Boston Taiwanese Biotechnology Association


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Boston Taiwanese Biotechnology Association (BTBA) is a non-profit organization started in 2012 by a group of Taiwanese graduate students, postdocs and young professionals in the greater Boston area. Our goals are to foster individual career development, to enhance scientific collaborations, to facilitate interactions and to strengthen networking among academic and industrial bioscience communities in Taiwan and US.


Event

Career Development Series

Moderator Workshop

2024-06-09, 1–4 PM ET
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Career Development Series

Startups at National Biotechnology Research Park

2024-06-07, 9–10:30 PM ET
Virtual
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Meet People, Catch Up With Friends, And Learn


Career Development Series

Drug Delivery—the current development and future

2024-05-19, 1–2:30 PM ET
BioLabs Lecture Hall 1080, (Bri Biological Labs, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138)
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Podcast


S4 EP.19:魔術子彈──抗體藥物複合體 Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) ft. 張瑄玶博士 🎧

Aug 15, 2024

抗體藥物複合體 Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC),是蛋白質抗體和小分子藥物的結合,此技術利用抗體的專一性,將藥物帶至特定區域來殺癌細胞,減少對正常細胞的傷害。ADC 在 ...More info


S4 EP.18:從候選藥物到上市藥物之間,轉譯醫學與生物製程 ft. 廖怡恩博士、畢家興博士 🎧

Aug 01, 2024

藥物開發是一個複雜的過程,我們在研究所期間,接觸到的往往只是很小的一部分,且大部分著重於研究機制、找到藥物標的和設計候選藥物這一塊。從候選藥物到上市藥物中間仍然有很大一步和許多阻礙需要克服,其中 ...More info


S4 EP.17:藥廠營運管理 ft. 陳昱名博士 Dr. Morris Chen 🎧

Jul 15, 2024

藥廠的營運部門 (operations) 和研發 (research & development)、財務 (financial) 同為藥廠中的巨大核心組織,營運部門通常包含製造、人力資源 ...More info


Blog


商業與策略

藥廠投資組合管理.羅盈智醫師 (Dr. Ying-Chih (Paul) Lo).訪談摘要

By 文:林書弘.圖:陳政儀.編輯:劉駿 on Apr, 2024

在現今的生技產業中,投資組合管理與數據分析技術的重要性日益增加。尤其在藥物開發這一高風險領域,有效的策略和先進的技術可以顯著提升研發的成功率及市場競爭力。透過近期與羅盈智醫師(Paul)的對話,我們得以深入了解這些策略如何在實際應用中發揮作用。 Paul目前在美國波士頓的 Novartis 藥廠擔任 Portfolio Data Science 部門的副總監,同時也是波士頓台灣醫師協會的會長。他的職業生涯跨越了醫療、人工智慧和商業策略,這使他對於藥廠如何進行投資組合管理有著獨到的見解。 ...Read more


Sneak peek into the industry

Po-Jen (Will) Yen, Business Development

By Yi-Shan Chen on Mar, 2019

As a scientist in Biotech/Pharma, Business Development to me is a function that usually doesn’t have a lot of interaction with researchers unless they need data from you but the decisions they make influence researchers the most. ...Read more


Sneak peek into the industry

TeYu Chen, Medicinal Chemist

By Yi-ying Chou on Nov, 2018

I always thought that doing biological experiments, like sitting long hours in front of tissue culture hood, can be physically challenging. When I chat with Ryan, I realized that medicinal chemists also have heavy workload on the bench side. In pharmaceutical company, chemists are not allowed to be ...Read more