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November/December 2022

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2023 COMPANY PROFILES & CAPABILITIES

For each participating company, this section presents a detailed summary highlighting their core technologies, capabilities, technologies, and services.

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2023 COMPANY PROFILES & CAPABILITIES

For each participating company, this section presents a detailed summary highlighting their core technologies, capabilities, technologies, and services.

MACHINE LEARNING - Applying Machine Learning Techniques: Gaining Meaningful Life Sciences Insights From Genomics Data

Lucas Glass explains how the predictive capabilities offered by ML solutions can help pharmaceutical and biotech companies shift focus onto additional experiments — providing an opportunity to catch or generate potential options.

ARMED ONCOLYTIC VIRUSES - Instant Messaging Cancer With a TGF-Beta Trap Carrying Oncolytic Adenovirus

Bryan Oronsky, MD, PhD, says cancer is a systemic disease, the eradication of which heavily depends on immune responses. In his opinion, to overcome impaired immune cell function and, hence, to increase the responsiveness to CIs likely requires a 3-in-1 therapy.

DRUG DISCOVERY - Leveraging the Human Gut as a Drug Discovery Tool

Bridget Ann Martell MA, MD, says leveraging a patented technology that uses the human gut as a drug discovery tool has led to a new class of transformative precision therapeutics that disrupt inflammatory disease triggers — gut exclusive microbial metalloprotease inhibitors (GEMMI).

DRUG DELIVERY - Using the IPEG™ Delivery System to Topically Treat Rare Diseases in Dermatology While Limiting Systemic Absorption

Zachary Rome, Jessica Raiz, MPH, and Alan M. Mendelsohn, MD, are advancing innovative clinical research that is evaluating high-potential, low-risk treatments for rare dermatologic diseases using unique topical vehicles combined with established medications that enable the targeted delivery of therapies to the epidermis and dermis while minimizing systemic absorption.

EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW - Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services: Giving You the Power to Make

Dr. Nobu Shimba, CEO and President of Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services US, discusses the company’s recent areas of focus as well as current plans for expansions.

EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW - Alcami: Unlocking the Potential of Transformative Medicine for 40 Years

Mike Babics, Vice President, Parenteral Services at Alcami, discusses the company’s recent expansions in formulation and analytical development, manufacturing, release testing, and biostorage of clinical and commercial drug products for both solid dosage and parenteral products.

PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY - Versamune®: A New Generation of Cancer Immunotherapies

Dr. Joe Dervan says the unique ability of Versamune® to modulate and enhance numerous critical steps required for an e­ffective clinically relevant immune response and to be combined with targeted antigens found on tumor cells o­ffers several exciting opportunities to treat a variety of cancers.

FORMULATION FORUM - Lipid Nanoparticles: Tackling Solubility Challenges With Lipid-Based Technologies for Oral & Injectable Formulations

Jim Huang, PhD, and Shaukat Ali, PhD, believe as more hydrophobic or brick dust and/or lipophilic or waxy molecules come out of discovery, amorphous solid dispersions (ASDs) and lipid based self-emulsifying microemulsions, nanoemulsions, liposomes, and nanoparticles are ideal for oral and injectable formulations.