Drug Delivery Technology Asia 2008

Key Conference Topics

Strategies for developments in the drug delivery business

• Drug delivery compulsions: Going forward
• Demands of biotech companies for new and innovative delivery technology in today’s market
• Scouting, sourcing and selection of drug delivery system
• Regulatory Reform: The key to innovations in drug delivery
• Commercialization of drug delivery R&D: Manufacturing & scale up issues
• Drug Delivery and individualized therapy: Towards flexibility in development and manufacturing
• Panel Discussion – Pharmaceutical partnership as the key to success in the drug delivery market

Novel developments in protein drug delivery

• Reversible lipidization of protein and peptide drugs: A study of lipidized human interferon-alpha
• Controlled DDS for therapeutic biomolecules: Hyaluronate-based sustained release system
• New transdermal delivery technologies: Meeting challenges and providing product solutions
• Conjugation and Delivery Technologies for Biopharmaceuticals: Applications to Nucleotide, Peptide, and Protein Therapeutics

Trends & challenges in drug delivery

• Trends in Oral Drug Delivery Systems
• Case study – Beyond Liposome: An Asian Company going Global

New technological application for drug delivery

• Development of Sustained Drug Delivery Technology
• Ceramic particles for Drug Delivery
• Silicone Drug Delivery Devices: Control and Release
• Panel discussion – Eye on the future: Strategies in developing innovative drug delivery technologies

New scientific frontiers in drug delivery research

• A new versatile and approvable formulation strategy applicable to a wide range of therapeutics: Remarkable results obtained by sub-lingual administration of GLP-1 peptides
• Cancer gene therapy for malignant brain tumor with adenoviral delivery of pro-apoptotic TRAIL gene
• Enhanced transduction efficiency of recombinant adenoviruses into cancer & stem cells by oligomeric cell-permeable peptide: An innovative tool for cell-based gene therapy

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