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Cancer Drug Development: New Directions and Challenges
10 March - 11 March 2003
Cancer Drug Development: New Directions and Challenges
Recent advances in the understanding of the molecular biology, immunology and genetics of cancer are providing huge opportunities for the discovery of new cancer drugs. Oncologists are now able to quickly identify and synthesise a vast range of drugs to validated targets. Pharma companies are taking full advantage by investing heavily in new drug development. At present there are approximately 500 new compounds undergoing clinical trials and many more under development.

Current directions are away from cytotoxic drugs towards ones directed to specific cancer target molecules, making use of new platform technologies. In particular, scientists are turning their attention towards translational medicine and the need for innovation in biomarkers, surrogates and imaging. Moreover it is clear that innovative ideas for clinical trials are needed in order to meet the challenge of regulatory approval.

This conference will cover the developing technologies for drug discovery and development in cancer. It will also focus on the conversion of the science to the product, and the avoidance of the all-too-frequent expensive post-phase 3 withdrawal of compounds. It will appeal to directors and scientists from the big Pharma companies and the Biotech industry, and also to clinicians.

Gain an insight from leaders in the field
Prof Karol Sikora, Global Clinical Expert - Cancer, AstraZeneca
Dr Pearl Huang, Director, Oncology, GlaxoSAE Media GroupthKline
Dr George Blackledge, Vice President, Medical Director, Oncology, AstraZeneca
Dr Giorgio Massimini, Director, Clinical Oncology, Pharmacia
Dr Paolo Paoletti, Vice President, Medical – Oncology, ALIMTA Product Team Leader, Lilly
Dr Paul Quartey, Medical Director, Schering-Plough
Dr Juergen Hammer, Head, Bioinformatics, Genetics & Genomics, Roche
Dr Peter Traxler, Senior Scientist, Research Manager, Novartis
Dr Jonathan Allis, Vice President, Imaging Technology Group, Amersham Health
Dr Jeffrey Ulmer, Senior Director, Chiron
Dr Leonard Post, Senior Vice President, Research & Development, Onyx Pharmaceuticals
Prof Stephen Jackson, Deputy Director, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Institute
Prof Ian Judson, Professor, Cancer Pharmacology, Honourary Consultant Medical Oncologist, Institute of Cancer Research / Royal Marsden NHS Trust

Programme Highlights
TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE: keep up to date with the latest technology
REGULATIONS: assess new ways of satisfying requirements
IMMUNE RESPONSE EXPLOITATION: review the current approaches
TARGETED DRUGS: focus on the new directions
NETWORKING: exchange ideas with leaders in the field

'The programme looks excellent', Prof Karol Sikora, Global Clinical Expert - Cancer, AstraZeneca

Conference agenda

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9:00

Registration and Coffee

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9:30

GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO IMMUNOTHERAPY

  • Review of approaches to immunotherapy
  • Rationale behind the use of immunotherapeutic vectors
  • Dendritic cell approach
  • Dr Philip Reay
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    10:00

    CONSTRUCTING A NOVEL IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC VECTOR PLATFORM

  • Challenges of loading dendritic cells with therapeutic antigens
  • Optimisation as HSV as a vector - High efficiency dendritic cell transduction - Multiple antigen delivery - Dendritic cell activation
  • Dr Robert Coffin
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    10:30

    PROGRESS TO DATE

  • Choosing therapeutic antigen genes
  • The melanoma vaccine construct
  • Planned proof-of-principle Phase I/II trials
  • Further products for tumour antigen-encoding genes
  • Potential additional targets in cancer and infectious disease
  • Dr Philip Reay
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    11:00

    Morning Coffee

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    11:20

    ONCOLYTIC CANCER THERAPY

  • Background and rationale
  • The in situ tumour vaccine concept
  • OncoVEX GM-CSF: pre-clinical and clinical studies
  • Dr Robert Coffin
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    12:00

    GENERAL DISCUSSION

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    12:30

    Close of Executive Briefing

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    8:30

    Registration and Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Prof Karol Sikora

    Prof Karol Sikora, Global Clinical Expert - Cancer, AstraZeneca

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    9:10

    TRANSLATIONAL CANCER RESEARCH

    Prof Karol Sikora

    Prof Karol Sikora, Global Clinical Expert - Cancer, AstraZeneca

  • The paradigm shift in cancer drug development
  • The new order of corporate research organisation
  • Bridging the academic - industrial divide
  • Harnessing innovation in biomarkers, surrogates and imaging
  • Creating diagnostic capability to package with new therapeutics
  • Creating centres of excellence in translational research
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    9:40

    WHAT ARE THE CRITERIA?

