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Article Date: 06 Dec 2011 - 9:00 PST
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Effective treatments for a wide verity of cancers are still very slow and costly to develop with many prospective drugs ending up in being scraped.
With the current economic climate businesses of all sizes are looking for new ways to develop drugs in a smarter manner with reduced production time and improved methods of predicting futility to prevent wasted time and money. Imaging is quickly seen as the way to do this pre-clinically, with in-vivo imaging being used to determine pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of drug candidates and also to quantify tumour progression in order to measure drug efficacy.
Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to network with experts in the field that includes: Werner Scheuer, Research Leader Preclinical Imaging, Roche DiagnosticsYanping Luo, Group Leader Translational Imaging, AbbottPeter Eggelton, Medical Director Oncology, MerckPaul McSheehy, Director Oncology, NovartisAnthony M Giamis, Head of Radiochemistry, AbbottChristopher Foley, Imaging Manager, GlaxoSmithKlineSimon Walker-Samuel, Senior Research Associate, University College LondonGabriela Grigorean, Co-Ordinator, Mass Spectrometry Unit, European Institute of OncologyFrancois Lassailly, In-vivo Imaging Specialist, Cancer Research UKThere will also be an interactive pre-conference workshop held on the 13th March 2012:
Can Molecular Imaging Reduce the Cost of Drug Development?
Lead by William Hallet, Imanova
8:30am - 12:30pm
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