The 8th World Drug Discovery & Development Summit 2008 brings together leading pharmaceutical and biotech professionals to discuss the key scientific and strategic challenges faced by the industry today.

The 8th Annual World Drug Discovery and Development Summit provides a unique opportunity to network and do business with industry peers from all over Europe.

WDD 2008 features case studies from the world’s leading Pharma companies focusing on overcoming scientific and strategic challenges faced in the research and development process. Topics to be discussed at the World Drug Discovery & Development Summit 2008:

• Evaluating drug innovation – which models are actually working?
  
  
• Technology disruption – how can we leverage this to our advantage?
  
  
• RNA – measuring its commercial progress
  
  
• Systems usability - integrating your open-source and proprietary systems with ease
  
  
• Biomarkers in drug R&D – translation from discovery to clinical application
  
  
• Next generation data sharing – the web potential in action
  
  
• Pharmacogenomics and patient stratification - are we there yet?