    Dr George Blackledge

    Dr George Blackledge, Vice President, Medical Director, Oncology, AstraZeneca

  • Clinical benefits
  • Results of clinical trials
  • Tumour response rates required for regulatory approval
  • Convincing controls
  • Compassionate use programmes
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    10:20

    MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF PUBLIC POLICY

    Dr Paul Quartey

    Dr Paul Quartey, Medical Director, Schering-Plough

  • Mode of action of Caelyx® in fighting cancer
  • Patient selection for treatment
  • Importance of cost issues
  • Benefits of cost issues regarding numbers of patients eligible for treatment
  • Efficacy and tolerability factors
  • Ease of administration
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    11:00

    Morning Coffee

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    11:20

    NEW APPROACHES TO CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT

    Dr Giorgio Massimini

    Dr Giorgio Massimini, Director, Clinical Oncology, Pharmacia

  • Maximum tolerated dose
  • Biological effective dose
  • Accurate dose:response information
  • How significant is shrinkage / no shrinkage?
  • Reliability of tumour markers
  • Assessment of combination therapy of new drugs with traditional ones
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    12:00

    NEW ANTICANCER DRUGS

    Prof  Ian Judson

    Prof Ian Judson, Professor, Cancer Pharmacology, Honorary Consultant Medical Oncologist, Institute of Cancer Research / Royal Marsden NHS Trust

  • Preclinical aspects of new drug development – developing pharmacodynamic assays as an integral part of the preclinical package
  • Recently identified new targets
  • Development of mechanism-based clinical trials
  • Defining the Optimum Biological Dose – is this a realistic goal?
  • Impact of new targets on conventional concepts of Phase I / II trials

    Imatinib in gastrointestinal stromal tumour – lessons for future molecular targeted therapies

  • Satisfying the regulatory authorities – are phase II trials ever enough?
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    12:40

    Lunch

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    14:00

    HIGH-THROUGHPUT TARGET IDENTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT

    Dr Juergen Hammer

    Dr Juergen Hammer, Head, Bioinformatics, Genetics & Genomics, Hoffmann-La Roche

  • Need for operational improvements of the target assessment process
  • Expression analysis technologies for drug discovery
  • Prioritising most likely drug candidates
  • Knowledge discovery in an integrated environment
  • Integrating traditional and in silico approaches
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    14:40

    IMAGING RESEARCH PROGRAMMES

    Dr Jonathan Allis

    Dr Jonathan Allis, Vice President, Technology, Amersham Health

  • Identifying new molecular diagnostic products
  • Acceleration of research decisions
  • Imaging technology
  • Facilitating early approval of new therapeutics
  • Application to treatment of cancer
  • Future potential for finding new and powerful diagnostic and therapeutic products
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    15:20

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:40

    MULTIPLE MYELOMA AND MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS

    Dr Jerome Zeldis

    Dr Jerome Zeldis, Chief Medical Officer, Vice President, Medical Affairs, Celgene

  • Thalidomide
  • Celgene's STEPS programme
  • Multiple myeloma and myeloproliferative disorders
  • Myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia
  • REVIMID
  • ACTIMID

    Future directions

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    16:20

    ONCOLYTIC VIRUSES

    Dr Leonard Post

    Dr Leonard Post, Senior Vice President, Research & Development, Onyx Pharmaceuticals

  • Advantages of adenovirus as platform
  • Exploiting the abnormal p53 and RB pathways in malignant cells
  • Specificities of adenoviruses ONYX-015 and ONYX-411
  • Clinical experience : safety and efficacy
  • Armed therapeutic viruses : oncolytic adenoviruses as vectors for transgene delivery
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    17:00

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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    8:30

    Re-registration and Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Prof Jim Cassidy

