Dear Friends,
I am sending you the program of the workshop on "Innovation Economy and History of Science and Technology. The Making of the Contemporary Pharmaceutical Research System."
Best wishes,
Daniele Cozzoli
Innovation Economy and History of Science and Technology. The Making of the Contemporary Pharmaceutical Research System.
Barcelona, May 21-23 2009
Thursday, 21th May 2009
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Dep. of Humanities,
Carrer Ramon Trias Fargas 25/27
Building Roger de Lluria room 40S01
15:00 - 15:30 Welcome addresses
15:30 - 16:15 Louis Galambos, Johns Hopkins University - Jeffrey Sturchio Johns Hopkins University "Innovation, Science, Markets and Public Policy in the Restructuring of Global Pharmaceuticals"
16:15 - 17:00 Elisabeth Watkins UC, S. Francisco, "Engineering the Technological Fix in Medicine: Pharmaceutical in American Science, Commerce and Culture"
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 - 18:15 Catherine Guise-Richardson, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia "The Mouse that Rolled: Animal and Psychopharmaceutical Development in the Mid-20th Century U.S."
Friday, 22th May
Barcelona Biomedical Research Park
Carrer del Dr. Aiguader 88
10:00 - 10: 45 Reimund Fickert, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, Barcelona "The Barcelona Biomedical Research Park"
10:45- 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12: 00 Jean-Paul Gaudilličre INSERM, Paris "Screenings and Alternative Modes of Drug Innovation: Industrializing Drugs in XXth Century Germany"
12: 00 -12:45 María Jesús Santesmases, CSIC Madrid, "Heroes: Public and Clinical Reception of Penicillin in Spain 1945-1955"
12.45 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 15:45 Josep Eladi Bańos, UPF, Barcelona, "The Birth of Pharmaceutical Companies in Catalonia: Some Models of Industrial Development in a Peripheral Country"
15: 45 - 16:30 Robert Bud Science Museum, London "Sowing Penicillin: Chain, Foster and other Pharmas in the Early Post-war Era"
16:30 -17:15 Mauro Capocci University of Rome "La Sapienza", "A Chain is Gonna Come. Building a Penicillin Pilot Plant in Postwar Italy"
17. 15 - 17:30 Coffee Break
17:30 - 18: 15 Daniele Cozzoli, UPF, Barcelona, "The Private Side of French pharmaceutics: Halpern, Bovet and the Discovery of Antihistamines"
dinner
Saturday, 23th May 2009
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Dep. of Humanities
Carrer Ramon Trías Fargas 25/27
Building Jaume I, room 20.287
10:00-10:45 Toine Pieters, Utrecht University, Descartes Centre for the history and philosophy of science "Modern wonder Drugs and Life Cycles""
10: 45 -11: 00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11: 45 Margrit Müller, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, Zürich "The Internationalization of R&D Activities of Swiss Chemical-Pharmaceutical Firms:Causes and Consequences"
11.45 - 12. 15 Volker Hess, Charité, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Berlin "The Research Networking Project DRUGS""
12.15- 12.45 Ronald Brashear, Arnold Thackray Director of the Othmer Library, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia "Preserving the history of the Pharmaceutical Industry
12.45-13.45 General discussion
