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Agenda at a Glance

Vaccines Conference Agenda

Conference Kick-Off Workshop: Wednesday, September 23th, 2009
8:30Registration & Morning Coffee
9:00Workshop Begins (See the Workshops page for details.)
10:3030 Minute Networking & Refreshment Break
12:00Workshop Concludes; Luncheon for Workshop Participants Only

Main Conference, Day One: Wednesday, September 23th, 2009
12:15Main Conference Registration
1:00Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks
Vu Truong-Le, Vice President of R&D, Aridis Pharma
Developing Innovative and Thermostable Vaccines
1:15

Choosing the Appropriate Patient Population: Observations from Therapeutic Cancer Clinical Trials
James L. Gulley, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.P., Director, Clinical Trials Group, Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology, CCR, National Cancer Institute, NIH 

2:00

Case Study: Stabilization of Vaccines and Other Biological Products
Jeff Drew, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Stabilitech Ltd.

2:4530 Minute Networking & Refreshment Break
3:15Case Study: Formulation and Stability Challenges for Virus Therapeutics: Above and Beyond Proteins
Byeong S. Chang, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Integrity Bio
4:00Case Study: Development and Clinical Manufacturing of a Platform Process for Plasmid DNA Vaccines
Richard M. Schwartz, PhD, Chief, Vaccine Production Program, Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH
4:30Case Study: Strategies to Stabilize Complex Vaccines
Vu Truong-Le, Vice President of R&D, Aridis Pharma
5:00Day One Concludes

Main Conference, Day Two: Thursday, September 24th, 2009
8:00Morning Coffee
8:30Conference Chairperson’s Recap of Day One
Vu Truong-Le, Vice President of R&D, Aridis Pharma
Novel Vaccine Delivery Advances
8:45

Case Study: Vaccination Using Microneedles
Mark R. Prausnitz, PhD, Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

9:30PATH Evaluation of Microneedles for Use in Developing Country Vaccine Delivery
Courtney Jarrahian, Technical Coordinator, Program for Apropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
10:1530 Minute Networking & Refreshment Break
10:45Vaccine Potency Measurement: Challenges and Approaches
Hersh Mehta, PhD, Head, Product Conception and Development, Sanofi-Pasteur
11:30Keynote Presentation:
Vaccinology: A Vaccines Historical Perspective and the Potential Impact on the Vaccines Business
Arthur Allen, Author, Vaccine: the Controversial Story of Medicine’s Greatest Lifesaver
12:15Luncheon
Adjuvants
1:15Case Study: An Adjuvant Status Update - Where Are We Now?
Hedwig Kresse, Senior Analyst, Infectious Diseases, Datamonitor
2:00 

Key Steps in the Development and Registration of an Adjuvanted Vaccine
Geoffroy Laterre, Senior Manager, GlaxoSmithKline Biologics

2:30 

Case Study: Boosting DNA Vaccines with Vaxfectin adjuvant
Sean Sullivan, PhD, Exec. Director, Pharma Sciences, Product Development, Vical Incorporated

3:0030 Minute Networking & Refreshment Break
3:30

Injecting Biological Drugs and Vaccines in a Solid Dosage Form

Charles Potter, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, Glide Pharma 

4:15Case Study: Analytical Method Development for Vaccines
Vincent Turula, Wyeth Vaccines
5:00Day Two Concludes

Main Conference, Day Three: Friday, September 25th, 2009
8:00Morning Coffee
8:45Conference Chairperson’s Recap of Day One
Vu Truong-Le, Vice President of R&D, Aridis Pharma
Vaccine Immunogenicty & Potencey Testing
9:00Satisfying the Need for Innovative HIV Vaccine Strategies: A Novel Lentiviral Vector Vaccine Candidate
Franck Lemiale, PhD, PharmD, Director, Vaccines & Immunology, VIRxSYS Corporation
9:45

Case Study:
Streamlining Biotherapeutic Pre-Formulation Development by Maximizing Data Acquisition and Analysis

Robert Simler, PhD, Staff Scientist II, Genzyme Corporation

10:3030 Minute Networking Break
11:00  Case Study:
Meeting a Grand Challenge in Global Health: Safer, Needlefree, Unit-dose, Inhalable Dry Powder Vaccines
Scott Winston, Aktiv-Dry
11:45 Your Choice of Sessions on Biologics & Biosimilars

A Novel DNAi Being Developed for the Treatment of Cancer

Wendi Rodriquez, Pronai

Robert Forgery, President and COO, Pronai

or

Commercial and Public Sector Insurance Payment Issues, Future Trends & Perspectives

F. Randy Vogenberg, PhD, Jefferson School of Population Health

 12:30

 Your Choice of Sessions on Biologics & Biosimilars

Scale Up and Manufacture of SiRNA-Based Drugs

Peter Lutwyche, PhD, VP of Pharmaceutical Development, Tekmira

or

Main Street Perspective: What Patients and Consumers Want from Biosimilars and Biogenerics

Leigh Purvis, Policy Research Analyst, AARP Public Policy Institute

1:15Close of the 2009 Vaccines Development Forum; See You Next Year!