{"id":1440,"date":"2007-04-09T14:53:23","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T19:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/pinky-and-the-oh-never-mind\/"},"modified":"2007-04-09T14:53:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T19:53:23","slug":"pinky-and-the-oh-never-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/pinky-and-the-oh-never-mind","title":{"rendered":"Pinky and the — oh, never mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here at my illustrious day job<\/a>, I get a lot of invites to pharma-conferences. Some have good presenters whom I can work with to write articles for the mag. Others are hardcore technical science conferences, which are beyond the scope of what we cover.<\/p>\n

Now, the 10th Annual International Conference on Drug Metabolism\/Applied Pharmacokinetics<\/a>, is definitely in the latter class but, on a whim, I looked through the event schedule just now to see if there were any presentations that might be adaptable for the mag. What did I find?<\/p>\n

11:00am <\/em>– Brain Transporters<\/strong> – Jashvant (Jash) Unadkat, Ph.D., Professor, School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And<\/em> it’s followed by a tour of Wollersheim Winery<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Now I’m kicking myself for not being a scientist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here at my illustrious day job, I get a lot of invites to pharma-conferences. Some have good presenters whom I can work with to write articles for the mag. Others are hardcore technical science conferences, which are beyond the scope of what we cover. Now, the 10th Annual International Conference on Drug Metabolism\/Applied Pharmacokinetics, is … <\/p>\n

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