Breakout Discussion Groups Announced at CHI's R&D Informatics Event in San Francisco, Feb. 21-23

Feb. 2, 2012 - PRLog -- Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) today announced details of three concurrent breakout discussion groups in its exhibit hall to be hosted by a facilitator at its fourth annual Integrated R&D Informatics & Knowledge Management conference set for February 21-23, 2012 at the Moscone North Convention Center in San Francisco, CA.

The following breakout discussion groups will be held on the conclusion of day one between 5:20-6:20 pm:

Standardizing External Data
Sandor Szalma, Head, External Innovation, Research & Development IT, J&J Pharmaceutical Research & Development, LLC

* What is external data? Who needs it anyway?
* Standards – pre-competitive collaboration or competitive advantage?
* Who should drive standards development?
* Best practices for standards development? Large groups or small groups?
* Adopting standards – what if the “standard” does not cover my use case?
* The devil is in the detail – or is it?

Managing Research’s Growing Data Sets
Martin Leach, Ph.D., CIO, Broad Institute

* Preparing a data management infrastructure
* Pitfalls of working with large datasets
* Beyond petabytes: the next next wave of data

Translational Informatics
Shoibal Datta, Ph.D., Associate Director, R&D Information Technology, Therapeutic Areas & Translational Medicine, Biogen Idec, Inc.

* What challenges did you face accessing line function data for translational uses?
* What do you see as the key issues behind the concerns?
* What worked and what did not in your efforts to overcome them and did any best practices emerge?

The Integrated R&D Informatics & Knowledge Management conference is one of the program offerings at CHI’s flagship event, the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference (February 19-23). This international event features 2 partnering forums, 5 symposia, 18 short courses, and 12 core programs around 4 scientific channels: diagnostics, drug discovery & development, informatics, and cancer. Over 3000 attendees and 150+ sponsors & exhibitors will gather in shared networking functions and in the exhibit/poster hall.

To view the agenda, speaker line-up, and to register: http://www.TriConference.com/Discovery-Informatics

To inquire about sponsoring and/or exhibiting, contact Jon Stroup, 781-972-5483, jstroup@healthtech.com.

Writers and editors are encouraged to attend. To request a press pass, contact Tracey Fielding at tfielding@healthtech.com.

About Cambridge Healthtech Institute (www.chicorporate.com)

Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) is the preeminent life science network for leading researchers and business experts from top pharmaceutical, biotech and academic organizations. CHI’s portfolio of products includes Cambridge Healthtech Institute Conferences, Insight Pharma Reports, Barnett International, Cambridge Marketing Consultants, Cambridge Meeting Planners and Cambridge Healthtech’s Media Group, which includes numerous e-newsletters as well as Bio-IT World magazine.

Founded in 1992, Cambridge Healthtech Institute strives to develop quality information sources that provide valuable new insights and competing points of view while offering balanced coverage of the latest developments. Basic research related to commercial implications is covered, with heavy emphasis placed on end-user insights into new products and technology as well as coverage on the strategy behind the business.

Contact:
James Prudhomme
Cambridge Healthtech Institute
781-972-5400
jprudhomme@healthtech.com