1. SMi Presents the 13th Annual 20 - 21
Pain Therapeutics M A Y
Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK 2013
WHY ATTEND THIS EVENT: FEATURED SPEAKERS:
• Balance of clinical and pre-clinical considerations • Dave Shelton, Executive Director Pfizer
,
alongside therapeutic applications • Narender Gavva, Scientific Director Amgen
,
• Focus on personalised medicine and translational • Stephen Arneric, Senior Research Fellow, Eli Lilly
methods aiming to develop the efficacy of drugs • Thomas Christoph, Global Preclinical Research and
• Explore the use of anti-NGFs in the treatment of Development, Grunenthal
pain alongside the discovery of novel targets • Huw Rees, Senior Principal Scientist, Pfizer
• Spotlight on translational mechanistic pain • Steve Harrison, Vice President, Research Biology,
biomarkers Nektar Therapeutics
• Study the use of imaging modalities such as fMRI • Iain Chessell, Head, Neuroscience Centre of Excellence,
for pain measurement MedImmune
• Network with key industry professionals and • Valerie Morisset, Head of Electrophysiology,
discuss the future of pain therapeutics Convergence Pharmaceuticals
PLUS TWO INTERACTIVE POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
22ND MAY 2013 | COPTHORNE TARA HOTEL | LONDON, UK
Workshop A: Workshop B:
Human Pain Models - Lost in Translation? Using phenotyping and imaging to improve early
08.30 – 12.30 drug development and clinical trial design
Workshop Leaders: Jonathan Stewart, Consultant, Pain Medicine, 13.30 – 17.30
Imperial NHS Trust, London Workshop Leader: Anthony Jones, Professor of
Zahid Ali, Senior Director, Pfizer Neuro-rheumatology, University of Manchester
Remigiusz Lecybyl, Consultant in Chronic Pain,
Lewisham Hospital
To attend, contact Cem Tuna on Tel +44 (0) 20 7827 6736,
Fax +44 (0) 20 7827 6737, email ctuna@smi-online.co.uk
or visit www.smi-online.co.uk/ts07.asp to register online
2. DAY ONE | 20TH MAY 2013 Pain Therapeutics
08.30 REGISTRATION & COFFEE 12.10 Chronic pain treatments tailored for the elderly: are we
prepared for the approaching tsunami?
• Chronic pain is becoming increasingly recognized as a disease -
09.00 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS: accounts for substantial suffering and disability world-wide
Dave Shelton, Executive Director, Pfizer • The aging “Baby-boomer” generation
• The phenotypic expression of chronic pain in the elderly
• A paradigm shift in the drug discovery paradigm
PERSONALISED MEDICINE & ANIMAL MODELS Stephen Arneric, Senior Research Fellow, Eli Lilly
12.50 NETWORKING LUNCH
09.10 The use of ddRNA interference as a gene therapy
approach to cancer pain management CURRENT & NOVEL TARGETS
• Inflammation and epigenetics - developing treatments
• Understanding the epigenome - combination therapy 14.10 The use of anti-NGF agents in pain
• Application of epigenetics to answer questions about • Novel approach to treating pain
established drugs • anti-NGF in clinical trials
Peter French, Chief Executive Officer, Benitec Biopharma • Challenges faced
• Future of anti-NGF agents
Dave Shelton, Executive Director, Pfizer
09.50 Novel readouts for the analysis of spontaneous pain
in animals 14.50 Novel pain therapeutics with low CNS side effects
• How do evoked methods compare with non-evoked? • Use of polymer conjugation technology to develop novel
• Are innate responses of animals suitable measures for opioids with intrinsically low abuse liability
chronic pain? • Analgesics for neuropathic pain with reduced CNS side effects
• Are different pain indications amenable to similar readouts? • The future potential of polymer conjugation technology in
Thomas Christoph, Global Preclinical Research and pain therapy
Development, Grunenthal Steve Harrison, Vice President, Research Biology, Nektar
Pharmaceuticals
10.30 Optimising the context of medical treatments for 15.30 AFTERNOON TEA
arthritis pain
• The context within which treatments are given 15.50 Novel targets in inflammatory and neuropathic pain
• Placebos and nocebo • Inflammatory and neuropathic pain poorly treated by
• The place of medical analgesia in patient pathways for current analgesics – poor efficacy and many side effects
chronic arthritis pain. • Recent work in the McNaughton lab has identified the HCN2
• The person-specific context; mechanistic, diagnostic and ion channel and the AKAP79 scaffolding protein as potential
targets
