ACS Annual Picnic

San Dieguito County Park - Picnic Area 1 1628 Lomas Santa Fe Dr., Del Mar, CA, United States

Food, fun and family! Sept 14 2024 at 11:30 AM-2:30 PM, San Dieguito County Park-Picnic Area 1 Tacos ! | Dessert Contest | Games & Enterntainment

22nd San Diego BioPharma Conference

Hilton San Diego, Del Mar 15575 Jimmy Durante Blvd., Del Mar, CA, United States

Join us for an extraordinary gathering featuring some of the industry's most influential figures at our upcoming conference on October 5th. We are delighted to host distinguished speakers such as Sabine Hadida, Vertex site head and this year’s Breakthrough Awardee; Sarah Boyce, Avidity Bioscience CEO; Ken Song, Candid Therapeutics CEO and former RayzeBio CEO; David Bredt, Rapport founder and CSO; Tim Lucker, Lilly Ventures managing partner and head of West Coast; and Diane Simeone, the new director of UCSD Moores Cancer Center.
 
These visionaries are set to share their insights and expertise in sessions covering a range of pivotal topics. Highlights include engaging Fireside Chats on Taking a Research Organization towards Commercialization, celebrating Breakthrough Prize Winner achievements in Serial Innovation in Drug Development, and exploring the journey From Academia to Industry in Neuroscience IPOs. Discover the transformative impact of Moores Cancer Center’s New Director, a world-renowned Pancreatic Surgeon, and delve into cutting-edge innovations like Next-Gen Chemoproteomics Platforms that are revolutionizing Drug Discovery. Don’t miss discussions on Premier Radiopharma in M&A and more.
 
For complete details and to view our comprehensive agenda, we invite you to visit our program page. We look forward to welcoming you on October 5th for what promises to be an enlightening and inspiring event.

$50 – $120

2024 Distinguished Scientist Award Banquet

The Butcher Shop 5255 Kearny Villa Rd, San Diego, CA, United States

Liangfang Zhang, PhD
 
Liangfang Zhang is Joan and Irwin Jacobs Chancellor Professor and Chair of the Department of Nanoengineering at UC San Diego. He has published over 280 peer-reviewed articles and was among the Clarivate Analytics list of “Highly Cited Researchers” during 2017-2023. His research aims to invent and develop novel biomimetic nanotechnologies for various biomedical applications, with a particular focus on drug delivery, biological neutralization, and vaccination.

$25 – $60

ChemExpo 2024

San Diego Miramar College 10440 Black Mountain Road, San Diego, CA, United States

San Diego ACS will hold their annual event to promote the value of chemistry in everyday life. The goal is to help our community to explore and understand how photography has evolved through the years. Together, we will learn more about how light is captured to give us images from the first days of photography to today's modern digital images and the important role chemistry plays in this creative field.
 
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
 
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Graduate Student Symposium – ACS Spring 2025

Bonds That Matter: Soft Materials for a Sustainable World
 
Soft materials (such as polymers, gels, colloids, and liquid crystals) are composed of relatively large organic molecules governed by weak interactions. These materials display unique properties that render themselves useful to a variety of industries, such as textiles, electronics, packaging, and biomedical devices. As an increasing number of materials are commercialized, sustainability has become an important consideration. Life cycle assessments (LCAs) are often used to evaluate the sustainability of a material from a multitude of angles such as its feedstocks, synthesis, byproducts, processability, recyclability, degradation, sustainability, and environmental impact. Unfortunately, sustainable materials often underperform compared to market standards, which limits their commercial adoption, but this gap is shrinking through cutting edge endeavors spearheaded by academic and industrial researchers.
 
The focus of the symposium is the production of high performance, sustainable soft matter and its role in achieving a circular economy. Specifically, the symposium will have two themes: 1) processing, recycling, and upcycling, and 2) biomass valorization and sustainable feedstocks.