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Cafe Scientifique Croydon: Twenty-first century technology in drug safety testing
- Hosted by:
- Croydon Cafe Scientifique
- Speaker:
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Margaret Clotworthy, Europeans for Medical Progress Trust
- Starts:
- August 28, 2007 at 07:30 pm
- Ends:
- August 28, 2007 at 09:00 pm
- Location:
- Clocktower, Clocktower Activities Room, Katharine Street, London, CR9 1ET United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
The problem of how best to safety test new drugs was recently illustrated by the Northwick Park clinical trial tragedy, where six young men almost died after taking a new drug shown to be safe at 500 times the dose in monkeys. Moreover, Vioxx, a painkiller, killed tens of thousands of people between 2000 and 2004. Is it time to modernise our drug testing requirements to embrace the latest, most human-relevant technologies? How should we decide how to go about discovering & developing new medicines today?
Margaret Clotworthy has a PhD in cell biology from the University of Cambridge and an honours BSc in biotechnology from Dublin City University. She has worked in academic laboratories and in industry. She is Science Consultant to Europeans for Medical Progress Trust.- Registration required:
- Yes
- Free:
- Yes
Additional information
The Cafe Scientifique Network
Cafe Scientifique is a place where, for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and
technology. Meetings have taken place in cafes, bars, restaurants and even theatres, but always outside a traditional academic context.
The first Cafes Scientifiques were held in the UK in Leeds in 1998. From there, cafes sprang up in Newcastle, Nottingham and Oxford and then
gradually spread throughout the UK. Currently, over 30 cafes meet regularly to hear scientists or writers on science talk about their work and discuss it with diverse audiences.
Cafe Scientifique is a forum for debating science issues, not a shop window for science. We are committed to promoting public engagement with science and to making science accountable.
