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Maximising the Value of Imaging in Oncology Drug Development
12 March - 13 March 2014
Maximising the Value of Imaging in Oncology Drug Development

SAE Media Group are delighted to present their 10th annual imaging event, Maximising the Value of Imaging in Oncology Drug Development. The event will take place in central London on Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 March, 2014.

 


Imaging allows us to answer questions that we did not know the answer to before. For example, it can help determine the composition of the tumour, clinical evaluation of patients and evaluation of new treatments. Imaging within the arena of personalised healthcare is an area of increasing significance and will revolutionise the field of oncology.


The event will focus on innovative imaging and effective strategies for success in oncology drug development. Both pre-clinical and clinical use of imaging will be examined.


Attendees will be given practical tips and guidance on cost-effective imaging management, regulatory insights will be provided and alternatives to costly independent reviews will be discussed. The use of imaging in clinical trials (Phases 2 and 3) will be considered and debated in addition to the use of novel biomarkers.
 

The event represents an excellent platform in 2014 for learning about the use of imaging pre-clinically and also in clinical trials, giving delegates access to the latest information and key case studies from across the industry.

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration and Coffee

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9:00

Introduction

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9:30

Methods to study preclinical pharmacokinetics

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10:30

Microdosing to obtain clinical pharmacokinetics data

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11:30

Translation from preclinical to clinical

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12:00

TNO case study imaging in vivo pharmacokinetics

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12:30

Conclusions and close of workshop

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8:30

Registration and coffee

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9:00

Chairman's Opening Remarks

Peter Eggleton

Peter Eggleton, Medical Director, Merck

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9:10

Endpoints and guidelines - thinking outside the box!

Malcolm Barratt-Johnson

Malcolm Barratt-Johnson, Managing Director and Senior Consultant, PharmaMedic Consultancy Ltd

  • Regulation - a help or a hindrance in medical research?
  • The importance of imaging in assessing the efficacy aand safety of medicines
  • Can we do better?
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    9:50

    Raman based analysis of biomarkers, cells, tissue and in vivo targets

    Duncan Graham

    Duncan Graham, Director of the Centre for Molecular Nanometrology, University Of Strathclyde

  • Raman spectroscopy and surface enhanced Raman scattering advantages and disadvantages
  • Applications of SERS in molecular analysis of protein targets for cancer
  • Mapping of biomarkers in cells, tissue and in vivo
  • Working at depth in tissue using optical imaging with nanoparticles
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    10:30

    Accelerating preclinical drug development using in vivo and ex vivo imaging: optimising discovery to delivery

    Werner Scheuer

    Werner Scheuer, Group Leader, Preclinical Optical Imaging, Pharmacology TR-PD, Pharmaceutical Research, Roche Diagnostics

  • Application of different imaging modalities to monitor the efficacy of compounds on primary tumor growth, metastasis and angiogenesis
  • Simultaneous measurement of Pk and Pd
  • Optimising application schedules regarding combination therapies
  • Verification of in vivo imaging data by 3-dimensional multispectral fluorescence histology
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    11:10

    Morning Coffee

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    11:30

    Molecular imaging in early phase clinical drug development

    Azeem Saleem

    Azeem Saleem, Head of Oncology Applications, Imanova

  • Utility of imaging in early phase clinical trials
  • Study endpoints and study design incorporating molecular imaging in early phase clinical trials
  • Enabling pre-clinical translational issues in the design of clinical trials
  • Ethical, regulatory and operational hurdles in imaging in early stage clinical phase clinical trials
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    12:10

    Networking Lunch

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    13:10

    Tumour Growth Rate (TGR) as an early indicator of anti-tumour drug activity in Phase I and Phase III clinical trials

    Gerard Nitenberg

    Gerard Nitenberg, Chief Medical Officer, Banook Group

  • The granularity of RECIST 1.1 criteria is insufficient for the early idenitification of patients in whom the treatment may have a beneficial effect
  • Tumour Growth Rate (TGR) allows for the early and precise assessment of the tumour response, by taking into account the pre-treatment tumour kinetics
  • TGR is independently associated with outcome both in early clinical trials and in the Phase III setting
  • The variation of TGR reveals drug-specific profiles, suggesting its potential use for the early assessment of drug activity
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    13:50

