Prix Galien Canada
Menu
  • Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon HOME
    • Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon  SUBMISSION
      • Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2020 VIRTUAL PRESENTATION
        • Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon PRIX GALIEN 25 YEARS (2019)
          • Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon JURY
            • Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon LAUREATES
              • External link opens in new tab or window Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2019 Research Laureate
              • External link opens in new tab or window Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2019 Product Laureate
              • Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2018 Laureate
              • Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2017 Laureates
              • External link opens in new tab or window Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2016 Laureates
              • External link opens in new tab or window Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2015 Laureates
              • External link opens in new tab or window Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2014 Laureates
              • External link opens in new tab or window Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2013 Laureates
              • External link opens in new tab or window Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2012 Laureates
              • External link opens in new tab or window Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2011 Laureates
              • External link opens in new tab or window Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2010 Laureates
              • External link opens in new tab or window Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2009 Laureates
              • External link opens in new tab or window Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2008 Laureates
              • External link opens in new tab or window Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon All Laureates
            • Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon PHOTO GALLERY
              • Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon CONTACTS
                • Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2022 Product Laureate
                • Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2020 COVID-19 Laureate
                • Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2020 Product Laureate
                • Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2019 Research Laureate
                • Link Icon Link Icon Link Icon 2019 Product Laureate

                  2012 Laureates

                  2012 Research Award

                  Prix Galien Canada Research 2012

                  Dr. Robert E. W. Hancock


                  The Prix Galien Canada 2012-Research has been awarded to Dr. Robert E. W. Hancock, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of British Columbia and a Canada Research Chair holder. Dr. Hancock has made major contributions to the area of microbiology and anti-microbial agents and has shown scientific leadership on many fronts. He has been involved in the founding of many scientific and biotechnology organizations and companies. His research on antibiotic resistance and mechanisms of uptake have been utilized by a number of large pharmaceutical companies as a critical component of their antibiotic discovery programs. The breakthrough discovery of a novel way of selectively modulating immunity and suppressing harmful inflammation while retaining protective immunity has the potential to revolutionize human health care.
                   
                  Dr. Hancock is recognized as a scientific leader worlwide, an innovative drug designer, a highly prolific scientist and a mentor of young successful scientists. Dr. Hancock completed a B.Sc. in Microbiology and a Ph.D. in Microbiology at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He then pursued a Post- doctoral Fellowship at the University of Tubingen, Germany and was a research bacteriologist at the University of California, Berkeley. He started his career as Assistant Professor in Micobiology at UBC in 1978, was pro- moted to Associate Professor in Microbiology and Associate member in the Department of Pediatrics in 1983 and Professor in Microbiology and Immunology in 1986.


                   

                  From left to right, the Honourable Brad Duguid, Minister of Economic Development and Innovation of Ontario, Dr Robert E.W. Hancock, winner of the Prix Galien Canada 2012- research award and Dr Jacques Gagné, president of the Jury of Prix Galien Canada.

                   

                   

                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   

                  The Medal Of Honour 2012

                  Dr. Charles Scriver and Mr Arnold Steinberg
                   
                  The Health Research Foundation awarded its prestigious Medal of Honour to Dr. Charles Scriver and Mr Arnold Steinberg for their outstanding contributions to health sciences. Together, Dr. Scriver and Mr Steinberg successfully worked to ensure the addition of vitamin D to milk in Quebec, reducing the occurrence of nutritional rickets in children to almost none.
                   
                  The Rx&D Health Research Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to support health research in Canadian academic health centres and promote the value of health research in Canada. By applying the highest standards of scientific excellence, addressing health challenges and establishing partnerships, HRF, one of the leading private health foundations in the country, contributes significantly to the prevention and treatment of disease, to a better health care system and the availability for Canadians to access effective health products.
                   

                   

                   

                  2012 product award

                  Prix Galien Canada Innovative Drug Product 2012

                  ex aequo Incivek (telaprevir)



                  The Prix Galien Canada 2012- Innovative Product has been awarded ex aequo to Incivek (telaprevir) marketed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals Canada Ltd. Telaprevir is a new protease inhibitor (PI) that inhibits HCV replication in vitro and in vivo. It is one of the two first direct acting antivirals (DAA) available in Canada for the treatment of chronic G1 genotype hepatitis C infection in combination with pegylated interferon (IFN) and ribavirin (R) in patients who are treatment naive, those who failed prior treatment and those with compensated liver disease including cirrhosis.
                   
