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 Gaudillière 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 Baños, 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