Event: 8^th Annual World Drug Discovery & Development Summit

Diary Date: 2-3rd December 2009

Location: Prague, Czech Republic

Website: www.wddsummit.com

We are pleased to announce that Thomas Metcalfe, Global Head of Personalized Healthcare Portfolio F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. has agreed to speak at the event. He will be debating the contraversal subject of personalised medicines and if they have a future in the industry.

This novel approach to healthcare promises many benefits:

• Patients and physicians will benefit by being able to make safer, more efficacious and more rational therapy choices.
• The reduction of uncertainty related to the potential of response or risk from adverse events will likely improve patient compliance, duration of therapy and the patient-physician relationship.
• Healthcare systems will benefit by reducing the burden of administering therapies to patients who have little or no chance of deriving benefit and by reducing the impact of avoidable adverse drug reactions.

Other speakers joining Thomas Metcalfe are:

Dr Jinghai Xu, Director of Automated Biotechnology, Merck & Co

Prof Jurgen Borlak, Director, Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine

Susana Murteira, Head of Pricing and Reimbursement, Lundbeck A/S

Dr. Jonathan Lee, Senior Research Advisor, Quantitative Biology, Eli Lilly & Co.

The WTG innovative event structure not only offers keynote sessions, panel discussions and vendor-led interactive workshops but also an exclusive networking model of pre-arranged, private one-to-one meetings. Delegates and sponsors meet only with those who have expressed an interest in meeting with them ensuring that precious networking time is spent productively, maximising the very real chance of doing business at the event.

Event facts and figures

• World Drug Discovery and Development 2008 is a two day event that is now in its eighth year
• Taking place at the Prague Congress Centre, Prague, Czech Republic. Ddelegates can choose to:
• Meet with other attendees or take pre-arranged meetings with a select group of leading vendors such as BD Bioscience, Gentronix, Nikem Research and many more
• Visit http://www.wddsummit.com/  or call +44 (0)20 7202 7573 for more information

About World Trade Group:

• WTG is a market-leading conference company that brings together senior executives from world-class organizations for a unique blend of knowledge sharing, networking and deal-making.
• Each year more than 5000 senior delegates - predominantly Fortune or FTSE 500 - attend one of WTG's high level business events in Europe and North America. Many of our events are now in their ninth or tenth successful year.
• Our event portfolio includes more than 30 ‘must attend' conferences and events held across Europe and North America across 4 key core industries: life sciences, energy, business services and manufacturing.
• The event format pioneered by WTG has carefully researched conference programmes are combined with facilitated networking sessions to provide delegates with cutting edge information and innovative solutions.

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