Clinical Trial Supply New England 2023

Our flagship event bringing together clinical operations professionals to discuss pressing challenges in the running of a clinical trial

5 - 6

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WHAT TO EXPECT FOR 2023?

The annual Clinical Trial Supply conference is a leading summit for discovering exclusive expert-led insight, featuring major bio-pharma companies such as Moderna, Sanofi and Takeda.

In a post-pandemic world and with the current geo-political uncertainties this conference comes at the perfect time. The event will feature a selection of presentations, panels and round tables. All aspects of the supply chain will be covered from cold chain logistics to regulations and decentralized format. Leaders from top New England based companies will take to the stage to discuss the latest developments and the future of the CTS industry.

Furthermore, the Clinical Trial Supply series is a unique platform for clinical trial sponsors and solution providers. This event is aimed at enabling knowledge-sharing, benchmarking and network-building amongst biopharma industry peers.

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  • 5 Apr 2023
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8:15 AM

Registration and refreshments

8:50 AM

Chairperson’s opening remarks

9 AM

State of the Biopharmaceutical Industry

   Gaining insight and understanding into themes that are shaping biopharmaceutical industry, both today and into the future

    Hearing about key emerging technologies and disrupters

Reviewing industry, regulatory and macro-economic factors affecting pharma in 2023

Speakers

Amanda Murphy
Senior Director, Data Intelligence & Solutions, GlobalData

9:30 AM

Managing stockout risk without impacting patients and recruitment

  • How to identify, locate and quantify risks
  • To identify the main causes of risk in your clinical supply chain
  • Innovative ideas to solve risks without slowing down recruitment
  • How proactivity and collaboration in the clinical supply environment can alleviate
    stressful mid-trial situations.

Speakers

Antoine Remiot
Antoine Remiot, Senior Director - Global Business Development & Partnerships, Clinical Supply Optimization, N-SIDE
Maxime Derep
Director of Solutions Engineering, N-SIDE
Henk Dieteren
Clinical Supply Chain Solutions Consultant, Suvoda

10 AM

Using Real World Data and Evidence to Accelerate Clinical Trials

·       Augmenting clinical trials with observational data gathered via hybrid trials, pragmatic trials, routine clinical practice and late phase trials to accelerate clinical validation and get new drugs to patients quicker

·       Deriving real world data from a range of sources including: electronic health records, product and disease registries, wearable devices, genomic data sets, medical claims registries and social determinants of health

·       Expanding patient population assessed beyond the formal clinical trial to ensure demographics or geographics are not overlooked when assessing efficacy of a trial drug 

Speakers

Tomasz Adamusiak
Chief Scientist, Clinical Quality and Data Science, MITRE

10:30 AM

Morning refreshments and networking

11 AM

PANEL DISCUSSION: Looking at ethical and practical benefits of direct-to-patient models in clinical trials and the resulting challenges and expectations of the supply chain

·       Patient centricity: advances in technology enabling seamless data capture and reinforcing logistics networks to orchestrate decentralized supply chains

·       DTP and real-world evidence: providing invaluable patient feedback and real-life contextual understanding of treatment efficacy leading to improved care and deeper understanding of patients on an individual, case-by-case level

·       Protecting patient confidentiality in direct to patient trials: adhering to data protection regulations by implementing strategies such as AI and smart packaging to avoid delays and improve patient retention

Speakers

Isaac Rodriguez-Chavez
Former SVP-Scientific and Clinical Affairs & Former FDA Official
John Gregg
Chairman and CEO at BalinBac Therapeutics, Inc.
Melissa Morandi
Vice President, Head of Global Quality, Sumitomo Pharma Oncology
Amanda Murphy
Senior Director, Data Intelligence & Solutions, GlobalData

11:45 AM

An emerging clinical trials supply industry for therapeutic tissue stem cells

·       Exploring how trials cell and gene therapy will bring about new innovations and solutions that will ripple into other clinical supply chains, translating into huge advances

·       Overcoming operational complexity issues and increasing possibility with the help of lower barriers to market, technological developments and analysis of real-world data

·       Addressing issues surrounding the shortage of manufacturing capacity and talent, logistical issues, data protection and a fragmented market landscape

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James L. Sherley
M.D., Ph.D. - President & Chief Executive Officer at Asymmetrex® LLC

