This major event in the rare disease community's calendar will bring together representatives from key stakeholder groups – patients, regulators, charities, the academic and clinical community, industry and health care providers to discuss the issues involved in positioning rare diseases on the healthcare agenda.
This year’s Workshop will provide the opportunity to evaluate 5 years experience of the European Regulation on Orphan Medicinal Products. We hope the Workshop will boost further practical and successful application of this regulation. The sessions will be organized around the following questions:
* How to enable the appropriate assessment of new therapies?
* How to assess the benefit of therapies for patients and their families?
* How to enable the development of orphan indications of marketed drugs?
* How to ensure optimal access to treatment?
EPPOSI's aim is to provide a platform for the cultivation of partnerships between industry, patients, academia, together with European authorities, so as to convert policy issues and scientific developments into therapies for rare diseases.
All Workshop sessions will feature high-level speakers and experts, representing the different EPPOSI parties and stakeholders. This year’s Workshop will be the second with an international scope, not only bringing together European authorities and stakeholders, but also uniting the support of both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office for Rare diseases.
This event follows six successful EPPOSI Workshops in the Federal Parliament in Brussels in September 2000, the French Senate in Paris in October 2001, the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament in Rome in 2002, and three hosted by ministries in The Hague (2003), Berlin (2004) and London (2005).
Date: 26-27 October, 2006
Venue: IMSERSO, Spanish Ministry of Labour and Social Services, Madrid, Spain
http://www.medacad.org/epposi2006/index1.htm
ORPHANEWS EUROPE will be bringing you a full report on the highlights of this major international event in the rare diseases field. For details of Spain's first Rare Disease Week (21 to 27 October) this year, go to Other European News