Drug Safety Strategies to De-Risk Compounds--an IBC conference. 4-6 August 2009, Boston, MA, USA
Mattes, W.
IDrugs the investigational drugs journal 12(10): 623-626
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 1369-7056 PMID: 19790010 Document Number: 632834
The Drug Safety Strategies to De-Risk Compounds conference, held in Boston, included topics covering new developments in the field of drug safety. This conference report highlights selected presentations on the early prediction of hepatotoxicity, improvements in models of cardiovascular toxicity, the use of biomarkers in drug development, and computational approaches to drug safety predictions. Emerging technologies and drug safety models, as well as case studies of safety assessment advances, are also discussed.