About this Event
This is a project 'dissemination event' to describe an NIHR-funded project addressing issues with the use of biologic drugs.
The basics of the problem surrounding patients building immunity to mono-clonal antibody drugs: These drugs are the current best available treatments for the many auto-immune diseases, but become ineffective after a while as the patient will generate antibodies. Rapid, reliable and simpler detection of these will greatly enhance the clinician's choices in deployment of given treatments, and when to swap to different approaches. By developing new marker assays in tandem with a new camera and sensing method will lead to an in-clinic means of testing for the antibodies, simpler and quicker than sending samples away for analysis in a laboratory.
This will be a general interest event for people affected by diseases and with an interest in developments; clinicians keeping abreast of developments, people interested in the instrumentation challenges.
Draft Agenda
12.30 Registration & Networking, light lunch and refreshments available
13.30 Welcome & Opening Remarks from the Event Chair
Professor Pankaj Vadgama, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, Consultant Chemical
Pathologist
Part 1 — Clinical
13.45 The Importance Of Research : A Patient Perspective
Dominic Shadbolt, Multiple Sclerosis Patient Advocate
14.05 Autoimmune Diseases and how Mono-clonal Antibody drugs work
Sharmilee Gnanapavan, Consultant Neurologist, Barts Health NHS Trust & Princess Alexandra NHS Trust. QMUL: Basics for the people in the room from non-clinical backgrounds
14.30 The Economics of Health
Tim Jamieson, NIHR Fellow in Health Economics at Queen Mary University of London QMUL: How the challenge looks at scale, and the role of Health Economics in general, and in this project.
15.00 Comfort Break
Part 2 — Technical
15.20 Biomarkers: How do they work and what we have looked at
Speaker TBC
15.50 The Camstech SupaCam: building a novel detector system for patient-side chemi/bioluminescence assay
Alex Efimov, Camstech Ltd.
Event Venue
The Wesley, 81-103 Euston Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
