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  • ON DEMAND
    Prologue: A Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Framework to Develop Predictive Endogenous Biomarkers
    Location: On Demand
    Prologue Speaker: Sibylle Neuhoff, PhD – Certara UK Limited, Simcyp Division
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • ON DEMAND
    Prologue: An End-to-End Biomarker Strategy to Accelerate Drug Development: Current Landscape and Future Prospects
    Location: On Demand
    Prologue Speaker: Kelly A. Fader, PhD (she/her/hers) – Pfizer Inc.
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • ON DEMAND
    Prologue: Role of Biomarkers in Rare Disease Drug Development and Regulatory Approval
    Location: On Demand
    Prologue Speaker: Lakshmi Amaravadi, PhD – Kojin Therapeutics
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    9:00 AM – 10:30 AM ET
    Symposium: Advances in Predictive Biomarkers For Drug Development
    Location: 311 CD West
    Moderator: Manthena V. Varma, PhD – Pfizer Inc
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    9:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET
    Pharmacodynamic Biomarkers Evidentiary Considerations for Biosimilar Development and Approval
    Location: 311 CD West
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    9:30 AM – 10:00 AM ET
    Leveraging Biomarkers in Establishing PK/PD Models
    Location: 311 CD West
    Speaker: Donald E. Mager, PharmD, PhD – University at Buffalo, SUNY/Enhanced Pharmacodynamics, LLC
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    10:00 AM – 10:30 AM ET
    Metabolomics: a Powerful and Efficient Tool for Drug Discovery and Development
    Location: 311 CD West
    Speaker: Thomas P. Roddy, PhD (he/him/his) – Atavistik Bio
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    9:00 AM – 11:00 AM ET
    Symposium: PD Biomarkers As Evidence in Rare Disease
    Location: 311 AB West
    Moderator: Lakshmi Amaravadi, PhD – Kojin Therapeutics
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    9:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET
    Supporting Rare Disease Drug Development and Use of Biomarkers: Ravulizumab Case Study
    Location: 311 AB West
    Speaker: Mark Ma, MD (he/him/his) – Biotech
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    9:30 AM – 10:00 AM ET
    Critical Path for Rare Neurodegenerative Diseases Initiative for Drug Development
    Location: 311 AB West
    Speaker: Colin Hovinga – C-Path Institute
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    10:00 AM – 10:30 AM ET
    Neurodegenerative Rare Diseases: Biomarkers in Drug Development and Regulatory Decisions
    Location: 311 AB West
    Speaker: Bilal AbuAsal, PhD – US FDA
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    10:30 AM – 11:00 AM ET
    Pharmacodynamic Biomarkers as Confirmatory Evidence in Rare Disease Drug Development
    Location: 311 AB West
    Speaker: Nayeem Hossain, PhD – US FDA
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET
    Inhalation Pharmacokinetics and Toxicity of CBD and other Cannabinoids
    Location: 360 Stage #4 Exhibit Hall West A4-B3
    Partner Presentation Speaker: Philip J. Kuehl, PhD – Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
    Presented By 
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    11:15 AM – 12:00 PM ET
    Accelerating Immunogenicity Analysis: From IgG- to AAV-based Therapies
    Location: Spotlight Stage B Exhibit Hall West A4-B3
    Chalk Talk Presenter: Eric Feeley, Ph.D. – Gyros Protein Technologies
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
    Presented By 
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    12:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
    User Group Meeting: The Power of Phoenix Tools Analyzing PK Data
    Location: 360 Stage #1 Exhibit Hall West A4-B3
    Tech Spotlight Speaker: Ana Henry, M.S., Biomathematics – Certara
    Tech Spotlight Speaker: Chris Mehl, M.S – Certara
    Tech Spotlight Speaker: Fred Mahakian (he/him/his) – Certara
    Tech Spotlight Speaker: Michael Clifton, BS – Certara
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
    Presented By 
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET
    Keynote: Apply Endogenous Biomarkers to Detect DDIs
    Location: 311 AB West
    Keynote Speaker: Hiroyuki Kusuhara, PhD (he/him/his) – Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the University of Tokyo
    Moderator: Yurong Lai, PhD (he/him/his) – Gilead Sciences, Inc.
