Strategies for Ensuring Optimum Solubility and Drug Viability

This summit investigates the core challenges to achieving maximum bioavailability in drug candidates as well as novel drug delivery solutions utilized to improve bioavailability, and expedite time-to-market of new chemical entities as well as reformulated therapeutics in the development pipeline.

For three days attendees will engage in workshops, panel discussions and case studies from distinguished representatives of companies such as Pfizer, Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Astrazenenca, Regeneron and more.

The website: www.nextgenbioavailability.com

Overall the main topics and themes to be discussed include:

• Ocular and Parenteral Drug Delivery
• Hot melt extrusion Technology/Spray-drying techniques
• High Throughput Robotics for Solubility Screening
• Lipid Excipients: how they work and when to use them
• Frequency Modulated Drug Delivery- bonds with metal to increase solubility and timed release of drug into tissue.
• Bioactive materials in nano-medicines
• Active vs Passive Targeting of Drug Delivery Systems

Pre-Conference Workshop Day: Monday, February 24, 2014

• Workshop A: Addressing Solubility in the Designing of Solid Lipid NanoParticle Drug Delivery Systems. Workshop Leader: Ayman El-Kattan, Associate Research Fellow, Pfizer
• Workshop B: Examining Water Solubility and Lipophilicity in Toxicology Formulations
• Workshop C: Green NanoTechnology in Solubility

Main Conference Presentations: February 25-26, 2014

Date: February 20-21, 2014

Venue: San Diego, CA

The conference continues to offer presentations on novel and innovative therapeutics in ocular drug development and discovery. This forum allows for excellent networking, the exchange of ideas, and sharing of challenges; all with a united common goal of bringing new and innovative treatments to patients in the area of ophthalmology.

The conference features the following topics:
Session: Novel Targets, Developments and Technologies
Session: Novel Drug Delivery Methods to the Anterior and Posterior Segments
Session: Clinical Development Advances & Updates
Session: Safety Assessment and Regulatory Landscape in Ocular Drug Development
Session: Short Presentations
Panel Discussion: BD, Investments and Potential for Collaborations
Panel Discussion: Safety and Regulatory in Ocular Development

The Ocular Diseases & Drug Development Conference promotes the discovery of ocular disease drug development by bringing together leading scientists, researchers and experts to discuss and collaborate on the latest research and development, safety assessment, regulatory issues and drugs in development for combating and curing age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, DME, uveitis and other ocular diseases.

http://www.gtcbio.com/conference/ocular-diseases-and-drug-discovery-overview

Date: February 20-21, 2014

Venue: San Diego, CA

This premier conference will host an exciting group of professionals from the academic, biotech, pharmaceutical, and business communities, and will focus on drug discovery aspects within the ubiquitin pathway. A balance of both academic and industry experts will facilitate discussion on the following areas:

I. Deubiquitinating Enzymes as Drug Targets
II. Novel Drug Targets in the Ubiquitin System
III. Ubiquitin-like Modifications – New Opportunities
IV. Ubiquitin Pathways in Neurobiology
V. Ubiquitin Proteasome System and Oncology
VI. Proteasome Structure and Function

http://www.gtcbio.com/conference/ubiquitin-research-and-drug-discovery-overview

OMICS Group invites all the participants across the globe to attend the 2^nd International Conference and Exhibition on Food Processing and Technology during October 28-30, 2013 at Kansas city, USA.

Food Processing and Technology-2013 is a remarkable event which brings together a unique and International mix of large and medium biotech and food diagnostic companies, leading universities and Nutritional institutes making the conference a perfect platform to share experience, foster collaborations across industry and academia, and evaluate emerging technologies across the globe.

The 2^nd International Conference and Exhibition on Food Processing and Technology will schedule and coordinate all meetings with our Editorial Board Members and other experts from Nutritional departments across the World. The scientific program paves a way to gather visionaries through the research talks and presentations and put forward many thought provoking strategies Food Processing and Technology.

http://www.omicsgroup.com/conferences/food-processing-technology-2013/

Programs discuss collecting and leveraging data to optimize clinical trials & operations, portals, data warehouses, and site & study execution metrics.

Sixth Annual
Electronic Data in Clinical Trials
February 4-5, 2014
Hyatt Regency Miami, Miami, FL
SCOPEsummit.com/Electronic-Data

Third Annual
Integrating and Leveraging Clinical Trial Operations Data
February 5-6, 2014
Hyatt Regency Miami, Miami, FL
SCOPEsummit.com/Clinops-Data-Integration

Be a part of SCOPE 2014. Each of our conference tracks will feature best practice case studies relevant to clinical operations experts and those new to the field. 700+ leaders are expected to attend.