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Therapeutic Antibodies
30 January - 31 January 2006
Therapeutic Antibodies

SAE Media Group’s 6th Conference on ‘Therapeutic Antibodies’ will provide a forum for leading industry experts from major pharmaceutical companies to discuss and evaluate the latest challenges and problems facing the therapeutic antibodies market.

It is predicted that therapeutic antibodies will form one of the fastest growing segments of the pharmaceutical market, and is expected to be worth more than $86 billion dollars by the year 2025. The success of current marketed products has led to an explosion in antibody development, with hundreds of programmes currently in the pipeline.

This conference will discuss the latest developments and outline the most recent trends and innovations in the therapeutic antibodies market. Particular focus will be given to the latest regulatory standards and intellectual property, which affect developments in this market.

SAE Media Group’s Therapeutic Antibodies conference is a must attend event and will provide an excellent opportunity to network, enhance your company’s profile and keep you up-to-date on the latest issues in the market.

An unique opportunity to learn from leading industry experts, including:

  • Dr Rene Hoet, Director, Research & Technology, Dyax
  • Dr John de Kruif, Director, Antibody Research & Development, Crucell
  • Dr Dave Estell, Vice President, Technology, Genencor
  • Dr Robert Friesen, Director, Preclinical Development, MorphoSys
  • Dr Diane Wilcock, Vice President, Intellectual Property, Cambridge Antibody Technology
  • Dr Leon Hooftman, Chief Medical Officer, Chroma Therapeutics
  • Dr Hans de Haard, Scientific Director, Ablynx
  • Elisabeth Wassner, Clinical Scientist, F. Hoffmann-La Roche
  • Dr Frederic Fellouse, Senior Research Scientist, Genentech

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Monoclonal antibodies, the manufacturing challenge

Andrew Sinclair

Andrew Sinclair, Co- Founder & Managing Director, BioPharm Services

  • What is the capacity for clinical and in market supply?
  • Process scale up issues - how do they influence manufacturing?
  • Future technical development - opportunities for cheaper more flexible manufacturing
  • Impact of disposable technologies
  • A manufacturing strategy - when to build vs contracting out risk pitfalls
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    9:45

    Intellectual Property and the therapeutic antibodies market

    John Miles

    John Miles, Partner, Eric Potter Clarkson

  • Freedom to operate - the third party antibody patent maze
  • Maximising protection for your therapeutic antibody
  • European bolar exemption - any special antibody considerations
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    10:50

    Commercialising antibodies

    Ian Scoular

    Ian Scoular, Business Development Director, Protherics Plc

  • To partner or not to partner?
  • Building an antibody business through licensing partnerships
  • Deal chasing and deal making
  • Planning for success
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    11:30

    Discussion and questions - review of the session

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    13:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    14:00

    The expanding role of antibodies in the treatment of human neoplasia

    Nigel Courtenay Luck

    Nigel Courtenay Luck, Chief Scientific Officer, Antisoma

  • Expanding number of monoclonal antibodies now being approved for the use as cancer therapeutics
  • Molecular biology is leading to identification of new antigenic targets
  • Recruitment of human effector functions in the tumour cell killing
  • Novel antibody fusion proteins being developed for use in oncology
  • MUC-1 a tumour antigen, shared between solid and haematological cancers
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    14:40

    How do you make the protein?

    David Jones

    David Jones, Head, Protein Production, Antisoma

  • Cell line generation
  • Process development
  • Steps to GMC manufacture
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    15:20

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:50

    In vitro and in vivo data required for product

    Colin Green

    Colin Green, Project Team Leader, Pharmacology, Antisoma

  • Demonstrating efficacy in vitro and in vivo
  • Pharmacokinetics and dose scheduling
  • Risk and safety assessment
  • Confirming the progression to clinical trials
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    16:40

    How profitable can the product be? - Can you make any money

    Melanie McCullagh

    Melanie McCullagh, Business Analyst, Antisoma

  • IP: third party patents and protecting your antibody against competition
  • Pricing: Profitability and patient access
  • Market positioning
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    17:10

