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28/29 June 2010
Venue Window Conference Centre, London UK
Speaker Graham Blakey
Cost £1363 (inc VAT)
Early-bird rate £1226.70 (inc VAT)
if booked and paid by 30 April 2010
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The course starts at 8.30am with registration and coffee/tea, course proper starts at 9.00 and finishes at 5pm each day
Overview
The UK, like most developed countries, has an ageing population. In the 2001 population census, the average age was 39.0 years, an increase on 1971 when it was 34.1 years. In mid-2006 approximately one in five people in the UK were aged under 16 and one in six people were aged 65 or over. With advancing age comes increased medicine use, furthermore elderly patients are likely to be taking several concomitant medications. This greater drug usage makes them more at risk of suffering from adverse events as a result of drug drug interactions (DDIs). DDIs may be metabolic, transporter, physicochemical or dynamic in nature. In drug development, advances in in vitro science and modelling software have helped to screen out compounds that are most at risk of DDIs before they enter into man. The need to investigate DDIs in the clinic though has not disappeared. Several regulatory agencies have drug interaction guidances; in particular the FDA has recently released a draft guidance entitled ‘Drug
Interaction Studies-Study Design, Data Analysis, and Implications for Dosing and Labeling’ that takes account of current thinking in the field. An understanding of the pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamics of the compound, linked to the relevant regulatory guidances is required to deliver a safe and effective medicine that can be used by patients concomitantly with other remedies.
Course Objectives:
To provide participants with an overview of the principles of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic modelling and how together with regulatory guidances they can be used to effectively deliver drug development programmes
What will participants gain?
- Understanding of the common PK terms and their importance
- Understanding of how PK data influences the clinical development programme
- An understanding of the factors that contribute to variability in PK
- The role of PKPD modelling in drug development
- An appreciation of how regulatory guidances influence PK
- Increased confidence to discuss PK issues within their drug projects
Day 1: Pharmacokinetic Principles
Topics
What is PK and why is it important?
- Absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination
- Transporters
- Drug failures
- Therapeutic windows
PK terminology
- Clearance, Volume of distribution etc. What are they and what is there importance
PK techniques
- Non compartmental Analysis
- Compartmental modelling
- Population pharmacokinetics
- Regulatory environment
- Data interpretation
Day 2: PK in Drug Development
Pre-clinical/clinical interface
- What PK data are available, how does this influence the Clinical PK strategy?
- Biomarkers
- Implications for CTA- dose choice and dose escalation in first to man studies, adaptive dosing
Variability in PK
- Drug interactions; CYPs and transporters strategies and regulatory guidance; types of interaction competitive vs mechanism based; implications for study design (restrictions healthy volunteers vs patients etc)
- Genetic polymorphisms
- Paediatrics
Biologics
- Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics
- Study Design
- Regulatory Environment
There will also be several "learning in action" workshops during both days where participants will have the opportunity to apply knowledge gained during the lectures. an open forum session will be held where delegates can bring along their own issues for discussion.
