March 17 -19 2015 - World CDx Berlin
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March 17 -19 2015 - World CDx Berlin
DRAFT DOCUMENT – FINAL COPY TO REFLECT REAL CASE STUDIES March 17th-19th 2015 The Central Pillar for Forging the Sustainable Path Towards Personalised Medicine World CDx Berlin 2015 will guide drug and diagnostic developers from understanding disease heterogeneity and the complex underlying biology through to the drug-companion diagnostic pairing development cycle accelerating them to market. World CDx Berlin 2015 will enable the drug-CDx community to stratify and define patient subpopulations that will respond to drugs in development, by harnessing novel technologies that validate predictive biomarkers. Further, World CDx Berlin 2015 will shine the spotlight on rapidly evolving Drug-CDx partnering models along with defining best practice to navigate the changing regulatory guidelines and the fragmented reimbursement landscapes Proudly Supported and Sponsored by: Confirmed Speakers for World CDx Berlin 2015 Include: Khusru Asadullah, Vice President, Head of Global Biomarkers, Bayer Elia Stupka, Director, Computational Biology, Boehringer Ingelheim Maria Orr, Executive Director Personalised Healthcare & Biomarkers, AstraZeneca Barbara Amoroso, Director, Clinical Development, Celgene Sanne de Haas, Scientific Manager, Oncology Biomarker Development, Roche Iris Grossman, Global Head, Personalized Medicine & Pharmacogenomics, Teva Richard Buller, Vice President, Oncology Clinical Development, Pfizer Nikolas Stöcklein, Professor, University of Düsseldorf Abderrahim Mahfoudi, Senior Director, Scientific Partnerships & Coordination, Sanofi Lothar Bergmann, Assistant Medical Director, Oncology, J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt & Core Member, SAGOncology, EMA Dennis Merkle, Director, Project Leader, IVD Strategy, Merck Serono Jeroen Lammerts van Bueren, Principal Scientist, Genmab Carla Deakin, Associate Director, Diagnostic Assessment Programe, NICE Kenneth Thress, Oncology Translational Scientist, AstraZeneca Alain van Gool, Professor, Personalized Healthcare, Radbound University Medical Center If you have any comments regarding this draft please contact [email protected] THIS IS A CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT DOCUMENT. DRAFT DOCUMENT – FINAL COPY TO REFLECT REAL CASE STUDIES Conference Day One, 18th March 2015 08.00 Registration, Breakfast & Networking Companion Diagnostics: Forging the Path to Personalised Medicine 09.00 Chairman’ Opening Remarks – State of Address: Drug-Companion Diagnostic Combinations It’s been a huge 12 months for companion diagnostics since World CDx Europe last year and there have been significant steps forward with a multitude of new and renewed partnerships, and technological advancements This opening gambit will set the scene of the companion diagnostic field and make sure everyone is on the same page as we kick off World CDx Berlin 2015! David Jackson, Vice President, Diagnostics & Companion Diagnostics, Arno Therapeutics 09.15 Thermo Fisher Presentation 09:45 Conversations that Matter Close your laptops. Put down your cell phones. Eavesdrop on exclusive one-on-one interviews played out on stage with leading executives who are driving forward targeted precision medicines as this will be your ONLY opportunity to hear this unique content. Be part of an exclusive conversation between companion diagnostic key opinion leaders as they discuss: 10.30 Are Drug-Companion Diagnostics the central pillar for forging the path to Personalised Medicine? The Global Regulatory Landscapes: Are they improving? When is Next Generation Sequencing going to fully translate from discovery tool to diagnostic technology? Why is aligning Drug-Companion Diagnostic Co-Development so important? What is the future for “Companion Therapeutics”? Companion Panel and Open Q&A How will companion diagnostics continue to enable targeted therapy development? What are the current short-comings with this burgeoning field? How do we see the drug-CDx industry evolving over the next 12 months? What are we expecting to learn at World CDx Berlin 2015? Khusru Asadullah, Vice President, Head of Global Biomarkers, Bayer Richard Buller, Vice President, Oncology Clinical Development, Pfizer 11.00 Speed Networking & Morning Refreshments From Biomarker Discovery to Validation Lessons Learnt from Completed or Late Phase Case Studies If you have any comments regarding this draft please contact [email protected] THIS IS A CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT DOCUMENT. DRAFT DOCUMENT – FINAL COPY TO REFLECT REAL CASE STUDIES 12.00 Opportunities and Challenges in Companion Diagnostic Development Understanding biological relevance of the chosen 12.00 Developing a Robust Biomarker Strategy for biomarker as a patient selection tool and Celgene’s Lymphoma Program development of an appropriate assay for the How best to ensure success from identification to biomarker of interest clinical validation of driver biomarkers Requirements of undertaking