4th
Molecular Diagnostics
For Cancer Drug Development
Meet the oncology and diagnostic experts you need to deliver better, safer drugs to market quicker 25 - 28 June 2012 | Boston
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Presentations

28 June 

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Where we are Now: Development, Approval and Commercialization of CDx in Oncology

Dr Richard Buller, Vice President, Translational Oncology, Pfizer

Companion Diagnostics: FDA Policies on Oversight

Dr Elizabeth Mansfield, Director, Personalized Medicine, FDA 

Deciding when a Targeted Drug is Ready to Leave Phase I: An Academic Perspective

Dr Keith Flaherty, Director, Developmental Therapeutics, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

Developing a Successful Strategy for Targeted Therapy Development in Oncology: Key Considerations

Dr Steve Coats, Senior Director R&D, MedImmune 

Case Study: Identifying a Predictive Biomarker of Response to Imetelstat, a Telomerase Inhibitor

Dr Katia Bassett, Scientist II, Translational Oncology, Geron

From Research Lab to a Validated Biomarker Assay that Improves Therapy: What the Researcher Needs to Consider

Dr Barbara Conley, Associate Director, Cancer Diagnosis Program, NCI

 

29 June 

Identification of Response Biomarkers and Development of Clinical Assays for Patient Stratification: A Case Study

Dr Theresa Zhang, Associate Director, Informatics and Analysis Department, Exploratory and Translational Sciences, Merck

Identification of Stratification Biomarkers for Cancer Management

Dr Richard Kennedy, VP Experimental Medicine, Almac 

Molecular Pathology in Decision Making for Clinical Drug Development

Dr Shethah Morgan, Senior Research Clinical Scientist, Clinical Biomarker Group, AstraZeneca

Evolving from a Biomarker to a Companion Diagnostic

Jay Foust, Senior Director, Strategic Marketing, Translational Diagnostics, Ventana Medical Systems, a member of the Roche Group

Enabling Reliable Mutational Profiling of Clinical Samples: COLD-PCR Technology and Application to Highly Sensitive Sequencing

Dr G. Mike Makrigiorgos, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

 

30 June

Pioneering Partnerships: Business Models for Successful Companion Diagnostic Co Development

Richard Watts, Senior Director, Companion Diagnostic Partnerships, QIAGEN

Molecular Diagnostics: Challenges, Opportunities, Vision and Longevity

Dr Jon Burrows, Executive Vice President, R&D, Expression Pathology 

Evolving Applications of Oncology Clinical Trial Specimens and Externaln Biorepositories for Biomarker and Diagnostic Development

Dr John Bloom, President, Bloom Consulting Services and Special Government Employee, FDA

Acquiring and Using your own Clinical Trial Specimens for Biomarker Identification

Dr Diane Leong, Global Scientific and Business Strategy, Biosample Operations, Genentech 

Biospecimen Challenges in Developing and Validating Molecular Diagnostic Assays

 Dr David Litwack, AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research, NCI

Next Generation Sequencing of Cancer-Associated Genes in FFPE Tumor DNA

Dr Gary Latham, Director, Diagnostic Research & Technology Development, Asuragen

Successful MDx Development: Tissue is the Issue

Dr Anne-Marie Martin, Senior Director Clinical Development and Clinical Biomarkers, Oncology, GSK

Aligning the Development, Regulatory and Commercial Strategies for a Companion Diagnostic

Dr Ron Mazumder, Product Development Leader, Companion Diagnostics Centre of Excellence, Johnson & Johnson


Pre-conference workshop:

Reimbursement for Personalized Medicine Diagnostics: Current Limitations and Evolving Strategies

Kristin Pothier, Partner, Health Advances 

Gary Gustavsen, Associate, Health Advances