12:15 PM

Lunch and networking

2 PM

Case study in clinical supply chain innovation by TrialCard

Tom Gottschalk will be joining us to share insights into cutting edge innovation for clinical supply chains and an update on TrialCard’s latest technological developments

Speakers

2:30 PM

Strategies for growing a pipeline, accelerating decision making, set up the organization, in order to improve drug development

• Strategic design of pipeline growth
• Methods to accelerate decision-making in Ph1-2 trials
• Team culture by organizational design

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3 PM

Afternoon refreshments and networking

3:30 PM

The Improving Clinical Trials Environment in Canada

         Harnessing many unique assets that span demographic diversity, to academic leadership, clinical expertise, government commitment and public-private collaboration, sustaining Canada’s role as a medical research and health innovation hub.

 

         Raising numerous interesting and difficult policy questions related to how Canadian and US pharma companies must collaborate and ready the system to address the “extraordinary” needs of rare patients including novel clinical innovation strategies, new regulatory and funding mechanisms, infrastructure accommodation and knowledge sharing across boundaries and through centres of excellence.  

 

         Focusing on the future of clinical innovation as a means to cultivate supportive conditions for improved care for rare patients in Canada.  Using scientific knowledge to improve patient impact and system receptivity.

Speakers

Susan Marlin
President and CEO, Clinical Trials Ontario

4 PM

Navigating Ancillary Management Challenges through Collaboration and Centralized Teams

         Discussing important considerations for ensuring compatibility of your IMP with common infusion materials.

         Discussing the importance of strong relationships with CMC, Clinical, and CROs in assessing product compatibility.

         Developing a plan for ancillary supply needs.

         Sharing tips for establishing a centralized ancillary supply team in your organization to better serve the needs of studies.

Speakers

Tyler Wilson
Global Clinical Supply Chain Fellow, Takeda
Fred Moreau
Director of Central Ancillary Supplies, Takeda
Paul Larochelle
Director, Global Clinical Supply Chain, Takeda

4:30 PM

Chairperson’s closing remarks

Speakers

Amanda Murphy
Senior Director, Data Intelligence & Solutions, GlobalData

8:15 AM

Registration and refreshments

8:50 AM

Chairperson’s opening remarks

Speakers

Amanda Murphy
Senior Director, Data Intelligence & Solutions, GlobalData

9 AM

PROBLEM-SOLVING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS

During the roundtable discussion session, the conference hall will be divided into four ‘zones’. Delegates can choose which zone they would like to join. Each zone will be led by a table moderator and will focus on a different challenge within clinical supply chains. After 45 minutes, delegates will have the opportunity to swap and choose a different table, and each roundtable will run twice.

ROUND TABLE 1:  Q&A Session with U.S. Customs and Border Protection – Here to help with any questions you may have about how to import or export biological materials to or from the U.S.

Sean Smith, Biological Threat Exclusion Coordinator, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

ROUND TABLE 2:  IRTs and just-in-time packaging, labelling, and shipment strategies for efficient CTS life cycle

Hyun Kim, Vice President, Clinical Development, AOBiome Therapeutics

ROUND TABLE 3: Innovation in integrating supply models, decentralized clinical trials and technology

Isaac Rodriguez-Chavez, Former Senior VP-Scientific and Clinical Affairs and Former FDA officer

ROUND TABLE 4: Best Practice for Comparator Labelling

David Adams, Associate Director-Global Clinical Supply Chain, Takeda

Bharti Kansara, Associate Director -Global Clinical Supply, Takeda

ROUND TABLE 5: Best practices for clinical supply planning: brainstorming and sharing experiences

    Antoine Remiot, Director Solutions Engineering, Clinical Supply Optimization, N-SIDE

    Maxime Derep, Clinical Supply Optimization Senior Solutions Engineer , N-SIDE

Speakers

David Adams
David Adams, Associate Director, Global Clinical Supply Chain, Takeda

10:30 AM

Morning refreshments and networking

11 AM

Lessons learnt: Strategy for Generation of Stability Data to Demonstrate and Justify Longest

  • Maximize expiration period of IMPs
  • Understand the meaning of the stability data generated as well as what is not reported • Maximize storage conditions (e.g., flexibility of storage at 30ºC as opposed to 25ºC)
  • Understand what data must be generated to support Temperature Excursions of IMPs
  • Leverage the ICH Guidelines – Topic ‘Q’ for Quality

