CHI Announces Premier Drug Repositioning Summit: Finding New Routes to Success to Support Pharma Company Pipeline Development.NEWTON UPPER FALLS Upper Falls may be:
--Research experts discuss innovative technologies for stalled pharmaceutical pipelines --Summit offers tools for challenging business models and organization structure Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI), leading organizer of conferences for life science professionals exclusively, announced today its first ever Drug Repositioning Summit, October 16-17, 2006 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gene Logic Inc., one of the sector's pioneers, is the Exclusive Sponsor of this event. The Drug Repositioning Summit enables top pharmaceutical and biotechnology researchers and executives to review the latest technology information and innovations in drug discovery. This premier Drug Repositioning Summit offers a pre-conference workshop, presentations, and case studies from distinguished faculty and speakers including former Aventis worldwide head of research, Frank L. Douglas, Ph.D., M.D., now executive director, MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Biomedical bi·o·med·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to biomedicine. 2. Of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical sciences. Innovation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, . Organizations presenting at the Drug Repositioning Summit include Pfizer, Organon or·ga·non or or·ga·num n. pl. or·ga·nons or or·ga·nums or or·ga·na 1. An organ. 2. A set of principles for use in scientific investigation. organon pl. organa [Gr.] organ. , and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, is a highly regarded medical school and biomedical research institute in the United States. . "Finding new development paths for failed, stalled, or de-prioritized clinical-stage drug candidates enables pharmaceutical companies to discover new clinical solutions for the physicians and patients," said Phillips Kuhl, president of CHI. "The insights from this summit will define how different technologies and services can be used to find new indications and how pharmaceutical companies are reinvigorating stalled pipelines." The Drug Repositioning Summit will be held at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Philadelphia. To gain more information, register for the conference or to download the brochure with workshop and presentation details visit www.healthtech.com or call 781-972-5400 or toll-free at 888-999-6288. About Cambridge Healthtech Institute CHI's renowned conferences are the underpinning for all our other information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. . Each year, CHI organizes over 80 conferences held throughout the US, including The Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference, Beyond Genome, PepTalk, World Pharmaceutical Congress and the new acquired Bio-IT World's Life Sciences Conference & Expo. The company strives to develop quality programs that provide valuable new insights and competing points of view while offering balanced coverage of the latest developments. Basic research related to commercial implications is covered, with heavy emphasis placed on end-user insights into new products and technology as well as coverage on the strategy behind the business. Leading researchers and business experts from top pharmaceutical, biotech bi·o·tech n. Informal Biotechnology. biotech Noun short for biotechnology Noun 1. and academic organizations present their most current findings in a forum that features panel discussions and audience participation. Over the past 14 years, CHI has produced more than 600 conferences, attracting more than 50,000 attendees from around the world. In addition to CHI's vast conference portfolio, their media properties include Pharma DD and Bio-IT World. Gene Logic Overview Gene Logic technologies and services are used by many of the world's top pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies Top 100 Biotechnology Companies The following is a list of the top 100 biotechnology companies ranked by revenue. The first nine companies qualify for the list of the top 50 pharmaceutical companies. . Over 150 organizations and government agencies have benefited from Gene Logic's diverse portfolio of drug development services, enabling them to make more informed, more reliable and more predictive decisions at each point in the highly complex and costly drug development process. Gene Logic has drug repositioning programs in place with a number of pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, Roche, and Organon. Founded in 1994, Gene Logic is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, conducts additional research and development in facilities in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. , and has customer support operations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.genelogic.com or call toll-free - 1/800/GENELOGIC. |
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