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5月15日(月) 12:45 - 1:30 PM EST
ANTIBODIES FOR CANCER THERAPY
がん治療のための抗体
TABLE 1: How to Discover Antibodies Against Novel/Difficult Targets
Moderator: Horacio G. Nastri, PhD, Associate Vice President, Biotherapeutics, Incyte Corporation
- What makes a target particularly difficult?
- How to evaluate the challenges
- Selection of therapeutic modality
- Selection of optimal discovery strategy
- Screening alternatives
TABLE 2: Failures and Successes in TNFRSF Agonist Antibody Drugs, and Future Outlook
Moderator: Jieyi Wang, PhD, Founder & CEO, Lyvgen Biopharma
- Mechanisms of action of TNFRSF agonistic antibodies
- Lessons learned in the clinic
- FcγR2B and tumor targeted conditional agonisms
- New clinical developments to watch
IMPROVING IMMUNOTHERAPY EFFICACY AND SAFETY
免疫療法の有効性と安全性の向上
TABLE 3: Immunomodulation by Genomic “Dark Matter” and Extracellular Vesicles in Cancer
Laszlo G. Radvanyi, PhD, President & Scientific Director, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
- What are non-coding regions or the ‘dark matter’ of the genome?
- Guiding clinical treatment
- Future of this field
DIFFICULT TO EXPRESS PROTEINS
難発現性タンパク質
TABLE 4: Production and Stabilization Membrane Proteins
Moderator: Matthew Coleman, PhD, Senior Scientist & Group Leader, Biosciences and Biotechnology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Moderator: Matthew DeLisa, PhD, Director, Cornell Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell University; Co-Founder, UbiquiTx, Inc.
- What are the current major limitations of obtaining intact and stable membrane protein complexes?
- What would we like to see developed in terms scaffold/reagent supports for assessing membrane proteins?
- Are there ideal techniques/additives for long term storage of functional membrane proteins and the complexes they form?
- How do we assess the biological compatibility of nanodisc technologies for invitro and in vivo experimentation?
- What keeps cell-free expression synthesis from playing a bigger role in membrane protein production?
DIGITAL INTEGRATION IN BIOTHERAPEUTIC ANALYTICS
バイオ医薬品分析におけるデジタル統合
TABLE 5: Acceleration of Analytical Development by Digital Transformation
Moderator: Ruojia Li, PhD, Associate Director, CMC Statistics & Data Science, Bristol Myers Squibb Co.
- At what stages and areas of analytical development do you see big opportunities for digital applications?
- Success stories, major challenges and your solutions
- Types of modeling applied for analytical development and the value they bring
- Different needs for different modalities
TABLE 6: Launching Digitalization Initiatives in Pharma
Moderator: Steven J. Mehrman, PhD, Principal Scientist, Pharmaceutical Development, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical R&D
- Current state assessments: what are we doing and how - and what aren’t we doing
- Data capture and standards: pain points and opportunities (ELN, systems, instruments & context)
- Setting digital goals: what has worked and at what levels of detail
- User requirements: best approaches for science and engineering
- Data flow end user experiences: good or bad and lessons learned
EMERGING INDICATIONS FOR THERAPEUTIC ANTIBODIES
抗体医薬の新規適応症
TABLE 7: Future Directions in Antibody Development
Moderator: Ahuva Nissim, PhD, Professor, Antibody and Therapeutic Engineering, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London
- How can we address the challenges of difficult targets?
- Can we still improve the next generation of repertoires?
- What are the Impacts of machine learning and bioinformatics?
- What is the niche for academic vs. industry research?
TABLE 8: Antibodies vs Small Molecules: Can Artificial Intelligence Help with Target Annotation and Commercial Tractability Analysis?
Moderator: Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, Founder & CEO, Insilico Medicine
- When to develop biologics instead of small molecules?
- Can AI help identify the best targets for biologics or small molecules?
- What are the commercial considerations for the development of biologics vs small molecules?
5月17日(水) 2:15 - 3:00 PM EST
ENGINEERING ANTIBODIES
抗体エンジニアリング
TABLE 1: Implementation Challenges for Machine Learning as a Tool for Antibody Discovery
Moderator: Christopher R. Corbeil, PhD, Research Officer, Human Health Therapeutics, National Research Council Canada
- Current successes
- Experimental validation and POC
- Bottlenecks and challenges
- Needs from IT and solution providers
TABLE 2: Would Increasing In Vivo Data Generation Increase Probability of Clinical Success?
Moderator: Pierce J Ogden, PhD, Co-Founder & CSO, Manifold Biotechnologies Inc.
