The Chinese-American Chemical Society will hold its annual conference on Saturday, July 27 at
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. The conference theme is "Research and Technology
Advances in Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Chemical Engineering." Keynote speeches are:
"Global Technologies Transfer" by Mr. Robert F. Anderson, Director of Technology Transfer and
Intellectual Property, Illinois Institute of Technology and Former Vice-President of UOP LLC,
Des Plaines, Illinois; and "The Challenge and Development of Biochemical Engineering in China"
by Professor Zhiguo Su, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PRC Other speeches include
"From Idea to Clinical Candidate: A Search for New Treatment of Depression Using Selective 5-HT1A Receptor Antagonist" by Dr. Yao-Chang Xu, Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana;
"Distributed Hydrogen Generation For Fuel Cell" by Dr. Bradley Russell, Hyradix Inc., Des
Plaines, Illinois; "A Recent Advance in Solution-Phase Combinatorial Chemistry: Fluorous
Technologies" by Dr. Wei Zhang, Fluorous Technologies, Inc., Pittsburg, Pennsyvalia ; "Chemical
Engineering in Drug Development" by Dr. Xiao Feng Wang, InnaPhase Corporation,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; "Challenges in Delivery of Biological Products " by Dr. Luk Li,
Abbott Laboratories. Abbott Park, Illinois; "Effect of Carbon Treatment on the Preparation of
Pd/C Powder Catalysts" by Dr. Baoshu Chen, Degussa Corporation, Calvert City, Kentucky; and
"Powder Technology and Its New Applications" by Professor Jesse Zhu, University of Western
Ontario, Ontario, Canada. Registration fees: $20 (incl. lunch) ; Student $5 (incl. lunch). For
further information, contact Dominic Chow, Northwestern University, Illinois 847-864-6603
d-chow@nwu.edu