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Clinical Trials in CNS
5 November - 6 November 2012
Clinical Trials in CNS

SAE Media Group are proud to present their 11th annual Clinical Trials in CNS conference, scheduled for the 5th and 6th of November, 2012.

With increasing average life expectancy, the wide range of potential disorders (from Alzheimer’s, to Parkinson’s, MS, dementia and depression) that arise from the multiple targets of the CNS, are becoming increasingly widespread in the population. This creates an ever greater need for new treatments and therapies in the industry. Clinical trials in the CNS industry must therefore operate the minefield of varying regulations, ethical and logistical difficulties, in order to develop a drug from discovery to market.


 

This year the SAE Media Group's Clinical Trials in CNS conference will cover the essential topics in the CNS industry, including: clinical trial optimisation, modelling and efficiency, preclinical discovery of biomarkers and implementation of these novel innovations as well as a talk on the safety of CNS drugs from a former member of the MHRA.

This groundbreaking conference will give delegates an opportunity to gain insights into the best practices in clinical trials, as well as examples and case studies of previous techniques and methods. This is an opportunity not to be missed, as we delve into the complex and exciting world of Central Nervous System discovery, allowing delegates to learn, explore and debate the key areas of CNS, its preclinical discovery and its clinical trials.

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Bruno Pitrosky

Bruno Pitrosky

Adjoint Director SNC, Pfizer Inc
Florian Von Raison

Florian Von Raison

Global Program Head, Novartis

Bruno Pitrosky

Adjoint Director SNC, Pfizer Inc
Bruno Pitrosky

Catherine Harmer

Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University
Catherine Harmer

Claire Troakes

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

Florian Von Raison

Global Program Head, Novartis
Florian Von Raison

Frank Miller

Senior Statistician and Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca R&D
Frank Miller

Gary Sachs

Founding Director, Bipolar Clinic and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Gary  Sachs

Graham Cox

Principal IDEAtor, IDEA Pharma UK
Graham Cox

Jennifer Li

Associate Senior Biologist, Lilly Research Centre Ltd
Jennifer Li

Jeremy Chataway

Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London
Jeremy Chataway

John Warren

Former Expert Medical Assessor, MHRA and Director, Medicines Assessment Ltd
John Warren

Keith Wesnes

Practice Leader, Bracket Global
Keith Wesnes

Lars Bauer

Senior Medical Director , UCB GmbH
Lars Bauer

Lubor Gaal

Executive Director, Neuroscience, Strategic Transactions Group, Bristol-myers Squibb
Lubor Gaal

Michael O'Neill

Senior Research Advisor , Eli Lilly & Co
Michael  O'Neill

Mike Emanuel

Managing Director, SintoPharm
Mike Emanuel

Peter Joseph Jongen

Founding Director , MS4 Research Institute
Peter Joseph Jongen

Richard Wyse

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

Steve Satek

Senior Vice President, Thievon-Wright Consulting Group
Steve Satek

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Chairman's Opening Remarks

Lars Bauer

Lars Bauer, Senior Medical Director , UCB GmbH

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9:10

Management of a Global Clinical Program: Challenges and Opportunities

Bruno Pitrosky

Bruno Pitrosky, Adjoint Director SNC, Pfizer Inc

  • Global partnerships: challenges in an international investment
  • Structuring a global clinical project team: the issues faced and how to overcome them to maximise trials efficiency
  • The cultural differences of differing countries and how this affects their attitudes towards trials and program
  • Addressing the objectives of a global clinical trial/program by integrating the countries/area specificities
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    9:50

    What are the properties of cognitive function tests that determine their suitability to identify time-based changes in clinical trials?