- What preclinical in vivo data are most often predictive of clinical success
- What are some ways we could increase in vivo throughput
- How can AI and machine learning be utilized in conjunction with in vivo data
- How to improve the in vitro to in vivo drug development process by supplementing with early in vivo discovery workflows
- Unbiased in vivo based therapeutic discovery and the required in vivo throughput
EMERGING TARGETS FOR ONCOLOGY AND BEYOND
腫瘍とその他の新規ターゲット
TABLE 3: CAR-Ts for Solid Tumors
Moderator: Mitchell Ho, PhD, Senior Investigator and Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Director, Antibody Engineering Program, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health
- Recent advances in GPC2 and GPC1 as new targets in solid tumors
- Engineering CAR T cells for treating neuroblastoma and pancreatic cancers
- New strategies using camel nanobodies to improve efficacy of CAR T cells
CELL-BASED IMMUNOTHERAPIES
細胞性免疫療法
TABLE 4: Commercializing Cell and Gene Therapies
Moderator: Michael D. Jacobson, PhD, Managing Partner, Cambridge Biostrategy Associates LLC
- Trends in commercializing cell and gene therapies
- De-centralized versus centralized manufacturing
- Pricing trends, reducing costs
- New trends such as in vivo CAR T delivery
ADVANCING BISPECIFIC ANTIOBODIES AND COMBINATION THERAPY TO THE CLINIC
二重特異性抗体と併用療法の臨床への進出
TABLE 5: Therapeutic Platforms for Antibody-Mediated Protein Degradation
Moderator: Nicholas Agard, PhD, Principal Scientist, Antibody Engineering, Genentech, Inc.
- Review the multiple technologies have recently emerged to induce targeted degradation of cell surface or secreted proteins including LyTACs, PROTAbs/AbTACs, and KineTACs.
- Discuss pros and cons of targeted degradation vs. inhibition, and where targeted degradation may be most applicable.
- Compare different antibody-mediated degradation technologies and discuss where they may be optimally used.
- Discuss what protein-engineering approaches might be applicable to enhance degradation efficiency.
OPTIMIZING PROTEIN EXPRESSION
タンパク質発現の最適化
TABLE 6: Common Issues with Transient Protein Production
Moderator: Richard Altman, MS, Manager, Application Scientists, Delivery and Protein Expression, Biosciences Division, Life Sciences Solutions Group, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Moderator: Henry C. Chiou, PhD, Senior Director, Cell Biology, Life Science Solutions, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Moderator: Dominic Esposito, PhD, Director, Protein Expression Laboratory, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
- What are the current challenges to transient protein production?
- How do we optimize the whole protein expression workflow process?
- How can we maintain volumetric yields while scaling transient expression up or down?
- What cell line(s) should we use and when?
- What parameters can impact the quality or physical attributes of transiently produced proteins?
BIOPHYSICAL METHODS
生物物理学的手法
TABLE 7: Best Practices in Using Biophysical Methods for More Efficient, Higher Resolution Analysis of Biopharmaceutical Higher Order Structure (HOS)
Moderator: Anne Kim, PhD, Senior Principal Scientist and Group Leader, Analytical R&D, Pfizer Inc.
- Automated CD, DSC, microfluidic modulation IR, and NMR for protein characterization
- Best practice for analyzing and interpreting routine biophysical assays (DLS, DSC, SEC-MALS, and IR)
- What NMR methods are currently employed for product characterization and comparability/similarity assessments?
- What analysis software is used for analysis?
- How extensively are NMR data used in regulatory filings for biopharmaceuticals?
TABLE 8: High Throughput Mass Spectrometry in Biopharma: Challenges and Opportunities
Yoan Machado, PhD, Scientist, Molecular Analytics, Amgen
- Fast or thorough, can’t it be both? High throughput mass spectrometry-based analytics in biopharma.
- Current challenges in instrumentation and analysis software for fully automated mass spectrometry applications in biopharma.
- Role of native mass spectrometry in characterization of higher order structures and membrane proteins.
- Applying mass spectrometry for high throughput epitope mapping, are we there yet?
IMMUNOGENICITY ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT
免疫原性評価と管理
TABLE 9: Clinical Relevance of Anti-Drug Antibodies
Moderator: Joleen White, PhD, Head of Bioassays, Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute
- Identify assay design parameters to ensure detection of relevant antibodies
- Planning assay implementation timelines using immunogenicity risk assessment
- Designing schedule of assessments within clinical trials
- Integrate multiple findings to assess clinical relevance
- Conducting analysis using immunogenicity status as an outcome, not a baseline characteristic
TABLE 10: Predictive Assays, Studies, and Tools: How Can These be Improved?
Moderator: Rita Martello, PhD, Associate Director, EMD Serono
- In-silico and in-vitro tools: State-of-the-art
- In-vitro/in-vivo correlation of immunogenicity: What do we know?
- Immunogenicity strategy: How do we select the right assay?
