EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J., Aug. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- According to industry reports, the cost of drug development can exceed $800 Million and take more than 10 years for a drug to go from inception to market. These numbers are daunting as companies and shareholders look to produce life-saving medicines and recoup their enormous investment.
Considering this dilemma, the Strategic Research Institute has organized the Clinical Drug Development Summit. The two day summit, scheduled for October 23-24, 2006 in East Brunswick New Jersey, will bring together senior pharmaceutical leaders from around the globe to discuss opportunities and challenges for reducing overall drug development cost while speeding products to market.
The Summit will focus on solutions and strategies chosen by biopharma executives with biopharma executives in mind and will feature 3 concurrent conferences and 5 industry focused tracks. Conferences include:
- Strategic Clinical Outsourcing - Clinical Data Management - Phase IV Clinical Trials
Key issues explored include: offshoring, cost savings, contracting and partnership issues, enhancing patient recruitment & retention, optimizing post-clinical research, effective use and adaptation of eClinical technologies and integrating & implementation of EDC to name a few.
BioPharma companies that will be participating include: Abbott, Akros, Amgen, Astellas, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Centocor, Daiichi-Sankyo, Eli Lilly, Ferring, Genentech, Genzyme, Gilead, GlaxoSmithKline, J&J PRD, King, Merck, Neopharm, Neurocrine Biosciences, Ortho-McNeil, Oscient, OSI, Otsuka, Peninsula, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Protein Design Labs, Purdue, Roche, Schering-Plough, Serono, Takeda, Tengion and Threshold.
To request a copy of the agenda in pdf format, please contact the organizer, Seth Fritts at sfritts@srinstitute.com or call 212.967.0095, Ext. 256.
For more information on sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, please contact Sandra Shlayan at: sshlayan@srinstitute.com or by phone at: 212-967-0095 Ext. 239. Register now for the best space. Space is limited.
For more information on how to become a media partner, please contact Cheryl Kahan-Radhuber at ckahan-radhuber@srinstitute.com or call 212.967.0095, ext 273.
Strategic Research Institute
CONTACT: Cheryl Kahan-Radhuber of Strategic Research Institute,+1-212-967-0095, ext 273, ckahan-radhuber@srinstitute.com
Web site: http://www.srinstitute.com/