    Discussion and questions - review of the session

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    17:30

    Close of Executive Briefing

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Dr Søren  Bregenholt

    Dr Søren Bregenholt, Director, Project Management, Symphogen

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    9:10

    OVERVIEW OF THE THERAPEUTIC ANTIBODIES MARKET

    Dr Mark Belsey

    Dr Mark Belsey, Biotechnology Analyst, Datamonitor

  • Market overview
  • Exploring the European therapeutic antibodies market
  • Improving the efficacy of mab therapeutics likely to benefit growth
  • Technology trends
  • The road ahead
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    9:50

    ASSESSING AND GENERATING ANTIBODY IP

  • IP landscape for antibody phage display
  • Comparison of USPTO and EPO approaches to antibody claims
  • Strategies for protecting antibodies
  • Approaches for assessing third party antibody patents
  • Dr Diane Wilcock

    Dr Diane Wilcock, Vice President, Intellectual Property, Cambridge Antibody Technology

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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    PRECLINICAL DEVELOPMENT

    Dr Robert Friesen

    Dr Robert Friesen, Director, Preclinical Development, Morphosys A G

  • HuCAL ® Human Combatorial Antibody Library
  • Therapeutic antibodies in development
  • MOR antibody development
  • Collaborative development programmes

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    11:40

    SYNTHETIC THERAPEUTIC ANTIBODIES

  • Application of structure- based design to antibody development
  • High affinity antibodies dervied from synthetic repertoires
  • Structural and functional analysis of antigen recognition
  • Highly optimised synthetic libraries with limited amino acid diverisities
  • Implications for antibody engineering and therapeutic antibodies
  • Dr Frederic Fellouse

    Dr Frederic Fellouse, Research Scientist, Genetech Inc

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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:50

    ANTIBODY PHAGE DISPLAY

    Dr Rene Hoet

    Dr Rene Hoet, Senior Director, Discovery Research , Dyax

  • Construction and use of Dyax novel phage and phagemid human antibody libraries
  • Novel antibody diversity combining careful synthetic design with natural human human donor diversity
  • Automated controlled phage display selcetion methods on purified protein targets, peptides and cells
  • High throughput screening methods to identify antibody leads
  • Case study: Tie-1 targeted inhibitor of tumour growth
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    14:30

    ANTIBODY ENGINEERING

  • Can antibody effector function be reliably measured in whole blood by flow cytometry ?
  • Can models be established that predicts clinical observations ?
  • Can this data be used to delineate mechanism of action ?
  • Can such assays demonstrate on-target effects ?
  • Can antibody effector function be reliably measured in whole blood by flow cytometry ?
  • Can models be established that predicts clinical observations ?
  • Can this data be used to delineate mechanism of action ?
  • Can such assays demonstrate on-target effects ?
  • Dr John Ferbas

    Dr John Ferbas, Principal Scientist, Group Leader, Flow Cytometry & Laser Scanning Cytometry Laboratories, Amgen

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    15:10

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:40

    PRACTICAL MEASURES FOR REDUCING IMMUNOGENICITY

    Dr Dave Estell

    Dr Dave Estell, Vice President, Technology Research, Genencor International Inc

  • Factors that influence immunogenicity of therapeutic proteins
  • Identification of T cell epitopes
  • Determining relative immunogenicity of proteins
  • Modification of T cell epitopes to reduce immunogencity
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    16:20

    IMMUNOGENICITY AND REGULATORY STANDARDS

    Dr Leon Hooftman

    Dr Leon Hooftman, Chief Medical Officer, Chroma Therapeutics

  • Clinical development aspects
  • Identification and optimisation of immunogenic epitopes
  • Regulatory authorities - a long process to the final stage
  • The movement of antibody products from CBER to CDER
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    17:00

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Dr Hans de Haard

    Dr Hans de Haard, Scientific Director, Ablynx

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    9:10

    DEVELOPMENT OF THERAPEUTIC ANTIBODIES TO GENOMIC DERIVED TARGETS

    Dr Vivian Albert

    Dr Vivian Albert, Vice President, Development Sciences & Research, Human Genome Sciences

