DIA 48th Annual Meeting
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Drug Rediscovery as an Innovative Tool to Meet Unmet Medical Needs
Track : Track 10: Public Policy/Health Care Compliance/Regulatory Law
Program Code: 252
Date: Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Time: 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM  EST
CHAIR :
 John Lisman, Lisman Legal Life Sciences B.V., Netherlands
PRESENTER (S):
 John Lisman, Lisman Legal Life Sciences B.V., Netherlands
Chris Mulder, VU University Medical Center, Netherlands
Steven Lehrer, Fermata Pharma, Inc, United States
Description
Drug Rediscovery is the science dealing with the use of old active substances to develop new treatments. This session focuses on the benefits and challenges of drug rediscovery.

Learning Objectives:
Discuss the opportunities and challenges of drug rediscovery
Discuss how to add a new use of older drugs to the innovation tool box: Identify current examples of drug rediscovery.