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Biosimilars & Biobetters
22 September - 23 September 2010
Biosimilars & Biobetters

Why attend this event

Drawing on the strength of SAE Media Group's successful Generics, Supergenerics and Patent Strategies conference series, we are proud to present our inaugural Biosimilars & Biobetters: Aligning Business & Science for Success.

According to a recent report published by Biophoenix, in 2009 the biosimilar-susceptible segment of the biologic market was worth US$63 billion and by 2013 biosimilars could generate a total market of $5.6 billion. The key driver to biosimilar development is the expiry of patents across the older leading biologics and with many of these products beginning to come off patent between 2015 and 2016 this industry is set to grow at a significant pace.

Biosimilars have attracted a great deal of interest recently and are seen by some as the new generic frontier. It is widely thought that lower levels of competition will lead to higher margins in an industry notorious for its generally low margins on commodity generics. Payer pressure is expected to drive uptake, particularly in the German, UK and US markets.

The EU has led the way in bringing biosimilars safely to market in establishing an approval process for biosimilars, with many biosimilars already marketed. Recent developments have seen the United States establish a long awaited abbreviated approval pathway for biosimilar  products and this will have major implications for both innovators and current biosimilar manufacturers.

Biosimilar manufacturers are also looking to strengthen their long term strategy, with many developing or acquiring technologies to produce improved biologics (or 'biobetters') to help compete against second generation innovator biologic drugs. Many believe that biobetters, with their improved characteristics are a more exciting and favourable proposition than biosimilars - will offer medical advantages along with a better price.

Hear experts in this field discuss the latest developments in legislation, regulation, technology and emerging commercial strategies to succeed in this highly competitive market.
 

Why not attend the associated pre-conference workshop as well?

Associated with the conference there will be a half-day interactive workshop on "Biosimilars: Understanding the Regulatory Processes and the Commercial Realities", taking place on 21st September.  It will cover overview of the Biosimilars picture across the world and provide insight into the regulatory and commercial situation, now and in the future. This will be led by Peter Wittner, Senior Consultant at Interpharm Consultancy.  To see more information about the workshop, please see the workshop page.


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key topics include

  • Worldwide regulatory updates
  • The developing U.S. follow-on biologics framework
  • The challenges in biosimilar commercialisation
  • Legal and IP developments
  • Biosimilar and biobetter monoclonal antibodies
  • Opportunities to drive a long term commercial strategy
  • Effectively leveraging licensing opportunities
  • Biosimilar quality aspects

 


 
 hear keynote addresses from

Rahul Padhye 
Head, Corporate Development
Reliance Life Sciences

Huub Schellekens
Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Innovation Studies
Utrecht University

 


speaker lineup includes<

Conference agenda

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13:00

Registration & Coffee

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13:30

Welcome & Introductions

  • Peter Wittner's experience and qualifications
  • Purpose and scope of the workshop
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    13:40

    Overview - Biosimilars? Biogenerics? Follow-on Biologicals?

  • What are we actually talking about?
  • Summary of issues affecting Biosimilars
  • Regulatory
  • Legal / IP
  • Commercial
  • Interchangeability - what is the issue?
     
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    14:15

    The regulatory process and its pitfalls

  • Europe - a straight forward case
  • EMEA guidelines
  • Overview of successful and failed applications
  • The USA - How will the new legislation work out?
  • Comparison of proposals and final version
  • Probable shape of the new regulatory mechanism
  • Japan
  • How it compares to EU / US
  • Situation in other parts of the world
  • Less regulated markets
     
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    15:15

    Afternoon Coffee

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    15:30

    Biosimilars - the commercial reality

  • What is the big attraction?
  • Biologicals market and prospects
  • Potential Biosimilars market
  • What has happened so far?
  • Europe and the USA
  • Asian markets and Latin America
  • Patents, IP and other issues
  • What are the patent issues?
  • Interchangeability - a potential roadblock
  • Differing national legislation
  • Where do Biosimilars go from here?
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    16:30

    Discussion Session

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    17:00

    Close of Workshop

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Alan Sheppard

    Alan Sheppard, Global Head Generics, Thought Leadership, IMS Health

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    9:10

    Biosimilars - A global opportunity?

    Alan Sheppard

    Alan Sheppard, Global Head Generics, Thought Leadership, IMS Health

  • Current market penetration of biosimilars
  • Players and payers
  • Growth potential
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    9:50

    Improving biosimilar delivery systems to compete with second-gen innovator products

    Keith Powell

    Keith Powell, CEO, PolyTherics Ltd.

  • History of PEGylated biologics and comparing PEGylation to competing technologies
  • Choosing the best chemistry and the right-sized PEG
  • Process optimisation and benefits
  • Succeeding in a challenging market
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    The developing biosimilars regulatory framework in the U.S.

