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Clinical Trials in Cancer
26 June - 27 June 2006
Clinical Trials in Cancer

After last year’s hugely successful event, SAE Media Group are pleased to announce their 5th Clinical Trials in Cancer conference.

The conference will provide up-to-date information on the current challenges in clinical development. There will be a focus on European and US regulatory requirements, tissue Biomarkers in cancer drug development and ensuring maximum participation in trials. Compound drug case studies by major companies will discuss drugs being developed in phases I-III.

The event will offer attendees the chance to hear presentations of novel therapies for cancer that are being developed and how they are being integrated into clinical trials.

An opportunity to meet experts in the field to discuss how anti-cancer drug development can be optimised and carried forward to achieve the ultimate aim of getting effective drugs on the market faster.

A must attend event!

This years exceptional speakers line-up include:

  • Dr Andrew Hughes, Director, Discovery Medicine, Cancer & Infection, AstraZeneca
  • Dr Peter Wyld, Director, Oncology Development & EU Therapeutic Area Specialist, Amgen
  • Dr Iman El-Hariry, Senior Director, Oncology Medicines Centre, GlaxoSAE Media GroupthKline
  • Dr Doriano Fabbro, Senior Unit Head, Expertise Platform Kinases & Head, Kinase Biology & Technologies , Novartis
  • Andrew Stone, Statistical Science Director, AstraZeneca
  • Dr Michael Lahn, Medical Advisor, Eli Lilly
  • Professor Karol Sikora, Professor, Cancer Medicine, Imperial College & Scientific Director, Medical Solutions

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Data Sharing

Geoff Boxer

Geoff Boxer, Laboratory Manager & UCL Business Fellow, University College London

  • Historical perspective
  • Collecting & integrating diverse information from the laboratory and the patient
  • Increasing awareness of data sharing
  • Why should I share my data?
  • Public access to data generated from research
  • Maintaining protection of intellectual property rights
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    9:45

    Effective clinical trial design

  • Using the data from pre-clinical studies
  • Safety in Phase I trials
  • Efficacy in Phase I/II trials
  • Baseline assessments & entry criteria for patients
  • Mechanistic studies
  • Modelling of treatment dose and scheduling
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    10:50

    Monitoring of patients using biomarkers

  • Rational selection of patients
  • Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics - circulatory clearance/ tumour and organ localisation
  • Clinical imaging – surrogate markers of response
  • Serum markers for monitoring response
  • Cell/DNA damage assays
  • Radiolabled therapy measurements
  • Immunogenicity of protein therapeutics
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    11:30

    Discussion and questions – review of the session

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    12:00

    Close of Executive Briefing

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Karol Sikora

    Karol Sikora, Professor, Cancer Medicine, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital, London and Scientific Director, Medical Solutions , Medical Solutions PLC

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    9:10

    KEYNOTE ADDRESS

    Karol Sikora

    Karol Sikora, Professor, Cancer Medicine, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital, London and Scientific Director, Medical Solutions , Medical Solutions PLC

  • Tissue and serum biomarkers
  • Measuring pharmacodynamic endpoints
  • Getting to molecular proof of principle
  • Validating surrogate endpoints
  • Novel utilisation of surrogates to shorten phase III
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    9:50

    CLINICAL BIOMARKERS

    Andrew Hughes

    Andrew Hughes, Director, Discovery Medicine, Cancer & Infection, AstraZeneca

  • Biomarkers emerging into clinical trials
  • Translation from preclinical to clinical studies
  • Application in clinical trials - including patient selection and clinical pharmacology
  • Case studies - leveraging biomarkers in accelerating and streamlining clinical trials
  • Implementation in drug and diagnostic development
  • Discovering, validating and developing assays for biomarkers
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    REGULATORY ISSUES IN EUROPEAN, US AND GLOBAL CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS

    Francis Crawley

    Francis Crawley, Director General, Good Clinical Practice Alliance

  • The current framework for cancer clinical trials in a globalised research environment
  • Developing protocols to meet regulatory and ethical review approval
  • Submitting an application for drug approval to regulatory agencies in Europe, the US and internationally
  • The European innovative platform for medicines strategy
  • The US FDA Critical Path Initiative
  • Cancer research in ascending markets and developing countries
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    11:40

    NEW PARADIGMS FOR DRUG DEVELOPMENT

    Iman El-Hariry

    Iman El-Hariry, Senior Director, Oncology Medicines Centre, GlaxoSmithKline

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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    14:00

    COMPOUNDS IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT

    Peter Davis

    Peter Davis, Chief Executive Officer, Angiogene Pharmacueticals Ltd

  • Causes rapid destruction of tumour vasculature
  • Active in a wide spectrum of preclinical models
  • Particularly effective in combination
  • Target activity demonstrated in the clinic
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    14:40

