding genomics research in China).

Moderator:
Dr. Margaret McLean (Health Sciences Fellow and Assistant Director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University).

Panelists:
Terry Kaan (Assistant Professor of Law, National University of Singapore).
Michael Malinowski (Professor of Law, Louisiana State University).
Dr. Ock Joo Kim (College of Medicine, Seoul National University).

5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Reception