    Dutch Chung

    Dutch Chung, Associate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

  • Review of U.S. statutory framework for handling biosimilar patent litigation
  • Impact on strategies for biosimilars product patenting
  • Strategies for biosimilars patent litigation and resolution in the U.S.
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    11:40

    EU guidelines and biosimilar development strategies

    Peter Gaskin

    Peter Gaskin, Principal Consultant, Aptuit

  • Latest guidelines and recommendations
  • Adopting the right development strategy
  • Ensuring guideline compliance
  • Illustrative case study
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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:30

    EU legal developments and strategies for biosimilar medicines

  • New legislation/developments
  • Case law affecting biosimilars and bio-betters
  • Biosimilar patent disputes and best processes to handle them
  • Impact of special patent resolution procedures and potential patent strategies
  • Frank Landolt, VP Intellectual Property and Legal, Ablynx

    Marc Martens

    Marc Martens, Senior Associate, Bird & Bird

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    14:10

    Biosimilars as a new business opportunity

    Anjan Selz

    Anjan Selz, CEO, FINox AG

  • Analyzing the business case through SWOT
  • Finding remedies to threats and weaknesses
  • Creating value for patients and shareholders
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    14:50

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:20

    Clinical comparability and European biosimilar regulations

    Huub Schellekens

    Huub Schellekens, Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Innovation Studies, Utrecht University

  • Quality differences between biosimilars and reference drug products
  • Equivalence margins, usefulness and discrepancies
  • Withdrawn biosimilars and important aspects
  • Should the biosimilar pathway be restricted only to biologics?
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    16:00

    Leveraging biosimilars licensing opportunities

    Rahul Padhye

    Rahul Padhye, Head, Corporate Development, Reliance Life Sciences

  • Opportunities in Biosimilars market
  • Commercialisation strategies/options for biosimilars
  • Licensing Deal - objectives, process, examples and key learnings
  • Reliance Life Sciences - overview, biosimilars business brief
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    16:40

    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

    David Szymkowski

    David Szymkowski, Senior Director, Biotherapeutics, Xencor

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    9:10

    Biosimilars in the clinic

    David Goldsmith

    David Goldsmith, Consultant Nephrologist, St Thomas' Hospital

  • The changing physician outlook
  • Lingering concerns
  • The decision to substitute a biosimilar for a reference
  • Policies and economic pressures
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    9:50

    EMA guidelines for biosimilar monoclonal antibodies

    Robert Blakie

    Robert Blakie, Director of Regulatory Affairs and General Manager (UK), Era Consulting (UK) Limited

  • Immunogenicity assessment annexe to existing guidelines
  • Level of similarity required - demonstrating further features
  • Clinical development and study design
  • mAb categorisation
  • Authorise as stand-alone or biosimilar and the evidence requirements
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    Developing "biosuperior" monoclonal antibodies

    David Szymkowski

    David Szymkowski, Senior Director, Biotherapeutics, Xencor

  • Building biosuperiors based on leading mAbs & Fc fusions
  • A novel approach to develop fully human antibodies with enhanced in vivo activity
  • Commercial realities and strategies for innovators
  • Illustrative case studies and results
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    11:40

    Biosimilar quality aspects

    Jean-Yves le Cotonnec

    Jean-Yves le Cotonnec, Managing Partner. Founder & CEO, TRISKEL Integrated Services S.A

  • Clinical relevance of differences
  • Demonstrating comparability
  • Bioassays to complement physicochemical methods
  • Variability of biosimilars, is this acceptable?
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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:50

    Biosimilar CMC development - an innovator's point of view

    Matthias Hoepfner

    Matthias Hoepfner, VP, Head GRA Global CMC & Change Management, Bayer Schering Pharma

    Reference characterisation
    Importance of comparability - how similar is similar?
    Factors introducing unpredictability

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    14:30

    Interactive Panel Discussion

    Topics including:

  • The market rationale for biosimilars - are they worth it?
  • Biosimilar or biobetter?
  • Developing regulatory and legislative perspectives
  • What about safety? Can biosimilars actually be registered on reduced clinical dataset
  • Sustainability and future industry directions
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    Rahul Padhye

    Rahul Padhye, Head, Corporate Development, Reliance Life Sciences

    Matthias Hoepfner

    Matthias Hoepfner, VP, Head GRA Global CMC & Change Management, Bayer Schering Pharma

    David Szymkowski

    David Szymkowski, Senior Director, Biotherapeutics, Xencor

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    15:10

    Immunogenicity of biosimilars and biobetters

    Matthew Baker

    Matthew Baker, CEO & CSO, Antitope

  • Properties determining immunogenicity
  • Effects on efficacy, clearance and distribution
  • Unknown factors
  • Illustrative case studies in unwanted immunogenicity
  • Designing and generating biobetters to avoid immunogenicity
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    15:50

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks

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    16:00

    Afternoon Tea

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    16:30

    Close of Conference

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