SMi, the industry leaders in respiratory events, presents the 7th annual conference...
COPD
Novel therapeutics and management strategies
19th & 20th Oct 2015 | Holiday Inn Regents Park Hotel, London UK
www.copd-conference.co.uk/selectscience
Sponsored by Quintiles
COPD causes 6% of the world’s morbidity and costs the worldwide economy $36 billion and though non curable, it can be tamed through a range of management mechanisms. In recent years there have been large advances in proteomics and transcriptomics which have allowed for the development of personalised treatment plans developed for the precise comorbidity.
Now in its 7th year, COPD 2015 will gather a global audience of respiratory experts and scientific pioneers to discuss the latest developments in combinational therapies, new drugs and personalised treatment as well as the challenges of clinical trials. Join us as we ask questions such as: How does one reliably recruit and run clinical trials in a disease that branches to such extremes? What is the correct phenotype to measure in the disease? With the majority of COPD patients on varying courses of polypharmacy due to a range of different debilitating diseases alongside COPD – how can one find a clean patient? Plus much more!
Featured speakers Include:
- Frank Thielmann, Operational Lead, Inhalation New Solids, Novartis Pharma AG
- Philip Silkoff, Senior Medical Director, Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Services LLC
- Stefano Petruzzelli, Chief Medical Officer and Director, Global Clinical Development, Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A
- Sanjeeva Dissanayake, Head of Medical Sciences – Respiratory, Mundipharma
- Noel Snell, Director of Research, British Lung Foundation
- Geoff Down, Chief Medical Officer, Prosonix
- Konstantinos Kostikas, Medical Director Respiratory COPD Region Europe, Novartis Pharma
- Thomas Schlange, Senior Biomarker Expert, Bayer
- Matthew Sleeman, Senior Director of Biology, Respiratory, Inflammation and Autoimmunity, MedImmune
Benefits of attending:
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of combinational therapeutics
- Gain insight into formulation developments and the manufacturing of dry powder inhalation products
- Evaluate COPD and comorbidities
- Review the challenges in clinical trial designs and in drug development
- Learn about "first in class" inhaled drugs for the treatment of COPD and cystic fibrosis
- Ascertain the ACOS Definition and characteristics of a grey-zone syndrome, excluded from current asthma and COPD trials
- Explore recent advances made in COPD biomarkers
- Study the role of lymphoid follicles in COPD Novel delivery and formulation methods
- Analyse airway disease endotyping for personalized therapeutics