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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

Bringing ADCs to Earlier Line Oncology Therapies: Showcasing ADC Development Providing Long-Term Benefit to Patients

8:00 am Reviewing the ADC Clinical & Approval Landscape: What Direction are ADCs Heading to Reshape Frontline Oncology Treatments For Patients?

Director, Translational Research Integration, UCLA
  • Reviewing the breast cancer patient treatment landscape: Where do ADCs currently fit in with standard of care treatments and how is this evolving?
  • Explaining the physician’s perspective and patient attitudes to ADC treatments given anti-tumor efficacy and toxicity profiles
  • Assessing the rise of ADC patient resistance mechanisms and explaining the importance of mechanism and design differentiation to provide long-term patient benefit

8:30 am Spotlighting Enhertu’s Historic HER2-Positive Solid Tumor Agnostic & Metastatic Breast Cancer HER2-Ultralow Approvals

Vice President, Asset & Portfolio Management & Global Team Lead, Enhertu, Daiichi Sankyo
  • Breaking down readouts from DESTINY clinical trials which led to tumor-agnostic HER2-positive solid tumor approval
  • Outlining DB06 data and results of Enhertu in HER2 ultralow patient populations: what impact does target expression have across tumor types
  • Evaluating the impact of Enhertu demonstrating superiority vs. chemotherapy in metastatic breast cancer to advance ADCs towards earlier-line oncology treatments

9:00 am Harnessing ADC Design Strategies for Next-Generation AOCs

Director, Abzena
  • Expanding architecture of linker payload and conjugation modality for AOCs
  • Solving the challenges of next generation conjugates using Thiobridge® technology
  • Supporting characterization and manufacture of bioconjugates through Abzena’s integrated offering

9:30 am Showcasing Updated Clinical Profile & Sustained Overall Survival Benefit of Belantamab Mafodotin Combination to Understand How ADC MoA Translates to Advancing to Earlier Line Oncology Treatments

Vice President, Medicine Development Leader, Oncology R&D, GSK
  • Breaking down the updated clinical profile of belantamab mafodotin combinations from DREAMM-7 trial with sustained overall survival benefit in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma
  • Explaining how multi-modal mechanism of action across payload, immunogenic cell death, and adaptive immune response translates to durable patient response and long-term clinical benefit
  • Contextualizing belantamab mafodotin’s ongoing regulatory journey
  • Evaluating the journey of ADCs transitioning to earlier-line treatments for oncology patients across tumor types

10:00 am Morning Break & Networking

Discovery Chemistry

Discovery Chemistry

Chair:

Chief Technical Officer, Abdera Therapeutics

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Spotlighting Novel Payload MoAs for Next-Gen ADC Design to Combat Patient Resistance

11:00 am Targeted PROTAC Delivery: Principles of Crafting PROTAC-ADCs & Self-Assembling PROxAb Shuttles

Senior Scientist, PROxAb Shuttle, Merck KGaA
  • Summarizing the current technological status of Degrader-ADCs, emphasizing the challenges in their generation
  • Introducing the PROxAb Shuttle technology, which has the potential to expedite Degrader-ADC discovery
  • Presenting data showcasing the practical application of the PROxAb Shuttle in vivo

11:30 am Session Presented By Abzena

12:00 pm Introducing Phosphonate-ADCs: a Novel Immunostimulatory ADC Class Driving Inside-Out Activation of Vγ9Vδ2 T Cells to Selectively Kill Tumor Cells

Director, Byondis
  • Exploring immunostimulatory ADCs that redirect Vγ9Vδ2 T-cells to selectively target and kill tumor cells
  • Spotlighting MHC-independent MoA, providing a promising solution to overcome resistance to approved CPIs
  • Combining linker-drug platform with any targeted moiety, offering potential applications beyond immuno-oncology

12:30 pm Harnessing Site- Selective Conjugation Platform AbClick® for Innovative Bioconjugate Therapies

Senior Manager - Business Development, AbTis
  • Introducing AbTis’ proprietary linker technologies to develop next-generation ADCs with enhanced stability, efficacy, and therapeutic potential, designed to optimize clinical outcomes
  • Showcasing versatile and modular applicability of AbClick® for cost-effective, streamlined production of existing and novel bioconjugate modalities
  • Exploring external innovation and opportunities for companies to leverage AbClick® to enhance their ADC pipeline development
Discovery Biology
Preclinical
Translational Medicine
Clinical Lessons
Process & Analytical Development
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

1:00 pm Lunch & Learn Presentations Hosted by Millipore Sigma and Ultivue

Invitation-only sessions. For all other attendees, lunch is provided in the exhibition area

Discovery Chemistry

Exploring Innovative Payloads & ADC Design With Clinical Differentiation in Mind

2:00 pm Employing Novel Immune Modulating Payload to Achieve Differentiation: Assessing TRAAC Clinical Validation

President, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Tallac Therapeutics
  • Highlighting the novel immunestimulating payload and unique site-specific conjugation employed in TRAACs
  • Case study of TAC-001: navigating preclinical to clinical translation of payload MoA
  • Exploring development of TAC-003, a novel payload leading to differentiation versus conventional ADCs with the same target

2:30 pm Session Presented By Gear Pharma Solutions

3:00 pm Unlocking the Therapeutic Potential from the Development of Targeted Radiopharmaceutical Therapies

Chief Technical Officer, Abdera Therapeutics
  • Introducing targeted radiopharmaceutical (TRP) development through protein engineering with a novel linker chelator and differentiated radioisotope payload
  • Understanding favorable characteristics of TRPs including applications across low and high tumor target expression
  • Exploring the potential of TRP therapies to deliver clinical benefit versus conventional drug conjugates

3:30 pm Synaffix/Lonza End-to-End Offering to Best-in-Class Targeted-Therapies Based on GlycoConnect® & HydraSpace® Technologies

Head, R&D, Synaffix
  • Exploring how GlycoConnect® and HydraSpace® technologies enable ADCs with best-in-class therapeutic potential
  • Sharing clinical development insights on the rapidly advancing pipeline of GlycoConnect® ADCs by partners
  • Discussing technology expansion towards bispecific (bYlok®) and dual warhead ADCs with compelling in vivo preclinical data
  • Presenting unprecedented mRNA exon skipping and dystrophin restoration in preclinical mouse model for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Discovery Biology
Preclinical
Translational Medicine
Clinical Lessons
Process & Analytical Development
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

4:00 pm Afternoon Break & Networking

Evaluating Performance of Novel ADC Design & MoA Differentiation to Assess Activity Versus Validated Clinical Successes

5:00 pm Panel Discussion: Delving into Novel Design & Development to Strive for Next-Generation ADCs Providing Long-Term Benefit to Patients

Moderator:

Jeffrey Settleman

Senior Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer, Oncology R&D, Pfizer

Panelists:

Senior Vice President, Head Research, Development, Biologics Engineering & Oncology Targeted Discovery, AstraZeneca
Chief Scientific Officer, Sutro Biopharma
Chief Scientific Officer, Iksuda Therapeutics
Head of Antibody Drug Conjugates Discovery, Eli Lilly & Co.
Distinguished Scientist, Discovery Oncology, Genentech
  • Evaluating the landscape of ADC therapies: is the risk of innovation now lower than the risk of irrelevancy?
  • Assessing hurdles and opportunities to achieve differentiated ADC profiles in crowded ADC payload and target fields
  • Delving into novel ADC payloads: what new MoAs are emerging and what has been demonstrated so far?
  • Understanding perspectives on the future of ADC development across ADC design, targeting, and precision medicine approaches

5:45 pm Leveraging Novel Conjugation Technology & Enhanced Antibody Targeting to Engineer the Next Generation of ADCs & Targeted Oncology Therapeutics

Senior Vice President, Head Research, Development, Biologics Engineering & Oncology Targeted Discovery, AstraZeneca
  • Understanding the scope to differentiate ADCs through novel targets and antibody engineering to widen target indications and patient populations
  • Leveraging non-natural amino acid conjugation technology to design ADCs with enhanced design and properties
  • Incorporating in silico and AI tools to enhance next-generation ADC engineering and desig

6:15 pm Expediting Development of Novel ADCs Through WuXi XDC’s Innovative Technology Platform & Fully Integrated CMC Services

Chief Technology Officer, WuXi XDC
  • Exploring WuXiDAR4, WuXi XDC’s proprietary conjugation technology which produces more homogenous ADC compared to the DAR4 ADC generated through random conjugation. This results in enhanced efficacy, improved (PK), and a superior safety profile in clinical trials
  • Sharing WuXi XDC’s novel linker and payload-linker, which enables the development of better ADCs with increased stability and a wider therapeutic index
  • Showcasing our one-stop discovery service platform, which accelerates the selection of pre-clinical candidates, and our fully integrated CMC service, which reduce the ADC development timeline from DNA to IND filing to just 13-15 months

6:45 pm Unveiling Novel Payload & ADC Design Attributes & Performance for Next Generation ADC Targeting & Tolerability

Distinguished Scientist, Discovery Oncology, Genentech
  • Highlighting the drivers for ADC development beyond traditional cytotoxic payloads
  • Detailing development and design of more well-tolerated ADCs with improved therapeutic index and defined patient populations
  • Showcasing late-stage preclinical development of novel ADC programs preparing for IND applications

7:15 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks

Chief Scientific Officer, Iksuda Therapeutics

7:15 pm Evening Drinks Reception

8:30 pm End of Scientific Program Day One