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7:00 am Check In, Morning Coffee & Light Refreshments
7:55 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Biology
Preclinical
Translational Medicine
Clinical Lessons
Process & Analytical Development
Manufacturing & Supply Chain
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
Discovery Biology
Preclinical
Translational Medicine
Clinical Lessons
Process & Analytical Development
Manufacturing & Supply Chain
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
Panelists:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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