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7:00 am Check In, Morning Coffee & Light Refreshments

7:55 am Chair’s Opening Remarks

Chief Scientific Officer, Iksuda Therapeutics

Striving for the Next Wave of ADC Innovation: Contextualizing Novel ADC Mechanism & Design Validation to De-Risk Future ADC Development & Deliver Differentiated Patient Benefit

8:00 am Panel Discussion: Contextualizing the Current Status of Novel ADC Design & Development to Ensure Future ADC Success & Differentiated Patient Impact

Associate Director, Patient Access & Marketing, Pfizer
Vice President, Research & Head, Protein Therapeutics, Amgen
Chief Scientific Officer, Iksuda Therapeutics
Chief Scientific Officer, Oncology R&D, Pfizer
Senior Vice President, Discovery, Innovent Biologics
Vice President, Discovery Research Laboratories, Daiichi Sankyo
  • Evaluating the landscape of ADC therapies one year on: Is the field pursuing the right amount of innovation to secure the next wave of ADCs beyond Topo1?
  • Delving into payload mechanisms and non-traditional ADC design: What avenues of innovation are showing promise and what needs to be demonstrated?
  • Assessing hurdles and opportunities to achieve differentiated ADC clinical profiles and patient impact in crowded oncology indications
  • Peering into the crystal ball: Debating the future direction of the ADC field and pioneering future possibilities

9:00 am WuXiDARx™ Conjugation Technology & Proprietary Payload-Linker Platform: A Powerful Alliance for Next-Generation Dual Payload ADC Development

Chief Technology Officer, WuXi XDC
  • Advancing next-generation dual-payload ADCs to address traditional challenges like drug resistance and narrow therapeutic windows
  • Leveraging WuXiDARx™ technology for flexible DAR1-6 and WuXiTecan2™ hydrophilic linker, enabling streamlined dual-payload construction without antibody engineering
  • Demonstrating a substantially wider therapeutic index alongside significantly enhanced anti-tumor efficacy in proof-of-concept studies

9:30 am Unveiling the Early Clinical Safety & PK Profile of STRO-004 to Understand How Enhanced Design & Preclinical Characterization Links to Differentiated ADC Clinical Performance

Chief Scientific Officer, Sutro Biopharma
  • Laying out the development and vision of STRO-004 leveraging enhanced antibody engineering and linker-payload design to translate into impactful clinical performance against existing ADC therapies
  • Exploring brand-new Phase I clinical safety and PK data targeting Tissue Factor, contextualized with how well STRO-004 translated from cyno monkey preclinical data, to understand ADC clinical benefit and enhanced therapeutic index
  • Highlighting rationale, development and the power of dual payload ADCs to subvert patient resistance mechanisms to single payload ADCs

10:00 am Morning Break & Structured Networking

Discovery Chemistry

Leveraging Novel Payload MoAs & Combinations to Differentiate ADC Mechanisms & Combat Patient Resistance

Executive Director, Oncology Research, Pfizer

Striving for Innovative Payload Mechanisms to Advance Beyond the Topo1 Dogma

11:00 am PROTAC ADCs: Incorporating Historical Learnings to Navigate Novel Payload Development Beyond Blind Potency

Associate Director, Medicinal Chemistry, AstraZeneca
  • Highlighting rationale for developing the first reported degrader payloads versus a known oncology target in light of lack of efficacy from small molecule inhibitors
  • Laying out medicinal chemistry approaches to optimize PROTAC payload properties and exploring variety of conjugation approaches
  • Showcasing potent data generated in preclinical models and highlighting next steps in novel payload development

11:30 am Streamlining Innovation in ADC Design Through Manufacturing With ThioBridge Conjugation & Linker Technology

Senior Director - Bioconjugation Chemistry, Abzena
  • Delving into mechanistic insights of ThioBridge and advantages over conventional stochastic conjugation approaches, demonstrated through in vitro and in vivo ADC stability data
  • Exploring how DAR can be precisely controlled using ThioBridge to optimize ADC therapeutic activity
  • Assessing design strategies for optimizing linker-payload combinations to improve in vivo efficacy, supported by relevant preclinical data
  • Manufacturing Considerations: Understanding key aspects of ThioBridge linker-payload and ADC manufacturing processes

12:00 pm Deep-Diving Into Mechanistic Insights of a Novel ADC Payload That Inhibits Protein Translation

Principal Scientist, Pfizer
  • Describing preclinical development of a novel ADC payload targeting protein synthesis
  • Evaluating how translation inhibitor ADCs elicit robust anti-tumor activity across a diverse range of tumor types in in vitro and in vivo investigation
  • Spotlighting preclinical data to indicate a unique MoA among protein synthesis inhibitors that drives immunogenic cell death

12:30 pm Lonza’s GlycoConnect Technology for Best-in-Class ADCs: Emerging Clinical Insights