    EARLY CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL TARGETED CHEMOTHERAPY

    Michael Saunders

    Michael Saunders, Vice President, Clinical Development, Allos Therapeutics Inc

  • Inhibits cancer cells of selected tumour types
  • Preclinical models shown to be effective against selective tumours
  • Taking advantage of the biochemistry of certain cancer cells
  • Potential as a new targeted therapy approach
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    15:20

    DEVELOPING AN ANTI-CANCER THERAPY

    David Henner

    David Henner, Vice President, Oncology, Novacea Inc

  • Inhibits cancer cells as monotherapy and in combination
  • Challenges of new development for calcitriol
  • New schedule, formulations and indications
  • Intellectual property
  • Potential new therapy for prostate cancer and other cancers
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    16:00

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks Followed by Afternoon Tea and Close of Day One

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Michael Lahn

    Michael Lahn, Medical Advisor, Eli Lilly

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    9:10

    SECOND GENERATION BcrAbl INHIBITORS

    Doriano Fabbro

    Doriano Fabbro, Senior Unit Head, Expertise Platform Kinases & Head, Kinase Biology & Technologies , Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

  • Imatinib - a therapy for CML based upon its ability to block cell proliferation by inhibiting the tyrosine kinase of BcrAbl
  • Maintain durable high rates of responses with good tolerability as therapy for newly diagnosed patients with chronic Ph+ CML and patients achieving a major molecular response
  • Imatinib resistance - primarily occurs in the advanced stages of Ph+ CML and is due to mutations in the region of BcrAbl encoding the tyrosine kinase domain
  • AMN107 and Dasatinib - potent second generation BcrAbl inhibitors that inhibit most of the Imatinib resistant mutations in the advanced stages of Ph+ CML
  • The mechanisms of action and the clincal efficacies of these second generation BcrAbl inhibitors will be discussed
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    9:50

    THE USE AND APPLICATION OF COMBINATION DRUGS

    Michael Lahn

    Michael Lahn, Medical Advisor, Eli Lilly

  • New applications for existing drugs
  • Potential strategies - combinations of two drugs already in use to treat certain cancers
  • What are the adverse events that can happen
  • The timing and sequence of treatment with the drug combination
  • What is their primary role of action
  • Do they have the potential to provide a significant therapeutic advance?
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    ISSUES OF LATE STAGE ATTRITION

    Hilary  Calvert

    Hilary Calvert, Professor, Medical Oncology, Northern Institute of Cancer Research (NICR)

  • Curtailing the increasing rate of late stage attrition of RDTB agents
  • New therapeutic opportunities and expectations for the future
  • Developmental challenges
  • Adoption of radically different development, evaluation and regulatory paradigms
  • Methods of prediction for the clinical outcome of a project
  • Adopting tools that enable improved decision-making
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    11:40

    CLINICAL TRIAL DESIGN

    Peter Wyld

    Peter Wyld, Director, Oncology Development, EU Therapeutic Area Specialist, Amgen

  • Study design - controlled or uncontrolled?
  • Different designs
  • What methodologies can be used?
  • Evaluation of success or failure
  • Challenges in clinical trial design
  • Informing phase II study design by a focused approach in phase I
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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    14:00

    SATISFYING THE REGULATORY ASPECTS OF PHASE I/II TRIALS, ETHICAL STANDARDS AND GMP/GCLP COMPLIANCE

    Geoff Boxer

    Geoff Boxer, Laboratory Manager & UCL Business Fellow, University College London

  • Designing, developing and optimising targeted therapeutics in-house
  • Production of recombinant antibodies / antibody fusion proteins in clean rooms and operational problems
  • Satisfying the regulatory aspects of phase I/II trials, ethical standards and GMP / GCLP compliance
  • Performing mechanistic trials and improving tumour response assessment
  • Rationalising patient selection and customising treatment
  • The clinical trial environment – a vision for the future
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    14:40

    PHASE II AND III

    Andrew Stone

    Andrew Stone, Statistical Science Director, AstraZeneca

  • Benefits of seamless approach
  • When are they appropriate?
  • Who gets to see the phase II data?
  • Phase II endpoints and decision rules
  • Are there statistical penalties?
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    15:20

    PATIENT RECRUITMENT

    Peter  Johnson

    Peter Johnson, Professor, Medical Oncology, Cancer Research UK Clinical Centre

  • Streamlining trial set-up and regulatory processes
  • Developing a clinical research team
  • Selection of patients for cancer trials
  • Maximising recruitment in a cancer research network
  • Making trials widely available to cancer patients
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    16:00

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks Followed by Afternoon Tea

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    CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development’. It is essentially a philosophy, which maintains that in order to be effective, learning should be organised and structured. The most common definition is:

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

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