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Advances in Cell Based Assays
11 November - 12 November 2014
Advances in Cell Based Assays

Clinical failure in the pharmaceutical industry remains at a phenomenal 90%. Failed drugs are costly both financially and in terms of human suffering. As a result there is an urgent need in pharmaceutical and academic research for efficient and innovative processes enabling more relevant, predictive and functional cell-based assays in the drug discovery process.


Returning for its seventh year as the industry pioneering and leading event, SAE Media Group are proud to present the 7th annual Advances in Cell Based Assays Conference, 11th-12th November, 2014, London. This event will explore latest trends and topics impacting cell based assays, discussed in an open and dynamic environment.


Come along and be part of a major networking opportunity allowing you to benchmark against the best practice strategies employed. You will hear case studies, presentations and round table discussions on the key issues in this sector delivered by a first-class speaking faculty.
 

Key Topics Include:

• 3D model of human epidermal equivalent (HEE)
• Translating drug combinations from in vitro to clinic – 2D Or 3D cultures
• Phenotypic screening technology as a powerful compound profiling platform
• High Throughput image-Based cell Screening
• Cell based assays for biologics targeting GPCR
• Label Fee- the way to be? Label free technology as a way to innovate medicine

 

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Beverley Isherwood

Beverley Isherwood

Team Leader High Content Biology, Innovative Medicines, Discovery Sciences , AstraZeneca
Niclas Nilsson

Niclas Nilsson

Open Innovation Manager, LEO Pharma A/S
Steve Ludbrook

Steve Ludbrook

Group Leader, Biological Sciences UK, RD Platform Technology & Science, , GlaxoSmithKline

Anker Jon Hansen

Scientific Director,Cellular Pharmacology, Novo Nordisk
Anker Jon Hansen

Ashley Barnes

Group Leader, Biological Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline
Ashley Barnes

Beverley Isherwood

Team Leader High Content Biology, Innovative Medicines, Discovery Sciences , AstraZeneca
Beverley Isherwood

Christa Burger

Principal Scientist, Cellular Pharmacology,, Merck Serono
Christa Burger

Daniel Nolan

Director of Research , Angiocrine Bioscience
Daniel Nolan

Davide Danovi

Director, HipSci Cell Phenotyping, Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine,, King's College London
Davide Danovi

Dusko Ilic

Reader in Stem Cell Science, King's College London
Dusko Ilic

Erika Holroyd

Product Manager, Sigma-Aldrich International GmbH
Erika Holroyd

Farnaz Fallah-Arani

Group Leader, Pharmacology, UCB Pharma Limited
Farnaz Fallah-Arani

Lesley Jenkinson

Scientist 1, Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, , MedImmune
Lesley Jenkinson

Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg

Professor and Section Head Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute
Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg

Marianne Uteng

Head of Cellular Models & High Content Biology Laboratory, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Marianne  Uteng

Neil Carragher

Principal Investigator Drug Discovery, Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University Of Edinburgh
Neil Carragher

Niclas Nilsson

Open Innovation Manager, LEO Pharma A/S
Niclas Nilsson

Niranjan M. Kumar

President, ABS Inc. USA
Niranjan M.  Kumar

Rod Benson

Chief Operating Officer, Imagen Biotech
Rod Benson

Steve Ludbrook

Group Leader, Biological Sciences UK, RD Platform Technology & Science, , GlaxoSmithKline
Steve Ludbrook

Victoria J Spanswick

Senior Research Fellow, UCL ECMC GCLP Facility, UCL Cancer Institute
Victoria J  Spanswick

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Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Chairman's Opening Remarks

Steve Ludbrook

Steve Ludbrook, Group Leader, Biological Sciences UK, RD Platform Technology & Science, , GlaxoSmithKline

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9:10

Cell based assays in biologics drug discovery

Lesley Jenkinson

Lesley Jenkinson, Scientist 1, Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, , MedImmune

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Development of phenotypic and disease-relevant in vitro assays for open innovation

Niclas Nilsson

Niclas Nilsson, Open Innovation Manager, LEO Pharma A/S

• Changing business need for classic in vitro assays
• Gearing up early in vitro drug research for global innovation
• Practical hurdles when developing advanced cell-based assays  for open innovation
 

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10:30

Morning Coffee

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10:50

Using immunological human in vitro assays and their corresponding in vivo model systems to determine target specific mode of action of small and large molecules

• Specific immunological human and mouse in vitro assay and their corresponding in vivo models will be discussed
• How can these models be used to determine functionality and potency of different molecules and how translatable are these findings into the clinic

 

