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Full Schedule

Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, April 26, 2023
  • 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM ET
    Registration Hours
  • 8:00 AM – 2:30 PM ET
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET
    Prologue: Challenges in Development of Novel Biologics
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET
    Prologue: CMC Considerations to Improve Complex Manufacturing for Autologous CAR-T Products
  • 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM ET
    Coffee Break
  • 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM ET
    Symposium: Explosion of Cell Therapy Beyond CAR-T

    Moderator: Savita Nair, PhD (she/her/hers) – Sangamo Therapeutics

    Turbocharging Innovation in CMC: Driving Back to Rational Drug Design

  • 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM ET
    Symposium: Innovation Based on Traditional Approaches

    Moderator: Seema Kumar, PhD (she/her/hers) – EMD Serono

    Advances in Therapeutic Development Across Modalities

  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM ET
    Hot Topic: Bioanalytical Challenges and Strategies for Novel Drug Modalities
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM ET
    Keynote: CMC Challenges with Cell and Gene therapies
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM ET
    Keynote: Mechanistic Modeling Approaches to Characterize the Clinical Pharmacology of New Therapeutic Modalities
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET
    Hot Topic: Turbocharging Innovation in CMC - Driving Back to Rational Drug Design

    Hot Topic Moderator: Yongchao Su, Ph.D. – Merck & Co., Inc.

    Turbocharging Innovation in CMC: Driving Back to Rational Drug Design

  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET
    Rapid Fire: Explosion of Cell Therapy Beyond CAR-T

    Rapid Fire Moderator: Tuhin Bhowmik, PhD (he/him/his) – Arcellx

    Turbocharging Innovation in CMC: Driving Back to Rational Drug Design

  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET
    Rapid Fire: Innovation Based on Traditional Approaches

    Advances in Therapeutic Development Across Modalities

  • 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM ET
    Closing Plenary with Dr. John Quackenbush

    Plenary Speaker: John Quackenbush, Ph.D. – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health