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Clinical Trials in CNS
18 November - 19 November 2013
Clinical Trials in CNS

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SAE Media Group is delighted to announce that its highly anticipated and respected 12th annual Clinical Trials in CNS Conference is coming to London. With an ever increasing average life expectancy, neurodegenerative diseases are increasingly becoming more prevalent in society. With this comes a need for new and improved therapies for treating these neurodegenerative conditions. From Alzheimer's to Parkinson's disease, the target and mechanism by which a disease manifests itself presents unique challenges in how to approach such treatments not to mention ethical and legal issues behind treatment and trial design.

Join SAE Media Group as we look at new approaches taken in this field towards a number of neurodegenerative disorders. From clinical trial modelling and simulation to the role of biomarkers, SAE Media Group takes a detailed look into many aspects of drug discovery and delivery of CNS therapeutics.This exciting  conference will give delegates an opportunity to gain insights through case studies and interactive discussion into best practices in clinical trials. 

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Eric Karran

Eric Karran

Director of Research, Alzheimer’s Research UK
Gary  Sachs

Gary Sachs

Therapeutic Area Lead, Bracket
Kyriacos Mitrophanous

Kyriacos Mitrophanous

Head of Research, Oxford BioMedica plc
Tom Isaacs

Tom Isaacs

Co-Founder, The Cure Parkinsons Trust
Warren Hirst

Warren Hirst

Associate Research Fellow & Group Leader, Pfizer

Claire Troakes

Brain Bank Coordinator, London Neurodegenerative Diseases Brain Bank, Kings College London
Claire Troakes

Craig Ritchie

Clinical Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London
Craig Ritchie

Eric Karran

Director of Research, Alzheimer’s Research UK
Eric Karran

Gary Sachs

Therapeutic Area Lead, Bracket
Gary  Sachs

Henri Huttunen

Chief Scientific Officer, Hermo Pharma Ltd
Henri Huttunen

Johannes Streffer

Director of Experimental Medicine Europe, Neurologist, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical
Johannes Streffer

John Warren

Director, Medicines Assessment
John Warren

Kyriacos Mitrophanous

Head of Research, Oxford BioMedica plc
Kyriacos Mitrophanous

Larry Alphs

Therapeutic Area Leader, Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC
Larry Alphs

Lars Bauer

Senior Medical Director, UCB GmbH
Lars Bauer

Lesley Jones

Professor of Neurogenetics, Director of Postgraduate Research, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
Lesley Jones

Marie Luby

Post Doctoral Scientist, NIH/NINDS
Marie Luby

Peter Joseph Jongen

Founding Director, MS4 Research Institute
Peter Joseph Jongen

Richard Pither

CEO, Cytox Ltd
Richard Pither

Richard has been involved in the development diagnostic and therapeutic products for more than twenty years and held senior R&D and leadership positions in global companies including GE Healthcare, UCB, Lorantis and Amersham. Richard has been involved in the development of a novel 18F-PET amyloid imaging radiopharmaceutical product for Alzheimer’s Disease for more than ten years. Richard has a BSc and PhD from Bristol University, and undertook post-doctoral research at Harvard Medical School.

Richard Wyse

Director of Research and Development, The Cure Parkinsons Trust
Richard Wyse

Susan McGoldrick

Managing Director, QCTR Ltd
Susan McGoldrick

Tom Isaacs

Co-Founder, The Cure Parkinsons Trust
Tom Isaacs

Warren Hirst

Associate Research Fellow & Group Leader, Pfizer
Warren Hirst

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Chairman's opening remarks

Gary  Sachs

Gary Sachs, Therapeutic Area Lead, Bracket

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9:10

Opportunities for improving CNS clinical trials

Gary  Sachs

Gary Sachs, Therapeutic Area Lead, Bracket

  • Overcoming obstacles to patient recruitment
  • Automated processes for clinical trial data collection
  • Diagnostic and other eligibility validation
  • Endpoint reliability
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    9:50

    CNS tissue banking for neuroscience research

    Claire Troakes

    Claire Troakes, Brain Bank Coordinator, London Neurodegenerative Diseases Brain Bank, Kings College London

  • Brain Banking in the UK: tissue collection, diagnosis, quality and access
  • Cohort recruitment and longitudinal assessment: increasing the scientific value of donated tissue
  • The importance of tissue banking in clinical trials and biomarker validation
  • The future: Centralised co-ordination and multi-sample biobanks in order to increase research potential
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    Stroke Imaging Repository (STIR)

