2nd Eur. Congr. Pharmaceu. Sci. - Announcement



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                   2nd European Congress of Pharmaceutical Sciences
                         29th September - 1st October, 1994
                                  Berlin, Germany
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 The 2nd European Congress of Pharmaceutical Sciences will take place in Berlin,
 Germany from September 29 to October 1, 1994. The programme will consist of 4
 Plenary Trend Lectures and 14 Parallel Symposia on current topics in
 pharmaceutical sciences to be presented during three days. Short communications
 and poster sessions will complement the programme. The expected number of
 participants is approximately 1000.
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 Programme, registration form and further information can be obtained from:
                               Apothekerhaus
                              Carmerstrasse 3
                                10623 Berlin
                                  Germany
                           Tel: 	(49) 30-3135091
                           Fax: 	(49) 30-3123081
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                             Congress Schedule
 Thursday September 29, 1994
 Plenary Lecture
 J. Drews
 The evolution of biomedical science and the future of drug design
 Parallel Symposium 1
 Enzymes as targets for drug development
 A.W. Alberts
 Recent approaches to cholesterol biosynthesis inhibition
 R.W. Hartmann
 Selective inhibition of steroidogenic P450 enzymes:
 Current status and future perspectives
 Parallel Symposium 2
 Drug targeting
 D.J.A. Crommelin
 Targeting of peptide and protein drugs
 H.P. Merkle
 New aspects of pharmaceutical dosage forms for
 controlled drug delivery of peptides and proteins
 Parallel Symposium 3
 Alternative methods to animal experimentation
 A. Cordier
 Strategy of using in vitro tests in preclinical safety testing
 B. Garthoff
 The use of transgenic animals in drug research
 Parallel Symposium 4
 Pharmaceutical impact on chronic disease therapy
 R. Paoletti
 Combined drug therapy and the prevention of cardiovascular diseases
 J. Urquhart
 Compliance as a major determinant for the success of chronic drug treatment
 J.C. Aschoff
 Physostigmin for cerebellar ataxia's: The phantasies of a clinical neurologist
 and the real problems in developing a legalized therapeutic system (TTS)
 Friday September 30, 1994
 Plenary Lecture
 E. De Clercq
 Trends in drug development for the treatment of AIDS
 Parallel Symposium 5
 Receptor selectivity and drug development
 J.-C. Schwartz
 Molecular biology of receptors and drug design
 T.W. Schwartz
 Molecular mechanism of agonists and antagonists on neuropeptide receptors
 Parallel Symposium 6
 Computer based methods in pharmaceutical sciences
 G. Folkers
 Modelling of ligand-protein interaction complexes as a basis of drug design
 Y.C. Martin
 Utility and challenges of 3D databases in new drug discovery
 Parallel Symposium 7
 Overcoming biological barriers
 C. Laboisse
 Intestinal cell culture models
 H. Lennernas
 Gastrointestinal absorption mechanisms: A comparison between animal and
 human models
 Parallel Symposium 8
 Non invasive techniques in drug development
 P. Hartvig
 PET-illuminating in vivo drug disposition
 C.G. Wilson
 Application of gamma scintigraphy to modern dosage form design
 M. Rudin
 In vivo magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy in pharmacological
 research: Applications to drug development and profiling
 Parallel Symposium 9
 Pharmacoeconomics - a perspective on drug cost and drug benefit
 B. Joensson
 Health economics - what is it about?
 M.F. Drummond
 Health economic evaluation and reimbursement of pharmaceuticals
 G. Kobelt-Nguyen
 Health economics - an industry perspective
 Saturday October 1, 1994
 Plenary Lectures
 J. Feijen
 The impact of biomaterials on pharmacists to drug research
 Y. Torud
 Contributions of European pharmacists to drug research
 Parallel Symposium 10
 New approaches in drug synthesis
 P. Krogsgaard-Larsen
 Agonists, partial agonists and antagonists at GABA and glutamate receptors in
 Alzheimer's disease: Chemistry and pharmacology
 K.T. Wanner
 Chiral N-acyliminium ions as new tools in the asymmetric synthesis of
 CNS-active compounds
 Parallel Symposium 11
 Antioxidants and cell protection
 S. Orrenius
 Intracellular oxidative processes and cell killing
 C. Galli
 Natural antioxidants, lipid peroxidation and platelet/leukocyte functions
 Parallel Symposium 12
 Prediction of drug metabolism
 D.A. Smith
 Chemistry and enzymology: Their use in the prediction of human drug metabolism
 W. Taeschner
 Prediction of genetic variation of drug metabolism
 Parallel Symposium 13
 Plant metabolites as models for modern drug research
 W.F. Fleck
 Benzo[a]naphthacenequinones from microorganisms as models of modern drug
 research
 W. Kubelka
 Constituents of higher plants as models for modern drug research
 M. Tanker
 Certain Anatolian plants and their constituents influencing drug disposition
 Parallel Symposium 14
 New opportunities for near infrared (NIR) spectrometry in
 pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis
 C. van der Vlies
 The use of NIR spectrometry in the pharmaceutical control laboratory
 M. Josefson
 New opportunities with NIR spectrometry in the analysis of dosage forms
 R.A. Lodder
 NIR-Spectrometric imaging
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 The above announcement has been submitted to CCL by:
 Flemming Steen Jorgensen
 Associate professor, Ph.D.
 Royal Danish School of Pharmacy
 Department of Medicinal Chemistry
 Universitetsparken 2
 DK-2100 Copenhagen
 Denmark
 Phone:    +45 35 37 08 50 ext. 378
 Fax:      +45 35 37 22 09
 If you need more information, you are welcome to contact me on:
 flemming # - at - # dfhvax.nbi.dk
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