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SAE Media Group present their 8th annual Asthma & COPD event to be held in London on Monday 16th & Tuesday 17th of Apil 2012.  Building on the success of our previous Asthma & COPD, and COPD: Novel Therapeutics and Management Strategies events, this year will see an elite panel of speakers drawn for both industry and academia.

The successful combination of academic KOLs and leading senior big Pharma speakers offers an ideal and comprehensive platform for the study of both Asthma & COPD.

The similarities between the two conditions are juxtoposed with the the subtle and important differences. Both pose unique and complex challenges, and these differences must be identified and isolated. As respiratory research continues to grow and prosper this event contributes further towards the understanding of how they can be dealt with in a successful and cost effective manner.

This event offers an ideal platform for those who have recently moved in to respiratory studies as well as established professionals. This is an opportunity to network with the leading protagonists in the field and to learn from their knowledge and experience as well as to share your own.

 

 

"The total financial burden of lung disease in Europe amounts to nearly €102 billion, a figure comparable to the annual gross domestic product (GDP) of the Republic of Ireland.
COPD contributes to almost one-half of this figure, followed by asthma, pneumonia, lung cancer and TB"

Source: http://www.european-lung-foundation.org/16-european-lung-foundation-elf-lung-diseases.htm

 

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Introductions and workshop overview

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9:00

Registration & Coffee

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9:10

Opening up COPD drugs to market from launch to trial – overview

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9:30

Introduction by workshop leaders (scope of the workshop)

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9:40

Case study analysis

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9:45

Drug development of anti-inflammatory drugs in Asthma & COPD: challenges for small pharmaceutical companies

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10:15

Asthma & COPD drug development in big pharma: how to profit from small companies (options & expectations)

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10:20

Future agents and drugs

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10:50

Coffee Break

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11:00

Coffee Break

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11:20

How to synergize drug development of small and big pharma: general considerations, need for improvement, successful examples

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11:30

Interactive Discussion session

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12:00

Panel discussion

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12:20

Closing analysis

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12:30

Close of workshop

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12:30

Close of Workshop

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Chairman's Opening Remarks

Sebastian Johnston

Sebastian Johnston, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine (N.H.L.I.)

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9:10

Comparing exacerbations of Asthma & COPD

Sebastian Johnston

Sebastian Johnston, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine (N.H.L.I.)

• What causes exacerbations
• Uniqueness and complexity
• Effective modelling
• Treatments – improving way of life
 

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9:50

Unmet Challenges in Asthma

Samantha Walker

Samantha Walker, Executive Director, Research & Policy, Asthma Uk

  • Asthma still has unmet needs
  • Directing research focus ad attention
  • Work of Asthma UK
  • Partnering with academia and industry study
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR2 ANTAGONISM TO PREVENT AIRWAYS INFLAMMATION

    Louise Donnelly

    Louise Donnelly, Reader in Respiratory Cell Biology, National Heart and Lung Institute Imperial College

    • Neutrophilic inflammation in airways disease
    • Why target CXCR2?
    • Novel CXCR2 antagonists
    • Current trials of CXCR2 antagonists

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    11:40

    CRTH2 antagonists for the treatment of asthma and allergic rhinitis

    Roy Pettipher

    Roy Pettipher, , Oxagen Ltd

    • Role of CRTH2 in activation of Th2 lymphocytes and eosinophils
    • Identification of highly potent and selective CRTH2 antagonists
    • Clinical effects of CRTH2 antagonists

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    12:20

    Combination therapy

    Mary Fitzgerald

    Mary Fitzgerald, Research, Pulmagen Therapeutics

    • New ICS/LABA combinations: What and why
    • Switching on Inhaled Corticosteroids: Novel anti-inflammatory combinations
    • Combination bronchodilators: Optimising symptomatic benefit

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    13:00

    Networking Lunch

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    14:00

    Novel Data from Asthma Clinical Trials

    Ewan Walters

    Ewan Walters, Medical Director, Teva UK Ltd

  • Novel data of Asthma Clinical Trials in Primary Care
  • case studies using real data: General Practice research Database (GPRD)
  • Utilisign lessons learned
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    14:40

    Anti-inflammatory therapies in COPD

    Daniel Bock

    Daniel Bock, Chief Scientific Officer, Revotar Biopharmaceuticals

  • Rationale and general considerations
  • Targeting inflammation: options and limitations
  • Translating anti-inflammatory potency into clinical benefit
  • Overview: Emerging drugs in clinical development
  • Positioning anti-inflammatory drugs in the future armamentarium of COPD therapy
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    15:20

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:40

    MyAsthma: lessons from a live app for asthma patients

    •         Understanding the opportunities
    •         The importance of insight
    •         Connecting insight, medicine and technology to build something useful
    •         Preliminary outcomes
     

    Francisco Abad-Marin

    Francisco Abad-Marin, Marketing Manager, Respiratory Centre of Excellence, GlaxoSmithKline

    Nick Broughton

    Nick Broughton, Consultant Medical Advisor, GSK

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    16:20

    Panel Discussion: Asthma mechanisms & treatments

    Sebastian Johnston

    Sebastian Johnston, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine (N.H.L.I.)

