Released on: June 16, 2008, 1:27 pm

Press Release Author: Nina Tran / GTC Bio

Industry: Biotech

Press Release Summary: Dr. Amrit Ray, Vice President of Bristol-Myers Squibb will
give the keynote presentation at GTCbio's Global Clinical Trial Operations
conference on September 25-26, 2008 in San Diego, CA. Dr. Ray will give a
presentation entitled "The Next Generation of Pharmacovigilance - Clinical Trials
and Drug Development in the New Era of Drug Safety."

Press Release Body: With such dramatic changes to the drug safety environment in the
last decade, it is clear that highly effective pharmacovigilance and risk management
is critical for the current and future success of all biopharmaceutical companies.
This presentation will examine the current environment including new expectations,
new legislation, funding shifts and data transparency standards. Following will be
perspectives and insights on the innovations that can bring transformation in
pharmacovigilance - including partnership approaches to PV, opportunities for
optimizing safety in clinical trials, and alternative models for drug development
and launch. For those organizations that can seize these opportunities to create the
next generation of pharmacovigilance, there is a tremendous opportunity to both
serve patients and create value. Dr. Ray will highlight critical new importance of
pharmacovigilance and risk management for successful drug development. He will
provide some insights on the new opportunities for high performance in
pharmacovigilance, with cutting-edge examples of innovation in pharmacovigilance,
and elaboration on the new globalization of pharmacovigilance standards.

The conference brings together leaders, directors, vice presidents, heads, managers,
supervisors, and CROs from all over the world to collaborate and discuss the latest
developments in clinical trial operations and logistics and covers clinical trials
in emerging markets, first-in-man clinical trials, pediatric clinical trials,
material storage, distribution, site selection, patient recruitment and retention,
technology in clinical trials and case studies of running global clinical trials.


Web Site: http://gtcbio.com

Contact Details: GTCBIO
(626) 256-6405,
(626) 256-6460 fax
nina.tran@gtcbio.com