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Asthma and COPD
27 April - 28 April 2005
Asthma and COPD

As one of the worlds most prevalent chronic diseases, Asthma is set to exhaust already over-stretched healthcare budgets, driving the development of more cost-effective therapies. Similarly the market for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), which affects 600million people world-wide, is set to double in size by the year 2011 due to an
ageing population and new product launches.

SAE Media Group’s Conference on Asthma & COPD will endeavour to address the latest developments in Asthma and COPD research, new targets in drug discovery and development and current unmet needs in both areas. The latest in the search for effective asthma and COPD therapeutics will be established with a review of company specific product pipelines. This
event will also project and investigate the future direction and value of the global asthma and COPD market.

Gain an insight from the key industry leaders in the field:

  • Dr John Warren, Medical Assessor, Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
  • Dr Malcolm Johnson, Global Director, Respiratory Science, GlaxoSAE Media GroupthKline
  • Dr Noel Snell, Global Clinical Expert, Respiratory Medicine, AstraZeneca
  • Dr Chris Compton, Executive Director, Clinical Research & Development, Pfizer
  • Dr Samuel Goldman, Director, Respiratory Disease, Wyeth
  • Dr David J Valacer, Director, Clinical Research, F. Hoffman-La Roche
  • Dr Dirk Bredenbröker, Head, Clinical Research, Pulmonology, ALTANA Pharma
  • Dr Stephan Stenglein, Medical Director, Clinical Programme Leader, Novartis
  • Alex Bell, Head, New Product Introduction, Respiratory Technology, Sanofi-Aventis
  • Dr Craig Conoscenti, Associate Director, Clinical & Scientific Affairs, Boehringer-Ingelheim
  • Dr Tim Higenbottam, Associate Director & Senior Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca

Key issues that will be addressed at the Conference include:

  • CURRENT TRENDS: Assess the latest trends in asthma and COPD, including an exploration of existing treatments, unmet clinical needs and future directions in therapy PRICING AND REIMBURSEMENT: Understand the latest pricing threats in Europe and the US, with a focus on differences, commonality and implications
  • REGULATIONS: A review and interpretation of regulatory guidelines for the development of drugs in asthma and COPD
  • PRECLINICAL AND CLINICAL BIOMARKERS: Identifying biomarkers in BAL
  • CURRENT AND FUTURE DRUGS FOR THE TREATMENT OF ASTHMA AND COPD: Hear about the latest effective drugs for the management of both asthma & COPD and the future impact of new treatments
  • NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES: Meet the leaders in the field, make valuable contacts and learn from their experience and expertise

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Chairman's Opening Remarks

Dr Steven Kesten

Dr Steven Kesten, Therapeutic Area Director, Respiratory, Boehringer-Ingelheim

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9:10

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

  • Changes in disease epidemiology
  • Understanding the disease pathophysiology
  • How good are current treatments?
  • Unmet needs – are they being addressed?
  • Novel directions in therapy
  • Dr Noel Snell

    Dr Noel Snell, Global Clinical Expert, Respiratory Medicine, AstraZeneca

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    9:50

    CURRENT TRENDS IN COPD EPIDEMIOLOGY

    Prof Neil Barnes

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

  • Reviewing the prevalence and severity of COPD
  • Assessing the awareness of COPD and related medical conditions
  • The diagnostics of patients with COPD
  • Patient education and compliance
  • Projections
  • Future treatments and developments in the area
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    10:50

    REGULATORY GUIDELINES

    Dr John Warren

    Dr John Warren, Medical Assessor, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)

  • CHMP guidelines for asthma
  • Differentiation between asthma and COPD
  • CHMP- guidelines for COPD
  • Key questions for the dossier - asthma
  • Key questions for the dossier - COPD
  • How to obtain further advice
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    11:30

    PRICING AND REIMBURSEMENT ISSUES

  • Direct and in-direct costs- inpatient hospitalisation/emergency room visits
  • Pricing threats- Europe vs US
  • Pricing strategies- EU, US and Japan
  • A look at differences, commonality and implications
  • Treatment cost analysis
  • Pricing data for key products in the major markets
  • Dr Ann-Katrin Gonschior

    Dr Ann-Katrin Gonschior, International Product Manager, ALTANA Pharma

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    12:10

    PRECLINICAL AND CLINICAL BIOMARKER DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT

    Dr Samuel Goldman

    Dr Samuel Goldman, Director, Respiratory Disease, Wyeth

  • Identifying biomarkers in BAL from a preclinical model of segmental allergen challenge
  • Identifying biomarkers in peripheral blood from a preclinical model of segmental allergen challenge
  • Global gene expression analyses of peripheral blood from asthmatics: results from an asthma observational study
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    12:50

    Networking Lunch

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    14:20

    HOW TO MEASURE PATIENTS SYMPTOMS IN COPD TRIALS

    Dr Gonzalo de Miquel

    Dr Gonzalo de Miquel, Senior Medical Adviser, Almirall

  • Correlation between COPD symptoms and severity
  • How to measure and record COPD symptoms
  • Comparison of different COPD symtoms questionnaires
  • QoL and symtpoms in COPD trials
  • Utility of COPD symptoms-measures in clinical trials
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    LUNG DESITOMETRY IN THE ASSESSMENT OF PROGRESSION OF COPD USING COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY

    Dr Berend Stoel

    Dr Berend Stoel, Assistant Professor, Orthopaedics & Pulmonology Department, Leiden University Medical Center

  • Basic principles of densitometry with CT
  • Validation against pathology, pulmonary function and health status
  • Software for automatic quantification of lung density: PulmoCMS
  • CT standardization and optimisation
  • Quality control
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    15:40

