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Unlocking the Promise of Gene Therapy
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Unlocking the Promise of Gene Therapy

November 28, 2022

Review the current state of gene therapy Discuss overcoming barriers to product development Make the case for global regulatory convergence Describe FDA actions facilitating gene therapy development — Peter Marks Director – Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) FDA Peter Marks received his graduate degree in cell and molecular biology and his medical degree at New York University and completed Internal Medicine residency and Hematology/Medical Oncology training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He has worked in academic settings teaching and caring for patients and in industry on drug development. He joined the FDA in 2012 as Deputy…

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Moderna: The Rise of mRNA Vaccines – CMC Operations During a Once-in-a-Lifetime Pandemic
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Moderna: The Rise of mRNA Vaccines – CMC Operations During a Once-in-a-Lifetime Pandemic

November 23, 2022

Our journey from a “platform” to a “multi-product” company How we achieved the seemingly impossible What we learned along the way Where we are today and where the journey takes us next — Tara Jones SVP, North America Operations Moderna Tara is responsible for end-to-end operations for DNA, Drug Substance, and Drug Product for global clinical trial materials and commercial product for the North America region.  Prior to joining Moderna she was at Amgen where she led drug substance operations at Amgen Puerto Rico and was responsible for both the mammalian and bacterial drug substance manufacturing operations for multiple commercial…

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“Applying Lessons Learned from Covid 19 for Future Pandemic Preparedness!”
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“Applying Lessons Learned from Covid 19 for Future Pandemic Preparedness!”

February 28, 2023

Given the experiences of Covid 19 Pandemic Response, we are even more aware of the need to be ready for what lies ahead with emerging and existing infectious diseases. Covid 19 continues to be a problem with evolving variants, Flu season ahead is anticipated to be worst in years, and we’re learning about new or resurfacing infectious disease outbreaks around the world on a daily basis. Therefore, Pandemic Preparedness is more important now than ever. This presentation will share the key CMC lessons learned from the past two years that can be applied to Pandemic Preparedness – with focus on…

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Revolutionizing The Manufacturing Landscape to Optimize Patient Outcomes
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Revolutionizing The Manufacturing Landscape to Optimize Patient Outcomes

November 23, 2022

How the pandemic has impacted innovation, technology, people and our ways of working and thinking How is Amgen transforming biomanufacturing for a faster, more data-savvy future and strengthening the balance of resiliency and efficiency Addressing unmet patient needs and establishing new markets through connected technology and other manufacturing innovations (smart materials, process automation and more) Why building integrated, collaborative, agile, high performance teams are at the heart of revolutionary manufacturing Amgen Ecovation™ – creating value through innovative and sustainable manufacturing operations — Arleen Paulino SVP Global Manufacturing Amgen Arleen Paulino, senior vice president, Manufacturing, leads Amgen’s commercial manufacturing organization where…

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Fireside Chat: Integrating Customer Centricity and Innovative Technology into a Forward-Looking Manufacturing Strategy
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Fireside Chat: Integrating Customer Centricity and Innovative Technology into a Forward-Looking Manufacturing Strategy

November 29, 2022

How are biology and patient needs influencing risk-based investment and networking structure in the manufacturing space? Discussing route and location of administration, including MDCP considerations, components and suppliers, design standards including image selection, and packaging network design Exploring flexible facilities, integrated clinical launches, and capital risk avoidance in the quest to get fast to clinical and fast to respond Understanding the need for early investment in platform changes. How is the emergence of ADCs, modality blurring, and market considerations changing the way we traditionally work? Talking about access issues including regionalization and localization, IP considerations, and how higher order BSL…

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Fireside Chat: Building the Future from a Distinguished Tenure in CMC
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Fireside Chat: Building the Future from a Distinguished Tenure in CMC

November 23, 2022

Introducing Prime Medicine and its vision for the future of medicine How are we thinking about the inclusion of novel types of automation into molecular medicine workflows? Examining how we view Talent in the emergent technology space, and how do we best deploy remote and hybrid work? Historically, pharmaceutical manufacturing leaders were predominantly men; however, many important CMC leadership positions are now held by women. Why is this the case, and how do we sustain this pattern? What are the most significant learnings from having achieved success in licensing autologous cell therapies? — Ann Lee Chief Technical Officer Prime Medicine…

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Panel: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards: Maximizing Our Impact on the Future of Medicine

November 28, 2022

The past few years has seen a migration of talent and technology from traditional biopharmaceutical manufacturing to ATMP manufacturing: How has this changed the CMC ecosystem, and are we overbuilding capacity again? Avoiding the dangers of fragmentation. How should we better communicate, collaborate, and consolidate our best ideas so we all succeed? Discussing the reasons to set up a new company today, and imagining how our business ecosystem will continue to grow and evolve Debating which production platforms will best suit the newer modalities Exploring the next steps for existing platforms like mAbs: How do we efficiently serve giant markets…

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TCR² and the Path to Registration: The Road in Scaling a TCR Platform and Organization to Un-Lock a Therapy for Solid Tumors
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TCR² and the Path to Registration: The Road in Scaling a TCR Platform and Organization to Un-Lock a Therapy for Solid Tumors

