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September 25-27, 2006 • Sheraton Philadelphia City Center Hotel • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Sessions Include

Track 1: Bridging Discovery and IT
  • Developing Drug Discovery Strategies that Leverage New
    Technology
  • Integrating Biology, Chemistry, and Drug Safety
  • Extracting Maximum Value from Informatics
  • Identifying Strategic Shifts in Information Technology Investments
  • Overcoming Cultural and “Language” Barriers
Track 2: Bridging Development and IT
  • In silico Approaches for Predicting Drug Properties
  • Validation of ADME/Tox Models
  • Integration of Diverse IT Databases
  • Early Development System Requirements and Capabilities
  • Improving the Interface Between IT Specialists and Assay Designers -  Getting the Data Needed
Track 3: Bridging Clinical and IT
  • Capturing, Managing and Measuring Clinical Data Quality to Ensure Accurate Statistical Analysis and Optimum Outcomes
  • Progress on Standards and Interoperability
  • Adapting Clinical Trial Operations in Tandem with EDC
    Technologies and Implementation
  • Using IT for Continuous Process Managing, Improvement, and Innovation to Increase Productivity and ROI
  • Choosing Strategies for Global Trials

Pre-Conference Tutorial - September 25, 2006

Successful Project Management Methods and Approaches to Improve Cross Multi-Disciplinary Teams and Deliver Value on Time

Thomas Haskell, VP, Pharmaceutical Solutions, Idea Integration
Brian Kerrigan, Senior Program Director, Idea Integratio
n

 
The 2006 Bridging Pharma and IT program will focus on tactics and processes that organizations can effectively and efficiently use to minimize communication gaps between scientists, researchers, and information technology professionals in building solutions and capabilities, utilizing data models and their validation, and integrating drug targets and compounds. This program will feature compelling examples of successful cross-domain partnerships between the organization’s end users and IT and insights into cutting-edge information tools and systems.

Keynote Presentations

Blurring the Boundaries: Bridging Technology with Discovery, Development and Clinical
Dr. Gerhard Noelken, Director Research Informatics, Research Informatics, Pfizer Global R&D
Use of Modeling and Simulation from Preclinical to Commercial Stages: Case Study in Therapeutic Development 


Serge Guzy, PhD, Senior Scientist II, XOMA

Kathleen Meyer, MPH, PhD, DABT, Director, Toxicology, XOMA
In-housing the Outsource: Rapid Co-Evolution of a Discovery-Computational Team to Drive Innovation

Michael Hanley, PhD,Vice President of Discovery Research, Amylin, Inc.

Robert D. Feinstein,PhD, VP & CSO, Kelaroo, Inc.

How Clinical Data Feeds Back into the Discovery and Development Process
Anastasia M. Khoury Christianson, PhD, Director and Global Skill Leader, Discovery Medicine Informatics,
AstraZeneca R&D 
Democratizing the Discovery Process
Don Rule, MBA, Platform Strategy Advisor for
Bioinformatics, Microsoft Corporation
 

 
  • 60% of the sessions will feature paired speakers from the same or partner organizations who represent the user and the IT perspectives. These paired speakers have successfully bridged a cross-domain partnership.

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  • 10% of the sessions will feature an individual speaker who fills the role of the user and IT perspectives in thesame job function

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position case studies.

Presentations from:
Allergan, Inc., Amylin, Inc., Eli Lilly and Co., Forest Research Inst., Johnson & Johnson
Kelaroo, Inc., Merck & Co., Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Odyssey Thera, Inc., Oracle, Penn State Cance, Institute/Penn State University, Pfizer, Inc.
Roche Laboratories, Wyeth Research, XOMA, LLC and more!

Pairing Discount
50% off 2nd team member registration
Paired Team from Same Company =1 science end user + IT counterpart


For more information, please contact:
Cindy Crowninshield, Conference Director, 
Pharmaceutical Strategy Series, Cambridge Healthtech Institute
Phone: 781-354-0120; Email: ccrowninshield@pharmaseries.com 

For sponsorship or exhibiting information, please contact:
Laura Ames, Cambridge Healthtech Institute
Phone: 781-972-5479 Email: lames@healthech.com 

 

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