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Programme at a Glance

Page Updated as of April 5, 2007
Scientific Programme Overview • April 22-25 • 2007
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Registration Parallel Symposia
• The era of personalised health
care: Impact on drug discovery and development?
• Is gene/protein delivery delivering?
• Can ADME and PK be predicted
from in silico/in vitro data?
n Metabolomics: What are
the opportunities for biomarker discovery?
• What benefits does Process
Analytical Technology (PAT) bring to the design and assurance of product quality?
• What have we learnt from
recent safety cases for new drug development?
Parallel Symposia
• Druggability: A concept that will
fill the pipeline?
• Drug targeting: How successful are we?
• What is the state-of-the-science in receptor site modelling?
• What’s new in methods of
measuring human drug response?
In silico product development from molecule to man: Dream or reality?
• Nutraceuticals: Are new methods
of evaluating risk/benefit required?
Parallel Symposia
• How to manage drug therapy at
the extremes of age?
• How can nanotechnology and
materials science solve drug delivery problems?
• How important is genetic and
physiological variability in drug transporters?
• Systems biology: A driver of drug discovery and development?
• How to engineer desired particle
properties for drug delivery?
• Off-label use of medicines: Abuse or a vehicle for innovation?
 
Posters & Exhibition & Lunch
Opening
Session
Keynote Presentations
• What are the main challenges for world health? What should be done now and in the future?
• Transforming ‘art’ into ‘science’ in dosage form design – achievements and challenges
Keynote Presentations
• Are we meeting the challenges
of resistance to anti-infective drugs and of newly emerging infectious diseases?
• Will novel approaches to the
treatment of cardiovascular disease prove highly effective?
Keynote Presentations
• Drug resistance in cancer
chemotherapy
• Recent progress in prion biology
  Round Table Discussions
• Science or business as the driver of new drug development?
• Does regulation help to ’innovate’ or ’stagnate’ drug development?
• How can the bioavailability of
poorly absorbed compounds be enhanced?
Round Table Discussions
• Translational science: A solution to the productivity gap?
• Can microdosing accelerate drug development?
• When is a human bioequivalence
study not needed?
Round Table Discussions
• What is the value of observational data post-marketing to assess safety and efficacy?
• Life-style drugs: A new burden to the health system?
• Is there a consensus on guidelines for the evaluation of biosimilars?
  Parallel Symposia
• Pharmacogenetics at the bedside?
• What will be the impact of cell-
based therapy?
• Simulation and modelling in drug
development improves decisions, saving time and money?
• Dirty vs. selective drugs in the
CNS?
• How will developments in
chemical methods sustain pharmaceutical industrial development?
• How effective is the
globalisation/harmonisation of
pharmacovigilance?
Parallel Symposia
• Drug-drug interactions: Avoid or
understand?
• What is the future of smart,
feedback, on-demand drug delivery systems?
• How are disease and PK-PD
connected?
• Have omics technologies improved the chance for successful drug development?
• Are pharmaceutical manufacturing
technologies in stagnation?
• Are we using the right outcome
measures to ascertain patient benefit from drug therapy?
Parallel Symposia
• Is the patient taking the tablets?
• Developing biotech products:
What are the challenges and solutions?
• Control of intracellular
pharmacokinetics: Advantages for drug therapy?
• Molecular targeting in cancer
chemotherapy?
• Miniaturisation in analytical
methods: Is small always beautiful?
• Counterfeiting of medicines:
Detection and prevention?
  Round Table Discussion
• Proactive risk management (plans): Where are we?
 
 
Short Break
  EUFEPS Afternoon Sessions
• Strategic, innovative and critical
drug research initiatives: One year later
• Pharmaceutical sciences research training and education: Needs and supply
• The EU Microdosing AMS
Partnership Programme (EUMAPP)
• The European Pharma Sciences
Leadership Forum (EuPSLF)
• Pharmaceutical sciences in
silico
learning systems: Value and availability
EUFEPS Afternoon Sessions
• European drug development
centres and European growth areas
• Reformulation of old drugs: Life
cycle management
• Vaccine delivery
• PharmacoGenetics &
PharmacoGenomics Workshop: Outcomes and plans
• How to start up a new company?
• Drug product quality after new
legislation
Exhibition Opening and Welcome Reception   Congress Dinner