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Diabetes 2000
15 November - 16 November 2000
Diabetes 2000
Diabetes is a major global health problem, which currently effects more than 140 million people worldwide. The numbers are increasing such that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has predicted that over the next 25 years the number of people with diabetes will reach 300 million. In fact, diabetes has become the only non-infectious disease that WHO has designated as an epidemic.

Diabetes is a chronic disease and unless it is properly treated it can result in severe complications including kidney failure, blindness, cardiovascular problems, neurological conditions and death.

Diabetes 2000 will consider type 1 and type 2 diabetes and will look at developments in anti-diabetic drugs, potential drugs of the future and advances in the genetics of diabetes. This conference aims to provide a thorough understanding of the issues and developments surrounding this major disease by bringing together experts in the field and combining their knowledge with the objective of making major advances in the treatment of diabetes.

As a senior industry executive, you will be aware of the importance and potential of this field. I would therefore like to invite you to register for SAE Media Group’s Diabetes 2000 conference. As you will see from the brochure, key speakers include experts from leading international pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

Please register now to guarantee your place at this important conference.

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Chairman's Opening Remarks

Dr Richard Palmer

Dr Richard Palmer, Chief Executive Officer, Alizyme

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9:10

DIABETES: AN OVERVIEW

Larry K Ellingson

Larry K Ellingson, Executive Director, Global Diabetes Care, Eli Lilly

  • Prevalence of diabetes
  • Epidemiology of diabetes
  • Economic impact of diabetes
  • Understanding the limitations of current therapeutic options
  • Unmet needs of diabetes
  • Future therapies: working toward treating the underlying disease pathology
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    9:40

    GLITAZONES: GLYCAEMIC CONTROL IS ONLY THE BEGINNING

    Dr Murray Stewart

    Dr Murray Stewart, Assistant Director, Clinical Research & Development, Medical Affairs UK, SmithKline Beecham

  • About glitazones or thiazolidinediones
  • Targeting diabetes
  • Evaluating risks and benefits
  • Effect on metabolic syndrome
  • Future of glitazones
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    10:20

    PREVENTING THE ONSET OF TYPE 1 DIABETES

    Dr Nanette Solvason

    Dr Nanette Solvason, Senior Scientist, Corixa

  • Addressing type 1 diabetes with two clinical stage platforms
  • Interfering with the activation of disease specific auto-relative T-cells
  • AnervaX.DB™: therapeutic MHC-derived peptide vaccine
  • Genetic susceptibility to diabetes and the design of the AnervaX molecule
  • Mapping diabetes type 1 susceptibility onto an MHC region
    Using AnervaX to down-regulate the MHC region in type 1 diabetes
  • AnervaX.DB™: its potential as a vaccine for treating and preventing the onset of type 1 diabetes
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    11:00

    Morning Coffee

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    11:20

    LEADS FROM NATURAL EXTRACTS FOR TREATING DIABETES

    Dr Bishwajit Nag

    Dr Bishwajit Nag, Chief Scientific Officer, Vice President, Research & Development, Calyx Therapeutics

  • Isolating compounds for treating diabetes
  • Evaluating compounds for treating type I and type II diabetes
  • CLX-0101: novel peptide for the treatment of diabetes
  • CLX-0901: from discovery to clinical trials - how CLX-0901 is different from other anti-diabetic compounds
  • CLX-0921: a new TZD analogue of CLX-0901: toward clinical development
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    12:00

    A.G.E. FORMATION INHIBITORS AND PIMAGEDINE

    Dr John Egan

    Dr John Egan, Executive Director, Licensing & Technology, Alteon

  • The role of Advanced Glycosylation End-Products (A.G.E.) crosslinks in the development in diabetes nephropathy
  • Proteinuria as a direct marker for damage to glomerular basement membrane
  • Pimagedine: inhibiting the formation of A.G.Es
  • Mechanism of action
  • Other indications of pimagedine in diabetic complications
  • Benefits to patients of pimagedine
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    12:40

    Networking Lunch

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    14:00

    NOVEL AGENTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF EARLY AND LATE STAGE DIABETES

    Dr Andreas Sommer

    Dr Andreas Sommer, Principal Scientist, Insmed

  • INS-1: a naturally occurring insulin sensitiser fro early treatment of diabetes
  • INS-1: biology and rationale
  • INS-1: metabolic effects and safety. Review of clinical data
  • SomatoKine: a therapeutic IGF-1 composition for late stage treatment of diabetes
  • Somatokine® : biology and rationale
  • Somatokine® : metabolic effects and safety. Review of clinical data
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    14:40

    ADDRESSING THE LONG TERM DEGENERATIVE CHANGES IN DIABETICS

    Dr Laszlo Koranyi

    Dr Laszlo Koranyi, Medical Director, Biorex R&D

  • Preventing pathological changes in diabetics
  • The role of Heat Shock Proteins (HSP) in diabetes
  • Co-inducing HSPs using Bimoclomol
  • Mechanism of action of Bimoclomol
  • Continuing research into the Bimoclomol compound
  • Identifying more potent and specific second generation molecules for the treatment of diabetic complications
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    15:20

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:40

    THE USE OF NOVEL PEPTIDES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF DIABETES

    Dr Orville G Kolterman

    Dr Orville G Kolterman, Senior Vice President, Clinical Affairs, Amylin Pharmaceuticals