Speakers

James Krupa
Director-US Clinical Supplies, Takeda

11:30 AM

KEYNOTE Q&A Discussion: Explore importing and exporting requirements for biological materials and in the modern world

  • Important steps to take to help expedite the clearance of biological materials.
  • Case studies of inspections: when it really goes wrong and how to tackle it
  • Discover resources and contacts available to help facilitate your imports, especially time- dependent shipments, at U.S. ports of entry
  • Highlighting the key takeaways for ensuring a smooth inspection as we look to the future

Speakers

Sean Smith
Biological Threat Exclusion Coordinator, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

12 PM

Management of the Cold Chain and Best Practices in the Shipping Process

•Answering the question on how end users and solution providers can improve their management techniques and      implement newer practices for them cold chain operations

• Detailing what are best practices in the supply chain

• How to effectively manage cold chain operations

• Discuss and elaborate on proper shipping management and regulations for products

Speakers

Eric Elbel
Senior Manager, Supply Chain Logistics, AVROBIO

12:30 PM

Lunch and networking

2 PM

PANEL DISCUSSION: Maintaining optimal performance conditions of temperature sensitive products whilst ensuring compliance of complex regulations to ensure success of trials and ultimately their commercialization

·       Addressing  issues regarding transporting and storing vaccines, biospecimens and temperature sensitive specimens  to avoid compliance issues and wastage whilst ensuring product integrity and ultimately, consistent data results leading to trial success

·       Exploring the potential benefits to supply quality of real-time data monitoring and alerts to help to facilitate proactive, corrective response, while automatically documenting supply chain temperature data for compliance purposes.

 

·       Implementing holistic supply chain management in supply chain risk reduction. Enabling responsiveness, flexibility and facilitating cooperation between technology, logistics and manufacturing

Speakers

Eric Elbel
Senior Manager, Supply Chain Logistics, AVROBIO
Amanda Murphy
Senior Director, Data Intelligence & Solutions, GlobalData
Matthew L. Plaud
Former President and Chief Operating Officer at SOTIO Biotech Inc.

2:30 PM

Building a strong foundation for proactive quality improvement

Overview of medication error risks for investigational products

•Considerations for packaging and labeling to reduce risk of medication errors

•Issue management when medication errors occur

Speakers

Kaitlin Bova
Manager, Research Quality and Development, Moderna

3:30 PM

Chairperson’s closing remarks

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Amanda Murphy
Senior Director, Data Intelligence & Solutions, GlobalData

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James Krupa
Director-US Clinical Supplies, Takeda

James J. Krupa, Pharm.D.,  Director, Clinical Supply Team Lead, Operations at Takeda in Lexington, MA. In this position, I am responsible for providing the leadership and strategic direction in terms of planning, budget, coordination, scheduling, resources and tracking of global clinical trial materials. I have over 42 years of industrial pharmaceutical experience in multiple dosage form drug development. Building upon experience as a bench pharmacist in clinical and non-clinical supplies, formulations, process development, and technical services, I  have contributed to the success of early and late stage development programs intended for regulatory approvals in women’s health, pain, oncology, CNS disorders, anti-inflammatory diseases, metabolic disorders, anti-infectives, cardiovascular, gastroenterology, gene therapy, and rare disease therapeutic areas.

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Lessons learnt: Strategy for Generation of Stability Data to Demonstrate and Justify Longest

2023-04-06, 11:00 AM

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Eric Elbel
Senior Manager, Supply Chain Logistics, AVROBIO

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Management of the Cold Chain and Best Practices in the Shipping Process

2023-04-06, 12:00 PM

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PANEL DISCUSSION: Maintaining optimal performance conditions of temperature sensitive products whilst ensuring compliance of complex regulations to ensure success of trials and ultimately their commercialization

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Isaac Rodriguez-Chavez
Former SVP-Scientific and Clinical Affairs & Former FDA Official