- Interpretation of results and decisions: De-immunization vs immunogenicity risk and impact on project timelines
- Examining the regulatory requirements
mRNA THERAPEUTICS
mRNA治療薬
TABLE 11: Critical Reagent Qualification for LNP encapsulated mRNA Therapeutics
Moderator: Laura Brunner, MS, Senior Scientist, Bioanalytical Sciences, Moderna
- Assay platforms for PK/PD, BioD, and immunogenicity
- Challenges in reagent identification and qualification
- Life cycle maintenance for stability
- Qualification and bridging for new labeling, processing, and manufacturing
- Planning ahead and best practices for critical reagent management
5月19日(金) 7:30 - 8:25 AM EST
MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES FOR PROTEIN ENGINEERING
タンパク質工学のための機械学習アプローチ
Moderator: Yu Qiu, PhD, Senior Principal Scientist, Sanofi Genzyme R&D Center
- ML doesn’t understand protein. Digital representation (numerical features) is needed as input.
- Meaningful representation (features) is a key for ML models
- Protein can be represented as 1D sequence (one hot or embedding), 3D structure (point cloud of cartesian coordinates, or graphs with nodes and edges), or surface patches
- Surface ID is deep learning derived representation, encoding geometric and chemical properties, that can be used for surface patch comparison
- Applications of Surface ID include paratope clustering, PPI classification, database mining etc.
TABLE 2: Implementation of Disruptive Digital Innovation & Deep Learning Models to Accelerate Therapeutics Discovery of Protein Therapeutics: Challenges & Opportunities
Moderator: Peter Clark, PhD, Head of Computational Science & Engineering, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Explore common challenges for end-to-end integration and enterprise deployment of AI/ML models across the R&D product lifecycle
- How are organizations leveraging the growing suite of predictive models to inform and accelerate generative design and optimization of protein therapeutics?
- How can we foster collaboration between different departments, including research, development, and CMC, to establish AI as a core organizational discipline?
- What are the opportunities & best practices for incorporating AI/ML models and integrated lab automation platforms from discovery to development?
- How are advancements in computational hardware and infrastructure driving innovation in our digital platforms and business processes?
DRIVING CLINICAL SUCCESS FOR ANTIBODY DRUG CONJUGATES
抗体薬物複合体のための臨床成功の促進
TABLE 3: ADCs in the Era of Immunotherapy - Their Current Roles and Potential Future
Moderator: Greg M. Thurber, PhD, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering & Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
- Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) have achieved 8 new approvals in the past 5 years.
- ADCs can initiate immunogenic cell death without the broad immunosuppression of small molecule chemotherapy and interact via their Fc-domain.
- Discussion on current therapeutics that are being combined with checkpoint inhibitors, anti-VEGF therapy, and other treatments to potentially increase the immune response.
- Conversation about new avenues that are being developed to maximum the immune response with these novel therapeutics
TABLE 4: Next-Generation Antibody Drug Conjugates: What Do We Need to Do for the Next Major Step Up?
Moderator: Mahendra P. Deonarain, PhD, Chief Executive and Science Officer, Antikor Biopharma Ltd.
- Radical or incremental innovations - novel formats, conditional activation, unconventional targets or payloads
- Which innovation will make a real impact in the treatment of solid tumors?
ENGINEERING BISPECIFIC ANTIBODIES
二重特異性抗体の設計
TABLE 5: Translational Considerations When Advancing Bispecifics to the Clinic
Moderator: Michelle Morrow, PhD, Senior Vice President, Biology & Translational Science, F-Star Therapeutics, Inc.
- What approaches can be taken to align novel mechanisms of action of bispecific with the biology of disease?
- How can preclinical model systems be used to effectively generate translational hypotheses?
- What considerations are important when designing biomarker strategies for bispecifics?
MAXIMIZING PROTEIN PRODUCTION WORKFLOWS
タンパク質生産ワークフローの最大化
TABLE 6: Combining the Benefits of Academia and Industry: Get the Best of Both Worlds
Moderator: Bjorn Voldborg, MSc, Head, National Biologics Facility, DTU Bioengineering, Technical University of Denmark
- How to raise awareness at both ends?
- How to start-up?
- What are the needs?
- Funding and pricing/who will pay?
- Limitations?
CHARACTERIZATION FOR NOVEL BIOTHERAPEUTICS
新規バイオ医薬品のための特性評価
TABLE 7: Best Practices for In Vitro/In Vivo Biotransformation/PK Analysis of Novel Modalities
Moderator: Jianzhong Wen, PhD, Principal Science & Group Leader, Merck & Co., Inc.
- Needs/techniques/workflows to characterize novel biologics PK and biotransformation (multi-specifics, fusions, ADCs, siRNA/mRNA, CAR cells)
- Critical reagent generation to facilitate the bioanalysis
- ADC PK analysis: how many components to monitor, preclinical vs. clinical? Immunoassay vs. LC-MS vs. hybrid?
- ADC DAR analysis: native vs. intact vs. subunits vs. bottom up
- Nucleotide analysis: MS vs. PCR types of analysis
TABLE 8: Characterization Challenges for mRNA Vaccines and Therapeutics
Moderator: Sharon Polleck, Senior Research Scientist, Analytical R&D, Pfizer Inc.
- CQAs impacting mRNA and nanoparticle safety and efficacy
- Emerging methods and instruments
- Best practices at different stages of development
- Process analytics and QC/release testing
- Problems and solutions
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