Sunday 4 October 2020

P1 Plenary opening symposium: Smart therapeutics

How can we best foster pharmaceutical science innovation and its translation into the clinic?  The current COVID-19 pandemic is an opportunity for pharmaceutical scientists to reflect on the traditional models for ...
P - Plenary session
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A4 Gut microbiota in disease and therapy

Over the past decade our understanding of the host-microbiota interactions has burgeoned. The human intestinal microbiota intrinsically contributes to energy production, metabolism and immunity with a gene set 100 ...
A - Novel Concepts
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E5 Innovations in vaccines to counter emerging global health threats

Vaccines have been our weapon against some of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world. They protect at individual as well as community level, providing an inherent societal benefit and have played a major role in ...
E - Late-breaking topics, special symposia
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C4 Genomics: Realising its full potential in clinical practice

Pharmacogenomics and precision medicine offer great promise for the treatment of a variety of diseases, from rare diseases to diseases affecting large numbers of people, such as cancer or mental illnesses. The analysis ...
C - Effective Translation
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D2 Joining mechanistic and epidemiological approaches to enhance causal inference of drug effects

Mechanistic studies have seen great advances in use of models and modelling to predict drug effects, but inherent in these inductive approaches are concerns about (lack of) translation into real-world situations. In ...
D - Societal Impact
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B4 Innovative drug delivery approaches to meet key challenges in global health

This session will highlight how innovative drug delivery systems can be developed to solve challenges in global health that affect low and middle income countries.  There is a perception that solutions for challenges ...
B - Advanced Strategies
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