| 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? |
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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 |
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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? |
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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? |
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Round Table Discussion • Proactive risk
management (plans): Where are we? |
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Short
Break |
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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 |