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Pre-Conference Short Courses*

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2

(SC3) MIGHTY MITOCHONDRIA: WHY, HOW AND WHEN TO ASSESS THEIR FUNCTION

• Current state for testing mitochondrial function in-house or through outsourcing
• Deciding the fate of drug candidates based on results from mito assessments--current progress and gaps
• Incorporating mitochondrial assessment into translational medicine--the need for biomarkers

Course Instructor:

Yvonne Will, Ph.D., Senior Principal Scientist, Exploratory Safety Differentiation, Pfizer Global R&D Groton Labs

2pm – 5pm

(SC7) BEST PRACTICES IN TRANSLATIONAL & PERSONALIZED MEDICINE

• Real world solutions currently in place in pharma, national labs, academia, and industry
• Building collaborations and sharing biological data between Big Pharma
• Bridging the gap between bench and bedside
• Informatics solutions that link data from the clinic with cutting edge research

NCGR Schizophrenia Genome Project
Faye D. Schilkey, Associate Director, NM Sequencing Center, National Center for Genome Resources
The National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) established the Schizophrenia Genome Project in 2007 to investigate the genetic basis of the illness and has successfully integrated high-throughput sequencing and analysis systems to support that effort.

Biological Knowledge Management: Registration, Association, & Sharing
Jeremy Packer, Head of Bioinformatics, Abbott
Two of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies joined with one of the world’s leading scientific software companies to collaborate on solving a critical business problem at a fraction of the cost of working separately.

Pediatric Knowledgebase
Jeffrey S. Barrett, Ph.D., FCP, Pediatrics Director, Pediatric Pharmacology Research Unit, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
The Pediatric Knowledgebase (PKB) integrates hospital-based electronic medical records (EMR) with drug and therapy-based dashboards that provide patient and population views to current and historical data to guide individual medication use.

Clinical Trial Portal (CTP)
Lisa LaLuna, Sr. VP, Corporate Development & Implementation, ePharmaSolutions
The Clinical Trial Portal (CTP) was developed to streamline and accelerate workflow and collaboration between the stakeholders involved in conducting clinical trials. The CTP helps bio-pharmaceutical companies accelerate and improve the site selection, activation, study training, trial management, adverse event management and patient enrollment processes.

*Separate Registration Required.

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