Head of Bioconjugates Research, Lonza
  • Exploring how Lonza’s GlycoConnect and HydraSpace technologies enable ADCs with best-in-class therapeutic potential
  • Sharing clinical development insights on the rapidly expanding and advancing pipeline of Lonza’s GlycoConnect technology based partnered ADC assets
  • Discussing technology expansion towards high-DAR and dual payload ADCs
Discovery Biology
Preclinical
Translational Medicine
Clinical Lessons
Process & Analytical Development
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

1:00 pm Lunch & Learn Session Presented By Simtra Biopharma Solutions

Discovery Chemistry

Employing Rationale-Driven Dual Payload Combinations to Circumvent Validated Payload Resistance

2:00 pm Harnessing the Promise of Dual Payload ADCs to Combat Resistance to Traditional ADCs

Chief Scientific Officer, Callio Therapeutics
  • Designing multi-mechanism complementary dual payload ADCs to drive deep and durable responses across a broad range of solid tumors
  • Pioneering the next generation of dual payload ADCs featuring rationally selected payload combinations designed to overcome treatment resistance to single payload ADCs
  • Advancing lead dual payload ADC, CLIO-8221, currently in clinical trials, and additional programs in IND-enabling studies

2:30 pm Targeting Solid Tumors & Hematological Malignancies With Mono & Dual Payload ADCs Utilizing Auristatin, Topo1 & Novel Modality Payloads

Chief Executive Officer, Glykos
  • Developing a hydrophilic linker with optimized cleavable moiety to enable efficient auristatin, exatecan and novel linker-payloads for ADCs
  • Showing DAR4 and DAR8 MMAU auristatin ADCs with outstanding therapeutic window against solid tumors and hematological malignancies
  • Utilizing optimized linker and conjugation technologies for dual payload ADCs

3:00 pm Developing Novel Dual Payload ADCs With Tailored Mechanistic Combinations to Address Diverse Clinical Challenges

Chief Scientific Officer, Hangzhou DAC Biotech Co. Ltd.
  • Introducing a pipeline of bispecific, dual payload ADCs combining multi-targeting and mechanistic innovations
  • Contextualizing dual payload strategies combining Topo1 with an orthogonal or synergistic MoA to combat diverse resistance mechanisms
  • Breaking down preclinical efficacy and safety data of dual payload programs and highlighting future clinical development plans

3:30 pm Leveraging Site-Selective Conjugation to Enable New Modalities & Groundbreaking Dual Payload ADCs With Superior Characteristics & Activity

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, CatenaBio
  • Introducing the CysTyr Platform and design parameters required for a successful dual payload asset
  • Demonstrating significantly superior activity for dual payload ADCs versus leading ADCs in CDX and PDX models
  • Outlining CysTyr superior manufacturing resulting in unprecedented product purity and homogeneity with tunable DAR
  • Unveiling first report on NHP toxicity trial for CATB-101 and significant improvements in therapeutic index versus leading ADCs
Discovery Biology
Preclinical
Translational Medicine
Clinical Lessons
Process & Analytical Development
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

4:00 pm Afternoon Break & Scientific Poster Showcase

Demonstrating the Transformative Impact of ADCs to Reshape the Standard of Oncology Care & Deliver Improved Therapeutic Outcomes for Patients in Early-Line Settings

5:00 pm Evaluating I-SPY2 Clinical Data & Toxicity Monitoring to Assess ADC Progression to Early-Stage Oncology Settings in TNBC & HER2+ Breast Cancer

Director of Breast Oncology, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago
  • Contextualizing I-SPY2 trials evaluating progression of ADCs to neoadjuvant and adjuvant settings in TNBC & HER2+ breast cancer
  • Laying out clinical data generated to investigate early-line ADC progression, including recent clinical performance of Enhertu and Datroway
  • Evaluating concerns with ADC-associated side effects, focusing on ILD monitoring, when considering advancement to neoadjuvant settings

5:30 pm Expansion of ADC R&D & Manufacturing Capabilities in a Payload-Linker CDMO

Vice President, Bioconjugation, Veranova
  • Navigating buildout of ADC clinical manufacturing for diverse, highly potent payloads
  • Exploring implementation of bioconjugation and bioanalytical capabilities within R&D
  • Leveraging process and analytical characterization insights from commercial ADCs

6:00 pm Setting the Scene for Novel Combination Partner Approaches for Vedotin-Based ADCs Including PADCEV

Vice President, Global Development Product Lead, Pfizer
  • Contextualizing the significance of combination approaches within the future of ADC patient impact in early-line oncology therapies
  • Laying out the transformative clinical performance of Padcev-Keyruda combination including event free survival in MIBC
  • Addressing the need and opportunity for novel combinations partners to enhance Padcev clinical impact

6:30 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks

Chief Scientific Officer, Iksuda Therapeutics

6:30 pm Evening Drinks Reception

Enjoy an informal end to the busiest conference day. With a backdrop of palm trees and the San Diego sunset, savor a drink of your choice, reconnect with peers, and meet fresh faces to break down your ADC learnings and objectives.

7:30 pm End of Scientific Program Day One