Dr. Isaac R. Rodriguez-Chavez is a biomedical and regulatory leader with expertise in decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) and Digital Medicine Tools applied to multiple therapeutic areas including Infectious Diseases, Viral Immunology, Viral Oncology, and Vaccinology. Currently, he is an independent consultant for Scientific-, Clinical-, Regulatory-affairs, and digital medicine for modern trials such as DCTs enabled by Digital Health Technologies (DHTs). Past positions in the last 20+ years include: Senior Vice President for Scientific, Clinical Affairs, leading the Strategy of the Global Center of Excellence for DCTs and Digital Medicine at PRA Health Sciences and ICON plc; FDA, CDER Senior Officer for Clinical Research Methodology, Regulatory Compliance and Policy Development modernizing clinical research through Real World Evidence and DCTs enabled by DHTs and electronic Clinical Outcome Assessments (eCOAs); CEO and Founder, 4Biosolutions Biomedical Consulting Firm; Vice President, Research, Texas Biomedical Research Institute; Director of HIV Clinical Research Programs at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Institutes of Health (NIH); Senior Clinical Scientist, Schering Plough Corp. – Merck & Corp.; Scientist, Columbia University; Scientist, Polar Biotechnology Company and Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC). He has a PhD in Virology and Immunology; a MS in Microbiology; a MHS in Clinical Research and Health Sciences; and a B.S. in Biology. He also has 5 years of postdoctoral specialty experience in Clinical Research (phases 1 & 2 trials) linked to AIDS Malignancies, Immuno-Oncology and Viral Immunology (Infectious Diseases) done at the U.S. NIA and NCI, NIH. Dr. Rodriguez-Chavez is a Founding Board Member of the Digital Medical Society (DiME). He is also a co-chair of the DiME’s Research Committee, driving digital medicine globally. He is an Advisory Board Member of BlueCloud by HealthCarePoint; a regulatory Advisor and Vice-Chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fostering industry standards on DCTs and DHTs. He is a former Leadership Council Board Member of the Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance (DTRA). He is a Board Member of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association (HCMA) and a Health Equity Board Council Member for equity, diversity and inclusion in rare diseases at the Global Genes. He is a global content editor for regulatory science and an Editorial Board Member of the DIA Global Forum Magazine. He is also an active member of sixteen professional associations, including the Infectious Disease Society of America, American Federation for Medical Research, American Association of Immunologists, American Society for Virology, American Society of Microbiology, Society of Quality Assurance, Association of Clinical Research Professionals, New York Academy of Sciences, International AIDS Society, International Association for Dental Research, American Association for Dental Research, and Regulatory Affairs Professional Society.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacrc/

 

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PANEL DISCUSSION: Looking at ethical and practical benefits of direct-to-patient models in clinical trials and the resulting challenges and expectations of the supply chain

2023-04-05, 11:00 AM

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Sean Smith
Biological Threat Exclusion Coordinator, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Sean Smith is a Biological Threat Exclusion Coordinator (BTEC) for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the Office of Field Operations

Agriculture Programs and Trade Liaison/ Biological Threat Exclusion.  As a BTEC, Mr. Smith is charged with supporting and developing CBP operational capacity and capability in preventing tools of agro/bio-terrorism from entering the U.S.  Mr. Smith has more than 18 years of public service with CBP, and has worked in a variety of environments, including on the southern land border, maritime, air passenger, and cargo locations.  He has also been able to assist in several past domestic and international CBP disaster recovery operations.

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KEYNOTE Q&A Discussion: Explore importing and exporting requirements for biological materials and in the modern world

2023-04-06, 11:30 AM

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David Adams
David Adams, Associate Director, Global Clinical Supply Chain, Takeda

 David Admas David is a top performing Clinical Supply Chain Manager with over 15 years of pharmaceutical experience, ranging from stability testing, clinical packaging & labeling, and global clinical supply chain management.  He is both a leader and contributing member to many process improvement workstreams at Takeda that include being the Head of the Label Focus Group, developing and implementing clinical label text translation phrase library, guidance on Compassionate Use clinical programs, decentralized trials, and is the packaging & labeling subject matter expert for the Clinical Supply team.  David has presented at CTS conferences before on the topic of Direct-to-Patient delivery of IP supplies, but today is here to speak about best practices for Comparator Sourcing and Labeling.

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PROBLEM-SOLVING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS

2023-04-06, 9:00 AM

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John Gregg
Chairman and CEO at BalinBac Therapeutics, Inc.