Farnaz Fallah-Arani

Farnaz Fallah-Arani, Group Leader, Pharmacology, UCB Pharma Limited

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The many assay approaches for assessing mitochondrial toxicity, and their strategic use in drug development

Marianne  Uteng

Marianne Uteng, Head of Cellular Models & High Content Biology Laboratory, Novartis Pharmaceuticals

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12:10

Networking Lunch

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Use of the single cell gel electrophoresis (comet) assay in drug development

Victoria J  Spanswick

Victoria J Spanswick, Senior Research Fellow, UCL ECMC GCLP Facility, UCL Cancer Institute

• Principles of the assay
• Translation Applications
• Pre-clinical validation for pharmacodynamics markers
• Clinical trial appilcations
 

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Aligning Drug Discovery Critical Paths to Clinical Translation with Human Disease Relevant Cell based assays

Steve Ludbrook

Steve Ludbrook, Group Leader, Biological Sciences UK, RD Platform Technology & Science, , GlaxoSmithKline

• Current focus on translationally-aligned drug discovery approaches
• Potential to accelerate the uptake of primary cell screening systems
• Increased usage of phenotypic assays and primary screening activities for hit identification

 

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Use of genetically modified cell lines for more predictive ADME/Tox cell-based assays

Erika Holroyd

Erika Holroyd, Product Manager, Sigma-Aldrich International GmbH

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15:10

Afternoon Tea

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Challenges of bioassay methods development and validation with reference to cell based assays & regulatory guidelines in drug development

Niranjan M.  Kumar

Niranjan M. Kumar, President, ABS Inc. USA

• Cell based assays are highly variable and pose numerous challenges in drug development and technology transfer from analytical laboratories to quality control
• Discuss strategies to development and validation
• Review current regulatory thinking (EMA and US-FDA)

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16:20

Reviewing the value of electrical impedance sensing for label-free detection of cellular pharmacology

Anker Jon Hansen

Anker Jon Hansen, Scientific Director,Cellular Pharmacology, Novo Nordisk

• Analysing how this method is ideal for measuring cell adhesion and growth
• Understanding how cell death can be measured on-line
o and how cell activation can be monitored
• Discussing endothelial/epithelial barrier function
 

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Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Chairman's Opening Remarks

Beverley Isherwood

Beverley Isherwood, Team Leader High Content Biology, Innovative Medicines, Discovery Sciences , AstraZeneca

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9:10

Gene editing technologies in the context of cell based assays

Ashley Barnes

Ashley Barnes, Group Leader, Biological Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline

• Exploiting gene-editing in human cell lines to provide  novel, isogenic assays
• What technologies are available
• How are these impacting the industry

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VeraVec endothelial cells recreate the vascular stem cell in vitro for stem cell expansion and drug discovery

• The vascular stem cell niche is capable of expanding stem cells in vitro while maintaining potency and engraftability
• The VeraVec platform has applicability for various stem cells; UCB, iPSC, hESC, neural, malignant, etc
• VeraVec ECs are amenable to 3D and co-culture assays for screening purposes
• Recent work has demonstrated the chemoresistant niche within cancer involves the vasculature, which is also modeled by VeraVecs
 

Daniel Nolan

Daniel Nolan, Director of Research , Angiocrine Bioscience

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10:30

Morning Coffee

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High content analysis using stem cells for disease modelling and drug discovery

Davide Danovi

Davide Danovi, Director, HipSci Cell Phenotyping, Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine,, King's College London

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11:30

3D model of human epidermal equivalent (HEE)

Dusko Ilic

Dusko Ilic, Reader in Stem Cell Science, King's College London

• The first lab-grown epidermis with a functional barrier is an efficient and cost-effective alternative in vitro model for testing drugs and cosmetics
• Use of human embryonic stem cells (hSEC) or induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC)-derived keratinocytes allow an unlimited number of genetically identical HEE units
• Easy to be scaled up and adapted to cGMP requirements
• Model to study how the skin barrier develops normally, how the barrier is impaired in different diseases and how we can stimulate its repair and recovery
 

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12:10

Networking Lunch

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13:10

3D cell culture developments in technology to improve in vitro analyses

Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg

Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg, Professor and Section Head Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute

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The use of High Content Screening of patient samples to add a “personal touch” to cancer drug discovery

Rod Benson

Rod Benson , Chief Operating Officer, Imagen Biotech

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14:30

Next generation phenotypic screening

Neil Carragher

Neil Carragher , Principal Investigator Drug Discovery, Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University Of Edinburgh

