YOCA Happy Hour - The Gatsby Night at the Pump Room

On 5/30, Thursday, please join YOCA as we kick off a night of fun and classiness at the Pump Room in Chicago’s Gold Coast area. From 6 – 8pm, we will be hosting an happy hour event for all the young Chinese professionals / students in the Greater Chicago Area. 

Come experience the interior elegance of the Pump Room while enjoy the comfortable sofas and relaxing lighting of the Room’s library lounge. Filled with intriguing stories and like-minded people, this will be the best event to catch up on old memories and discover new surprises.

To make the night more interesting, we will be adding some “Great Gatsby” flavor to make your encounters more memorable. To get more details about the “Gatsby” flavor, be sure to sign up before the event through the link below.

To sign up for the event, please register to through the link below: http://yocagatsby.eventbrite.com/

Further event summary:

Venue address:

The Pump Room

1301 N State Pkwy, Chicago, IL 60610

Time:

5/30/2013, Thursday, 6 - 8pm

Costs:

Free ticket in advance by Thursday, May 30th, $5 afterwards and at the door

Get your free ticket now:  http://yocagatsby.eventbrite.com/

Getting there:

Gold Coast: 5 minutes walk from Red line Clark/Division stop

#22 and #36 CTA buses; limited street parking.

Dress Code:

smart casual or business classy

Hope to see you all there!

YOCA (Young Overseas Chinese Association)

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                                                                                                                      About YOCA:

Young Overseas Chinese Association

Together, We make a difference

The Young Overseas Chinese Association (YOCA) is founded in 2013 with the objective of serving and representing the interests of young overseas / immigrant Chinese professionals, particularly in the Greater Chicago Area. The mission of YOCA is to present and assist internationally trained professionals in gaining recognition, cultural integration, career advancement and civic engagement in the United State through quality programs and services.

The fields of expertise of YOCA members cover a wide range of professions. Based on their academic backgrounds, members are divided into seven major divisions, which are: Arts, Business, Engineering, Finance and Investment, Information Technology, Medicine and Pharmacy, and Science. Composition of the YOCA membership includes an exclusive group of professionals with post-graduate degrees from North American universities to a more diverse group with more and more new immigrants from China.g 

Dear Colleagues,

The pharmaceutical industry has experienced tremendous challenges in recently years due to “patent cliff” threats as well as changes in public and healthcare policies pertaining to how medicine is accessed and paid for. These challenges have caused investors, industrial leaders and scientists to question return on investment, justification of capital spending and career sustainability in R&D.  With a theme of “Transforming Pharmaceutical R&D”, Yao Yuan’s 5th Biotech-Pharma Symposium seeks to gather and inspire scientists at the forefront of discovery and development in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and to provide some context in this period of transition.  This event will be a valuable opportunity for learning amongst professionals, academicians and students, and serves as a platform for discussions around transforming pharmaceutical R&D.  Though primarily intended to be a Midwest regional gathering, e.g., Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin, the Symposium has historically attracted attendees from all areas of the country.

Time: May 18, 2013 (Saturday)

Venue: Illinois Science & Technology Park (8045 Lamon Avenue , Skokie, IL60077)

Featured Speakers & Topics:

Companion Diagnostics: Consideration of Tumor Heterogeneity

Prof. Mark J. Ratain, Leon O. Jacobson Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Personalized Therapeutics, the University of Chicago.

Transform Pharmaceutical R&D, Leveraging Open Innovation & Accessing Global Talents

Guoxin Zhu, Ph.D., Executive Director, Eli Lilly.

The Discovery of Omecamtiv Mecarbil:  the First, Selective, Small Molecule Activator of Cardiac Myosin

Bradley Morgan, Ph. D., Vice President, Cytokinetics.

Discovery of Potent Inhibitors of HCV NS5B Polymerase

John Randolph, Ph.D., Associate Research Fellow, AbbVie.

Ponatinib, a third generation BCR-ABL inhibitor approved for leukemia treatment and AP26113, a phase 2 trial compound for ALK+ non-small cell lung cancer treatment

Wei-Sheng Huang, Ph.D., Associate Director, Ariad

This conference is free, but please register ASAP to reserve your seats at the following address: http://yypharm.org/?q=5th_symposium. Attached please find the final program and directions to the auditorium.  Thank you and look forward to an exciting symposium.

Sincerely

Organizing Committee of the 5^th Yao Yuan Biotech-Pharma Symposium

Ya’an Earthquake Relief

On April 20^th, a strong magnitude 7 earthquake hit Ya’an, a city of 1.5 million not far from Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

The disaster has already taken the lives of hundreds and left thousands wounded and homeless.

