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Drug Repurposing: Opportunities & Challenges
Session Chair(s)
Tamara Di Carlantonio, MA
Regulatory Policy Lead, Roche, Switzerland
Drug repurposing is regarded as a potential solution to treatment gaps and increasing healthcare costs, especially after COVID. However, this complex topic grants deeper discussion and a collaborative, multi-stakeholder approach.
Learning Objective : • Uncover the different aspects that come to play in drug repurposing: (including but not limited to) scientific, regulatory, patient access, healthcare systems, commercial • Articulate areas where repurposing presents opportunities • Describe current and potential challenges • Discuss how to tackle challenges in order to realize opportunities
Speaker(s)
EMA Repurposing Pilot
Alberto Ganan Jimenez, PhD
Head of Committees and Quality Assurance, European Medicines Agency, Netherlands
Donald Lo, PhD
Director of Medicines Development, EATRIS, Netherlands
Targeted Therapy in PIK3CA-Related Overgrowth Syndrome
Guillaume Canaud
Chief of the Overgrowth Syndromes and Vascular anomalies Unit, Neckar Enfants Malades Hospital, France
Drug Repurposing: How to Proceed?
François Houyez
Treatment Information and Access Director, Health Policy Advisor, European Organisation for Rare Diseases (EURORDIS), France
Panelist
Solange Corriol-Rohou, DrMed, MD, PhD
, SCR Consulting, France
Panelist
Sini Eskola, MPharm, MS, MSc
Head of International Regulatory Policy and Innovation, Takeda, Belgium
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