    Prof Jim Cassidy, Professor, Oncology, Cancer Research UK, Medical Oncology

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    9:10

    GENES-TO-DRUGS

    Spiro Rombotis

    Spiro Rombotis, Chief Executive Officer, Cyclacel

  • Cell cycle biology pathways and checkpoint control
  • Mechanism-based anticancer drug design
  • CDK Inhibitors: an emerging class of anticancer Rx
  • Alternative approaches targeting cyclin inhibition
  • The Mitosis pathway and G2/M-specific drug design
  • Implications of the new paradigm for companies and investors
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    9:40

    TARGETED TREATMENTS

    Dr Paolo Paoletti

    Dr Paolo Paoletti, Vice President, Medical – Oncology, ALIMTA Product Team Leader, Lilly

  • Targeting treatment with cytotoxics
  • Have targeted treatments lived up to their expectations?
  • Development of new cytostatic targeted treatments
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    10:20

    SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION INHIBITION

    Dr Peter Traxler

    Dr Peter Traxler, Senior Scientist, Research Manager, Novartis

  • Mechanism of action at the molecular level
  • Rational design - a challenge for a medicinal chemist
  • Preclinical profile at the enzymatic, cellular and in vivo level
  • Clinical data
  • Successes and failures
  • Future challenges
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    11:00

    Morning Coffee

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    11:20

    DNA REPAIR: NEW TARGETS FOR CANCER THERAPY

    Prof Stephen Jackson

    Prof Stephen Jackson, Deputy Director, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Institute

  • Biochemical and genetic methods for validating drug targets
  • Detection, signalling and repair of DNA double strand breaks (DSB)
  • Targeting the homologous recombination system and the non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) systems
  • Inhibiting key enzymes in DNA DSB repair pathways
  • Enhancing the efficacy of chemotherapeutic agents and of ionising radiation therapy
  • Potential anti-cancer activity of DNA repair inhibitors
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    12:00

    POLYKETIDE DRUG CANDIDATES

    Prof Dan Santi

    Prof Dan Santi, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Kosan Biosciences

  • I. Manipulating the genetic instructions for making polyketides
  • II. Production and properties of Epothilone D
  • Clinical trials of epothilones
  • III. Hsp90 as a drug target
  • Geldanamycin analogs as chemo-sensitizers
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    12:40

    Lunch

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    14:00

    MULTIPLE ANTI-CANCER DRUGS WITH NOVEL MECHANISMS OF ACTION

    Dr Pearl Huang

    Dr Pearl Huang, Director, Oncology, GlaxoSmithKline

  • Role of mitotic kinesins in cell division
  • Transcriptional profiling demonstrating the over expression of kinesin spindle proteins (KSP) in cancer
  • Biochemical studies of KSP enzymatic inhibition
  • Breadth of anti-tumour activity
  • Absence of treatment-associated neuropathy
  • Preclinical data
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    14:40

    POXVIRUSES AS VECTORS FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY

    Dr Miles Carroll

    Dr Miles Carroll, Vice President, Immunotherapy, Oxford BioMedica

  • The poxvirus platform
  • Poxvirus based cancer vaccines in the clinic
  • 5T4: a novel tumour associated antigen
  • TroVax: pre-clinical studies
  • TroVax: clinical experience in late stage colorectal
  • TroVax: clinical development programme
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    15:20

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:40

    CANCER VACCINE STRATEGIES

    Dr Jeffrey Ulmer

    Dr Jeffrey Ulmer, Senior Director, Chiron

  • Review of vector platforms for therapeutic vaccines
  • Autologous vaccines
  • Recombinant vaccines
  • Naked antibodies
  • Radioactive conjugates

    Combination treatments

  • Encouraging results in early phase cancer vaccine clinical trials
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    16:20

    ANTIBODIES TO MODULATE TUMOUR IMMUNITY

    Dr Birgit Schultes

    Dr Birgit Schultes, Vice President, Research, AltaRex

  • Technology overview
  • Traditional use of monoclonal antibodies in cancer treatment
  • Unexpected discovery of therapeutic potential for low dose monoclonal antibodies
  • Mechanisms of immune activation by monoclonal antibodies via immune complex formation
  • Documented preclinical and clinical proof of principle
  • Broad therapeutic potential
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    17:00

    Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Conference

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