DSRU Education and Research has a strong sense of playing a leading role in resolving the challenging issues in drug safety research.
To this end it is running symposia which both educate and raise critical issues with opinion leaders in the field.
2008/9 symposia include:
Advanced Workshop & Round Table Meeting on Pharmacovigilance Planning and Risk Management
11-12 December 2008
This meeting will be held in the Southampton area
Programme outline:
- Understanding of the scientific basis for safety specifications and risk management
- Case studies for risk management for small and large pharmaceutical companies
- Practical workshops with examples on how to write pharmacovigilance safety specifications and risk management plans
Data Safety Monitoring Boards
11-12 February 2009
Meeting to be held in Central London
Programme outline:
- Evolution and role of Data Safety Monitoring Boards/Data Safety Monitoring Committees
- Chairmanship, constitution and practical aspects
- Corporate impact of decisions
- Statistical integrity of interim analysis performs
- Regulatory and Clinical Trial Directive requirements
- Worked examples in high mortality conditions
- DAMOCLES Project
Monitoring Safety in Clinical Trials and Drug Development
25-26 February 2009
Meeting will be held in the Southampton area
Programme outline:
- Objectives of pharmacovigilance planning and monitoring in drug development programmes
- Pharmacovigilance in clinical trials - a regulatory perspective
- Pre-registration pharmacovigilance planning
- Assessing safety issues in the Common Technical Document
- Planning for pharmacovigilance in the new ICH programme
- Implementation of the Clinical Trials Directive and the detailed guidance
- Eudravigilance and proposed DRA tracking of investigational adverse events under the Clinical Trial Directive
- CIOMS VI issues
- Communication for the protection of the trial population
- Monitoring safety with an investigational agent in co-development
- Development of labelling from Development Core Safety Information through to CCSI and the SPC
- SAEs in high mortality conditions
- Unravelling the unexpected
Compliance in Pharmacovigilance and the role of the EU qualified person
13-14 May 2009
Meeting will be held in central London
Programme outline:
- Regulatory requirements in Europe and the USA
- Operational and IT aspects
- How to design compliance friendly systems during clinical development and postmarketing
- Audits
- Planning and coping with inspections