clinical trials to How to utilize the arsenal of tools and technologies support drug and companion diagnostic at your disposal Case study from AZ oncology portfolio to illustrate the drug/diagnostic co-development process Barbara Amoroso, Director, Clinical Development, Celgene Maria Orr, Executive Director Personalised Healthcare & Biomarkers, AstraZeneca 12.30 Incorporating Biomarkers into Clinical Trial Design 12.30 Case Study: Updates from the Clinic from Pharma Implementation of biomarker strategies in clinical Phase 3 results from big pharma trials What has already be learnt pre-launch that we are Validation of promising biomarkers taking forward? Sanne de Haas, Scientific Manager Oncology Biomarker Development, Roche Iris Grossman, Global Head, Personalized Medicine & Pharmacogenomics, Teva 1.00 Impact of Early or Late Biomarker Validation on the Development of Companion Diagnostics 1.00 Case Study: Updates from the Clinic from Pharma Is there a one-size-fits all model for biomarker Phase 3 results from big pharma validation? What has already be learnt pre-launch that we are taking forward? Why is demonstrating clinical utility so imperative at any stage? 1.30 Networking Lunch Translating NGS from Research Tool into Clinical Technology Aligning Drug-CDx Co-Development 2.30 Harnessing Next Generation Sequencing in the Clinic 2.30 Non-Invasive, Blood-Based Mutation Testing in Factors to consider before choosing next generation sequencing as an exploratory diagnostic Metastatic Colorectal Cancer; A Prerequisite for targeted Therapy Selection tool in the clinic The importance of RAS mutation status in mCRC How these technologies have already for the selection of 1st line therapies demonstrated huge amounts of clinical utility in drug-CDx studies How to ensure all patients can access testing Elia Stupka, Director, Computational Biology, Boehringer Ingelheim Dennis Merkle, Director, IVD Strategy, Merck Serono 3.00 3.00 How Best to Manage the Risk-Opportunity TradeOff Effectively when Partnering? More uncertainty in the pre-clinical/early clinical phase, but greater opportunity? Factors for Cancer Diagnostics in the Genomic Medicine Daniel Grosu, Vice President, Clinical Development & Medical Affairs, Illumina If you have any comments regarding this draft please contact [email protected] THIS IS A CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT DOCUMENT. DRAFT DOCUMENT – FINAL COPY TO REFLECT REAL CASE STUDIES consideration Demonstrating clinical utility is a vital part of this process 3.30 Alignment of Antibody Drug Conjugate-CDx CoDevelopment? 3.30 Moving Beyond the One Biomarker One Drug Experience with our Phase I staged program, Paradigm HuMax-TF-ADC and companion diagnostic How is this paving the way for multiplexing strategy strategies in the clinic? Factors for consideration when aligning drug How are novel genomic technologies such as gene CDx co-development expression arrays and NGS Jeroen Lammerts van Bueren, Principal Scientist, Genmab 4.00 Afternoon Refreshments 4.30 Quick Fire Innovation Talks: Only the Most Innovative Need Apply Designed to give you a taste of some of the latest and greatest innovative ideas in the world of Drug-CDx combinations. Get unprecedented insight into the talking points of tomorrow and understand how these innovative ideas and products are already having impact on this ever-growing landscape: Managing Variability in a Massively Molecular World Companion Diagnostics is evolving at a vigorous rate and universal reference standards need to be adopted that will support the adoption and development of massively parallel sequencing workflows Horizon Diagnostics has successfully developed a range of oncology specific reference standards which are quantitative and mimic the complexity of tumour biology Brian Burke, Business Development Director, Horizon Diagnostics Companion Discussions 5.10 The World CDx speaker faculty is second to none but there is just as much knowledge in the audience as there is onstage. We want to make sure you can tap into the experience of your peers. Discover multiple perspectives on the key issues during Roundtable Companion Discussions, specifically designed so you can learn from over 150 fellow precision medicine experts. Drive your own learning, crowd-source ideas and get inspired! 6.00 “Companion Therapeutics” – What do these mean for the future of Drug-Companion Diagnostic studies? CTC’s and Cell Free DNA – What promise does this emerging field hold and where are the latest advancements happening? Risk Minimization Between Drug and Diagnostic Developers – How best to decide when the best time to commit to a Companion Diagnostic is? Navigating Companion Diagnostic Regulatory Landscapes – How best to negotiate this landscape and plan your strategy in accordance with the latest regulatory updates and guidance Close of Day 1 If you have any comments regarding this draft please contact [email protected] THIS IS A CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT DOCUMENT. DRAFT DOCUMENT – FINAL COPY TO REFLECT REAL CASE STUDIES Conference Day Two, 19th March 2015 08.00 Breakfast & Networking 09.