Praktisch
11 juni 2022
08:45 - 14:00
Afgelopen
Locatie:
MC-SQUARE Leuven, Philipssite 5 box 1, 3000 Leuven
Prijs: €30 - free for students and trainees - networking lunch €20
Programme
8:45 Registration & welcome coffee
9:15 – 11:15 Session 1: Socio-economic and ethical aspects of paediatric drug development
- Welcome – prof. dr. Gunnar Buyse, chair of paediatrics, UZ Leuven
- Paediatric drug development in Europe: challenges now and ahead – prof. dr. Koen Norga, EMA & UZA
- Innovative medicine in University Hospitals Leuven – prof. dr. Frank Weekers, operational director, UZ Leuven
- European collaboration in paediatric clinical trials – prof. dr. Johan Vande Walle, UZ Gent
- Will our healthcare system become unaffordable? – prof. Yvonne Denier, KU Leuven
11:15 – 11:35 Coffee break
11:35 – 13:00 Session 2: Future therapies for children in the pipeline
- Gene, cell and enzyme replacement therapy
- Gene therapy in neuromuscular disorders: successes and challenges – prof. dr. Liesbeth De Waele
- Neonatal kidney stem cells to improve quality of kidney grafts – prof. dr. Noel Knops
- Enzyme replacement therapies in metabolic disorders – prof. dr. Peter Witters
- New immune therapies
- New biotherapies in paediatric rheumatic diseases – prof. dr. Lien De Somer
- Biologicals in inflammatory bowel disease – prof. dr. Ilse Hoffman
- New therapeutic options in relapsed or refractory acute lymphatic leukaemia – prof. dr. Heidi Segers
- A remedy for vitamin D resistant rickets – prof. dr. Elena Levtchenko
- New pharmacological therapies and drug repurposing
- Promising results of new anti-obesity drugs: will it be a game changer for obese children? – prof. dr. Kristina Casteels
- Repurposing drugs in childhood epilepsy – prof. dr. Lieven Lagae
- New devices
- New devices at the horizon for pulmonary valve replacement – dr. Bjorn Cools
- Paediatric Clinical Research Unit (Petit CRU) in UZ Leuven
- Petit CRU: paediatric patient-centered golden-standard clinical research – prof. dr. Elena Levtchenko
13:00 – 14:00 Networking lunch
Registration
Please register before 27 May 2022.