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BURLINGAME, Calif., July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Collaborative Drug Discovery invites you to submit your poster presentation and register at http://www.acteva.com/go/cdd to attend the 2nd Annual CDD Community Meeting (a free, 1-day event) on October 7th. The CDD Community Meeting is the best place for the CDD community and all scientists to get together, discuss their research projects, and showcase their work to others in the community.

Early List of Confirmed Speakers:

-- David Sullivan, MD, Johns Hopkins

-- Fred Buckner MD, University of Washington

-- Janice Kranz, PhD, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad

Institute of MIT & Harvard

-- Conor Caffrey, PhD, Sandler Center, UCSF

-- Jean Claude-Bradley, PhD Dept. of Chemistry, Drexel University

-- Sean Ekins, PhD, ex-Pfizer/Lilly Computational Chemist

-- Andrea Altieri, PhD, ASINEX

-- Robert Damoiseaux, PhD, UCLA Molecular Screening Shared Resource (MSSR)

Center

-- Moses Hohman, PhD, Head of Software, Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD

roadmap)

-- J. Leighton Read, MD (Alloy Ventures) -- Financing Biomedical

Innovation from academia to the market: From FluMist(TM) to Priority

Review Vouchers and other stories

-- Russell "Rusty" Bromley, Chief Operating Officer, Myelin Repair

Foundation

Timely panel topics:

-- Panel #1: What Foundations are looking for from Academic researchers?

-- Panel #2: What makes collaborations successful within and between

groups?

Who should attend?

-- Scientists working in drug discovery

-- Researchers who are involved in collaborations or generate complex drug

discovery data

-- Students who want to learn more about the drug discovery industry

-- People who wish to network, establish new or strengthen existing

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