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks David Jackson, Vice President, Diagnostics & Companion Diagnostics, Arno Therapeutics The Regulatory Landscape: Drug-Companion Diagnostic Combinations 09.05 Personalized Medicine in Oncology and Companion Diagnostics: What are the Hurdles for Physicians and Regulatory Issues? Personalized medicine in genetic subtypes and the planning of sufficient clinical trials A look at the variability in testing and European approval of targeted agents Lothar Bergmann, Assistant Medical Director, Oncology, J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt & Core Member, SAGOncology, EMA 09.15 Overview of the Prominent Global Regulatory Landscapes A look at the current regulatory guidance from the USA, EU, China and Japan How working closely with regulatory agencies is critical for success 09.35 Biomarker & Companion IVD Development: Focusing on Current Challenges an EU Regulation for Biotech’s Regulatory expectations & challenges of an ideal biomarker validation Case studies of stratified authorized medicines in PEI responsibility Regulatory pathways for biomarker versus IVD development Directive 98/79/EC currently under revision: On the way towards a “companion IVD”? Jörg Engelbergs, Scientific Regulatory Expert, Paul-Elrich-Institut 09.55 Interactive Solution Finding Session: How do we Deal with the Ever-Changing Regulatory Landscape? Dynamic format for learning and discussion facilitated by leaders in the field who are most effectively navigating the ever-changing drug-companion diagnostic regulatory landscape. This is also your chance to discover what those, who feel confined by the same challenges as you, are doing to navigate the global regulatory approval process. Discuss and debate: How do we manage the key differences between different states within the European Union? Are new regulations stifling LDT innovation? Regulatory challenges when developing novel drug-CDx combinations with no “tailgating” How should “Home-Brewed” tests be regulated? How much regulation should be in place for exploratory companion diagnostics in the clinic? The impact on clinical trials and how the need for clinical data to back-up your case is fundamental Lothar Bergmann, Assistant Medical Director, Oncology, J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt & Core Member, SAGOncology, EMA If you have any comments regarding this draft please contact [email protected] THIS IS A CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT DOCUMENT. DRAFT DOCUMENT – FINAL COPY TO REFLECT REAL CASE STUDIES Jörg Engelbergs, Scientific Regulatory Expert, Paul-Elrich-Institut 10.45 Morning Refreshments & Networking Emerging Research Approaches & Techniques 11.15 Early Validation of Targets and the Impact on Personalised Medicine The use of an arsenal of “omic” approaches to drive early target identification and validation The impact of this early stage research on the future of personalised healthcare? Reimbursement for Drug-CDx Combinations 11.15 Synergies and Challenges Related to Reimbursement of Co-Developed RxDx Lisse-Lotte Hermansson, Director, Global Health Economics, ImmunoDiagnostics and Companion Diagnostics, Thermo Fisher Scientific 11.45 Biomarkers in Personalized Health(care): Changing 11.35 Developing Methods and Processes for Perspectives Evaluating Companion Diagnostics Across its Human disease is more than one impaired Pharmaceutical and Diagnostic Evaluation Programmes mechanism The assessment of clinical and cost effectiveness Personalized healthcare requires a system of companion diagnostics approach for maximal impact Biomarkers as key drivers for shared innovation NICE evaluation options for companion diagnostics Translation in health informatics is next big thing Alain van Gool, Professor, Personalised Healthcare, Radboud University Medical Center, TNO Carla Deakin, Associate Director, Diagnostic Assessment Programme, NICE 11.55 Interactive Solution Finding Session: Managing European Reimbursement 12.15 Targeting RNA with Companion Diagnostics? Are we ready to focus more of our efforts on the world of RNA-based drug-companion diagnostic combinations A detailed look at exosomal and circulating RNA as diagnostic entities Debate and Discuss: How do we manage the differences between European States? How do we manage the global set of challenges? The impact of reimbursement on clinical trial study design Reimbursement for Next Generation Sequencing Carla Deakin, Associate Director, Diagnostic Assessment Programe, NICE 12.45 Lunch & Networking Circulating Biomarkers for Companion Diagnostics Constructing and Executing a Robust Drug-CDx Strategy 1.45 Circulating Tumour Cells and Companion Diagnostic 2.15 What About Patient Access to These Tests and Development Technologies? How can circulating tumour cells advance the Is the field coordinated enough between all of the different stakeholders? world of companion diagnostics? If you have any comments regarding this draft please contact [email