The 6th Annual Phase I Clinical Trials Conference Day 1: Pre-event seminar, 14th June 2005

Time Stream A Stream B
9:00 Registration and coffee
9:30

Opening remarks from the chairs

Dr Giles Campion
Head of Exploratory Research, Novartis Pharma
Dr Anthony Quinn
Vice President Discovery Medicine, Roche Palo Alto
9:40

Translational Research: A Strategy for Target Validation to Reduce Risk and Maximise Opportunities

Dr Giles Campion
Head of Exploratory Research, Novartis Pharma
10:20

Defining “Proof-of-Concept” within Various Organisation Types in Context of Evolving Development Paradigms; What is it and what should it be?

Dr Giles Campion
Head of Exploratory Research, Novartis Pharma
11:00 Networking coffee break
11:20

Applicability and Effective Translation of Animal Biomarker Models to Man

Dr Anthony Quinn
Vice President Discovery Medicine, Roche Palo Alto
12:00

Reviewing the FDA's Critical Path Initiative 2004: One year on

Dr Roy Bullingham
President, Daiichi Medical Research
12:40 Lunch
14:00

Assessing the Main Causes of Failure in Early Clinical Trials

Dr Richard Peck
Global Head, Clinical Pharmacology, Eli Lilly & Co
14:40

Panel discussion: Biomarkers

15:20 Networking coffee break
Stream A – Biomarkers I Stream B – Biomarkers II
15:40

Clinical Response Prediction: a new approach to the optimisation of development from preclinical to Phase II/III

Dr John Savin
CEO, Physiomics Plc

OMICS for the Identification of Biomarkers: Latest Developments from Industry

Dr Jan van der Greef
Scientific Director, TNO Systems Biology & Beyond Genomics
16:20

Appetite, Anxiety and Pain – Pharmacodynamic Models Searching for a Molecule

Dr John Connell
Head of Clinical Pharmacodynamics, Medeval Limited

Case Study: How “Viral Load” became a Surrogate – Issues Faced in the Search for Viable Biomarkers for the Early Approval of Anti-HIV Therapies

18:00

Closing remarks from the Chairs

18:10 End of day one


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