• Clarity for the global central lab outsourcing, logistics, and regulatory environment in emerging markets
• Integrate internal and external expert groups for collaboration in early project planning
• Involve service providers early in the operational logistics of writing protocols and the project planning processes to decrease overall project costs
• Improve and standardize process efficiencies to advance drug development by aligning sponsors with their clinical lab, ECG and imaging partners
• Determine the impact of Personalized Medicine on Drug development and Commercialization

• Track A: Improving Partnerships with Global Central Labs
• Track B: Maximizing ECG Core Lab Relationships
• Track C: Best Practices in Working with Imaging Core Labs

Monday Pre-conference Workshops

• Full Day: B1: Creating Best Practices for Outsourcing to Central lab, ECG and Imaging Labs-Designed for Small and Medium Pharmaceutical Companies
• Full Day: B2: Biomarkers, Personalized Medicine, Diagnostics….
• AM: B3 Cardiac Safety: Premarketing Assessment for Noncardiac Drugs
• PM: B4 Integrating ECG and Imaging with Clinical Data Systems

• Drug Safety & Benefit-Risk Assessment throughout Lifecycle Drug Development
• Vendor Quality Management
• Cost Efficient Outsourcing Strategies for Increased Performance
• Getting to the Win/Win Partnership by Increasing Transparency with your Central Lab
• Importance and Strategies for Tracking Global Lab Samples

1. Networking
2. Keep updated on current trends and hear how other companies handle issues
3. Create best practices
4. Exchange ideas and learn from experiences of others
5. Get contacts, market overview, meeting potential lab vendors
6. Gain knowledge on biomarker development, assay transfer and the use of biomarkers and companion diagnostics in clinical trials challenges and considerations
7. Meet and interact with representatives from different companies in different job areas; and to gain additional insight on the various aspects of partnerships between sponsors and CROs/Central Labs etc
8. “The Best ECG conference of the Year.”
9. Presentation of MCC (Metrics Champion Consortium) information for imaging, ECG and Central labs