Digital Course: Dealing With The Blood-Brain Barrier

Part of the Cambridge Healthtech Institute Digital Course Library
 
NEEDHAM, Mass. - July 28, 2015 - PRLog -- Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) released the Dealing With The Blood-Brain Barrier Digital Course, which was recorded at the World Preclinical Congress.

Dealing With The Blood-Brain Barrier Digital Course is available in Digital Download, Single Copy and a Site License.  This course includes 4 presentations and has over 175 slides.

Agenda at a Glance:

·         The physiological basis for the “barrier” nature of the BBB

·         Experimental approaches (in vitro/in vivo) that are available for screening for brain penetration

·         Medicinal chemistry perspective on in vitro/in silico approaches for optimizing CNS penetration

·         Multi-parameter optimization (MPO) for CNS penetration

·         In vivo examples where all these concepts are applied together, e.g., consideration of free fractions in various compartments in relation to in vitro pharmacology values

·         Projecting human receptor occupancies considering species differences in affinity, free fraction

·         Exposure targeting for biomarker studies

Presentation Speakers Include:

·         Douglas Spracklin, Ph.D., Director, Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics and Metabolism, Pfizer, Inc.

·         Christopher L. Shaffer, Ph.D., Associate Research Fellow, Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics & Metabolism, Pfizer, Inc.

·         Travis T. Wager, Ph.D., Associate Research Fellow, Neuroscience Discovery Medicinal Chemistry, Pfizer, Inc.

For more information on this course, visit:  http://www.worldpharmacongress.com/wpc_content.aspx?id=10...

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