Conference Day One
Thursday 28th January 2010


08.30 · Coffee and Registration

09.00 · Chairman's Opening Remarks

Stephane Dhalluin
Director, Investigative Non-Clinical Safety
Department of Non-Clinical Development
UCB Pharma SA

09.15 · Predictive Toxicology: The Path Towards New and Safer Medicines

Stephane Dhalluin
Director, Investigative Non-Clinical Safety
Department of Non-Clinical Development
UCB Pharma SA

10.00 · Advances in Predictive Toxicology Applications Satisfying
Regulatory, Transparency, and Interoperablity Requirements


Barry Hardy
OpenTox Project Coordinator
Director, Douglas Connect


10.45 · Networking Coffee Break


11.15 · Epigenomics - Impact for Drug Safety Sciences

Jonathan Moggs
Head of Molecular Toxicology, Investigative Toxicology
Preclinical Safety, Translational Sciences
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

12.00 · Novel In Vitro System for the Toxicological Evaluation of
Genotoxic Compounds


Phil Hewitt
Head of Molecular Toxicology
Merck Serono Research


12.45 · Networking Lunch


14.15 · Genotoxicity, Carcinogenicity and Non-Genotoxic Carcinogencity Screening Devices as Deselection Tools

Willem Schoonen
Senior Research Scientist
Department of Toxicology & Drug Disposition
Shering-Plough

15.00 · Strategies to Reduce Late-Stage Drug Attrition due to Mitochondrial Toxicity

James Dykens
Drug Safety R&D
Pfizer Inc.


15.45 · Networking Coffee Break


16.15 · Challenges and Promising Approaches for the Early Assessment of Human Adverse Drug Effects

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

17.00 · Predicting Neurotoxicity by Early Assessment of the Free Concentration of Drug in Brain

Hinnerk Boriss
CEO
Sovicell GmbH

17.45 · Open Discussion and Chair's Closing Comments

18.00 · End of Day One



Conference Day Two
Friday 29th January 2010


08.30 · Coffee and Registration

09.00 · Chairman's Opening Remarks

Katya Tsaioun
CEO
Apredica

09.15 · ADME/Biopharmaceutics Profiling: Advances in Methods and Applications

Dongzhou (Jeffery) Liu
Medical Affairs and Clinical Development
New Product R&D
GlaxoSmithKline

10.00 · Translation of Cytotoxicity Biomarkers Detected with High Content Analysis from an In Vitro Predictive Model to an In Vivo Cell Model

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


10.45 · Networking Coffee Break


11.15 · A High-Throughput Quantitative Phenotypic Assay for Nematodes

Denis Dupuy
Group Leader - Genome Regulation and Evolution
Institut Europeen de Chimie et Biologie (Bordeaux)

12.00 · The Application of Physiologically Based PK Modeling in Drug Development

Vikash Sinha M.D.
Clinical Pharmacology Leader
Global Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics
J & J Pharmaceutical Research & Development, Belgium


12.45 · Networking Lunch


14.15 · Building Virtual Human Populations for Assessing ADME

Amin Rostami-Hodjegan
Professor of Systems Pharmacology
The University of Manchester
Director of Scientific Research and Development
Simcyp Limited

15.00 · QSAR Fragment Approach: Theoretical Development of HCV
Protease Inhibitors


Tarmo Tamm
Head Research and Development
Molcode


15.45 · Networking Coffee Break


16.15 · What’s New in ADMET: Non-CYP Metabolism and Sub-Lethal Toxicity as a Predictor of Chronic Human Toxicity

Katya Tsaioun
CEO
Apredica

17.00 · Biliary Efflux Transporters in Liver Toxicity

Marton Jani
Head of Cellular Product Development
Solvo Biotechnology

17.30 · Use of Primary Cultures of Human Hepatocytes to Study Uptake Drug
Transporters


Roberto Tolando
Scientific Adviser, Europe
Celsis IVT

18.00 · Chair's Closing Comments and Close of Conference



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