Conference Day One
Thursday 22nd January 2009


08.00 · Coffee and Registration

08.30 · Chairman's Opening Remarks

Dr. Lei Guo
Division of Systems Toxicology
National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

08.45 · Prediction of Toxicity Potential using In Vitro Screening Assays from the EPA’s ToxCast Program

Dr. Keith Houck
Toxicologist
National Center for Computational Toxicology
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

09.30 · High Throughput Screening for In Vitro Toxicity Testing for Genotoxicity and Carcinogenicity

Dr. Willem Schoonen
Group Leader, Department of Pharmacology
Schering-Plough


10.15 · Networking Coffee Break


10.45 · Evaluation of a Battery of Early Genotoxicity Assays to Predict Regulatory Testing

Dr. Franck Atienzar
Head In Vitro Toxicology Unit
UCB-Pharma

11.30 · Evaluating Drug Induced Liver Toxicity Using Cellular Systems Cytotoxicity Assays

Dr. Lei Guo
Division of Systems Toxicology
National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)


12.15 · Networking Lunch


14.00 · Cell-Based, High-Content Analysis in Drug Discovery and Development for Predictive Screening, Elucidating Mechanisms, and Monitoring Target Organ toxicity

Dr. Peter O'Brien (formerly of Pfizer)
Veterinary Clinical Pathologist
University College Dublin

14.45 · Development of a Multiparameter Screening Assay for Neurotoxicity Assessment

Dr. David Hayes
Director R&D
Millipore Corporation


15.30 · Networking Coffee Break


16.00 · In Vitro Data for Skin Sensitization: Modelling and Assay Development

Dr. Cameron MacKay
Project Leader - Toxicology Modelling
Unilever - Safety & Environmental Assurance Centre

16.45 · Predicting Chronic Toxicity Based on the Decoding of Mitochondrial Behavior

Dr. Nathalie Compagnone
CEO
Innovative Concepts in Drug Development(ICDD)

17.30 · Open Discussion and Chair's Closing Comments

18.00 · End of Day One



Conference Day Two
Friday 23rd January 2009


08.00 · Coffee and Registration

08.30 · Chairman's Opening Remarks

Dr. Albert P. Li
President and CEO
In Vitro ADMET Laboratories LLC
Advanced Pharmaceutical Sciences Inc

08.45 · Outcome of PredTox, a public-private European Collaboration (FP6)

Dr. Laura Suter-Dick
Section Head Investigative Toxicology
F. Hoffmann-La Roche

09.30 · Engineering Microscale Rodent and Human Liver Models for Drug Development

Dr. Salman Khetani
Research Affiliate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


10.15 · Networking Coffee Break


10.45 · The Role of ADME in Facilitating Drug Discovery and Development; Where are we, and Where do we Need to Go?

Dr. Robert J. Guttendorf
Vice President, Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Sequoia Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

11.30 · The Role of Metabolic Profiling in Biomedical Sciences

Dr. Muireann Coen
Research Fellow, Biomolecular Medicine
Imperial College, London


12.15 · Networking Lunch


14.00 · In vitro Evaluation of the Role of Xenobiotic Metabolism in Drug Toxicity

Dr. Albert P. Li
President and CEO
In Vitro ADMET Laboratories LLC
Advanced Pharmaceutical Sciences Inc

14.45 · Reducing the Cost of Drug Development using ADME Studies: Recent FDA Guidelines and Case Studies

Dr. Katya Tsaioun
CEO
Apredica


15.30 · Networking Coffee Break


16.00 · Predicting the Extent of CYP Induction In Vivo from In Vitro Data: Implications for Exposure to Parent Compound and it's Metabolites

Dr. Lisa Almond
Principal Scientist
Simcyp Limited

16.45 · TRANSIL High Protein Binding Assay: A Novel Method for Sticky Lipophilic Compounds Circumventing the Analytical Challenges of Strong Plasma Protein Binders

Dr. Hinnerk Boriss
CEO
Sovicell GmbH

17.30 · · Open Discussion and Chair's Closing Comments

18.00 · Close Conference