FRIDAY, JANUARY 18
8:00 - 9:00 AM
Facilitated, small-group discussions. Interactive participation leads to problem-solving solutions and future collaborations around focused topics.
Protein therapeutics is a fast-growing global market. As the science improves, so does the complexity of the R&D organization. Ensuring product quality plus speed to market requires insights from stakeholders working across the stages of protein science R&D. Join experts representing the PepTalk pipelines, peers, and colleagues for an interactive roundtable discussion. Topics include highlights from the week’s presentations, new technologies and strategies, challenges, and future trends.
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Discussion Table Topics
Protein Engineering & Development – Week in Review
Sam Wu, PhD, Principal Scientist, Janssen BioTherapeutics
- What were your favorite presentations this week?
- How will the new constructs and technologies presented at PepTalk impact your work?
- What are the challenges to be overcome in implementing these new approaches?
- Emerging trends that will impact protein engineering and development
B Cell and T Cell Repertoire Screening Technology
Vu Truong, PhD, CSO & CEO, R&D, Aridis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Technical barriers
- Size of B cell repertoire, human vs. mouse
- Current approaches
- Pre-select target or no?
- Rapid antibody generation and production
Antibody Therapeutics – Weekly Wrap-Up
Rakesh Dixit, PhD, DABT, Vice President, Medimmune-AstraZeneca
- The latest breakthroughs in cancer immunotherapies
- Combination therapies
- Antibody-Drug Conjugates
- What is happening in bispecific and multi-specific antibodies
Rational Formulation Design, Optimization, Analytics and Development – Week in Review
Thomas Laue, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of New Hampshire
- What were your favorite talks and what information about your molecule did you seek that will help you?
- What experiments can you do to focus your design choices for liquid or lyophilized or other novel formulations?
- Most critical and useful analytical techniques you learned about from the talks in the analytics and impurities conferences
- Are there topics that were not covered adequately?
- What are the critical needs to advance formulation design?
Process Technologies and Purification – Weekly Wrap-Up
David Wood, PhD, Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University
- The best techniques and strategies for managing data
- How high-throughput technologies put greater demands on data management
- The best approaches for controlling bioprocesses
- How new technologies are affecting downstream processes
Biotherapeutic Expression & Production Pipeline – Week in Review
Richard Altman, MS, Scientist, Protein Technologies, Amgen
Recombinant protein production continues its rapid evolution as a critical part of the biotherapeutic drug discovery process. We review the highlights from the Biotherapeutic Expression & Production Pipeline with a focus on the “Recombinant Protein Expression and Purification” and “Optimizing Expression Platforms” conferences. We discuss the following in an interactive roundtable environment:
- Highlights from the week’s presentations
- New technologies and strategies
- With these new technologies, how do we increase not only the efficiency and throughput of recombinant protein expression, but of the entire protein production process?
- Challenges and future trends
Alternative Expression & Products – The Week’s Highlights
Suresh Kumar Thallapuranam, PhD, Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Arkansas
- Current challenges in microbial production
- Scaling up and controlling a microbial process
- Emerging microbial platforms, modalities and applications
- Application of Synthetic biology
- How do microbial departments vary across companies, how to maximize collaboration