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Cell & Gene Therapy 2021

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The first ELRIG meeting on Advances in Cell and Gene Therapies will be held as a virtual event on the 18th and 19th of May 2021. This interactive 2-day conference will host world leading scientists from academia and industry to discuss current and future perspectives of Cell and Gene Therapies.

Cell and gene therapies are rapidly evolving at a fast pace, revealing many new and exciting therapeutic opportunities not previously amenable to drug discovery. We aim to bring together scientists from academia, pharma, biotech, and CRO’s to engage with speakers at the cutting edge of developing and applying cell and gene therapies.

The event will help participants develop a better understanding of the field and provide networking opportunities with a range of key experts. Our aim is to create an open and inspiring environment that will foster discussions and the identification of opportunities for collaboration with a scientific program developed around three key focus areas:

Cell based therapies across disease areas
Advanced therapies in oncology
Therapies for genetic conditions
There will be numerous opportunities to network with scientists and researchers from the pharmaceutical, academic and vendor communities throughout the 2-day conference. The program also includes poster viewing sessions, a poster snapshot presentation and vendor exhibition. << less

Cell & Gene Therapy 2021

TIME ZONE : GMT+1 LONDON

The first ELRIG meeting on Advances in Cell and Gene Therapies will be held as a virtual event on the 18th and 19th of May 2021. This interactive 2-day conference will host world leading scientists from academia and industry to discuss more >>

12th Annual Clinical Trials Summit 2021
“A critical guide for successfully conducting clinical trials”
20th May 2021, Virtual Conference (Time Zone - IST)
12th Annual Clinical Trials Summit 2021 will provide a platform to discuss on the futuristic advancements in clinical trials and clinical research. This multidisciplinary program involves broad participation of people from clinical trials community from around the globe who are focused on learning more about clinical research, clinical trials planning and management. This event opens discussion of timely topics of mutual theoretical and practical interest for clinical trial investigators who are developing new drugs and biologics. This groundbreaking platform continues the conversation between business, academics, patient advocacy, and regulatory agencies to discuss new methods and solutions to statistical challenges relevant to the design and analysis of clinical trials collaboratively in the real world.
DELEGATE REGISTRATION:
E-mail - kavitha@virtueinsight.co.in or Call M: +91 9361957193
Please note that this is a PAID event and NOT A FREE event (no complimentary passes available). Any invite, email or tickets issued mentioning it as a free pass or free ticket to this event through any third party site will strictly not be accepted by the organizer.
• Early Bird Price (Valid Till 9th April 2021) – (INR 6,000 + GST (18%) per delegate)
• Standard Price (Valid From 10th April 2021) – (INR 8,000 + GST (18%) per delegate)
• For more than 5 delegates please let us know your interests.
Conference Sponsor, Exhibition Stall & Paid Speaker Slot - Please email your interest and queries to kavitha@virtueinsight.co.in
KEY SPEAKERS:
• AMGAD SHEBL, Director, Global Clinical Safety & Pharmacovigilance / Clinical R & D, CSL Behring (Germany)
• RAVI SEKHAR KASIBHATTA, Senior Vice President, Clinical Research, Lupin
• MIRCEA CIUCA, Global Therapeutic Area, Head - Global Clinical Safety and Pharmacovigilance, CSL Behring (Switzerland)
• ARANI CHATTERJEE, Senior Vice President, Clinical Research, Aurobindo Pharma
• ANIRBAN ROY CHOWDHURY, Vice President- Clinical Research & Pharmacovigilance, Bharat Serums and Vaccines
• KAMALA RAI, Vice - President Sr Global Program Head, Novartis
• ARUN BHATT, Consultant – Clinical Research & Development
• PANKAJ GUPTA, Chief Scientific Officer, Novatris
• SEEMA PAI, Director- GSSO, Clinical Development & Operations, Treasurer-ISCR (Indian Society For Clinical Research), Pfizer
• AMMAR RAZA, Regional Medical Director - Middle East & Africa (MEA), Allergan Aesthetics, Abbvie (UAE)
• RAJENDRA JANI, Senior Subject Expert & Advisor, Clinical Research Consultant
• GANESH DIVEKAR, Vice President - Clinical operations + Biometrics, SIRO Clinpharm
• SHIVANI ACHARYA, Associate Director – Clinical Development & Pharmacovigilance, Abbott
• TAUSIF AHMED, Director-Global Clinical Management, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
• RAJEEV SHRIVASTAVA, Associate Director-Regulatory Affairs and Pharmacovigilance, Eli Lilly
• KRANTHI KIRAN PEBBILI, Director/Cluster Head - Medical Affairs, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
• RISHI JAIN, Medical Director, Abbive
• AMIT KUMAR, Head – Clinical Trials, Publications and Medical Excellence, AstraZeneca
• DILIP PAWAR, Head - Medical Affairs and Pharmacovigilance, Unichem Laboratories
• MANISH MISHRA, Chief Executive Officer, Suburban Diagnostics India
• NIVEDITA TELANG, Head Medical Affairs, GSK
• VAIBHAV SALVI, Head – Medical Information, Asia, Sanofi
• HARSHITA S. NAIR, Head of Legal, Roche Diabetes Care India
• KRUNAL KAVATHIYA, Medical Affairs, Torrent Pharmaceuticals
• PRASHANT BODHE, Head Clinical Operations, Rubicon Research
• RENUKA NEOGI, Clinical Research Operations Manager, Sanofi
• KAVYA KADAM, Consultant Global Clinical Trials
Plus more joining soon
KEY THEMES DISCUSSED:
• Clinical trials in India: Impact of COVID-19 and beyond
• The impact of COVID-19 on clinical trials
• Strategies implemented during tiring times of Covid-19 while conducting trials
• Medical management and adverse events
• Concerns, complexities & the way forward in performing clinical trials
• Addressing COVID-19's global effect on clinical trials and the way ahead
• Challenges with Info: How to preserve data consistency & integrity
• Data collection, integrity and security issues and how to resolve them to facilitate good trial results
• Improving patient-centricity by protecting patients, especially in pandemic.
• What are the current challenges faced while recruiting patients? & Solutions
• Tech perspective - The future of clinical science and the recognition of best practices to speed up progress
• What improvements in the industry are needed in order to properly accept emerging technologies?
• Strategic partnership and outsourcing approaches
• Different approaches to choosing the best CRO to ensure the fulfillment of your needs
• Understand the current framework of clinical trial regulations in India
• Update on the new Clinical Trial Regulation, timescale for applications, implementing acts
• Be part of a major networking opportunity
Get more from the event, with a broader scope bringing the whole communications value chain together. Enjoy and make the best out of our dedicated networking time, meet the leading international vendors showcasing the products of tomorrow in the co-located exhibition. Expand your knowledge of the latest business models and strategies in the high-level conference.