The trauma again reminded us of the Wenchuan earthquake five years ago that jolted nearby area and left almost 90,000 people dead.

THE MOMENT IS NOW.

We can stand together as a community and show our utmost support.

It is time to show your love and support with other people in Chicago area and DaringQ Charity Foundation.

Participating Schools (alphabetical order):

DePaul University

Illinois Institute of Technology

Loyola University

Northwestern University

Roosevelt University

School of Art Institute Chinese Students Association

University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Chicago

At this moment, distance is no longer an obstacle as long as we march together.

At this moment, love and support are the common language we speak:

Pray for Ya’an. Donate for Ya’an.

Click this link and offer your support for Ya’an TODAY:

https://www.wepay.com/donations/daringq-foundation-for-yaan

Donate with PayPal:

http://en.daringq.org/index.php/donation

All the donations will be sent to earthquake survivors in Ya’an. Details of each donation (name of donors, amount of donation) will be listed on DaringQ Foundation official website within three business days. 

Charity Project Details

April – May, 2013

Fundraising for Ya’an

June, 2013

Establishment of Chicago For Ya’an Charity Fund

Material Supply

July – Auguest, 2013

Ya’an Revival

More details of this charity project?

Click: http://en.daringq.org/index.php/daringq-charity/yaan-earthquake-relief

We are also actively recruiting volunteers to go to Ya’an this summer. For more information

Contact us at: daringq@info.org

DaringQ Foundation works to eliminate educational inequity in China by supporting projects that enrich the lives of children in underserved communities with inspiration, hope and joy.

Yao Yuan and SAPA-Midwest will co-host a conference at IIT on April 21, 2013 with a theme of "New Drug Discovery in China”.

This conference attempts to provide the latest updates on the drug development in China, and serves as a forum for R&D leaders of major Chinese and American pharmaceutical companies to share their successes and challenges in drug innovation. This event will be a valuable opportunity for learning amongst professionals, academicians and students particularly from the Midwest area. This conference will also serve as a platform to foster the interactions and communications among pharmaceutical professionals with peers from China.  Major industrial parks or developmental zones, along with some pharmaceutical companies from China, will showcase their efforts and packages in attracting oversea talents and provide ideal environments for entrepreneurs.  If you want to know the current status of drug discovery activities, or are interested in exploring career opportunities in China, we strongly encourage you to make every effort in attending this conference.

For your reference, the following lists some of the companies that plan to participate in this exciting event:

Laureate Biopharmaceutical Services, Inc., Sundia Meditech Company Ltd., Nanjing Sanhome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., China Council for the Promotion of International Trade ( CCPIT ), Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co., Ltd., CGeneTech Shouzhou, Johnson & Johnson Innovation Center, Shanghai, Harbin Limin Economic and Technical Development Zone, SPV Jiaxing International Bio-Tech Park, Chengdu Tianhe Biomedical Technology Park Limited Company, Shanghai Zhangjiang Biotech and Pharmaceutical Base Development Co., Ltd., Wuhan Optics Valley Biomedical Industrial Park, CUSABIO, Angel Yeast Co., Ltd., Shenzhen BGI aquatic science and Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing Zhongguancun Life Science Park Bio-medical Incubatoe Co., Ltd., Jinan High-tech Business Incubator, Jinan Chensheng Medical Silicone Rubber Product Co., Ltd., Hebei Yuxing BIO Engineering Co., Ltd., Hebei Create Instrumentation Technologies Co., Ltd., Chenguang Biotech Group Co., Ltd., Hebei Xingtai Pharmacy Industry Company, Shanghai Biothchnology Corporation, JenKem Technology Co., Ltd., Robiot Co., Ltd.---Biological Buffers, CHINESE PHARMACEUTICAL ENTERPRISES ASSOCIATION, Amoytop Biotech.

This conference is free, but please register ASAP at the following link:

http://www.sapaweb.org/2013/registration_midwest.html

Thank you and look forward to seeing you soon.

Hello, I’m a Ph.D. student in the Speech Research Laboratory (Patrick Wong, Principal Investigator) in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern University. We’re looking for participants for hearing experiments. To participate, you will need to meet the following criteria:

1) Mandarin Chinese is the first language you learned;

2) 18 to 35 years old;

3) No history of neurological disorders;

4) Have normal hearing.

You will be asked to listen to some speech and other sounds in one of our sound booths.

Monetary compensation will be provided for your participation.

If you are interested, please email hearingbrain@northwestern.edu or go to http://cns.northwestern.edu/experiment/registration.html to register.

Thank you!