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WORKSHOPS • MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2010
Morning Workshop:
Immunogenicity Assessment – Screening and Confirmatory Assays
8:00 Workshop Registration & Morning Coffee
9:00 Workshop Begins
10:15 30-Minute Networking Break
12:15 Luncheon for Workshop Attendees and Presenters
Morning Workshop Leaders
Holly W. Smith, Senior Research Scientist, Biomolecular Interactions, ELI LILLY AND COMPANY
Robin Marsden, Associate Scientist, AMBRX
Afternoon Workshop:
Bioassays and Cut-Point Determination
1:30 Workshop Begins
3:00 30-Minute Networking Break
5:15 Workshop Concludes
Afternoon Workshop Leaders
Yao Zhuang, Principal Scientist, AMGEN
MAIN CONFERENCE: DAY 1 • TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 2010
7:15 Conference Registration and Morning Coffee
8:30 Chairperson’s Welcome and Opening Remarks
Review the history of Immunogenicity studies to understand the evolution of the industry.
Michel Awwad, PhD, Director, PFIZER
Current Regulatory Landscape
8:45 Interactive Review of Regulatory Guidelines and Industry White Papers
Panelists:


Holly W. Smith, Senior Research Scientist, Biomolecular Interactions, ELI LILLY AND COMPANY

Eric Wakshull, PhD, Senior Scientist/Group Leader, Bioanalytical Research & Development Dept, GENENTECH
9:45 Development of non-neutralizing ADA Associated with Dosing Reactions, Complement Activation and Immune Complex-Mediated Renal Failure
Christopher Horvath, DVM MS, DACVP, Vice President, PreClinical Sciences, TALIGEN THERAPEuTICS
10:30 30-Minute Morning Networking Break
11:00

Strategies for the Development and Characterization of Multiplexed Bioassays

Laure Moller, PhD, Field Scientific Support Manager, MESO SCALE DISCOVERY

 11:30 Development and Validation of the Immunogenicity Assay for Clinical Studies
Hong Lu, MS, R&D Senior Manager, MEDIMMUNE
12:00 Networking Lunch
  Effective Management of Drug Interference
1:00 A Bioactive Drug Quantitation Based Approach for the Detection of Anti-drug neutralizing Antibodies in Human Serum
Yao Zhuang, Principal Scientist, AMGEN
1:30 Detection of Anti-drug Antibody in Presence of Extreme High Level of Drug Counterpart of Endogenous Protein
Sam Song, MD, Senior Scientist, Assay Development, MERRIMACk PHARMACEUTICALS
2:00 Coping with Seemingly Insurmountable Interference: Back to the Basics
Michele Fiscella, Associate Director, Clinical Immunology, HUMAN GENOME SCIENCES
2:30 30-Minute Networking Break
  Data Interpretation/Clinical Relevance
3:00 

How to Handle Allergenicity Risks in Clinical Development of Biologicals

Jorgen Dahlstrom, PhD, Scientific Specialist, Clinical Allergy, PHADIA

3:30 Applying Pk/PD/ADA/AE to Interpretation of nonclinical Safety Studies
Holly Smith, Senior Research Scientist, Investigative Toxicology - Biomolecular Interactions, ELI LILLY AND COMPANY
4:00 Potential Clinical Impact of Monoclonal Antibody-Induced Immunogenicity in Oncology
Sarah Harris, PhD, Senior Scientist, BIOGEN IDEC
4:30 An Alternate Gamma-Fitting Statistical Method For Anti- Drug Antibody Assays To Establish Assay Cut-Points For Data with non-normal Distribution
Brian Schlain, Nonclinical Statistician, BIOGEN IDEC
5:00 Day One Deep Dive Rehash
5:30 Day One Concludes
6:00 Dine-Arounds and the San Francisco Experience
MAIN CONFERENCE: DAY 2 • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 2010
7:45 Registration and Morning Coffee
8:15 Chairperson’s Recap of Day One
Michel Awwad, PhD, Director, PFIZER
8:30 Challenges With Development of Anti-therapeutic Antibody Assays to Detect Antibodies of IgE Isotype
Sally Fischer, PhD, Senior Scientist and Group Leader, Bioanalytical Research and Development (BARD), GENENTECH
9:00 Immunogenicity Assays for a PEGylated Biotherapeutic
Bin Zhao, Scientist, BIOMARIN PHARMACEUTICAL
9:30 Comparability and Immunogenicity: Challenges Faced with Follow-on Biologics
Michele Gunsior, PhD, Principal Investigator, COVANCE
10:00 30-Minute Morning Networking Break
10:30 One-Step Quantification of neutralizing Antibodies to Biopharmaceuticals
Michael G. Tovey, Laboratory of Viral Oncology, INSTITUT ANDRÉ LWOFF
11:00 Cell-Based neutralizing Antibody Assay Development Challenges
Edwin Golez, Research Associate II, Bioanalytical Chemistry, AMYLIN PHARMACEUTICALS
11:30 Day Two Morning Deep Dive Rehash
12:00

Lunch and Learn Roundtables

Table A: Regulatory Considerations for Immunogenicity Moderator:  Eric Wakshull, PhD, Senior Scientist/Group Leader, Bioanalytical Research & Development Dept, GENENTECH
Table B: Strategies to Overcome Soluble Ligand Interference in Clinical Immunogenicity Assessment
Moderator:  Kate Peng, Associate Scientist at the Bioanalytical Research and Development, GENENTECH
Table C: The Critical Reagent Preparation and Characterization For Regulated Immunoassays
Moderator:  Mark Ma, PhD, Director, Preclinical, Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism, AMGEN
Table D:  ATA Assay Drug Tolerance
Moderator:  Kathy Kozak, Scientist, Assay & Automation Technology, GENENTECH
Table E:  Management of Assay/Sample Interference
Moderator: Sam Song, MD, Senior Scientist, Assay Development, MERRIMACK PHARMACEUTICALS
1:15 Introduction to Tolerance Induction to Therapeutic Proteins

Michel Awwad, Director, PFIZER
1:30

Tolerance Induction In Preclinical and Clinical Studies

Richard Garman, Scientific Director, GENZYME

2:00

Phospahtidylserine Liposomes and Induction of Immune Regulation to Proteins

Sathy V. Balu-Iyer, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORk AT BUFFALO

2:30

Induction of Peripheral Tolerance (Regulatory Cells) to Proteins

David W. Scott, PhD, Professor of Surgery and a Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAnD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

3:00   Conference Concludes
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