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12th Annual Clinical Trials Summit 2021
“A critical guide for successfully conducting clinical trials”
20th May 2021, Virtual Conference (Time Zone - IST)
12th Annual Clinical Trials Summit 2021 will provide a platform to discuss on the futuristic advancements in clinical trials and clinical more >>

Psychiatric Congress 2021 Scientific Committee is visiting be delighted to welcome people from all around the world to maneuver to the "36th International Conference on Psychiatry and Mental Health" on June 28-29, 2021 (Webinar). Psychiatry and Mental Health Conference may even be a platform to scrutinize and to speak the information concerning the foremost recent upgrades inside the sphere of Psychiatry and Mental Health for locating the new challenges for the betterment of mental health. << less

Psychiatric Congress 2021 Scientific Committee is visiting be delighted to welcome people from all around the world to maneuver to the "36th International Conference on Psychiatry and Mental Health" on June 28-29, 2021 (Webinar). Psychiatry and Mental Health Conference may even be a platform to scrutinize more >>

BSP PARASITES ONLINE 2021
For 2021, in place of our usual Spring Meeting, our main annual meeting will be held online over five days during the Summer (21st-25th June). We have an exciting programme of scientific content, which will be delivered through a virtual conference interface designed to maximise opportunities for interaction, through live Q&A sessions, breakout discussion rooms and virtual trade stands for our exhibitors and sponsors.

All oral presentations will need to be pre-recorded and uploaded to the site, and then broadcast during the assigned slot. Presenters will be asked to be available for a live Q&A session at the end of their assigned slot. This approach should minimise any issues associated with poor internet connections, while maintaining an element of live face to face interaction. Presenters will have the option of making their content available on the conference website for a period of 1 year, but can opt out of this without issue. Full instructions and details on all of this will be provided after you submit an abstract.

The meeting will run across two streams. Our main science stream will incorporate our usual mix of varied high quality themed scientific sessions, keynote speakers and presentations by postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers. Our second, specialist stream, will include: (1) A series of talks from the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO; www.iddo.org); (2) Sessions focused on schistosomiasis, curated by Prof Mike Doenhoff and Prof Tony Walker; (3) A session on gender and racial equality in science, focusing on what we as parasitologists can do to address those issues.

There will also be interactive poster sessions, where delegates will have the opportunity for discussion with poster presenters (although this year we’re sorry to say that you will have to bring your own refreshments).

Click on the links above to register and/or submit an abstract!

Registration charges for the full 5 day meeting:
> Members: £90
> Students: £30
> Member in low-income countries: FREE; note also that researchers in LMIC and Least Developed Countries can join BSP FOR FREE.
> Non-members: £180

We are very pleased to announce the following confirmed invited speakers:

MAIN SCIENCE STREAM
Prof Maria-Gloria Basanez (Imperial College London)
Dr Emma Briggs (University of Glasgow)
Dr Krystyna Cwiklinski (University of Ireland Galway)
Dr Carmen Faso (University of Bern)
Prof Phillipe Guerin (Infectious Disease Data Observatory)
Prof Neil Hall (Earlham Institute)
Prof Matt Higgins (Oxford University)
Prof Achim Hoerauf (University Hospital Bonn)
Dr Rhys Jones (Aberystwyth University)
Prof Ben Makepeace (Liverpool School)
Prof Eric Morgan (Queen’s University Belfast)
Dr Russ Morphew (Aberystwyth University)
Prof Sarah Reece (University of Edinburgh)
Prof Koert Ritmijer (Médecins Sans Frontières)
Dr Claire Rogers (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Prof Bernard Sures (Universität Duisburg-Essen)