    Challenges in developing new imaging agents

    Sabin Carme

    Sabin Carme, Licensing and Business Development, Aviesan

  • Why is it tough to innovate and put on the market new imaging agents? The point of view of a dedicated technology transfer unit in France - Aviesan strategic valorisation in imaging agents
  • Aviesan is the French National Medical Research Institute. Within Aviesan, the valorisation unit is setting up a strategy that includes mapping the molecular imaging agents portfolio from academia as well as building a network of industry partners from the pharmaceutical and diagnostic industry
  • Aviesan valorisation demonstrate the willingness of the imaging community in France to address the challenge in developing new biomarkers imaging methods
  • New paradigms: open innovation, public private partnerships, technology transfer continuum
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    14:30

    Optical molecular imaging of cancer

    Kev Dhaliwal

    Kev Dhaliwal, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Edinburgh University

  • Using imaging approaches to diagnose and stratify cancer
  • Optical molecular imaging: confocal microendoscopy and chemical smartprobes
  • Using drug stratification to deliver better clinical outcomes
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    15:10

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:40

    PET Imaging in the era of targeted therapies: towards precision medicine

    Gabriela Kramer-Marek

    Gabriela Kramer-Marek, Team Leader, Preclinical Molecular Imaging , Cancer Research UK Centre for Cancer Therapeutics The Institute of Cancer Research

  • Imaging as a cancer biomarker
  • PET targets and probes (eg. affibody molecules)
  • PET goals - i) guide cancer treatment selection
  • PET goals - ii) evaluate treatment response
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    16:20

    Imaging clinically relevant models of human leukaemia and cancers

    Francois Lassailly

    Francois Lassailly, Head, In-Vivo Imaging, Cancer Research UK

  • Donor and patient derived xenografts, GEMMs
  • Optical (bioluminescence and fluorescence), micro-CT, ultrasound and intravital microscopy
  • Monitoring disease progression and response to treatment
  • Evaluation and validation of probes
  • Remaining challenges and future developments
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    17:00

    Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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    8:30

    Registration and coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Malcolm Barratt-Johnson

    Malcolm Barratt-Johnson, Managing Director and Senior Consultant, PharmaMedic Consultancy Ltd

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    9:10

    Imaging and microdosing for pharmacokinetics of (bio)pharmaceuticals

    Marijn Vlaming

    Marijn Vlaming, Research Scientist, TNO

  • First-in-human microtracer studies for drug development
  • Future of microtracer studies for (bio)pharmaceutical development
  • Imaging biodistribution of (bio)pharmaceuticals in disease models
  • Imaging drug transporters at the blood-brain barrier
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    9:50

    The challenges of a multicentre imaging study

    Nazar Amso

    Nazar Amso, Deputy Director, Innovation and Engagement , Cardiff University

  • Gaining an insight into the Ovarian Cancer Screening study
  • Setting scanning standards and continuing professional development
  • Quality assurance of sonography practice
  • Conclusions discussed
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    The implementation of audit methodologies in oncology clinical trials

    Annette Schmid

    Annette Schmid, Head of Oncology Strategy, Perceptive Informatics Inc

  • What is the goal of such audit methods?
  • What data and updates are available since the initial ODAC meeting
  • What are the currently known risks and recommendations
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    11:40

    Impact of electronic transfer of scans on imaging trials

    Veronique Bragulat

    Veronique Bragulat, Clinical Imaging Manager, GSK

  • Introduction to imaging at GSK
  • Traditional courier method versus electronic transfer of scans
  • Trial and workflow optimisation
  • Trends/metrics and industry uptake
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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:50

    Blinded Independent Central Review in Oncology Trials

    Lori Dodd

    Lori Dodd, Mathematical Statistician, National Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases / N I H

  • Progression-free survival as an endpoint in registration trials
  • What does blinded independent central review contribute to registration trials with a PFS endpoint?
  • Potential solutions to problems introduced by blinded independent review
  • Benefits and limitations of an audit using blinded independent central review
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    14:30

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:00

    Pearls and pitfalls of implementing imaging in multicentre clinical trials

    Yan Liu

    Yan Liu, Head of Translational Research, Radiotherapy and Imaging, EORTC

  • Value of imaging in personalised medicine
  • Challenges of imaging biomarker development
  • Imaging biomarker validation
  • Public and private collaboration in imaging biomarker development (eg. QuIC -ConCePT - IMI Project)
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    15:40

    Imaging in multicentre clinical trials: A European Perspective

    Vicky Goh

    Vicky Goh, President, European Society of Oncologic Imaging

  • Current challenges for oncologic imaging in Europe
  • Meeting the needs of pharmaceutical companies and oncologists
  • New opportunities for an integrative approach across Europe via a European Network of Excellence
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    16:20

    Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two

    Workshops

    Pharmacokinetics

    Pharmacokinetics

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    ‘A commitment to structured skills and knowledge enhancement for Personal or Professional competence’

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