GTCbio

Dr. Johan Luthman, Global Head of Exploratory Medicine Neurology at MerckSerono International in Geneva, Switzerland will present at the Plenary Keynote session at GTCbio’s 4th Modern Drug Discovery and Development Summit on October 15-17, 2008 at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines in La Jolla, CA. Dr. Luthman’s presentation entitled “Small Pharma, Big Pharma and Small Drugs and Big Drugs; Or...

Dr. Amrit Ray, Vice President of Bristol-Myers Squibb will give the keynote presentation at GTCbio’s Global Clinical Trial Operations conference on September 25-26, 2008 in San Diego, CA. Dr. Ray will give a presentation entitled “The Next Generation of Pharmacovigilance – Clinical Trials and Drug Development in the New Era of Drug Safety.” With such dramatic changes to the drug...

MONROVIA, CA – Dr. Dan Fitzpatrick, Director of Medical Sciences at Amgen will be speaking at GTCbio’s 2nd Annual Rediscovering Biomarkers on July 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA. Dr. Fitzpatrick will present on “Biomarker Sample Collection & Handling: the Phantom Menace.” The disparate – and often novel – sample types employed in pharmacodynamic biomarker strategies are saddled...

MONROVIA, CA – Dr. Elizabeth Mansfield, Senior Policy Analyst at the FDA will be speaking at GTCbio’s 2nd Annual Rediscovering Biomarkers on July 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA. Dr. Mansfield will present on the challenges and future opportunities of biomarkers. Development and validation of novel biomarkers has the potential to advance clinical diagnostics, and to enable better, faster drug...

MONROVIA, CA – Dr. Eric Faulkner, Senior Director of U.S. Market Access and Reimbursement at RTI Health will be speaking at GTCbio’s 2nd Annual Rediscovering Biomarkers conference on July 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA. Dr. Faulkner will present on “Capturing the Value of Biomarkers: The Necessity of Planning from a Reimbursement Perspective.” We are in the early days of an era where...

MONROVIA, CA – Dr. Frank Hsieh, Vice President at Nextcea will be speaking at GTCbio’s 2nd Annual Rediscovering Biomarkers Conference on July 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA. Dr. Hsieh will present on “Biomarkers for Predictive Toxicology.” The drug discovery and development process has become an increasingly expensive and lengthy process. One approach for cost/time reduction is through...

MONROVIA, CA – Dr. Gabriela Cesar, Chief Scientific Officer and Co-founder at Stemina Biomarker Discovery will be speaking at GTCbio’s 2nd Annual Rediscovering Biomarkers conference on July 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA. Dr. Cesar will present on the identification of candidate biomarkers of toxicity using human embryonic stem cells. Animal models have a limited ability to elucidate biochemical...

MONROVIA, CA – Dr. Tim Harris, Director of Advanced Technology Program and Corporate Vice President of Technology at SAIC-Frederick will be presenting at GTCbio’s 2nd Rediscovering Biomarkers Conference on July 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA. Dr. Harris will present on “Towards Holistic Molecular Profiling.” The development of Biomarkers tends to be one marker at a time. The Advanced...

MONROVIA, CA – Dr. Samir Hanash, Program Head at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will give the keynote presentation at GTCbio’s 2nd Annual Rediscovering Biomarkers Conference on July 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA. Dr. Hanash will be presenting on “Fast Tracking the Development of Cancer Biomarkers.” Although our understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of common types of cancers has...

MONROVIA, CA – Dr. Saju Nettikadan, Director of Emerging Technologies at BioForce Nanosciences will be speaking at GTCbio’s 2nd Annual Rediscovering Biomarkers on July 10-11, 2008 in Boston, MA. Dr. Nettikadan will present on “Towards Biomarker Detection from Single Cells.” Significant advances in proteomics have resulted in continued growth in use of antibody microarrays for multiplexed...