    Keith Wesnes

    Keith Wesnes, Practice Leader, Bracket Global

  • Analyses of neuropsychological tests used in high-profile longitudinal ageing studies (eg ADNI) have shown apparent year on year improvements in the elderly.
  • These ‘gold-standard’ tests are widely regarded to have excellent ‘psychometric properties’; so why are many not fit for the purpose of assessing change when administered repeatedly?
  • Could computerised administration of these neuropsychological tests improve their capabilities?
  • How do such tests perform in comparison to automated cognitive tests specifically designed for repeated administration?
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    Neuroscience - Strategies for Success

    Lubor Gaal

    Lubor Gaal, Executive Director, Neuroscience, Strategic Transactions Group, Bristol-myers Squibb

  • Innovation in Neuroscience- What is it? Where is it?
  • What are current trends?
  • Where should company focus R&D?
  • What strategy leads to success?
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    11:40

    Optimizing clinical trial designs using ideas from optimal design theory

    Frank Miller

    Frank Miller, Senior Statistician and Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca R&D

  • Optimal choice of doses in a dose-finding trial
  • An Phase IIa/b adaptive design in a chronic pain setting
  • Choosing the time points for cognitive assessments in Alzheimer's disease trials 
  • Important steps when theoretical ideas are implemented in real clinical trials
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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:30

    Ethical Decision Making in Clinical Drug Development

    Mike Emanuel

    Mike Emanuel , Managing Director, SintoPharm

  • What are the principles behind ethical behaviour and practice?
  • How have these been translated into clinical research codes of ethics?
  • What do we need to consider to ensure ethical decision making?
  • What are some of the key study design factors that lead to ethical dilemmas?
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    14:10

    The value of brain banking for CNS 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 coordination and multi-sample biobanks in order to increase research potential
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    14:50

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:20

    Clinical trial design: ensuring efficiency and adaptability, with a focus on MS as an example

    Jeremy Chataway

    Jeremy Chataway, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London

  • Changes in Trials of Relapsing-Remitting MS over time
  • The big challenge-Progressive MS
  • Measuring Progressive MS
  • Increasing efficiency in trials and the current and recent trials in Progressive MS
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    16:00

    Preclinical models and translational approaches for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases

    Michael  O'Neill

    Michael O'Neill, Senior Research Advisor , Eli Lilly & Co

  • Summary of mechanisms in Neurodegenerative diseases
  • Overview of key animal models used for Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease
  • Examples of data for projects/mechanisms in these animal model systems
  • Examples of measures and end-points to aid in progression of projects to the clinic
  • Importance of target engagement and pharmacodynamic biomarkers for CNS drug targets
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    16:40

    Quantifying the safety of CNS drugs

    John Warren

    John Warren, Former Expert Medical Assessor, MHRA and Director, Medicines Assessment Ltd

  • Inaccessibility of the CNS for biomarkers
  • Subtle consequences of psyche pharmacology
  • Composite endpoints in CNS clinical trials
  • Absence of harm on mortality
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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

    Keith Wesnes

    Keith Wesnes, Practice Leader, Bracket Global

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    9:10

    The latest developments and discoveries in neurodegenerative disorders: a case study of Parkinson’s Disease

    Florian Von Raison

    Florian Von Raison, Global Program Head, Novartis

  • Motor complications in PD : Why it’s so complex?
  • L-dopa induced dyskinesia (LID)  : reduction of dyskinesia as  goal of PD management and therapy
  • LID. From the pathways to predictive animal models
  • Last developments in humans. Which target to choose?
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    9:50

    Preclinical monitoring of neurophysiology/behaviour as a Translational Biomarker of CNS Activity

    Jennifer Li

    Jennifer Li, Associate Senior Biologist, Lilly Research Centre Ltd

  • Lack of success in clinical trials of psychiatric disorders due to the difficulty in interpreting drug effects on rodent behaviour alone
  • Monitoring physiological responses during behavioural tasks to validate animal assays and disease models 
  • Using oxygen amperometry to identify brain circuitry engaged in complex behavioural tasks and the response to drug exposure in the freely moving rat as a correlate of neuroimaging techniques
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    Non-motor symptoms in Parkinson´s disease

