Speed and Safety in Drug Discovery

Speed and Safety in Drug Discovery - Event details   11/26/2008 - 11/26/2008 THE ROYAL SOCIETY, London, UNITED KINGDOM   Description After 15 years and £500m, 92% of drugs fail in clincial trials. The FDA laments “We're using 20th century tools to develop 21st century drugs.” What's the solution? Find out how you can get drugs into the clinic faster & more safely from world-leading experts on the latest technologies! Who should attend? Heads of: - Toxicology - Safety Pharmacology - PK/PD - Pre Clinical Drug Development - R&D - Regulatory Affairs Programme topics: Session 1: Predicting human hazard - Drug Discovery and Development Tomorrow: Changing the Mindset - Humanising drug discovery to make earlier & better Stop/Go decisions in Pharma R&D Session 2: Human tissue solutions - Testing efficacy and sensitivity using small human isolated tissue - Hurel, an in vivo surrogate assay platform for cell-based studies - Use and value of in vitro technologies in metabolism Session 3: In vitro & in silico solutions - The latest technologies to 'open up' and 'read' what's going on in cells - Virtual Patient technology to improve drug safety: A personalized medicine test case - A clinical trial in a test tube Session 4: Testing safely in volunteers - ADDME – Avoiding Drug Development Mistakes Early - Monitoring tissue drug levels by microdialysis - The best model for humans is human – how to accelerate early clinical development safely Category Biotechnology Medical & Pharmaceutical More details (event webpage):  www.drugtestingconference.com Apply for event:  Link Event language:  English Contact info:  Dr Margaret Clotworthy Phone: +44 7510275751 Fax: / Email: margaret@drugtestingconference.com

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