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET
    Keynote: Biomarker Selection and Utility in Clinical Drug Development Today: Workhorses and Unicorns
    Location: 311 CD West
    Keynote Speaker: Lindsay Ewan King, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Pfizer Inc
    Moderator: Jaya Vaidyanathan, PhD – Division of Cardiometabolic and Endocrine Pharmacology, OCP/OTS/CDER/US Food and Drug Administration
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    2:30 PM – 3:30 PM ET
    Speaker Spotlight: Advances in Predictive Biomarkers for DDIs
    Location: Spotlight Stage B Exhibit Hall West A4-B3
    Spotlight Speaker: Manthena V. Varma, PhD – Pfizer Inc
    Moderator: Fei Hua, PhD – Applied BioMath
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET
    Rapid Fires: Predictive Biomarker Strategies to De-Risk Drug Development 1
    Location: 311 AB West
    Rapid Fire Moderator: Mahmoud Salama Ahmed, PhD (he/him/his) – Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET
    Rapid Fires: Predictive Biomarker Strategies to De-Risk Drug Developments 2
    Location: 311 CD West
    Rapid Fire Moderator: F. Yushra Thanzeel, PhD – Merck & Co., Inc.
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    3:00 PM – 3:15 PM ET
    Spatial Biomarker to Inform Biological Context Drug Response
    Location: 311 CD West
    Rapid Fire Speaker: Corinne Ramos (she/her/hers) – Aliri
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    3:15 PM – 3:30 PM ET
    Stability & Compatibility of Peptides for Oral Drug Delivery
    Location: 311 CD West
    Rapid Fire Speaker: F. Yushra Thanzeel, PhD – Merck & Co., Inc.
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    3:30 PM – 3:45 PM ET
    Comprehensive LC-MS/MS Analysis of VSV-GP Lipidome
    Location: 311 CD West
    Rapid Fire Speaker: Yuecheng Xi, PhD (she/her/hers) – Boehringer Ingelheim
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    3:45 PM – 4:00 PM ET
    Development of Immunoactive Polymeric Nanocomplex to Activate Innate Immune Response for Cancer Immunotherapy
    Location: 311 AB West
    Rapid Fire Speaker: Fanfei Meng, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Mass-Lowell
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Monday, Oct 23rd
    3:45 PM – 4:00 PM ET
    Strategy for Assessing Stability in Multiplexed Cytokine Panels
    Location: 311 CD West
    Rapid Fire Speaker: Christian Braithwaite, M.S. – BioAgilytix
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    9:00 AM – 11:00 AM ET
    Symposium: Evolving Clinical Pharmacology and Translational PK/PD Approaches For New Modalities
    Location: 309 AB West
    Moderator: Hardik Mody, PhD – Genetech
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    9:00 AM – 11:00 AM ET
    Symposium: Harnessing The Power of AI/ML in Drug Development
    Location: 311 CD West
    Moderator: Raja B. Velagapudi, PhD (he/him/his) – Tolmar Inc
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    9:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET
    Application of Mechanistic Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Models to Oligonucleotides
    Location: 309 AB West
    Speaker: Felix Stader, PhD (he/him/his) – Certara UK Limited
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    9:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET
    Understand the Regulatory Environment for AI and Machine Learning
    Location: 311 CD West
    Speaker: Kim Huynh-Ba, MS, PMP, FAAPS – Pharmalytik Consulting & Training
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    9:30 AM – 10:00 AM ET
    PK/PD Modeling of Bispecific T Cell Engagers for Clinical Translation
    Location: 309 AB West
    Speaker: Yanguang (Carter) Cao, PH.D – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    9:30 AM – 10:00 AM ET
    The Use of Machine Learning in the Development of Scoring Rule for the Identification of Adult Patients Under the Emergency Use Authorization for Anakinra for Treatment of COVID-19 in the United States
    Location: 311 CD West
    Speaker: Ruihao Huang, PhD (he/him/his) – U.S. Food and Drug Administration
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    10:00 AM – 10:30 AM ET
