International Generic Drug Forum
Maximize Strategies for Pricing, Competition and Regulations

January 24-25, 2000 *Washington, D.C. *The Westin Grand

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-- Keynote Address --

The Honerable Henry A. Waxman, U.S. Congresssman, United States California District 29

"The Waxman-Hatch Act and the Generic Drug Industry"

AAI

API, Inc.

Hancock & Associates

IMS Global Services

McDermott, Will and Emery

Ranbaxy Europe, Ltd.

Pan American Health Organization

Pharmaceutical Marketing Partners, LLC

Schein Pharmaceutical

Scinopharm International

Seed and Berry, LLP

Technology Catalysts International

T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.

Pre-Conference Workshop -- Monday, January 24, 2000

Sourcing APIs to Meet Consumer Demand

This workshop reveals crucial information about sourcing APIs to meet consumer demand. Learn where the hot markets are and realize how technology, deal flows and cGMP plant progress adds importance. In addition, find out the value of low volume APIs and the elements of building a successful business. Understand the availability of APIs and the impact of short supplies and keeping within the boundaries of purity.

8:00 Workshop Registration

8:30 Workshop Leader’s Welcome and Opening Remarks

1. Technology base
2. Deal flow and optimizing relationships
3. cGMP plant progress

2. Low Volume APIs Are Not Insignificant

1. The value chain from manufacturer to wholesaler
2. Manufacturing issues
3. Elements of building a successful business

2. API Availability

1. Impact of current short supply
2. Staying within the boundaries of purity

2. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s Role in APIs

1. The U.S. generic company perspective
2. The U.S. brand company perspective
3. The FTC perspective
4. The international perspective

12:00 Close of Workshop

There will be a 30 minute networking and refreshment break at 10:30

-- About Your Workshop Leaders –

H. Robert Koch is the President of API, Inc. and has over 35 years of experience in the manufacture of chemicals at Hoffman LaRoche, which included both active pharmaceutical ingredients and vitamins. His manufacturing experience ranges from junior chemist on the Chlordiazepoxide (librium), in the mid 1960’s, to Director of the Chemical Production Department at the Roche Nutley, NJ, in the 1980s and 1990s. As Director, he was responsible for all chemical manufacture at the Nutley, NJ site, which included active pharmaceutical ingredients, biotech products and vitamins. This experience provides him with an excellent background in cGMP manufacturing, regulatory issues and validation. His expertise in outsourcing came during 1992 to 1998 when he was Director of Chemical Portfolio and was responsible for outsourcing, "outlicensing" or "delisting" the 20 active pharmaceutical ingredients made at Roche’s Nutley site. He is one of the founders of API, Inc., a specialty manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredients located in northern New Jersey.

Richard DiCicco, is the founder and President of Technology Catalysts International, the largest multinational consultancy in the pharmaceutical and chemicals industry specializing in licensing and business development. Since 1979, TCI has been helping the pharmaceutical industry acquire the products or technology they need to achieve a greater than 30 percent on their investment after taxes.

TCI has focussed on helping the global generic industry over the past ten years, with either the first launched generic to a brand, or countering life cycle management strategies through pre-emptive dealmaking or drug delivery technology sourcing.

TCI accomplishes this on a global basis, with eighty full time employees on the ground in India, China, Japan, Western, Central and Eastern Europe, South and Central America, Canada and the United States.

Ed Cohen, Vice President, Science Advisor, Schein Pharmaceutical

Current responsibilities include providing technical support for new business ventures for Schein's Strategic Development Group. Dr. Cohen has been with the Schein group since January of 1989. His responsibilities with the firm have included Research and Development, Quality Assurance/Quality
Control, and Regulatory Affairs. Prior to joining Schein, Dr. Cohen was head of the Pharmaceutical Research and Development Group at the Squibb Institute For Medical Research, from 8/85 to 12/98. From 1965 to 1985, Dr.Cohen was employed by Merck (West Point, PA) in the Pharmaceutical R&D
group. He moved from a starting role as a Senior Research Chemist to the Director of Pharmaceutical Research. A portion of his Merck career was spent as Director of Merck's French Pharm. Development group (1978 to 1981). His industry career started as an Analytical Chemist at Johnson &
Johnson in 1962, following completion of the work towards the receipt of a Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Rutgers, where he also received an M.S. degree in the same discipline. Dr. Cohen entered the Rutgers graduate program directly after receiving his B.S. in Pharmacy from
Columbia University in 1957. He has publications and patents in the area of pharmaceutical formulation and develoment work and pharmaceutical analysis. He is active in the GPIA Technical Committee and is a member of the USP Ad-Hoc Multisource Advisory Committee.

