Conference themes 

For our anniversary 10^th symposium, we plan for increased connectivity by making more time available for interactive workshops and increased time for discussions during the plenary presentations.

We identified 5 themes for plenary presentations and 5 themes for interactive workshops for which we have reserved ½ day on day 2.

1. Our Daily Challenges:
   • Globalization of BA – any challenges along the road?
   • Learning from mistakes – your worst BA nightmare shared in Barcelona
   • Efficient assay transfer – a smooth journey?
   • What if ISR really fails?
2. Regulations:
   • Feedback from industry experience during filings – what questions did you get, how did you overcome challenges?
   • How do we manage new technologies or assay formats in a regulated environment?
   • New guidelines impacting the BA landscape dissected to agree on a common approach (e.g. OECD-17, GLP, Data integrity…)
3. New Technologies Embraced versus Established Technologies Refined
   • Novel solutions for daily challenges: game changers on the horizon?
   • Bedside monitoring – a new hype or here to stay?
   • How quantitative are imaging data? Can we validate them? Should we?
   • Can the latest developments in Ligand Binding, Chromatography and Hybrid Assays be applied routinely?
4. The Challenges from 2016 Continue….
   • Biomarkers:
   • Use and Validation of ‘quasi-quantitative’ assays (LBA, enzyme-activity, receptor occupancy, FACS)
   • The weak boundary between exploratory and confirmatory biomarker
   • Immunogenicity – best practices and continued challenges
   • Scientific Validation – implementation in a global setting
5. How can we do More with Less?
   • Honey, they shrunk the budget!
   • Single analysis in LBA – why aren’t we doing it?
   • Analyzing placebos, taking duplicate samples – why do we keep on doing it?

Five themes for the Interactive Workshops:  Workshops related to (1) the E-environment, (2) technology development, (3) specialized sampling or separation developments, (4) specialized LBA and (5) practical challenges with regulations

ORAL PRESENTATIONS and WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTIONS

Abstracts should reach us before May 31^st, 2017.
For detailed instructions, click on Call for speakers and fill out the submission form.

POSTERS

Abstracts should reach us before September 15^th, 2017.
For detailed instructions, click on Call for posters and fill out the submission form.