Bio Platforms
THERAPEUTIC PEPTIDES – Continuous Manufacturing of Peptides Could Speed Up Development, Reduce Costs & Improve Quality
Jens Bukrinski, PhD, MSc, says the high-quality, high-process consistency between manufacturing runs and the in-line PAT analytics of the μLOT platform will enable unprecedented robustness of the manufacturing process, significantly retiring the risk of failure to supply due to non-scalability of the manufacturing process.
INTRATUMORAL DELIVERY – Combining Local & Systemic Treatments: Could Immuno-Oncology Finally Enable Local Intratumoral Delivery?
Lewis H. Bender, MA, MBA, says cancer is a local and systemic disease, and new forms of local treatment, such as intratumoral dosing coupled with systemic immunotherapy, are being explored.
DEVELOPMENT TIMELINES – Drug Development Times, What it Takes – Part 2
Josef Bossart, PhD, reviews the Development and Review Times associated with new molecular entity (NME) approvals throughout the 2010 to 2018 period.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW – Noxopharm: Introducing a Novel & Potentially Transformative Drug Candidate in the Treatment of Cancer
Graham Kelly, Founder, Executive Chairman, and CEO of Noxopharm, discusses the company’s innovative approach to cancer treatment.
PERSONALIZED MEDICINE – Personalizing Cancer Immunotherapy: Trends in Biomarker Discovery
Emile Youssef, MD, PhD, says due to tumor heterogeneity, the plasticity and diversity of cancer cells, and a multitude of other factors, biomarker development is a challenge, and thus explores four trends in cancer biomarker discovery.
DEVELOPMENT TIMELINES – Drug Development Times, What it Takes – Part 1
Josef Bossart, PhD, explains how accurately estimating a product’s clinical development timelines is more than simply adding up the individual timelines, almost always optimistic. You need to “know” the numbers, not just calculate them.
OLIGONUCLEOTIDE DELIVERY – Dectin-1 Receptor-Mediated Delivery of Oligonucleotide Drugs Complexed With Schizophyllan Dendritic Cells & Macrophages
Kenji Arima, PhD, and Akihiko Watanabe, PhD, introduce NapaJen Pharma’s technology with a specific focus on solving some of the current challenges of oligonucleotide therapeutics.
MARKET BRIEF – Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes: A New Frontier in Cancer Immunotherapy
Cheryl L. Barton, PhD, and Bianca Piachaud-Moustakis, PhD, believe the role of TIL therapy as an anticancer therapy in melanoma and possibly other solid tumors holds great promise and could become a viable course of treatment in the future.
2020 COMPANY PROFILES & CAPABILITIES
For each participating company, this section presents a detailed summary highlighting their core technologies, capabilities, technologies, and services.
DRUG DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE – ProQR: Developing RNA Therapies for Rare Genetic Disorders
Daniel de Boer, Chief Executive Officer of ProQR, discusses the use of RNA technology to directly target the underlying cause of genetic diseases.
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