India's NIPER to Organise Symposium on Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics

The symposium will provide a better understanding of the role that drug metabolism, drug transporters, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics play in the drug discovery/development process.

An international symposium on ‘Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics (DMPK)--Applications toward Drug Discovery and Development’ will be held from February 17-19, 2012 in India.

The main aim of the symposium, jointly organised by the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), SAS Nagar, Punjab and Bristol Myers Squibb, is to provide a better understanding of the role that drug metabolism, drug transporters, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics play in the drug discovery/development process; to evaluate new and current techniques and models associated with drug metabolism and drug transporters, as well as development of pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic models; to gain insights into the issues encountered during the drug discovery process and the interface between discovery and clinical development and to identify processes for reduci