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15:10

Afternoon Tea

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15:40

Advancing drug discovery success through phenotypic profiling

Beverley Isherwood

Beverley Isherwood, Team Leader High Content Biology, Innovative Medicines, Discovery Sciences , AstraZeneca

• Strategies for driving impact across the value chain
• Practices and technological innovations in HCA, cell biology and data analytics as success factors to application
• Case scenarios on the utilisation of a phenotypic compound profiling platform at AstraZeneca


 

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Reviewing the steps to more physiological cell models

Christa Burger

Christa Burger, Principal Scientist, Cellular Pharmacology,, Merck Serono

• Discussing high content screening
• Primary cells
• Introducing 3D models

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17:00

Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two


Scientific Director,Cellular Pharmacology
Novo Nordisk
Group Leader, Biological Sciences
GlaxoSmithKline
Team Leader High Content Biology, Innovative Medicines, Discovery Sciences
AstraZeneca
Principal Scientist, Cellular Pharmacology,
Merck Serono
Director of Research
Angiocrine Bioscience
Director, HipSci Cell Phenotyping, Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine,
King's College London
Reader in Stem Cell Science
King's College London
Product Manager
Sigma-Aldrich International GmbH
Group Leader, Pharmacology
UCB Pharma Limited
Scientist 1, Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering,
MedImmune
Professor and Section Head Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Karolinska Institute
Head of Cellular Models & High Content Biology Laboratory
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Principal Investigator Drug Discovery, Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine
University Of Edinburgh
Open Innovation Manager
LEO Pharma A/S
President
ABS Inc. USA
Chief Operating Officer
Imagen Biotech
Group Leader, Biological Sciences UK, RD Platform Technology & Science,
GlaxoSmithKline
Senior Research Fellow, UCL ECMC GCLP Facility
UCL Cancer Institute

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Interview with Anker Jon Hansen, Scientific Director, Cellular Pharmacology, Novo Nordisk

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Interview with Davide Danovi, Director, HipSci Cell Phenotyping, Kings College London

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Advances in Cell Based Assay, interview with Angiocrine Bioscience

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WHAT IS CPD?

CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development’. It is essentially a philosophy, which maintains that in order to be effective, learning should be organised and structured. The most common definition is:

‘A commitment to structured skills and knowledge enhancement for Personal or Professional competence’

CPD is a common requirement of individual membership with professional bodies and Institutes. Increasingly, employers also expect their staff to undertake regular CPD activities.

Undertaken over a period of time, CPD ensures that educational qualifications do not become obsolete, and allows for best practice and professional standards to be upheld.

CPD can be undertaken through a variety of learning activities including instructor led training courses, seminars and conferences, e:learning modules or structured reading.

CPD AND PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTES

There are approximately 470 institutes in the UK across all industry sectors, with a collective membership of circa 4 million professionals, and they all expect their members to undertake CPD.

For some institutes undertaking CPD is mandatory e.g. accountancy and law, and linked to a licence to practice, for others it’s obligatory. By ensuring that their members undertake CPD, the professional bodies seek to ensure that professional standards, legislative awareness and ethical practices are maintained.

CPD Schemes often run over the period of a year and the institutes generally provide online tools for their members to record and reflect on their CPD activities.

TYPICAL CPD SCHEMES AND RECORDING OF CPD (CPD points and hours)

Professional bodies and Institutes CPD schemes are either structured as ‘Input’ or ‘Output’ based.

‘Input’ based schemes list a precise number of CPD hours that individuals must achieve within a given time period. These schemes can also use different ‘currencies’ such as points, merits, units or credits, where an individual must accumulate the number required. These currencies are usually based on time i.e. 1 CPD point = 1 hour of learning.

‘Output’ based schemes are learner centred. They require individuals to set learning goals that align to professional competencies, or personal development objectives. These schemes also list different ways to achieve the learning goals e.g. training courses, seminars or e:learning, which enables an individual to complete their CPD through their preferred mode of learning.

The majority of Input and Output based schemes actively encourage individuals to seek appropriate CPD activities independently.

As a formal provider of CPD certified activities, SAE Media Group can provide an indication of the learning benefit gained and the typical completion. However, it is ultimately the responsibility of the delegate to evaluate their learning, and record it correctly in line with their professional body’s or employers requirements.

GLOBAL CPD

Increasingly, international and emerging markets are ‘professionalising’ their workforces and looking to the UK to benchmark educational standards. The undertaking of CPD is now increasingly expected of any individual employed within today’s global marketplace.

CPD Certificates

We can provide a certificate for all our accredited events. To request a CPD certificate for a conference , workshop, master classes you have attended please email events@saemediagroup.com

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