John Gregg, Pharmaceutical industry executive, John Gregg, has extensive experience in worldwide clinical development and commercialization of new anti-infective drugs. He has spent much of his career in senior roles directing the development and commercialization efforts for a large number of antibiotic, anti-protozoal, anti-fungal and anti-viral drugs. He is a veteran of new product development leadership positions at Pfizer, Novartis, J&J, BMS, and more recently his start-ups, Symbiomix Therapeutics, LifeQual Pharmaceuticals, and AkaRx. He is now the CEO of a BalinBac Therapeutics, Inc., a specialty infectious disease and microbiome modulation company. He was trained as a microbiologist and has led multi-disciplinary anti-infective drug development teams at the largest pharmaceutical companies, as well as small, private specialty firms directing the work of colleagues and contract laboratories

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PANEL DISCUSSION: Looking at ethical and practical benefits of direct-to-patient models in clinical trials and the resulting challenges and expectations of the supply chain

2023-04-05, 11:00 AM

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Tyler Wilson
Global Clinical Supply Chain Fellow, Takeda

BS Chemistry from University of Minnesota in 2017

PharmD from University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy in 2022

 

Started as postdoctoral fellow in global clinical supply chain at Takeda in July 2022

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Navigating Ancillary Management Challenges through Collaboration and Centralized Teams

2023-04-05, 4:00 PM

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Fred Moreau
Director of Central Ancillary Supplies, Takeda

Fred Moreau is the Director of Centralized Ancillary Supply Management at Takeda Pharmaceuticals.  His responsibilities include development & implementation of supply strategies to facilitate and support the delivery of ancillary supplies.

 

Fred has over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry.  In his career he has been responsible for clinical and commercial supply planning for multiple programs; product lifecycle management; strategic sourcing; and planning for new product launches.  

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Navigating Ancillary Management Challenges through Collaboration and Centralized Teams

2023-04-05, 4:00 PM

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Paul Larochelle
Director, Global Clinical Supply Chain, Takeda

Paul is an experienced, motivated, and enthusiastic professional/pharmacist specializing in the area of Clinical Supplies/Investigational Product Management. He aspires to make an impact on patient lives by motivating, inspiring, guiding, and mentoring teams to see the value of the work that they do and the contribution it makes to the lives of the patients we serve globally. With over 15 years of training and experience in this area, he has served in a multitude of roles, including study supply management, asset management (DS/API/DP Management), management and oversight of a secondary packaging operations team, site and resource planning, and development of multiple custom systems and tools to enable staff to work more efficiently and distribute information more readily.

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Navigating Ancillary Management Challenges through Collaboration and Centralized Teams

2023-04-05, 4:00 PM

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Tomasz Adamusiak
Chief Scientist, Clinical Quality and Data Science, MITRE

Tomasz Adamusiak MD Ph.D. is a Chief Scientist in the Clinical Insights & Innovation Cell at MITRE. He leads a multi-disciplinary group driving high-impact contributions to private and public sectors in the Real-World Evidence, Genomic Data Science, and Digital Health space.

Before MITRE, Tomasz was the Head of Data Science in the Pfizer Innovation Research (PfIRe) Lab. His team was responsible for developing novel digital endpoints, designing decentralized approaches for clinical trials, and applying AI/machine learning methods to generate novel insights from clinical data. He served in leadership and advisory roles in the American Medical Informatics Association, the SNOMED International, and the Epic Research Data Network. He published several highly-cited research papers in peer-reviewed journals and is a frequent speaker at life sciences conferences.

Tomasz's interests are in the use of digital technology to improve health and healthcare. He believes strongly in empowering individuals to better manage their health and is passionate about the power of technology to facilitate these efforts and more broadly transform healthcare.

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Using Real World Data and Evidence to Accelerate Clinical Trials

2023-04-05, 10:00 AM

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Susan Marlin
President and CEO, Clinical Trials Ontario

Susan Marlin is the President and CEO of Clinical Trials Ontario (CTO), an organization established by the Province of Ontario in 2012 to make Ontario a preferred location for global clinical trials while maintaining the highest ethical standards. Prior to joining CTO served as the Associate Vice-Principal at Queen’s University. Susan worked with the Canadian Cancer Trials Group for many years coordinating cancer clinical trials and leading the development and implementation of the Ethics, Regulatory, and International Office.

Susan has actively engaged in research ethics for many years.  She served as President of the Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards, as a member of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Research Integrity Committee, the Ontario Cancer Research Ethics Board and the Tri-Agency Panel on the Responsible Conduct of Research. Susan is on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Life Sciences Ontario and the Management Team for the Ontario SPOR (Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research) Support Unit.  She is an Adjunct Lecturer at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and is the nominated principal investigator on the CHEER Project, a Canadian Institutes of Health Research funded project to streamline research ethics review for child health research across Canada. 

