Program & Schedule - Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007

This meeting will provide an overview of the use of both primary cells and stem cells in high-throughput screening and the drug-discovery process.  Presentation topics will include: primary cells in drug discovery; primary cells as a tool for ADMET; stem cells & target validation; and emerging applications of stem cells.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007 Thursday, November 8 >
7:30am – 5:30pm	Registration
7:30am – 8:45am	Continental Breakfast, Visit Exhibits, Poster Viewing in Exhibit Hall
8:45am – 9:00am	Welcome Remarks Robert Ames, GlaxoSmithKline, USA
9:00am – 9:45am	Plenary Influence of Cell Phenotype on Pharmacology Download Presentation Robert Pacifici, CHDI, USA
Session 1: Primary Cells in Drug Discovery Session Chair: Terry Riss, Promega Corporation, USA Sponsored by
9:45am – 10:30am	Using Primary Cells for HTS Follow-up in a Physiologically Relevant System Download Presentation Eric Johnson, Merck, USA
10:30am – 11:00am	Networking Refreshment Break, Visit Exhibit, Poster Viewing in Exhibit Hall
11:00am – 11:45am	Heterotrimeric G proteins: How Your Cell Type Can Make Difference in GPCR Signaling Download Presentation Annette Gilchrist, Caden Bioscience, USA
11:45am – 12:30pm	Drug Discovery Targeting Chemokine Receptors: Applications for AIDS, Cancer and Stem Cell Therapies detail^ Ziwei Huang, The Burnham Institute, USA
12:30pm – 2:00pm Lunch Break, Visit Exhibits, Poster Viewing in Exhibit Hall
Session 2:  Primary Cells as a Tool for ADMET Session Chair: Ellen Berg, BioSeek, Inc., USA
2:00pm – 2:45pm	Human Primary Cell-Based in vitro Experimental Systems for the Evaluation of Human Drug Safety detail^ Albert Li, The ADMET Group LLC, USA
2:45pm – 3:30pm	Nuclear Receptor Activation: Comparison Between Primary Hepatocytes & Engineered Cell Lines detail^ Judy Raucy, Puracyp, Inc., USA
3:30pm - 4:15pm	3-D Co-culturing of Multiple Primary Cells for Drug Discovery, Diagnostics & Devices detail^ Dawn Applegate, RegeneMed. Inc., USA
4:15pm – 4:45pm	Question & Answer Session Session Chair: Ellen Berg
4:45pm – 5:30pm	Vendor Tutorial Program I
5:30pm – 6:30pm	Networking Welcome Reception