    Roy Pettipher

    Roy Pettipher, , Oxagen Ltd

    Stefano Petruzzelli

    Stefano Petruzzelli, Head of Respiratory Medicine unit, CHIESI FARMACEUTICI S.P.A.

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    17:00

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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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

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    9:10

    The problem of steroid resistance in Asthma & COPD

    Peter Barnes

    Peter Barnes, Head of Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College

    • Understanding the mechanisms of steroid resistance provides new insights into the mechanism of steroid action as well as the underlying chronic disease process
    • In patients with primary steroid-resistant (SR) asthma there is no abnormality in the pharmacokinetics of the exogenous steroid and no significant defect in steroid binding to the glucocorticoid receptor (GR).
    • Recent studies have demonstrated a marked reduction in the binding of GR to DNA
    • Binding of GR to the transcription factor activator protein-1 (AP-1).
    • Secondary steroid resistance in asthma may arise in response to the release of cytokines that activate AP-1 and other transcription factors that bind directly to GR.
     

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    9:50

    Using patient reported outcomes (CCQ ACQ) in daily clinical practice; results of the asthma COPD service for General practitioners in The Netherlands

    Thys van der Molen

    Thys van der Molen, Professor of primary care Respiratory Medicine, University of Groningen University Medical Centre Groningen Centre for Medical Biomics

    • Lungs and life tests
    • Patient recorded symptoms & outcomes – reporting on the way to a doctor
    • Netherlands case study
    • Implementation elsewhere

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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    The challenge of COPD exacerbations: how do Patient Reported Outcomes impact in clinical trials design?

    Stefano Petruzzelli

    Stefano Petruzzelli, Head of Respiratory Medicine unit, CHIESI FARMACEUTICI S.P.A.

    • A consortium approach to instrument development
    • Development of single validated PRO
    • Reduction of frequency , severity and duration of exacerbations
    • Search for the Gold Standard
    • Phase I to IV study history
     

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    11:40

    Co-Morbidities in COPD

    John Hurst

    John Hurst, Senior Clinical Lecturer, University College London

    • Cause and prevention
    • Case study trial evidence
    • Smoking and smoking cessation
    • The ‘whole body’ approach
     

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    12:20

    Development of a vagus nerve stimulator to treat asthma and COPD exacerbations. A game changing technology?

    Bruce Simon

    Bruce Simon, VP Research, ElectroCore Medical, AB

  • A guinea pig model was used to optimize an electrical signal to the vagus nerve to protect against histamine-induced bronchoconstriction
  • Asthma patients presenting to the ED with exacerbations not responsive to SOC were enrolled in a clinical trial and treated with this signal via a percutaneous electrode
  • Stimulation resulted in significant improvement in FEV1 within minutes of stimulation with no adverse events or changes in BP or HR
  • A non-invasive version of the treatment was developed and tested in a hypersensitive beagle model which demonstrated that two minutes of stimulation could inhibit methacholine-induced bronchoconstriction for more than two hours
  • Preliminary human clinical data shows encouraging improvement in asthma and COPD patients within minutes of treatment, lasting up to 4 – 6 hours
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    13:00

    Networking Lunch

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    14:10

    The Management of COPD exacerbations

    Neil Barnes

    Neil Barnes, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Barts & The London NHS Trust


    • Causes of COPD Exacerbation: Infection, Air Pollution
    • Signs and Symptoms of a COPD Exacerbation
    • Treatment of COPD Exacerbation
    • Prevention of COPD exacerbation

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    14:50

    Pre-clinical models of asthma and COPD

    Maria Belvisi

    Maria Belvisi, Professor of Respiratory Pharmacology, National Heart and Lung Institute Imperial College London

    • Human tissue and cell based assays.
    - How to predict efficacy: measurement of mechanistic markers
    - Species differences – challenges identified
    • In vivo models of Asthma and COPD
    - Biomarker measurement
    - Pharmacodynamic models
    - Assessment of symptoms
    • Integrated drug discovery solutions
    - Networks in drug discovery
    - Providing outsourced services for Pharma clients

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    15:30

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:50

    Patient stratification: lesions from clinical trials of biologic drugs in Asthma

    Matthew Catley

    Matthew Catley, Head of Respiratory Pharmacology, UCB-Celltech

    • Biologics for the treatment of asthma
    • Anti-IL-5
    • Anti- IL-13
    • Biomarkers and patient stratification

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    16:30

    Panel Discussion: COPD mechanisms & treatments

    Peter Barnes

    Peter Barnes, Head of Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College

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    17:00

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two

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