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2007 Presentations

Available Presentations are underlined. 

Sixth Annual Advocacy Forum: Intellectual Property & Therapeutics Development

 

Overview of Intellectual Property Law – What Are The Driving Forces for Today’s Drug Developers? 

Chief Judge Elect, The Honorable David Gersten;

Third District Court of Appeals, Miami, FL

NIH and the Role of Federal Funding in the Generation of Intellectual Property

Mark Rohrbaugh,PhD, Director NIH Office of Technology Transfer; Rockville, MD

 

Academic Institutions as Generators, Holders and Transferors of IP

Michael Cleare, PhD, Executive Director, Science and Technology Ventures, Columbia University New York, NY

Accelerating Therapeutics Development – A New Vision

Robi Blumenstein, President, MRSSI and Senior Advisor to the High Q Foundation, New York, NY

 

Fundamentals of Clinical Trials in Neurotherapeutics

Introduction: Stages of Therapeutic Development                      

Roger J. Porter, M.D.

 

Nonclinical Studies             

Eric Siemers, M.D., Eli Lilly & Company

                                   

Trial Design – Early Development                

Karl Kieburtz, M.D., Professor of Neurology, University of Rochester

 

Trial Design – Late Development                     

John Marler, M.D., NIH

 

Alternative Trial Designs - Presentation is not available                  

Michael Krams, M.D., Wyeth

Clinical Trial Statistics

Barbara Tilley, Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina

 

Ethics of Clinical Trials    

Ira Shoulson, M.D., Professor, University of Rochester

The Clinical Trial Team

Lucinda Wilson, Prestwick Pharmaceuticals

Kenneth W. Sommerville M.D., Vice President of Medical Therapeutics, Schwarz Biosciences

 

Symposium: Ion Channels as Targets for Neurotherapeutics Development

Profiling Human Ion Channel Gene Variation - Presentation is not available

Jeffrey Noebels, M.D., Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine

Sodium and Calcium Channels

William Catterall, Ph.D., University of Washington

KCNQ Potassium Channels: Drug Targets for the Treatment of Epilepsy and Pain

Gregory C. Rigdon, Ph.D., Icagen, Inc.

Nicotinic Receptors in Nicotine Addiction and Parkinson's Disease

Henry Lester, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Targeting Voltage-gated Calcium Channels in Central and Peripheral Nociceptive Pathways

Terrance P. Snutch, PhD, FRSC, University of British Columbia & Neuromed Pharmaceuticals Inc.

 

Workshop: Disease Specific Clinical Trial Think Tanks

Stroke

Marc Fisher, M.D.  (STAIR)

Epilepsy

Jackie French, M.D. (AED IX)

 

Pain

John Farrar, M.D., Ph.D. (IMMPACT)

Psychiatry

Michael F. Green, PhD, (MATRICS)

FDA Collaboration with Neurologic Specialties Through Interactive Clinical Trial Meetings

Robert Rappaport, M.D., Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA

 

Workshop: Neuroethics

Ethics 2007

The Honorable David Gersten, Third District Court of Appeals, Miami, FL

A Brief History of Conflict of Interest in Research

Roger J.  Porter, M.D.

 

Justifying the Risks of Research

Jason Karlawish, M.D., University of Pennsylvania

Ethics of Surrogate Consent for Research   

Scott Kim, M.D., Ph.D., University of Michigan

 

Russell Katz, M.D., FDA

 

Dinner Symposium: Neurologic Therapeutics in Pediatrics

The State of Clinical Pediatric Trials in the United States

Edward Kaye, M.D., Vice President of Clinical Research, Genzyme Corporation 

                                                                       

The State of Clinical Pediatric Trials in Europe

Virinder Nohria,M.D., Ph.D.   

The NIH Contribution to Clinical Trials in the US

Anne Zajicek, M.D., Senior Program Officer, NICHD, NIH

                                                                       

The Pediatric Rule--How It Succeeds and How It Fails

Russell Katz, M.D., Director of Neuropharmacology, FDA

 

Symposium: Sleep and Neurotherapeutics                                                   

Basic Mechanisms of Sleep Click Here to view article

Clifford Saper, M.D., Ph.D., Beth Israel Hospital

 

Epilepsy and Sleep

Beth Malow, M.D., M.S., Vanderbilt University

Parkinson's Disease and Sleep

David Rye, M.D., Ph.D., Emory University Hospital

Treatments for Sleep Disorders: Regulatory Challenges and Standards of Evidence

Russell Katz, M.D., Director of Neuropharmacology, FDA