protected] THIS IS A CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT DOCUMENT. DRAFT DOCUMENT – FINAL COPY TO REFLECT REAL CASE STUDIES Case studies of how these are already being explored in the clinic Nikolas Stöcklein, Professor, University of Düsseldorf 2.15 Levels of EGFR T790M in plasma DNA as a Predictive Biomarker for Response to AZD9291, a Mutant-Selective EGFR Kinase Inhibitor AZD9291 is currently in clinical testing in patients with EGFRm+NSCLC who have relapsed on EGFR-TKI therapy ctDNA present in the plasma of patients with NSCLC may offer a minimally invasive opportunity to identify eligible patients unable to provide tissue biopsies We aimed to study plasma levels of EGFR T790M in relation to AZD9291 drug activity Kenneth Thress, Oncology Translational Scientist, AstraZeneca 2.45 Clinical Relevance of Circulating Cell-Free and Exosomal microRNAs in Blood of Breast and Ovarian Cancer Patients Deregulated levels of cell-free and exosomal microRNAs in blood of cancer patients Influence of neoadjuvant therapy on the serum levels of circulating microRNAs in breast cancer patients Association of circulating microRNAs with a particular biology of breast carcinomas favoring progression and metastatic spread Heidi Schwarzenbach, Assistant Professor, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf 3.15 How educating patients as well as physicians is critical to the future of companion diagnostics David Jackson, Vice President, Diagnostics & Companion Diagnostics, Arno Therapeutics 1.45 Factors to Consider When Selecting the Right Diagnostic Partner: The Sanofi Experience The benefits of invasion with the right partner at the right time Extensive planning is necessary for deciding and executing a robust drug-companion diagnostic strategy Communication and commercial mind sets are fundamental to success in this complex field Abderrahim Mahfoudi, Senior Director, Scientific Partnerships & Coordination, Sanofi 2.45 Interactive Solution Finding Session: Executive a Robust Drug-CDx Strategy Debate and Discuss: How do we define meaningful progress with drugCDx combinations? Are we moving too fast or too slow in this field? How does this tie in with the wider context of complete personalised healthcare? David Jackson, Vice President, Diagnostics & Companion Diagnostics, Arno Therapeutics Abderrahim Mahfoudi, Senior Director, Scientific Partnerships & Coordination, Sanofi Afternoon Refreshments & Networking Maximising the Potential of Drug-CDx Combinations If you have any comments regarding this draft please contact [email protected] THIS IS A CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT DOCUMENT. DRAFT DOCUMENT – FINAL COPY TO REFLECT REAL CASE STUDIES 3.45 What Does the Future of the Companion Diagnostic Industry Look Like? How and where should be focusing our efforts to help ensure success? A summary of what the field has learnt from successful and unsuccessful drug-CDx case studies Companion Intelligence and Survey Statistics Industry insight from virtual survey results collected throughout the meeting around the biggest challenges and opportunities with drug-companion diagnostic combinations These results will ONLY be available in this session and will provide you with quantitative measurements about how the rest of your companion colleagues view the field 4.45 Chairman’s Closing Remarks David Jackson, Vice President, Diagnostics & Companion Diagnostics, Arno Therapeutics If you have any comments regarding this draft please contact [email protected] THIS IS A CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT DOCUMENT. DRAFT DOCUMENT – FINAL COPY TO REFLECT REAL CASE STUDIES Conference Workshop, 17th March 2015 A Comprehensive Guide to the Major Regulatory Landscapes The regulatory approval process for drug-companion diagnostic submission truly is a global issue and continues to plague both sides of the field. Leave this workshop with: A comprehensive understanding of the major drug-CDx regulatory landscapes Clear guidelines on how to deal with the major challenges and updates that are currently being experienced Detailed insight from successfully approved drug-CDx combinations and what the field has learnt to take forward Martina Kaufmann, Managing Director, Martina Kaufmann Strategic Consulting Conference Workshop, 17th March 2015 Construction of Companion Diagnostics Departments within Pharma & Diagnostic Organisations Companion diagnostics development requires a close interaction and full transparency between pharma and diagnostic partner Leave this workshop with: A comprehensive understanding of the requirements for setting up and running of effective companion diagnostic departments Full appreciation of the other side of the drug-CDx partnerships from where you currently operate Insights from successful case studies which have taken drug-CDx combinations to market David Jackson, Vice President, Diagnostics & Companion Diagnostics, Arno Therapeutics If you have any comments regarding this draft please contact [email protected] THIS IS A CONFIDENTIAL DRAFT DOCUMENT.