• CAMBREX CORPORATION: Mr. James Mack - KEYNOTE ADDRESS: "The Industrial Challenge of Chirality"
  
  
• ABBOTT LABORATORIES: Dr. Steven J. Wittenberger - "Abbott Laboratories' Influenza Neuraminidase Inhibitor"
  
  
• ADVANCED SEPARATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (ASTEC): Mr.Thomas E. Beesley - "Chiral Methods Development by Coupling Macrocyclic Glycopeptide Chiral Stationary Phases"
  
  
• AEROJET FINE CHEMICALS: Dr. Olivier Dapremont - "Introduction of a SMB Step in the Synthesis Scheme of a Pharmaceutical Intermediate Options and Economical Aspect"
  
  
• ARGONAUT TECHNOLOGIES: Dr. Alasdair MacDonald - "Productivity Tools for Chiral Synthesis"
  
  
• AVECIA: Dr. John A.J. Blacker - "Powerful New Manufacturing Technologies for Chiral Molecules"
  
  
• BARNETT INTERNATIONAL: Dr. Annette M. Horner - "Using Multidimentional Analysis to Align Process Performance with
  Organizational Goals"
  
  
• BASF AG: Dr. Peter Eckes - "Strategies to Address the Market for Optical Active Products"
  
  
• BAYER AG: Dr. Wilfried Jaworek - "Title To Be Provided"
  
  
• BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB: Dr. James H. Simpson - "Development of an Asymmetric Cyclopropanation Using Styrene as the Limiting Reagent"
  
  
• DSM RESEARCH: Dr. Rinus Broxterman - "Enantipure Amines Through Chirality Transfer Using R-Phenylglycine Amide as Chiral Auxiliary"
  
  
• DSM RESEARCH: Prof./ Dr. Johannes G. deVries - "Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Olefins"
  
  
• DIVERSA CORP.: Dr. Mark Burk - "Development of Robust and Selective Biocatalysts"
  
  
• FAST TRACK SYSTEMS, INC.: Mr. Mark Hovde - "Title To Be Provided"
  GLAXOSMITHKLINE GROUP, GLAXOWELLCOME SPA, MEDICINE
  
  
• RESEARCH CENTER: Dr. Antonella Ursini - "The Enantiomeric Resolution of 2-Carboxy-Tetrahydroquinolines, a Novel Class of Glycine Antagonists, via Enzyme Hydrolysis of the Corresponding Methyl Ester. A Case History from Preliminary Enzyme Screening to Large-Scale Synthesis
  
  
• MAXYGEN: Dr. Keith Powell - "Custom Design of Enantioselective Catalysts by MolecularBreeding Directed Molecular Evolution"
  
  
• MERCIAN CORP.: Dr. Hitosi Agematu - "Production of L - Pipecolic Acid by Recombinant Escherichia Coli"
  
  
• MEDICHEM: Ms. Jenny L. Lin - "CHIRALSELECT - A High Throughput Screening Technology for Enantiomer Separation"
  
  
• NOVASEP, INC.: Mr. Jean Blehaut - "Large Scale Chromatographic Separation of Chiral Compounds: The Big Picture"
  
  
• PFIZER INC.: Dr. Michel A. Couturier - "Practical Large-Scale Synthesis of 3,4-Isopropylidenedioxypyrrolidine Hydrotosylate: Atom Economical Self-Hydrogenolysis of a Crystalline Borane-Benzylamine Adduct"
  
  
• SCHERING-PLOUGH RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Dr. Dinesh Gala - "The Tools and the Technologies Towards an Expedited Process Development of an Injectable Antifungal"
  
  
• SEPRACOR, INC.: Dr. Zhi-Hui Lu - "A Family of Unique Modulated Borane Reagents for Selective Reduction of Azomethines"
  
  
• SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: Dr. Robert L. Augustine - "Anchored Homogeneous Catalysis"
  
  
• SOLUTIA PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES: "Dr. Tom Waldman - "The Challenge of Chiral Drug Development: Complimentary Approaches to Accelerate Drug Development"
  
  
• SYNETIX CHIRAL TECHNOLOGIES: Dr. William Hems - "The Immobilization of Homogeneous Asymmetric Catalysts"
  
  
• DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY (THE): Dr. Christian Goralski - "Chiral Molecules and Contract Manufacturing in a Large Chemical Company"
  
  
• THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: Dr. Xumu Zhang - "Developing a Practical Chiral Toolbox - A Quest for Inventing Highly Efficient Asymmetric Catalytic Reactions"