Clinical Pharmacology

Presentations made at the 1st International conference on "Contemporary Issues and Future Challenges in Drug Development" held on 5-7 October 2007

Day 1

Key Historical Moments for United States FDA - Key Note address by Dr. Lehmann

Session I

Surrogate Endpoints in HIV / AIDS clinical trials- Dr. Mehendale

Biomarker early trials- Dr. P M Parikh

Session II

Site Specific Drug Delivery to Colon: Approaches and Recent Developments- Dr. V.R. Sinha

Biodegradable Injectable In Situ Depot-Forming Drug Delivery Systems Depot-Forming Drug Delivery Systems- Dr. N Kumar

Oral Controlled Release Drug Delivery Systems (OCRDDS) : recent trends & future challenges- Dr. Rajeev

Day 2

Session III

Biogenerics-Issues and challenges in registration and surveillance- Dr. Anupama Ramkumar

New vaccines -constraints and development in India- Dr. Prasad Kulkarni

Clinical Trials of Biotechnology Products- Are They Different?- Dr. Veena Jagushte

Session IV

International Regulatory Requirements South Asian Perspective- Dr. C Potkar

Pharmacovigilance- Dr. Lehmann

Session V

Recent Trends in Diabetes Therapy: The Mounting Challenges- Dr. B B Lohray

Challenges in Herbal Drug Development: Experiences of the CSIR-NMITLI Project (Diabetes)- Dr. Thatte

Session VI

New Drugs for Tuberculosis what’s in the offing- Dr. M S Jawahar

Day 3

Session VII

What we need to know for clinical drug safety- Dr. Ferner

Traditional Medicine Safety and Precautions- Dr. N N Rege

Pharmacovigilance or Pharmacodiligence- Dr. Vivek Ahuja

Session VIII

Drug Research and Health Sector Challenges and Solutions- Dr. Nandini Kumar

Government initiatives for Government initiatives for Pharmaceutical R&D Pharmaceutical R & D- Dr. Samathanam

Miltefosine story- Dr. Shyam Sundar

Session IX

AyuGenomics: Ancient Concepts-Contemporary Pharmacogenomics- Dr. Kalpana Joshi

The evolving story of Insulin delivery- Dr. Pierre Maheux