"As a new wave of major drugs heads toward loss of patent protection, $20 billion worth are scheduled to come off patent during the 2000-2003 period," Spectrum Pharma News Brief, Decision Resources, Inc.,

 Day One of Main Conference -- Monday, January 24, 2000

1:30 Main Conference Registration

1:45 Chairperson’s Welcome and Opening Remarks – Ashok Gumbhir, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacy Administration, School of Pharmacy, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri

2:00 [KEYNOTE ADDRESS] "The Waxman-Hatch Act and the Generic Drug Industry"

The Honorable Henry A. Waxman, U. S. Congressman, United States, California District 29

Henry A. Waxman represents California’s 29^th congressional District. Waxman has been a leader on health and environmental issue, including universal health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid coverage, tobacco, AIDS, air and water quality standards, pesticides, nursing home quality standards, the availability and cost of prescription drugs, and the right of communities to know about pollution levels.

Waxman has been involved in health issues since 1969, when he was appointed to the California State Assembly Health Committee. In Congress, Waxman has sponsored a long list of health bills that have been enacted into law. These measures include the Ryan White CARE Act, the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act, the Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Prevention Act, the Safe Medical Devices Act, the Patent Term Restoration and Drug Competition Act and the Orphan Drug Act.

Waxman has also passed legislation that improves the quality of nursing homes and home health services and that sets policy for childhood immunization programs, vaccine compensation, tobacco education programs, communicable disease research, community and migrant health centers, maternal and child health care, family planning centers, health maintenance organizations and drug regulation and reform. Henry Waxman was born on September 12, 1939, in Los Angeles and holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from UCLA and a J.D. from the UCLA Law School.

2:45 The Impact of Recent Patent Suits in the U.S. and Potential Impact on International Development

David Rosen, R.Ph., J.D., Partner, McDermott, Will and Emery

3:30 Networking and Refreshment Break

3:45 Wall Street Perspective – Improve Market Position and Increase Company Value

Darrell Riley, Vice President, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.

4:30 Counter Branded Strategies that Hinder Generic’s Entry to Market

The results of the very successful life cycle management strategies have been implemented by big Pharma over the past decade. Each strategy is analyzed to discover ways to obtain shares of big Pharma’s protected revenues through countermeasures implemented by the generic industry. Applying these counter measures to present and future drugs protected by LCM strategies, will result in a greater share of income for generic companies.

Richard DiCicco, President, Technology Catalysts International

5:15 Close of Day One

5:15-6:15 Wine and Cheese Cocktail Reception

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 Chairperson’s Review of Day One -- Ashok Gumbhir, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacy Administration, School of Pharmacy, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri

8:45 Pricing, Benchmarking and Creating an Overall Strategy

Ken Meier, Strategy Group Specialist, IMS Global Services

9:30  Identify the Strongest Mature and Emerging Markets

As the generic pharmaceutical industry becomes more global, it is important to identify international "hot" markets in order to capture the maximum market share. How do you identify which markets are saturated, which markets have stringent regulations and which markets look fruitful on the surface, but are actually unstable for generic products?

Brian W. Tempest, Ph.D., Regional Director, Europe, CIS, Africa Ranbaxy Europe Ltd.

10:15 Networking and Refreshment Break

10:30 Use a Development Partner to Speed Product Development and Reduce Development Risk

Alan Lanier, Director, Licensing and Business Development, AAI

11:15 Develop a Successful Generic Product Inspection Program

Thomas E. Needham, Ph.D., President, Hancock & Associates

12:00 Luncheon

1:30 Innovations in Generic Drug Sales and Marketing

Robert J. Gunter, President and CEO, Pharmaceutical Marketing Partners, LLC

2:15 Overcome Barriers to Market Entry for Generics in Europe and Japan

William T. Christiansen, Ph.D., J.D., Attorney at Law, Seed and Berry, LLP

3:00 Networking and Refreshment Break

3:15 How Generics Can Contribute to the Access of Drugs in Latin America

Rosario D’Alessio, Regional Advisor, Pharmaceutical Services, Essential Drugs and Technology Program, Pan American Health Organization

4:00 Case History of a "Greenfield" API Start-up Company in Taiwan

Robert P. Cook, Senior Vice President and Founder, Scinopharm International, Inc.

4:45 Close of Conference