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DRUG DISCOVERY - Overcoming Traditional Challenges: Innovative Chemoproteomics Strategies to Revolutionize Drug Discovery
Ping Cao, PhD, and Irene Yuan believe their chemoproteomic platform offers a distinct advantage by enabling the simultaneous exploration of the entire proteome, setting it apart from other drug discovery technologies that typically focus on individual targets.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW - Samsung Biologics: Exploring The Evolving Biopharma Landscape
Kevin Sharp, Senior VP & Head of Sales for Samsung Biologics, discusses the evolving biopharma space, exploring current challenges, and the demand for sustainable solutions.
DRUG DEVELOPMENT - Using a Novel Deep Cyclic Inhibition Mechanism to Treat Broad Range of RAS-Mutant Cancers
Ben Zeskind, PhD, addresses the question: rather than targeting individual RAS mutations and treating chronically, is it possible to achieve broad therapeutic activity in a way that focuses on malignant cells while minimizing damage to healthy cells?
CLINICAL TRIALS - The Power of AI in Overcoming Patient Diversity Challenges
Isaac Bentwich, PhD, explores why patient diversity is such a challenge for clinical trials, where that pain is often felt the most, some of the regulatory, technological, and industry changes already underway to solve the clinical trial gap, and where AI changes the future of patient diversity.
SUPPLY CHAIN VISIBILITY - New Tracking Technologies Driving Improvements to Reduce Drug Shortages, Expedite Recalls, Protect & Inform Patients
Tracy Nasarenko says new technologies are being leveraged along with industry standards to enable full visibility across the entire supply chain, tracking products all the way from manufacturer to end user.
PHARMACOVIGILANCE AUTOMATION - Improving CRO Efficiency Through Automation
Emmanuel Belabe says many CROs believe they’ve reached a breaking point as they work to keep up with rising case volumes, data complexities, and changing regulations. To combat these pressures, CROs need access to modern pharmacovigilance (PV) automation that promotes flexibility, scalability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM - Advancing Precision Medicine With bfLEAP™: Next Generation AI for Drug Development
Thomas Hazel, PhD, and JT Koffenberger explore the technical architecture and capabilities of bfLEAP, delving into its ML algorithms, proprietary clustering techniques, and visually understandable outputs, examine some of the potential use cases for the platform in drug development, and discuss future developments.
2024 COMPANY PROFILES & CAPABILITIES
For each participating company, this section presents a detailed summary highlighting their core technologies, capabilities, technologies, and services.
FORMULATION FORUM – Nanosuspensions - An Enabling Formulation for Improving Solubility & Bioavailability of Drugs
Jim Huang, PhD, and Shaukat Ali, PhD, focus on the role of excipients and methods for preparation and application of nanosuspensions in injectable, ocular, topical, and oral drug delivery.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW - Lonza Small Molecules: Facing Up to the Challenges of Drug Development
Jan Vertommen, Lonza’s Head of Commercial Development (Small Molecules) discusses some of the challenges facing the sector and how his company is looking to address them.
PHARMACEUTICAL GLOBALIZATION - Navigating Opportunities & Obstacles
Jürgen Hönig says rapid globalization of the pharmaceutical industry has created new complexities as companies navigate different regulations and government policies, but there are many reasons for optimism, including harmonization, collaboration, and convergence.
CLOUD COMPUTING - Revolutionizing Antibody Discovery: The Role of Cloud Computing
Suhani Nagpal, PhD, Laura Spector, PhD, and Frank Erasmus, PhD, discuss the role of cloud computing in antibody discovery, its benefits, and its potential applications in the field of biotechnology.
DIGITALIZATION STRATEGIES - The Era of Technological Transformation in Pharma: Digitalization’s Role in Future-Proofing the Pharma & Biotech Industries
Kai Vogt says organizations that keep up with the technological transformation and incorporate employees in new digitalization strategies can likely achieve the greatest-possible success, which can be driven by the ability to produce high-quality drug products, and the commitment to reskilling employees, bringing human-centric value to an increasingly tech-driven industry.
REGULATORY AFFAIRS - Rethink the Regulatory Dynamic: A Better Approach for Being Your Product’s Best Advocate
Nick Smalley says as drug device combination products grow more complex, regulations increase commensurately. However, to implement and enforce appropriate regulatory standards and truly ensure product safety, regulators must understand what it is they are regulating.
EXECUTIVE INTERVIEW - Precision NanoSystems Inc. (part of Cytiva) & SCIEX: Lipid Impurities Within mRNA-LNPs
Kerstin Pohl, Senior Manager of Cell & Gene Therapy & Nucleic Acids at SCIEX, and Scott Ripley, General Manager of Nucleic Acid Therapeutics at Cytiva, dive into the detection of a new class of impurities within mRNA drugs and the impact it has on manufacturing.
LIPOSOMAL PEPTIDE THERAPEUTICS - Revolutionizing Oncology: Unleashing Innovative Strategies to Tackle Challenging, High-Value Drug Targets
Natalia Zisman, Krishna Allamneni, PhD, and Stacy W. Blain, PhD, explain how targeting downstream signaling proteins offers a promising approach to effectively mitigate the emergence of drug resistance that precision oncology therapies leave behind.
CARBOMER CHEMISTRY - Breaking Ground in Controlled Release
Nicholas DiFranco, MEM, believes by working alone or alongside other well-established excipients for controlled release such as HPMC, the power of carbomer chemistry can help drug developers to overcome common challenges associated with controlled-release formulations without resorting to more complex techniques.
DELIVERY TECHNOLOGY - Topical NeuroDirect™ Ketamine in the Treatment of Neuropathic Pain Syndromes: Fibromyalgia, Neuropathy, Radiculopathy & Causalgia/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Ronald Aung-Din, MD, and Chantelle Martin, MBChB, explain how targeting such chronic pain with a fast-acting, non-systemic, convenient, and easy-to-use at-home NeuroDirect ketamine cream could be of significant benefit in patients with CRPS as well as other neuropathic pain states, including chronic neck and back pain.
FORMULATION FORUM - CUBOSOMES – The Next Generation of Lipid Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery
Jim Huang, PhD, and Shaukat Ali, PhD, shed light on the design and formation of cubosomes with special focus on their applications for delivery of hydrophobic and hydrophilic small and large molecules, including oncology drugs and polynucleotides (DNA, mRNA, and siRNA).
PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY - The PTXΔLNP® Platform: On the Promise of Developing New LNPs for Tomorrow’s mRNA Therapies
Charlotte Dunne, PhD, Katrin Radloff, PhD, and Leonidas Gkionis, PhD, review the PTXΔLNP platform and how it offers a synergistic sister technology to the mRNA platform to obtain potent mRNA-LNPs for therapeutic applications.
