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Beyond Weight Loss: Pioneering the Future of Obesity Drug Development
Wednesday June 18, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
TBD
Component Type: Forum
Level: Intermediate

This forum on obesity drug development helps the audience understand the present landscape, participate in discussions on the prevention and treatment of comorbidities, and assess various strategies in enhancing clinical trial efficiency.

Learning Objectives

Discuss the present landscape, opportunities, and challenges of obesity drug development; Identify the prevention and treatment of comorbidities associated with obesity; Assess various considerations and strategies in enhancing the efficiency of obesity drug development.

Chair

Jingyu (Julia) Luan, PhD

Speaker

Panelist
Maria Vassileva, PhD

Panelist
John Sharretts

Panelist
Brad Jordan, PhD


Speakers
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Brad Jordan

Associate Vice President, Regulatory Policy and Strategy, Eli Lilly and Company, United States
Brad Jordan is the Associate Vice President of Regulatory Policy and Strategy at Eli Lilly, where he is responsible for the regulatory policy strategy for Lilly’s cardiometabolic and immunology therapeutic areas.
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Jingyu (Julia) Luan

Executive Regulatory Science Director, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, United States
Dr. Jingyu (Julia) Luan is an Executive Regulatory Science Director in AstraZeneca, overseeing the global regulatory strategy and supporting the research, development and commercialization of CVRM products. She is a core member of CVRM Regulatory Leadership Team. Prior to AZ, she... Read More →
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John Sharretts

Director at Division of Diabetes, Lipid Disorders, and Obesity, FDA, United States
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Maria Vassileva

Chief Science and Regulatory Officer, DIA, United States
Dr. Vassileva has decades of experience with managing complex multi-stakeholder biomedical research programs. She spent most of her career in the nonprofit sector, leading the Science Team at the Arthritis Foundation, and working at the Foundation for NIH and the American Association... Read More →
Wednesday June 18, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
TBD Walter E. Washington Convention Center 801 Allen Y. Lew Place, NW Washington, DC 20001-3614 USA
  09: Regulatory, Forum |   02: ClinTrials-Ops, Forum

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