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    9:50

    NEW INNOVATIONS IN THE THERAPEUTIC ANTIBODIES MARKET

    Dr Patrick Dufner

    Dr Patrick Dufner, Research Scientist, Cambridge Antibody Technology

  • CAT-354 for treatment of severe asthma, an affinity-matured human anti-IL-13 antibody
  • Identification of mutation hot-spots and their synergistic contribution to antibody potency improvements
  • Exploring antibody-antigen interaction
  • optimisation of biophysical characteristics like stability or solubility
  • Application to other therapeutic proteins
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    RITUXIMAB - CHANGING THE LANDSCAPE OF NHL/CLL TREATMENT

  • Brief review of NHL/CLL disease area and potential targets for antibody treatment
  • Treatment algorithms over the last 25 years in NHL/CLL
  • Structure and mode of action of Rituximab
  • Key data generated and published in the last few years
  • Impact of Rituximab on treatment guidelines and habits of NHL/CLL
  • Lessons we learnt so far to further improve antibody treatment in NHL/CLL
  • Brief review of NHL/CLL disease area and potential targets for antibody treatment
  • Treatment algorithms over the last 25 years in NHL/CLL
  • Structure and mode of action of Rituximab
  • Key data generated and published in the last few years
  • Impact of Rituximab on treatment guidelines and habits of NHL/CLL
  • Lessons we learnt so far to further improve antibody treatment in NHL/CLL
  • Elisabeth  Wassner

    Elisabeth Wassner, Clinical Scientist, F. Hoffman- La Roche

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    11:40

    PATIENT SPECIFIC ANTIBODY THEREAPY FOR NON-HODGKINS LYMPHOMA

    Dr Dana Ault-Riche

    Dr Dana Ault-Riche, Chief Executive Officer, Pointilliste

  • Patient specific drug development
  • Rapid identification of recombinant antibodies using microarray displays
  • Rapid formulation of recombinant antibodies into therapeutic molecules
  • Functional cell-based screening of antibody libraries using microarray displays
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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:50

    INFECTIOUS DISEASES

    Dr John de Kruif

    Dr John de Kruif, Director, Antibody Reasearch and Development, Crucell

  • Isolation of antibody specificities
  • Characterisation of antigens - epitopes and affinities
  • In vitro functional performance of teh antibodies
  • In vivo studies in small animals
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    14:30

    HOW CAMBRIDGE ANTIBODY TECHNOLOGY DELIVERS LEADS

    Dr Gerald Beste

    Dr Gerald Beste, Team Leader, Lead Discovery, Cambridge Antibody Technology

  • Overview of selection therapies
  • Screening for function
  • IgG conversion
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    15:10

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:40

    USING NANOBODIES AS NEW THERAPEUTIC ENTITIES

    Dr Hans de Haard

    Dr Hans de Haard, Scientific Director, Ablynx

  • The unique properties of Nanobodies and their potential as breakthrough therapeutics
  • Nanobodies against TNFa for the prevention of rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease
  • Anti Von Willebrand factor Nanobodies for prevention of arterial thrombosis
  • Nanobodies against CEA and EGFR for the treatment of cancer

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    16:20

    DEVELOPMENT OF RECOMBINANT HUMAN POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY THERAPEUTICS

    Dr Søren  Bregenholt

    Dr Søren Bregenholt, Director, Project Management, Symphogen

  • Innovative technology for cloning cognate human antibodies
  • Expression of recombinant human polyclonal antibodies
  • Regulatory strategy for obtaining approval of recombinant polyclonal antibody pharmaceuticals
  • Development of Sym001; anti-RhD polyclonal antibodies for treatment of ITP and HDN
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    17:00

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Conference

    Workshops

    Commercialising Antibodies

    Commercialising Antibodies

    Park Street Training and Meeting Centre, at etc. venues
    1 February 2006
    London, United Kingdom

    Cancer and Therapeutic Antibodies

    Cancer and Therapeutic Antibodies

    Park Street Training and Meeting Centre, at etc. venues
    1 February 2006
    London, United Kingdom

    Mayfair Conference Centre

    17 Connaught Mews
    London W2 2EL
    United Kingdom

    Mayfair Conference Centre

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