    Marie Luby

    Marie Luby, Post Doctoral Scientist, NIH/NINDS

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    11:40

    Drug safety in the CNS

    John Warren

    John Warren, Director, Medicines Assessment

  • CNS specific issues

    - Inaccessibility of the CNS for biomarkers

    - Subtle consequences of psyche pharmacology

  • Regulatory debates

    - Composite endpoints in CNS clinical trials

    - Defining absence of harm

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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:50

    New frontiers in schizophrenia clinical trial design

    Larry Alphs

    Larry Alphs, Therapeutic Area Leader, Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC

  • Comparative effectiveness

    - What are they?

    -When do you need them?

    - How do they differ from traditional designs?

    - Key design considerations

    - Some Examples

  • Novel indications or endpoints

    - Treatment failure vs symptomatic changes vs outcomes

    - Cognition in schizophrenia

    - Disease modification

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    14:30

    Post-registration trials and registries in multiple sclerosis

    Peter Joseph Jongen

    Peter Joseph Jongen, Founding Director, MS4 Research Institute

  • Recent and ongoing Phase III trials in multiple sclerosis
  • The EMA and post registration requirements
  • Post registration MS trials
  • MS registries: an overview
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    15:10

    Defining clinical significance in CNS clinical trials

    Susan McGoldrick

    Susan McGoldrick, Managing Director, QCTR Ltd

  • What is clinical relevance?
  • Why should you be thinking about this in your clinical trials?
  • Understanding clinical relevance is essential to avoid unnecessary co-primary endpoints or very large expensive studies and/or push back from the regulatory authorities as they question the clinical meaning of a measurement or biomarker. This talk will look at the regulatory requirements for clinical significance and give some pointers on what to consider at the trial design stage

     

     

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    15:30

    Afternoon Tea

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    16:00

    Transdermal patch: overcoming challenges to develop a room temperature stable formulation

  • Rotigotine- a dopamine agonist given as a transdermal patch
  • Regulatory background
  • Clinical studies conducted receive approval
  • Conclusions
  • Rotigotine- a dopamine agonist given as a transdermal patch
  • Regulatory background
  • Clinical studies conducted receive approval
  • Conclusions
  • Lars Bauer

    Lars Bauer, Senior Medical Director, UCB GmbH

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    16:40

    A Gene Therapy for Parkinson's disease – modifying ProSavin® to increase specific activity

    Kyriacos Mitrophanous

    Kyriacos Mitrophanous, Head of Research, Oxford BioMedica plc

  • Data on the completed Prosavin Phase I/II clinical trial in PD
  • Data in improved efficacy of next generation Prosavin in gold standard model of PD
  • in vivo pet imaging using two ligands to assess gene expression and efficacy of gold standard model of PD
  • Plans for future Phase IIa clinical trial
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    17:20

    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

    Johannes Streffer

    Johannes Streffer , Director of Experimental Medicine Europe, Neurologist, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical

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    9:10

    KEYNOTE: The legalities, ethics and implications in sham surgery

    Tom Isaacs

    Tom Isaacs, Co-Founder, The Cure Parkinsons Trust

  • Is it fair and effective?
  • Are there alternatives?
  • The patient perspective of sham surgery
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    9:50

    Collaborations, partnerships and new treatments in Parkinson's disease

    Richard Wyse

    Richard Wyse, Director of Research and Development, The Cure Parkinsons Trust

  • Latest developments in treatments for PD
  • The results of the latest clinical trials in PD
  • The driving forces behind PD R & D
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    CDNF protein therapy for treatment of Parkinsons disease

    Henri Huttunen

    Henri Huttunen, Chief Scientific Officer, Hermo Pharma Ltd

  • Novel neurotrophic factors
  • Proof-of-concept in animal models of PD
  • Towards clinical trials
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    11:40

    LRRK2 as a therapeutic target for Parkinson's disease: Development of kinase inhibitors and their use in translational biology