PARALLEL STREAM: INFECTIOUS DISEASES DATA OBSERVATORY
Prof Mitali Chatterjee (Infectious Diseases Data Observatory)
Dr Prabin Dahal (Infectious Diseases Data Observatory)
Dr Martin Walker (Royal Veterinary College)
Dr Nathalie Strub-Wourgraft (Drugs for Neglected Tropical Diseases Initiative)
Prof Sir Nicholas White (University of Oxford)

PARALLEL STREAM: TOWARDS GENDER AND RACIAL EQUALITY IN SCIENCE
Dr Regina Cordy (Wake Forest University)
Dr Elisabeth English (University of Pennsylvania)
Prof Elena Gomez-Diaz (Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine Lopez-Neyra)
Prof Debbie Smith (University of York)
Prof Santuza Teixeira (Federal University of Minas Gerais)

PARALLEL STREAM: SCHISTOSOMIASIS
Prof Coen Adema (University of New Mexico)
Prof Matt Berriman (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
Dr Conor Caffrey (University of California San Diego)
Prof Dan Colley (University of Georgia)
Dr Jim Collins (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre)
Prof Christoph Grevelding (Justus Liebig Universitat Giessen)
Prof Peter Hotez (Baylor College of Medicine)
Prof Andrew McDonald (University of Manchester)
Prof Joanne Webster (Imperial College London)

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BSP PARASITES ONLINE 2021
For 2021, in place of our usual Spring Meeting, our main annual meeting will be held online over five days during the Summer (21st-25th June). We have an exciting programme of scientific content, which will be delivered through a virtual conference interface designed to more >>

The global need for effective medicines is increasing, whilst the biology underlying new drug concepts is becoming increasingly complex. This meeting will outline how our research community is rising to address these challenges by following the early life cycle of new medicine concepts through 3 critical stages: 1) Identifying your target. 2) Drugging your target. 3) Gaining clinical insights. These session themes will run sequentially and blend the most exciting science from early career researchers, commercial organisations and key academic, clinical and industry leaders in the field. In addition, an interactive panel discussion will provide the opportunity to share perspectives on some of the most current and innovative routes though which to translate scientific ideas into impactful therapies. Topics in scope for this scientific program will include:

Target Identification & Validation

• Disease-centric biology insights & dealing with increasingly complex target biology
  
• Leveraging emerging platform technologies
  
• Deconvoluting target hit lists

Drugging your target

• How new drug formats are changing drug discovery
  
• New concepts in pharmacology – poly-pharmacology, cellular kinetics etc
  
• New models of collaborative drug discovery (panel discussion topic)

Clinical insights

• Experimental medicine studies with proprietary and/or essential medicines
  
• Examples of successful clinical translation of new medicine concepts
  
• Bringing patient data insights into the discovery pipeline

Through this joint meeting, being organised by ELRIG and the BPS, we aim to bring together the research community working in the field of new medicine creation with interests in developing their translational research ideas and applying novel technologies and means of collaboration to address critical clinical needs. Join scientists from academia, pharma, biotech and CRO’s either in person or online to hear talks given by speakers at the cutting edge of their field and gain strategic insights into solutions for increasing the success of your therapeutic ideas. << less

The global need for effective medicines is increasing, whilst the biology underlying new drug concepts is becoming increasingly complex. This meeting will outline how our research community is rising to address these challenges by following the early life cycle of new medicine concepts through 3 critical more >>

WELCOME TO DRUG DISCOVERY 2021 ELRIG’s annual Drug Discovery meeting is still Europe’s largest meeting for life sciences industry professionals and will return in the autumn of 2021, to celebrate the innovation and efforts of our industry and the scientific successes that we have shared throughout the period of the pandemic.

Drug Discovery 2021 promises to be a particularly special event, providing a platform for the whole drug discovery community to meet at a free to attend, in-person event, where members of ELRIG’s community may:

Re-connect with colleagues, as well as hear stories from scientists who have been responsible for combatting COVID-19 in the session tracks on infection and diagnostics.
Re-invent the process of drug discovery, by building diverse partnerships with even greater emphasis on efficiency, automation, and remote operation in our two session tracks of screening and chemistry.
Re-imagine and create a new vision for drug discovery, with insights from our innovation and disruptive strategies tracks.
2020 was a year of challenge, but it was also a turning point for our industry, as our community came together and was at the forefront of the scientific effort to overcome and manage the COVID virus. Together we made unprecedented scientific progress, which we will recognize and celebrate at Drug Discovery 2021.
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WELCOME TO DRUG DISCOVERY 2021 ELRIG’s annual Drug Discovery meeting is still Europe’s largest meeting for life sciences industry professionals and will return in the autumn of 2021, to celebrate the innovation and efforts of our industry and the scientific successes that we have shared throughout the more >>