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COPD: Novel Therapeutics and Management Strategies 2010

 


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Products developed to treat the symptoms of Asthma and COPD provide one of the highest sources of revenue for the pharmaceutical industry. SAE Media Group’s 6th annual Asthma & COPD conference will present attendees with an exceptional line-up of speakers and an unrivalled forum for discussion and debate.

There will be an opportunity to hear about new research involving the use of bronchodilators and kinase-inhibitors as well as antibody based biologics. Presentations will also cover topics such as new therapeutic targets in asthma and COPD and optimising respiratory clinical trial data.

  • Peter Barnes, Head of Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College London
  • Matthew Catley, Head of Respiratory Pharmacology, UCB

Conference agenda

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13:30

Registration & Coffee

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14:00

Introduction

  • Outline and content
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    14:15

    Device Options

  • Grouping of devices (classes)  
  • What devices are avialable in each group
  • How can they be expected to work with new entities (liquid vs powder)
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    15:00

    Formulation Considerations for Different Devices

  • Liquid or powder; pros and cons
  • Available excipients vs new excipients; what to expect and do
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    15:45

    Afternoon Tea

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    16:00

    Device Performance Options and Limitations

  • Drivers for optimal performance
  • What limits the performance
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    16:45

    Patient Interaction and Considerations

  • Can we get better compliance and if so how
  • How is the dose delivery affected by the bteathing manouvre
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    17:15

    Conclusions

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    17:30

    Close of Workshop

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Peter Barnes

    Peter Barnes, Head of Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College London

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    9:10

    KEYNOTE ADDRESS

    Peter Barnes

    Peter Barnes, Head of Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College London

  • Discuss progress in understanding asthma and COPD
  • Similarities between COPD and severe asthma
  • Developing biomarkers to aid drug development
  • What are the unmet needs?
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    9:50

    IMPACT OF DRUG SUBSTANCE AND PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS ON IN-VITRO PERFORMANCE

    Frank Thielmann

    Frank Thielmann, PDU Manager, Novartis

  • Parameters affecting in-vitro and in-vivo performance
  • Parameters affecting stability
  • How can these parameters be measured?
  • Monitoring and control of parameters during development
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    10:50

    TARGETING INFLAMMATION IN COPD

    Dave Singh

    Dave Singh, Medical Director, Medicines Evaluation Unit, University Hospital Of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust

  • Lung cell models
  • Corticosteroid Insensitivity
  • Novel Targets
  • Clinical Trial Data
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    11:30

    NOVEL AND EMERGING BRONCHODILATORS

    Alan Young

    Alan Young, Associate Director and Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca

  • Role of bronchodilators in the treatment of asthma and COPD
  • The need for long- acting bronchodilators
  • Evidence from in vitro studies
  • Emerging trends
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    12:10

    Networking Lunch

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    13:10

    ANTIBODY BASED BIOLOGICS FOR THE TREATMENT OF ASTHMA

    Matthew Catley

    Matthew Catley, Head of Respiratory Pharmacology, UCB

  • Areas for antibody based biologics to make an impact in the clinic
  • Review of pre-clinical and clinical data
  • Patient stratification
  • Future directions for biologicals in asthma
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    13:50

    DEVELOPING THE PRE-CLINICAL PLATFORM OF EVIDENCE FOR COPD

    Thomas Eichholtz

    Thomas Eichholtz, Director of Discovery Medicine, AstraZeneca

  • Potential preclinical experiments
  • Outcomes and biomarkers
  • Link to human disease
  • Closing the translational loop
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    14:30

    Afternoon Tea

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    14:50

    EARLY PHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPMENT: MAXIMISING PORTFOLIO DYNAMICS IN ASTHMA AND COPD

    Julien Giovanni

    Julien Giovanni, Team Manager Early Development, AstraZeneca

  • Understanding diversity of portfolio in early phase and CMC implications
  • Oral and inhalation key triggers for pharmaceutical development from lead optimisation to FIM/proof of principles
  • Candidate drug selection, ability to develop and risk management,
  • Example of properties evaluation from small molecules to oligonucleotides
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    15:30

    PHASE 2 PROOF OF CONCEPT STUDIES FOR ASTHMA : WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS?

    Michael Hodges

    Michael Hodges, Chief Medical Officer, Altair Therapeutics

  • Bronchoprovocation and other challenges/mechanistic type studies
  • Clinical asthma POC studies
  • Which design is best? Strategic, logistical and sample size considerations
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    16:50

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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    8:30

    Re-registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Peter Howarth

    Peter Howarth, Reader in Medicine and Head of Clinical Translational Research, University Of Southampton School Of Medicine

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    9:10

    EMERGING AREAS IN AIRWAYS DISEASE

    Peter Howarth

    Peter Howarth, Reader in Medicine and Head of Clinical Translational Research, University Of Southampton School Of Medicine

  • Respiratory microbiome
  • Biomechanical forces
  • Structural influences
  • Small airways
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    9:50

    HUMAN IN VITRO MODELS AS TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH TOOLS

    Phillip Monk

    Phillip Monk, Chief Scientific Officer, Synairgen

  • The need to improve the ability of preclinical models to predict clinical outcome
  • Focus on models of mechanisms relevant to asthma and COPD
  • Examples of use of models for both target identification and target validation
  • Sourcing tissue and cells from subjects with lung diseases
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    LESSONS LEARNED IN CENTRALISED SPIROMETRY

  • Over reading systems the plus and minuses
  • Identifying abnormalities and their cause
  • Catching errors before they become issues
  • Case studies
  • Aleck Harrison

    Aleck Harrison, Consultant Clinical Scientist, AJH Partners

    Grant Sowman

    Grant Sowman, Pulmonary Function Testing Specialist, Vitalograph

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    11:40

    PUTTING PHOSPHORYLATION IN THE FRAME: KINASES AS TARGETS FOR NEW THERAPIES

    Gordon Dent

    Gordon Dent , Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Keele University

  • Signalling roles of protein and lipid kinases
  • Identification of kinase isoforms
  • Kinases as potential drug targets
  • Kinase inhibition as an approach to suppression of airway inflammation and remodelling
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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:30

    OLIGONUCLEOTIDES: NEW THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES FOR ASTHMA AND COPD

    Mark Parry-Billings

    Mark Parry-Billings, Chief Executive Officer, Topigen Pharmaceuticals

  • Overview of the therapeutic class
  • Developments in targeting lung disease
  • Pre-clinical development : challenges and attributes
  • Emerging clinical data and product profiles
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    14:10

    DOSING AND TARGETING STRATEGIES FOR PULMONARY CLINICAL TRIALS

    Thomas Hofmann

    Thomas Hofmann, Chief Medical Officer, Activaero

  • Parameters influencing lung dose of inhaled drugs
  • Options to improve consistency in lung dose
  • Potential to improve quality of trial outcomes by controlled inhalation
  • Regulatory and commercial aspects of device selection during different development stages
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    14:50

    DNAZYM TECHNOLOGY FOR ASTHMA TREATMENT

    Harald Renz

    Harald Renz, Professor and Chairman, Department of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics - Central Laboratory, University Of Marburg

  • DNAzyme technology
  • Possible targets suitable for DNAzym approach
  • Off-target effects
  • Preclinical considerations
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    15:30

    Close of Conference and Afternoon Tea

    Workshops

    Device Possibilities for Future Inhaled Therapies

    Device Possibilities for Future Inhaled Therapies

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