    Afternoon Tea

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    16:00

    THE CLIINICAL DEVELOPMENT OF DRUGS FOR ASTHMA AND COPD

  • COPD develops as a result of tobacco smoke lung injury
  • Aberrant repair results in emphysema obliterative bronchiolitis and pulmonary vascular disease disease
  • Therapies directed at enhancing repair
  • Asthma is a result of a phenotype change in antigen handling
  • Treatment for asthma should alter this phenotype
  • Professor Tim Higenbottam

    Professor Tim Higenbottam, Associate Director & Senior Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca

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    16:40

    COMBINATION THERAPIES

    Dr Chris Compton

    Dr Chris Compton, Executive Director, Clinical Research & Development, Pfizer

  • Current therapies including bronchodilators and inhaled steroids
  • Proving the benefits of combination therapy
  • Efficacy and safety
  • Impact upon the management of asthma and COPD
  • Future combination therapies
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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

    Dr Philip Barr

    Dr Philip Barr, Chief Scientific Officer, Arriva Pharmaceuticals

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    9:10

    ANTICHOLINERGIC TREATMENT OF COPD

    Dr Craig Conoscenti

    Dr Craig Conoscenti, Associate Director, Clinical & Scientific Affairs, Boehringer-Ingelheim

  • Expiratory airflow limitation is the hallmark physiologic change of COPD
  • All major treatment guidelines recommend bronchodilators as the first-line treatment for the management of COPD
  • Anticholinergic bronchodilators impact a significant contributer to airflow limitation in COPD
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    9:50

    PHOSPHODIESTERASE -4 INHIBITORS- A NEW CLASS OF DRUG

    Stephan Witte

    Stephan Witte, Senior International Study Manager, ALTANA Pharma Deutschland GmbH

  • Pharmacological rationale for PDE4 as an important target in asthma and COPD therapy
  • PDE4 inhibitors targeting inflammation in asthma and COPD
  • Novel PDE4 inhibitors under clinical development
  • Assessing efficacy and safety of PDE4 inhibitors in phase I-III
  • Roflumilast as a PDE4 inhibitor under clinical development for asthma and COPD
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    MAXIMISING EFFICACY OF PHOSPHODIESTERASE -4 INHIBITORS IN COPD AND ASTHMA

    Dr Peter Schafer

    Dr Peter Schafer, Associate Director, Biology, Celgene Corporation

  • Mechanism of action in preclinical models of lung inflammation and asthma
  • Molecular profile of compounds vs therapeutic
  • Inhibition of airway hyperreactivity: role of bronchodilation
  • CC-10004 Phase I clinical data
  • Future development
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    11:40

    ASSESSING THE LATEST INHALED CORTICOSTEROIDS

    Dr Malcolm Johnson

    Dr Malcolm Johnson, Global Director, Respiratory Science, GlaxoSmithKline

  • The molecular mechanisms of corticosteroids
  • Clinical responses to corticosteroids and best usage
  • Limitations of therapy
  • Inhaled corticosteroids vs oral corticosteroids
  • Corticosteroids and combination therapies
  • Current research and development
  • Pipeline products for the treatment of asthma and COPD
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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:50

    INHALER DEVICES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF ASTHMA AND COPD

    Alex Bell

    Alex Bell, Head, New Product Introduction, Respiratory Technology, Sanofi-Aventis

  • Inhaled therapy delivering broncholdilator and corticosteroids
  • Understand key developments in the pulmonary device sector
  • Analyse and determine the impact of liquid-based inhalers
  • Current inhaled drug delivery technology on the market including pressurised metered dose inhalers (pMDIs), drug powder inhalers (DPIs) and nebulisers
  • Effectiveness vs efficacy
  • Prevailing clinical guidelines
  • The future of inhaled technology
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    14:30

    A NOVEL FORMOTEROL MULTI-DOSE DRY POWDER INHALER FOR THE TREATMENT OF ASTHMA

    Dr Stephan Stenglein

    Dr Stephan Stenglein, Medical Director, Clinical Program Leader, Novartis

  • Clinical overview/unmet patient needs in asthma
  • Usefulness of MDDPIs
  • Clinical Data
  • Potential uses in COPD
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    15:10

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:40

    TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT BEHIND THE MULTIPLE-DOSE DRY POWDER INHALER

    Dr Carsten Niederlaender

    Dr Carsten Niederlaender, Head, Technical Research Development & Production, SkyePharma

  • Worldwide development of the Skyehaler: what were the targets?
  • Improving medication delivery and patient compliance by design of the DPI: airflow actuation limit, respirable dose counter, dosing orientation and look out mechanism
  • Challenges and regulatory considerations on construction and plastic materials
  • Examples for DPI in vitro performance
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    16:20

    IMMUNE SYSTEM TARGETS IN THE TREATMENT OF ASTHMA

    Dr David J Valacer

    Dr David J Valacer, Director, Clinical Science, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc

  • Review advances in the understanding of the role of T cells in asthma pathophysiology
  • Describe the potential benefits and risks of targeting T cells as a new therapeutics approach for asthma
  • Case study: Daclizumab (Zenapax®)
  • Review the biology of daclizumab (Zenapa®), a humanized Anti-Tac (CD25) monoclonal
  • Review clinical responses to daclizumab therapy in asthma: phase I and II asthma trial results
  • Describe potential impact of daclizumab on the future treatment of asthma
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    17:00

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

    Mayfair Conference Centre

    17 Connaught Mews
    London W2 2EL
    United Kingdom

    Mayfair Conference Centre

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