Susan was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She holds a BSc (Hons) from Dalhousie University and an MSc in Community Health and Epidemiology from Queen’s University. She was awarded the Queen’s Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal in 2012 in recognition of her work in support of military and veteran health research.

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The Improving Clinical Trials Environment in Canada

2023-04-05, 3:30 PM

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James L. Sherley
M.D., Ph.D. - President & Chief Executive Officer at Asymmetrex® LLC

As President and CEO, James lead the development team of Asymmetrex® LLC. Asymmetrex® is a for-profit limited liability company with a mission of developing innovative tissue stem cell biotechnologies for applications in cellular medicine and drug development.

 

Asymmetrex's lead tissue stem cell biotechnology is the first-in-kind method for specific and accurate counting of tissue stem cells. Asymmetrex's TORTOISE Test^TM kinetic stem cell (KSC) counting technology is freely available to the stem cell research, biomanufacturing, medical, and pharmaceutical communities. By providing early and easy access to the new technology (https://lnkd.in/dGru6Tc), Asymmetrex® is achieving its vision of accelerating progress in tissue stem cell science and medicine by enabling, for the first time in the 60+ year history of stem cell science and medicine, the routine determination of tissue stem cell number and treatment dosage.

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An emerging clinical trials supply industry for therapeutic tissue stem cells

2023-04-05, 11:45 AM

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Kaitlin Bova
Manager, Research Quality and Development, Moderna

Kaitlin is working on the NIBR CQA team to manage quality issues by supporting clinical operations teams with root cause analysis and CAPA management to ensure patient safety and data integrity. She is also, actively involved in cross-divisional quality improvement projects focused on informed consent, inspection readiness, and quality culture.

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Building a strong foundation for proactive quality improvement

2023-04-06, 2:30 PM

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Hyun Kim
Head, Clinical Operations, AOBiome

Hyun has been a part of AOBiome's clinical pipeline leadership since 2016. Hyun brings over 25 years of drug development experience in the pharma and biotech industry.  Prior to this, Hyun has led Clinical and R&D programs and departments at Pfizer, Anika Therapeutics, Transport Pharmaceuticals, and Olympus Biotech.  He started his career at Genetics Institute and Wyeth, advancing R&D programs into the clinic.  He attended Brown University where he studied Biomedical Engineering and completed a PhD in Medical Science.

 

AOBiome Therapeutics, Inc. is a Cambridge, MA-based life sciences company focused on transforming human health by developing microbiome-based therapies for local, nasal and systemic inflammatory conditions. Founded in 2012 by PatientsLikeMe founder Jamie Heywood and MIT-trained Chemical Engineer David Whitlock, AOBiome is advancing a pipeline of multiple, clinical-stage therapeutic candidates. The company's portfolio includes multiple clinical-stage programs in atopic dermatitis, rosacea, and acne, as well as additional programs targeting diverse inflammatory indications. 

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Strategies for growing a pipeline, accelerating decision making, set up the organization, in order to improve drug development

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Amanda Murphy
Senior Director, Data Intelligence & Solutions, GlobalData

Amanda Murphy is the Director of Product Management at GlobalData, a company that focuses on research, data analytics and consulting that provide actionable insight into the pharmaceutical and medical device sectors.  She has 10+ years of experience working in pharmaceutical data science and web platform development (including BioPharm Insight, Lead Sheet, and the Pharma Intelligence Center).  She has developed models and solutions to support Clinical Operations & Feasibility teams plan and optimize trials, including an e-feasibility questionnaire tool resulting in 4x faster response rates from sites.  Amanda also has many years of experience supporting business development at CROs through data-driven lead delivery and CRM integration solutions.

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PANEL DISCUSSION: Looking at ethical and practical benefits of direct-to-patient models in clinical trials and the resulting challenges and expectations of the supply chain

2023-04-05, 11:00 AM

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State of the Biopharmaceutical Industry

2023-04-05, 9:00 AM

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Chairperson’s closing remarks

2023-04-05, 4:30 PM

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Chairperson’s opening remarks

2023-04-06, 8:50 AM

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Chairperson’s closing remarks

2023-04-06, 3:30 PM

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PANEL DISCUSSION: Maintaining optimal performance conditions of temperature sensitive products whilst ensuring compliance of complex regulations to ensure success of trials and ultimately their commercialization

2023-04-06, 2:00 PM

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Matthew L. Plaud
Former President and Chief Operating Officer at SOTIO Biotech Inc.

