28th Annual JPMorgan Healthcare Conference--Forest Laboratories and Icagen.

The JPMorgan Healthcare conference, held in San Francisco, included presentations by various pharmaceutical companies summarizing their achievements in 2009 and expectations for 2010. This conference report highlights presentations from Forest Laboratories Inc and Icagen Inc. Investigational drugs from Forest Laboratories, including roflumilast (in collaboration with Nycomed Inc/Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp), ceftaroline fosamil (with AstraZeneca plc), linaclotide (with Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc/Astellas Pharma Inc/Almirall Prodesfarma SA), cariprazine (with Gedeon Richter Ltd/Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp), aclidinium bromide (with Almirall), dutogliptin (with Phenomix Corp/Chiesi Farmaceutici SpA) and levomilnacipran (with Pierre Fabre SA), and from Icagen, including ICA-105665, are discussed.