Platform technologies in pharma

Our member Pivot Park likes to invite you for these 3 lectures about this technology, including lunch.

Platform technologies are considered a valuable tool to improve efficiency and quality in drug product development. The basic idea is that a platform, in combination with a risk-based approach, is the most systematic method to leverage prior knowledge for a given new molecule.

The platform of Immunoprecise supports its business partners in their quest to discover and develop novel antibodies against a broad range of classes of disease targets. Glycostem has taken a new approach to cellular immunotherapy manufacturing and will introduce the difference. And Single Cell Discoveries will present single-cell sequencing platforms as a service; you will learn what single-cell sequencing is and how it was developed.

ImmunoPrecise
Highly diverse functional therapeutic antibody lead panel selection by sourcing chicken and human B-cell repertoires. Therapeutic antibody campaigns heavily benefit from high diversity, not only on the sequence level, but also with respect to epitope coverage and functionality. This aspect should be taken into account at each step of a discovery program. The presented case study focuses on the generation of a diversified panel of antibodies directed against a transmembrane protein which is described to play a role in the development of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases via different mechanisms of actions. Leveraging two distinct, robust, species-agnostic antibody discovery platforms selected to circumvent immune tolerance, we were able to rapidly isolate a diverse panel of multi-species, target-specific antibodies from our in-house human scFv-repertoires and chicken B cell pools. Subsequent high-throughput characterizations facilitated the binning of antibodies based on the epitope landscape profile and functionality for follow-up in in vitro proof of concept studies to address the different therapeutic options, including ADC-based approaches and bispecific-oriented strategies.

Single Cell Discoveries

Single-cell sequencing is a rapidly growing field that gains more and more interest from academia, biotech, and pharma. At Single Cell Discoveries, we offer multiple single-cell sequencing platforms as a service. Join our talk to find out what single-cell sequencing is, how it was developed, and which platforms we offer. We will discuss the biology of our single-cell platforms and how we work as a service provider.

Glycostem

Glycostem has taken a new approach to cellular immunotherapy manufacturing and will introduce the difference. Glycostem Therapeutics is focused on the development of stem cell-derived Natural Killer cells (NK cells) as a medicinal asset in the fight against cancer. NK cells are the new star in the domain of cellular immunotherapy, due to their tightly regulated “natural killing” of cancer cells; they play an important role in the control and even cure of both solid and hematological malignancies, like Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and Multiple Myeloma (MM).

Location              : Pivot Park, Building RK-K, Panorama room

Registration       : Send an email to communications@pivotpark.com