  • Understanding the benefits of novel peptides in treating people with diabetes
  • Developing two anti-diabetic compounds
  • Phase 3 clinical trials in diabetic patients: the SYMLIN™ phase 3 programme
  • Mechanism of action of SYMLIN™
  • AC2993: synthetic exendin-4
  • Mechanism of action
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    16:20

    FOCUSING ON DIABETES

    Thomas A Glaze

    Thomas A Glaze, President & Chief Executive Officer, Metabolex

  • Fundamental role of biology in research
  • Genomics leveraging biology for target discovery
  • Drug development candidates
  • Partnering strategy
  • M&A strategy
  • Financial market perspectives
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    17:00

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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    17:10

    Networking drinks reception

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    8:30

    Re-registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Dr Bruce Zimmerman

    Dr Bruce Zimmerman, Consultant, Endocrinology, Past President of the American Diabetes Association, Mayo Clinic

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    9:10

    PURSUING RESEARCH INTO DIABETES

    Malcolm Allison

    Malcolm Allison, Global Brand Director, Novartis AG

  • Working on adult onset diabetes
  • Offering advances in the treatment of diabetes
  • Differentiating from existing treatments
  • Improving disease control
  • Mechanism of action of Starlix®
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    9:40

    IMPROVING DIABETES THERAPY

    Dr Peter Kurtzhals

    Dr Peter Kurtzhals, Director of Discovery Biology, R&D, Novo Nordisk

  • The aim of insulin replacement therapy
  • Engineering human insulin analogues
  • Monitoring the toxico-pharmacological properties of insulin analogues
  • Evaluating receptor binding properties and metabolic and mitogenic potencies
  • Clinical profile of human insulin analogues
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    10:20

    MAPPING TYPE 2 DIABETES GENES IN THE UK DIABETES GENETICS CONSORTIUM

    Dr Mark McCarthy

    Dr Mark McCarthy, Reader in Molecular Genetics, Imperial College

  • Identifying and validating susceptibility regions for type 2 diabetes
  • Rational selection of positional candidates: triangulating on positional and functional information
  • How will we know when we have a susceptibility variant?
  • Case studies: UCP3; insulin; NIDDM1
  • The hopes and challenges of molecular epidemiology
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    11:00

    Morning Coffee

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    11:20

    HUNTING FOR TYPE 2 DIABETES GENES

    Dr Simon Bennett

    Dr Simon Bennett, Programme Manager, Oxagen

  • Genetic basis of type 2 diabetes
  • Strategies for dissecting the genetic component
  • Integrated clinical genetics approach for gene targeting
  • Linkage disequilibrium mapping in an isolated population
  • The post-genomics era
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    12:00

    GENES, SNPs AND DIABETES

    Dr Alan Schafer

    Dr Alan Schafer, Vice President, Genetics, Incyte Genomics

  • Identifying candidate genes associated with diabetes
  • Identifying novel disease pathways and validating drug targets for diabetes
  • Identifying key genes responsible for type 2 diabetes
  • Using SNP discovery technology to discover DNA variations in genes involved in diabetes
  • PPARg: coding for a protein targeted by thiazolidinediones
  • Discovering mutations in the PPARg gene
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    12:40

    Networking Lunch

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    13:40

    FUTURE THERAPEUTIC OPTIONS

    Dr Mike Rothe

    Dr Mike Rothe, Chief Scientific Officer, and Dr Edward Stuart, Chief Operating Officer, DeveloGen

  • Regenerating missing beta cells
  • Searching for stem cells
  • Identifying developmental control genes
  • Involvement of the PAX gene family
  • Using development control genes in diabetes treatment
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    14:20

    TAKE A DEEP BREATH!

    Dr Andreas Pfützner

    Dr Andreas Pfützner, President & Medical Director, IKFE

  • Current approaches to pulmonary insulin developments
  • Challenges and solutions
  • Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic aspects
  • Clinical results
  • Questions to be solved
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    15:00

    DPIV-INHIBITION FOR MANAGING NIDDM

    Dr Hans-Ulrich Demuth

    Dr Hans-Ulrich Demuth, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Scientific Officer, Probiodrug

  • What is DPIV?
  • DPIV-inhibitors in animal studies
  • DPIV-inhibitors in human studies
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    15:40

    Afternoon Tea

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    16:00

    NOVEL INSULIN DELIVERY DEVICES

    Scott R King

    Scott R King, President, Islet Sheet Medical

  • Means for attaining risk-free euglycemia
  • Implantation of islets of Langerhans
  • The ‘Edmonton Protocol’
  • Design objectives for the bio-artificial pancreas
  • Results in studies of diabetic large animals
  • Regulatory issues
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    16:30

    PROTEOMICS AS A TOOL FOR NEW MOLECULAR TARGET IDENTIFICATION

    Prof Michael Cawthorne

    Prof Michael Cawthorne, Director of Metabolic Research, Proteome Sciences

  • Future therapeutic strategies for type 2 diabetes
  • Islet cell regeneration/protection and insulin sensitivity/second messenger targets
  • Identifying model systems
  • Technology challenges
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    17:00

    Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Conference

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

    CPD is a common requirement of individual membership with professional bodies and Institutes. Increasingly, employers also expect their staff to undertake regular CPD activities.

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