severity-based approaches to stratified care
• Progress towards developing selective drugs
David Walsh, Director of the ARC National Pain Centre,
Peter McNaughton, Head of Pharmacology Department,
University of Nottingham Cambridge University
11.10 MORNING COFFEE 16.30 The use of biologic therapies in the treatment of pain -
A CASE STUDY of anti-NGFs
11.30 Exploring the use of animal models to study pain pathways • Why consider biologic therapies for pain: pros and cons
• Mechanistic studies; examining the role of NaV1.7 in rats • Considerations around target selection
• Case study: anti-NGF therapies
and mice
• Translation from man to animal to man
• Addressing bias in preclinical studies; being more clinical in
• Next steps for novel biologic therapies
experimental design Iain Chessell, VP R&D, Neuroscience Innovative Medicines,
• Future directions; re-evaluating the role of wide dynamic MedImmune
range neurones in models of nerve injury
Huw Rees, Senior Principal Scientist, Pfizer 17.10 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
To attend, contact Cem Tuna on Tel +44 (0) 20 7827 6736, Fax +44 (0) 20 7827 6737
email ctuna@smi-online.co.uk or visit www.smi-online.co.uk/ts07.asp to register online
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Want to know how you
Heads of Department, Directors, Managers, can get involved?
Interested in promoting
Team Leaders Researchers and Scientists from: your pharmaceutical
• Pain and inflammation target discovery • Chronic and neuropathic pain services to this market?
• Analgesic preclinical development • Clinical trial design Contact Margaret Mugema,
• CNS clinical trials • Biomarker development SMi Marketing on
• Translational imaging • Personalised medicine +44 (0) 207 827 6072,
• Early phase CNS research • Pain management or email
• Epigenetics in pain and inflammation mmugema@smi-online.co.uk
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3. DAY TWO | 21ST MAY 2013 Pain Therapeutics
08.30 REGISTRATION & COFFEE CLINICAL TRIAL MODELS & OVERCOMING CHALLENGES
11.40 Challenges in analgesic drug discovery
09.00 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS:
• Emphasis is on preclinical discovery
Narender Gavva, Scientific Director, Amgen
• Potential false-positive hotspots
• Best practices for target selection criteria
EXPERIMENTAL MODELS Narender Gavva, Scientific Director, Amgen
09.10 Translational mechanistic pain biomarkers 12.20 NETWORKING LUNCH
• Phase I and II proof-of-concept
13.40 PFIZER SESSION – Current considerations in sodium
• Pharmacodynamics &Mechanism based drug profiling
channel blockers for pain management
• Healthy volunteer studies Session 1: The discovery and preclinical development
• Proof-of-mechanism of selective sodium channel blockers
• Translation of animal data into pain patients • Strategies for gaining true selectivity in sodium channel
Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Director, Center for Sensory-Motor blockers
• Preclinical in vitro and in vivo profile of selective Nav 1.7
Interaction, Aalborg University
blockers
• Key criteria in clinical compound selection
09.50 Human tissues as a translational tool in pain research Richard Butt, Director, Research Project Leader, Pfizer
and target identification
• Studies of neuropathic pain Session 2: Subtype selective sodium channel blockers
• Studies of inflammatory pain • Functional properties
• Novel classes of blockers
• Correlation with pre-clinical models
• The future of subtype selective sodium channel blockers
Fiona Boissonade, Head of Neuroscience Research Group,
Zahid Ali, Senior Director, Pfizer
University Of Sheffield
15.00 Afternoon Tea
10.30 MORNING COFFEE
15.30 CASE STUDY: Focus on Nav1.7 blockers for chronic pain
• Preclinical and clinical programmes at Convergence
11.00 Imaging the common brain substrates of chronic pain-
Pharmaceuticals
it’s all anticipation
• Nav1.7 blockers - research findings and major conclusions
• Recent research to suggest that fundamental changes in • The future of Nav1.7 blockers for chronic pain
physiology of chronic pain sufferers may alter their PD Valerie Morisset, Head of Electrophysiology, Convergence
compared to experimental models of healthy patients Pharmaceuticals
• Can this research help to illuminate better ways at predicting
16.10 Panel discussion : Pain therapeutics, where are we and
drug PD in patients?
what is the potential for the future?