November 23, 2022

Walking through how we built our Cell Therapy unit. What did we duplicate? What did we innovate? What did we adapt from others, and how did we make it our own? How are we building a sustainable pipeline, managing complexity, and keeping our focus? What are the “must haves”? What are the learnings on common threats of significant transformations? Lessons learned from the TCR² journey to provide innovative therapies for patients in need — Peter Olagunju Chief Technical Officer TCR² Therapeutics Peter Olagunju serves as the Chief Technical Officer of TCR².  He brings over 20 years of experience in cell…

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Towards Industrialization of Cell Therapy
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Towards Industrialization of Cell Therapy

November 23, 2022

Cell therapy, such as regenerative therapies based on iPSCs and adoptive cell therapies targeting cancer with CAR-T cells, CAR-NKs or TCRs hold enormous potential for the future of medicine, enabling for the first time curative approaches. However, the field is still in its infancy and CMC remains a critical bottleneck in bringing these therapies to patients on a global scale. This discussion will focus on the scientific, technical and cultural transformations required to drive towards true industrialization of cell therapies, including: The critical challenges in CMC for cell therapies today How more in-depth understanding of cells, their critical quality attributes…

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Culture of Quality Excellence Driving Competitive Advantage for Operations
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Culture of Quality Excellence Driving Competitive Advantage for Operations

November 28, 2022

Why a Culture of Quality Excellence is foundational to achieving manufacturing excellence and leads to competitive advantage for operations. Driving a culture that recognizes the Value of Quality Excellence. How to establish a Culture of Quality Excellence by focusing not only on processes and digital infrastructure but also focusing on Real-world examples of how Quality excellence is translated into manufacturing excellence, including  Vendor Management, Investigational Excellence and End to End QMS. Using Quality data in a proactive and predictive manner in order to deliver value and achieve manufacturing excellence. — RJ Doornbos VP, Global Quality Systems Bristol Myers Squibb As the Head of Global…

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Industrialization of CAR-T Therapies – Autologous vs Allogeneic: Common and Uncommon Hurdles
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Industrialization of CAR-T Therapies – Autologous vs Allogeneic: Common and Uncommon Hurdles

November 28, 2022

Industry evolution at a glance Donor Variability, the greatest source of variability for cell therapies. Thoughts on characterizing and accommodating this variability Process considerations for Autologous CAR and the importance of a good data ecosystem to provide insight and understanding to this highly complex therapeutic modality Brief introduction to Kyverna — Karen Walker Chief Technology Officer Kyverna Therapeutics Karen Walker, Chief Technology Officer, Kyverna Therapeutics.  Karen brings >30 years’ experience in the biotech industry, holding positions in Technical Development, Regulatory Affairs and Quality. She has worked in a number of companies including Roche/Genentech, Seattle Genetics, Novartis, Amgen, Bayer, and several…

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The Quality Equation
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The Quality Equation

November 28, 2022

Do you want to ensure that you never have a surprise regulatory inspection outcome? The equation incorporates all you need to assess the status of your site and is even better for companies with networks of sites Data integrity, quality culture, process capability, management commitment and Quality Management Systems are all assessed to produce actionable data whether you are overseeing a CMO or operate your own network of sites — Brandon Varnau Head, Industrial Affairs Specialty Care Global Business Unit Quality Operations Sanofi Brandon Varnau is Head of Industrial Affairs Specialty Care Global Business Unit Quality Operations for Sanofi. He…

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Lyell’s Manufacturing Journey – Building Capacity and Capabilities to Support Multiple Cell Therapy Programs
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Lyell’s Manufacturing Journey – Building Capacity and Capabilities to Support Multiple Cell Therapy Programs

November 28, 2022

Overview of Lyell science, technologies and platforms Developing a manufacturing strategy to control supply, enable scale and deliver multiple modalities Establishing electronic systems and digital ways of working from the start Building Lean principles and execution discipline into the organization early Delivering on the vision and strategy including lessons learned — Stephen Hill Chief Operating Officer Lyell Immunopharma Stephen Hill has served as our Chief Operating Officer since October 2021. He joined Lyell in June 2019 as our Chief Technical Operations Officer. From June 2018 to June 2019, he was Senior Vice-President, Head of Global Biologics Operations and from March…

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Technical Operations Strategies in an Uncertain Market
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Technical Operations Strategies in an Uncertain Market

November 30, 2022

 State of the current market and impact on manufacturing cell and gene therapies Key factors to consider when scaling up a facility for advanced medicines Make vs. Buy and the advantages and challenges of both solutions given the current market Moderator: Adam Pfeiffer VP of Strategy Project Farma Adam Pfeiffer is the Vice President of Strategy at Project Farma. In his role, Adam drives overall business strategy, aligning with operations, marketing, and business development groups in growing the firm’s global life sciences partnerships.With 16+ years of life sciences consulting experience, Adam has supported countless drug manufacturers in bringing life-saving therapies…

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Establishing a ‘Culture of Data’ in Pharma Manufacturing
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Establishing a ‘Culture of Data’ in Pharma Manufacturing

March 13, 2023

Pharmaceutical manufacturers have worked diligently and successfully to foster a ‘culture of quality’, resulting in fewer overall regulatory citations year over year since 2010. How can better data management and analytics impact not only quality but process improvement and efficiency gains as well? What trends are driving the need to move towards both managing and using data better? The ‘culture of data’ starts with changing old ways of working. What steps do biopharma manufacturers need to take to initiate their transformation? How can manufacturers use manufacturing process data to quickly and proactively improve outcomes? — Vishaka Rajaram Director, Pharmaceutical and…

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