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PANEL DISCUSSION: Maintaining optimal performance conditions of temperature sensitive products whilst ensuring compliance of complex regulations to ensure success of trials and ultimately their commercialization

2023-04-06, 2:00 PM

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Melissa Morandi
Vice President, Head of Global Quality, Sumitomo Pharma Oncology

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PANEL DISCUSSION: Looking at ethical and practical benefits of direct-to-patient models in clinical trials and the resulting challenges and expectations of the supply chain

2023-04-05, 11:00 AM

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James L. Sherley
M.D., PH.D, President & Chief Executive Officer, Asymmetrex

James L. Sherley, M.D., Ph.D. is the founder, President, and CEO of Massachusetts stem cell biotechnology company Asymmetrex®, LLC.  Asymmetrex® develops and markets technologies for advancing stem cell medicine, including the first method achieving specific and accurate certification of the dosage of therapeutic tissue stem cells, called kinetic stem cell (KSC) counting.  Asymmetrex’s kinetic stem cell counting platforms are also used to optimize manufacturing of therapeutic stem cells and for evaluations of drug effects on tissue stem cells.  Dr. Sherley is a graduate of Harvard College, with a B.A. degree in biology, and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, earning joint M.D. and Ph.D. degrees.  Prior to founding Asymmetrex®, he held academic research appointments at the Fox Chase Cancer Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Boston Biomedical Research Institute.  Dr. Sherley’s professional awards include Pew Biomedical Research Scholar, Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Aging Research, and NIH Director’s Pioneer Award.  He is also the author of a recently published new book, Missing Elements in the Public Science Supporting the COVID-19 Spread Narrative in the US.

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Bharti Kansara
Associate Director, Global Clinical Supply Chain, and Vendor Management, Takeda
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Antoine Remiot
Antoine Remiot, Senior Director - Global Business Development & Partnerships, Clinical Supply Optimization, N-SIDE

Antoine Remiot is N-SIDE's Director of BD and Partnerships. Over the past years, Antoine has been sharing his enthusiasm for lean clinical supply chain management, waste reduction, and sustainability with various pharma partners he supported in their change management journey toward digitalization.
Antoine is passionate about leveraging data and AI to improve clinical supply efficiency. He gained expertise in forecasting, planning, IRT configuration, and end-to-end clinical supply chain optimization through his work on hundreds of trials on multiple indications.

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Managing stockout risk without impacting patients and recruitment

2023-04-05, 9:30 AM

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Maxime Derep
Director of Solutions Engineering, N-SIDE

Maxime is an optimist and is passionate about problem solving. He is a Senior Consultant and has been working at N-SIDE for over 4 years. He supports pharma parters with the optimization of multiple trials and programs from different therapeutics area. He also helps those partners to understand the value of risk-based optimization and drive changes within their organizations. He loves to exchange ideas and discuss with people from the industry. Maxime has a Master in Business Engineering with a focus on supply chain.

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Managing stockout risk without impacting patients and recruitment

2023-04-05, 9:30 AM

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Case study in clinical supply chain innovation by TrialCard

2023-04-05, 2:00 PM

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Henk Dieteren
Clinical Supply Chain Solutions Consultant, Suvoda

As Clinical Supply Chain Solutions Consultant, Henk has been assisting Suvoda with his knowledge in various areas of clinical trial supply management since October 2020. Prior to joining Suvoda, Henk co-founded the clinical supply chain department at Grünenthal GmbH (Aachen - Germany) and served as Associate Director of this department for 10 years. At Grünenthal, Henk developed operational processes and promoted risk management procedures to establish the company as a clear market leader in the area of the clinical trial supply chain.

Following his time at Grünenthal, Henk moved to BioNTech S.E. (Mainz - Germany) where he assumed the role of Senior Investigational Medicinal Product Manager. At BioNTech, he streamlined data processing in the clinical supply chain for personalized oncology therapies.

Henk is an innovative expert in IRT, temperature excursion management and direct-to-patient logistics and a member of the DtP sub-team of the GCSG Regulatory e-Team.

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Managing stockout risk without impacting patients and recruitment

2023-04-05, 9:30 AM

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