• How do these physiological changes relate to pain?
Panellists: Day 2 Speakers
Anthony Kenneth Peter Jones, Professor of Neuro-
Rheumatology, University of Manchester 16.50 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
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4. INTERACTIVE POST CONFERENCE
WORKSHOP A
22ND MAY 2013
Human Pain Models - Lost in Translation?
08.30 – 12.30
Workshop Leaders: Jonathan Stewart,
Consultant, Pain Medicine, Imperial NHS
Trust, London
Zahid Ali, Senior Director, Pfizer
Remigiusz Lecybyl, Consultant in Chronic
Pain, Lewisham Hospital
Overview
This workshop will be a uniquely interactive
session where attendees can explore currently
used human pain models and their
translatability into the clinic. Led by the
experience of Jonathan Stewart, Imperial
NHS Trust, London alongside the expertise of
Zahid Ali, Pfizer and Remigiusz Lecybyl,
Lewisham Hospital, the workshop aims to
facilitate the understanding of unmet needs in
human pain modeling and successful translation
to the clinic.
Benefits of Attending
• Address and overcome challenges
associated with human pain models
• Debate the attributes of currently used
human pain models
• Learn how successful models translate
• Network with key professionals with
considerable expertise in pain research
Agenda
08.30 Registration & Coffee
09.00 Introduction and Workshop Objectives
09.10 Attributes of currently used models
and which is best
• Comparative models
• Which model comes out on top
09.45 Do experimental models really
serve the function that they are
intended for?
• Functionality of human pain models
• Major findings
10.45 Morning Break
11.00 How well do these experimental
models translate?
• Translation into the clinic
12.10 Interactive Discussion
12.30 Summary & close of workshop
About Workshop Host:
Dr Jonathan Stewart is an anaesthetist with
almost 20 years clinical and research
experience in pain. He has undertaken
Consultant positions in pain
management at Kings College, St
Mary's Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital,
London as well as having an Honorary Senior
Lecturer appointment at Imperial College,
London.
Dr Stewart's interests are in neuropathic pain,
chronic spinal pain, musculoskeletal pain and
fibromyalgia. He has led research teams in all
these areas, been an invited speaker at national
and international conferences and advised the
UK government as an invitee on the Chronic
Pain Policy Coalition.
5. INTERACTIVE POST CONFERENCE
WORKSHOP B
22ND MAY 2013
Using phenotyping and imaging to
improve early drug development and
clinical trial design
13.30 – 17.30
Workshop Leader: Anthony Jones,
Professor of Neuro-rheumatology,
University of Manchester
Overview
This workshop will be a uniquely interactive session
where attendees can address and evaluate the use
of phenotyping and imaging modalities to improve
the success of early drug development and clinical
trial design. Led by the expertise of Anthony
Jones, Professor of Neuro-rheumatology,
University of Manchester, this workshop aims to
provide attendees with an exclusive insight into
successful methods that have improved drug
development in pain, alongside discussing the
future of pain therapeutics.
Benefits of Attending
• Address and overcome challenges
associated with drug development in pain
alongside clinical trial design
• Discuss advances in patient phenotyping
and ways to move forward with one's own
research
• Evaluate successful imaging modalities for
early drug development
• Network with key professionals with
considerable expertise in pain research
Agenda
13.30 Registration & Coffee
14.00 Introduction and Workshop Objectives
14.10 Using imaging modalities in drug
design
• Recent PET studies
• Successful imaging modalities
14.45 Application of patient phenotyping
• Drug development via phenotyping
• Patient phenotyping and clinical trial
design
15.45 Morning Break
16.00 Early drug development and clinical
trial design
• Current applications of phenotyping
alongside imaging
• Major findings and conclusions
17.10 Interactive Discussion
17.30 Summary & close of workshop
About Workshop Host:
Anthony Jones is professor of Neuro-
rheumatology at Manchester University and
leads the Human Pain Research Group. Whilst at
the Hammersmith Hospital he pioneered the
development of techniques to image
neurochemical and metabolic brain responses to
pain using Positron Emission Tomography. Over
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6. PAIN THERAPEUTICS
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