DMMC COURSES & WORKSHOPS

MOLECULES TO MEDICINES: HOW BIOPHARMA DELIVERS Workshop
Wed 10 May 2006
Venue: UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin (location)

This DMMC/Wyeth 1-day workshop, for 24 participants, comprises discussion of key issues arising during biopharmaceutical discovery, development, and manufacturing. It will include breakout group discussion of specially devised problem sets.

Participants in this workshop will be postgraduate students selected in consultation with Principal Investigators in TCD, UCD, and RCSI. Attendance at the lecture course on the preceding day (Tue 9 May 2006) is compulsory.

WORKSHOP: Wed 10 May; 0930-1800

0930 Introduction to the workshop: key issues in
         discovery, development, and manufacturing
1020 Tea/Coffee

DISCOVERY
1040 Issues in discovery: defining the breakout
         session problem set Dr Davinder Gill
1120 Breakout session 1: issues in discovery
1200 Breakout session 1 feedback
1240 Lunch

DEVELOPMENT
1320 Issues in development: defining the breakout
         session problem set Dr Mark Leonard
1400 Breakout session 2: issues in development
1440 Breakout session 2 feedback
1520 Tea/Coffee

MANUFACTURING
1540 Issues in manufacturing: defining the breakout
         session problem set Dr Brendan Hughes
1620 Breakout session 3: issues in manufacturing
1700 Breakout session 3 feedback

1740 Discussion: key learnings

Course Developers/Instructors comprise key personnel from Wyeth BioPharma. Follow the links below to read short biographies.

Dr Brendan Hughes (Director of Development, Wyeth Medica Ireland, Grange Castle)
Dr Mark Leonard (Director, Gene Expression Technologies, Wyeth BioPharma Campus, Andover, MA, USA)
Dr Davinder Gill (Director, Antibody Technologies, Wyeth Research, Cambridge, MA, USA)