    Lars Bauer

    Lars Bauer, Senior Medical Director , UCB GmbH

  • Clinical features of Parkinson´s disease
  • The patient´s burden of non-motor symptoms
  • How to address non-motor symptoms
  • Examples from recent clinical trials
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    11:40

    Clinical trials in Multiple Sclerosis

    Peter Joseph Jongen

    Peter Joseph Jongen, Founding Director , MS4 Research Institute

  • The new drugs of 2012-2013
  • Perspectives on future drugs in MS and recent changes in trial methodology
  • Reimbursement and pharmaco-economics in MS clinical trials
  • Self-assessment and monitoring of therapeutic value
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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:50

    An overview of clinical trials currently being conducted worldwide in Parkinsons disease (PD)

    Richard Wyse

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

  • Driven by GWAS, new drug targets recently found to be relevant to PD biochemistry are now being actively developed
  • Groundbreaking results of recent trials (such as drug repositioning programmes using anti-diabetic drugs with PD-relevant biochemistry) promise to change the trajectory of neurological decline, and revolutionize treatment
  • A new global initiative, led by CPT, involving pilot proof-of-concept clinical screening in PD patients of drugs targeting these new pharmaceutical approaches, will dramatically increase the number of PD clinical trials
  • The Parkinsons charities, far more than governments or pharmaceutical companies, now set the global agenda for choosing what therapeutic interventions advance into PD clinical trials
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    14:30

    Identifying novel biomarkers in the central nervous system

    Catherine Harmer

    Catherine Harmer, Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University

  • Negative biases in emotional processing measured in a behavioural test battery and in neuroimaging paradigms with fMRI
  • Antidepressant drugs affect the behavioural and neural processing of emotional information prior to clinical changes in mood.  
  • Emotional biomarker tests for drug development and screening of novel compounds for depression  
  • Early changes in emotional processing  in therapeutic actions of antidepressant treatments in depression
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    15:10

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:40

    Enhanced signal detection: using tandem assessments of psychiatric symptoms in RCTs

    Gary  Sachs

    Gary Sachs, Founding Director, Bipolar Clinic and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital

  • The case for Tandem Ratings in clinical trials
  • Enhancing Signal detection with Tandem Ratings administered by site based raters and computer.
  • Application of Tandem Rating to subject eligibility assessments
  • Obtaining validated learning for improved trial design 
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    16:20

    Successful Implementation of CNS Studies

    Steve Satek

    Steve Satek, Senior Vice President, Thievon-Wright Consulting Group

  • Challenges of increasing complexity
  • Effective communication between sponsors, CROs, vendors and sites
  • Subject recruitment:  pressures to find the ideal research participants
  • Proposed solutions to streamlining CNS research processes
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    17:00

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two


    Senior Medical Director
    UCB GmbH
    Adjoint Director SNC
    Pfizer Inc
    Director of Research and Development
    The Cure Parkinsons Trust
    Founding Director
    MS4 Research Institute
    Founding Director, Bipolar Clinic and Research Program
    Massachusetts General Hospital
    Associate Senior Biologist
    Lilly Research Centre Ltd
    Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
    Imperial College London
    Practice Leader
    Bracket Global
    Senior Statistician and Principal Scientist
    AstraZeneca R&D
    Executive Director, Neuroscience, Strategic Transactions Group
    Bristol-myers Squibb
    Senior Research Advisor
    Eli Lilly & Co
    Brain Bank Coordinator, London Neurodegenerative Diseases Brain Bank
    Kings College London
    Managing Director
    SintoPharm
    Senior Vice President
    Thievon-Wright Consulting Group
    Department of Psychiatry
    Oxford University
    Former Expert Medical Assessor, MHRA and Director
    Medicines Assessment Ltd
    Principal IDEAtor
    IDEA Pharma UK
    Global Program Head
    Novartis

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