                  Approval was based on Phase III studies in treatment naive and previously treated patients. The ADVANCE trial in naive patients resulted in a sustained virologic response (SVR) rates of 69% and 75% in the 8-week and 12-week administration arms respectively compared to 44% in the control arm. The REALIZE trial in previously treated patients had three arms : tela-previr plus IFN-R for 12 weeks followed by IFN-R for 36 weeks, an arm with a 4-week lead-in period of IFN-R prior to combination with telaprevir and a con- trol arm of IFN-R for 48 weeks. SVR rates in the two telaprevir arms were similar with 64 and 66% suggest- ing that the lead-in period conferred no benefit. The SVR rate in the control arm was 17%. Telaprevir inhibits cytochrome CYP3A and therefore should not be used with drugs such as rifampin, statins and midazolam that are metabolized by this enzyme.
                   
                  The most common adverse effects are rash, fatigue, prutitis, anemia, nausea, other GI symptoms, and dys- geusia. In the clinical trials, rash developed in 56% of the patients receiving the drug compared to 34% in the control arms. The rash was severe in 4% of the treated patients compared to <1% in the control patients. The drug should be stopped if severe rash develops. Addition of telaprevir to IFN-R results in increased drop in haemoglobin but discontinuation was low at 4%.  In summary, telaprevir is one of the first two direct acting antivirals available in Canada for the treatment of chronic genotype1 hepatitis C infection. The prote-ase inhibitors have been shown to be very effective in a number of studies and appear to have shortened the duration of treatment for the chronic genotype 1 hepatitis C infection. It represents a significant improvement in the treatment of the disease.
                   

                  Ms. Louise Proulx, vice-president of Vertex accepts the Prix Galien Canada 2012 - Innovative Product Award  from Dr. Jacques Gagné, Prix Galien Canada Jury President.

                   

                   

                  Prix Galien Canada 2012 Innovative Drug Product

                  ex aequo Victrelis (boceprivir)
                   
                   
                  The Prix Galien Canada 2012- Innovative Drug Product has been awarded ex aequo to Victrelis (boceprivir) marketed by Merck Canada Inc.  Boceprivir is the first computer-designed NS3 protease inhibitor (PI) available in Canada for the treatment of G1 genotype hepatitis C infection in combination with pegylated interferon alpha 2-b (IFN) and ribavirin (R) therapy in adults with compensated liver disease.
                   
                  Boceprivir is a covalently reversible HCV NS3/4A serine protease inhibitor, an enzyme that cleaves HCV encoded polyproteins of the genotype 1 virus. It is metabolized in the liver and excreted in the feces with a half-life of 3.4 hours.  The treatment regimen used in the pivotal approval tri- als consisted of a 4-week lead-in course of IFN-R therapy followed by either Results Guided Therapy (RGT) in which boceprivir was administered for 24 weeks but dis-continued after 28 weeks for patients with undetectable viral RNA at week 8 through 24, or fixed dose treatment in which boceprovir was administered continuously for 44 weeks. All arms continued to receive IFN-R for the entire duration of treatment and IFN-R was continued to complete 48 weeks of treatment in the RGT arm. When compared to IFN-R alone (plus placebo), the elimination of the virus was achieved in almost 70% of treatment naive patients compared to 40% in patients who received IFN-R plus placebo and 60% of treatment- experienced patients compared to 21% for IFN-R plus placebo. Canadian patients were included in the clinical trials and authorship of the major studies included phy- sicians at the University of British Columbia. It is impor- tant to note that black patients, more difficult to treat than white patients, were included in the studies and that their response was better with the triple therapy than with IFN-R but was only about half of the response noted in white patients.
                   
                  Boceprivir being partly metabolized by cytochrome CYP3A4 and a strong inhibitor of that enzyme is prone to drug interactions. Therefore drugs that induced or inhibit CYP3A4 could have a significant effect on the therapeutic effect. The most common adverse effects of boceprivir are fatigue, nausea, headache, dysgeusia and anemia. In fact 50% of the patients under the triple therapy developed anemia compared to 25% of the patients under IFN-R treatment. Anemia was successfully treated with eryth- ropoietin (EPO) or by dose reduction of ribavirin.  In summary, boceprivir is one of the first two direct acting antivirals, a new class of compounds, for the treatment of chronic genotype 1 hepatitis C. The protease inhibitors have been shown to be very effective and appear to have shortened the duration of the treatment for chronic genotype 1 hepatitis C infection. It represents a significant advance in the treatment of the disease.
                   

                  Mr. Gregg Szabo, Vice president, Merck Canada Inc. accepts the Prix Galien Canada 2012 -  Innovative Product Award  from Dr. Jacques Gagné, Prix Galien Canada Jury President.

                    Powered by SiteKreator
                    close lightbox