    Warren Hirst

    Warren Hirst, Associate Research Fellow & Group Leader, Pfizer

  • Genetic mutations in Leucine Repeat Kinase 2 (LRRK2) have been linked to Parkinson's Disease (PD). One of the most prevalent mutations, G2019S, results in increased LRRK2 kinase activity, which is believed to play a major role in the etiology of PD
  • However, to date, the physiological and pathophysiological roles of this protein remain elusive, primarily as endogenous substrates and interaction partners are relatively poorly characterised. Despite these challenges, we, and others, are developing LRKK2 Kinase inhibitors which will be critical to increase our understanding of LRRK2 function and may potentially be developed into novel therapeutics for PD.
  • We have identified potent, selective, brain penetrant LRRK2 Kinase inhibitors that show in vivo pharmacodynamic effects and have allowed us to generate PK/PD models which may be translated into clinical studies
  • Some of these compounds have been radiolabeled and we have started their characterisation, which will provide the knowledge base for the development of LRKK2 target engagement (PET) ligands
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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:50

    Translational medicine models in neurodegenerative diseases. Continuous CSF measurements: indwelling CSF catheters for monitoring CNS effects

    Johannes Streffer

    Johannes Streffer , Director of Experimental Medicine Europe, Neurologist, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical

  • Do we measure drug effects or just the variability we induce?
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    14:30

    Alzheimer’s disease, dementia risk and the path to stratified medicine

    Richard Pither, CEO, Cytox Ltd

  • There are currently no reliable tests to detect risk of cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s Disease early in the disease process
  • The lack of blood-based risk and disease biomarkers has hampered efforts to develop effective disease-modifying therapies for Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia
  • Emerging research has highlighted the importance of dysregulation of the mTOR signalling pathway and associated effects on cell cycle biology, as a risk factor in Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Validation of mTOR pathway and cell cycle dysregulation biomarkers in clinical studies offers the prospect of new approaches to the identification of subjects for early clinical intervention and clinical trial stratification
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    15:10

    Amyloid cascade hypothesis and developing drugs for AD: Past, present and future

    Eric Karran

    Eric Karran, Director of Research, Alzheimer’s Research UK

  • The amyloid cascade hypothesis has largely driven therapeutic investigation in AD
  • All of the amyloidocentric drugs have reached phase 3 testing and failed
  • what lessons can we learn from these failed trials?
  • Has the amyloid cascade hypothesis yet been tested in man?
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    15:50

    Afternoon Tea

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    16:05

    Defining the genetic architecture of Alzheimer's disease

    Lesley Jones

    Lesley Jones, Professor of Neurogenetics, Director of Postgraduate Research, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY

  • 27 genes influence the development of AD
  • 23 of which have been indentified in the last 4 years
  • These recent findings are making us reassess the causes of common forms of Alzheimer's implicating several novel disease mechanisms, including differences in immunity, endocytosis, unbiquitination and lipid processing
  • Future research now needs to focus on a better understanding of these mechanisms and how they react with environmental/ lifestyle factors
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    16:45

    Early detection of Alzheimer’s disease in mid-life

    Craig Ritchie

    Craig Ritchie, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London

  • Highlight the evidence regarding pathological changes in mid-life which lead to dementia in older people
  • Discuss the rationale behind the early identification of risk status for dementia and opportunity for intervention
  • Outline UK-based infrastructure initiatives to support translational medicine innovations in dementia reserach around mid-life and early dementia
  • Note the emerging prevention environment from a social, political and economic perspective for dementia in the UK and beyond
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    17:25

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two


    Brain Bank Coordinator, London Neurodegenerative Diseases Brain Bank
    Kings College London
    Clinical Senior Lecturer
    Imperial College London
    Director of Research
    Alzheimer’s Research UK
    Therapeutic Area Lead
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    Chief Scientific Officer
    Hermo Pharma Ltd
    Director of Experimental Medicine Europe, Neurologist
    Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical
    Director
    Medicines Assessment
    Head of Research
    Oxford BioMedica plc
    Therapeutic Area Leader
    Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC
    Senior Medical Director
    UCB GmbH
    Professor of Neurogenetics, Director of Postgraduate Research
    CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
    Post Doctoral Scientist
    NIH/NINDS
    Founding Director
    MS4 Research Institute
    CEO
    Cytox Ltd
    Director of Research and Development
    The Cure Parkinsons Trust
    Managing Director
    QCTR Ltd
    Co-Founder
    The Cure Parkinsons Trust
    Associate Research Fellow & Group Leader
    Pfizer

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