    Clinical Pharmacology Considerations for Allogeneic Cell Therapies
    Location: 309 AB West
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    10:00 AM – 10:30 AM ET
    Integrating Machine Learning and Systems Pharmacology to Predict Clinical Outcomes to CAR-T Therapies
    Location: 311 CD West
    Speaker: Avisek Deyati, PhD (he/him/his) – Notch Therapeutics
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    10:30 AM – 11:00 AM ET
    A Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Model to Characterize the PKPD Relationship Following Treatment with IL-15R Agonists
    Location: 309 AB West
    Speaker: Louis Joslyn, PhD – Genentech
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    10:30 AM – 11:00 AM ET
    When Modeling & Simulation Meets GPT
    Location: 311 CD West
    Speaker: Liang Zhao, PhD – US Food and Drug Administration
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM ET
    Speaker Spotlight: Evolving Clinical Pharmacology and Translational PK/PD Approaches for New Modalities
    Location: Spotlight Stage B Exhibit Hall West A4-B3
    Spotlight Speaker: Joshua F. Apgar, PhD (he/him/his) – Applied BioMath, LLC
    Moderator: Fei Hua, PhD – Applied BioMath
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    12:30 PM – 1:30 PM ET
    Impurity/Degradation Products: Time to Move Beyond Standard ICHQ3 Qualification Studies?
    Location: 360 Stage #2 Exhibit Hall West A4-B3
    Partner Presentation Speaker: Jim Herman, PhD, DABT (1992-2022) – Certara
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
    Presented By 
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET
    Keynote: Navigating Project Optimus: Use of Modeling and Simulation to Inform Dosing Strategies in Oncology
    Location: 311 CD West
    Moderator: Fei Hua, PhD – Applied BioMath
    Keynote Speaker: Dean Bottino, PhD (he/him/his) – Takeda Pharmaceuticals
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET
    Keynote: Towards Development of Translational PBPK Models for Biologics
    Location: 309 AB West
    Keynote Speaker: Dhaval K. Shah, PhD (he/him/his) – University at Buffalo
    Moderator: Jaya Vaidyanathan, PhD – Division of Cardiometabolic and Endocrine Pharmacology, OCP/OTS/CDER/US Food and Drug Administration
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    2:30 PM – 3:30 PM ET
    Hot Topic: Engineering Human Organoids and Organs-on-Chips for Disease Modeling, Drug Development and Personalized Medicine
    Location: 308 AB West
    Hot Topic Moderator: Yurong Lai, PhD (he/him/his) – Gilead Sciences, Inc.
    Hot Topic Speaker: Rodrigo Cristofoletti, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – University of Florida
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET
    Rapid Fires: Advancing Innovation in In Silico Translational Approaches 1
    Location: 309 AB West
    Rapid Fire Moderator: Sean Ekins, PhD, DSc – Collaborations Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET
    Rapid Fires: Advancing Innovation in In Silico Translational Approaches 2
    Location: 311 CD West
    Rapid Fire Moderator: Cheng Chang, PhD – Pfizer Inc.
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    3:30 PM – 4:30 PM ET
    A Formulators Guide to Crossing the Valley of Death
    Location: 360 Stage #2 Exhibit Hall West A4-B3
    Partner Presentation Speaker: Darren Matthews, PhD – Charles River
    Partner Presentation Speaker: Dolly Jacob, PhD – Quotient Sciences
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
    Presented By 
  • Tuesday, Oct 24th
    3:30 PM – 4:30 PM ET
    Immunogenicity Assessment and Functional Testing of Candidate Therapeutics
    Location: 360 Stage #4 Exhibit Hall West A4-B3
    Partner Presentation Speaker: Chloe Ackaert, PhD (she/her/hers) – ImmunXperts, a Q2 Solutions Company
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
    Presented By 
  • Wednesday, Oct 25th
    9:00 AM – 10:30 AM ET
    Symposium: Alternative Approach to Animal Studies
    Location: 309 AB West
    Moderator: Ketan D. Patel, PhD (he/him/his) – St. John's University
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Wednesday, Oct 25th
    9:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET
    Application of (Q)SAR Modeling to the Safety Assessment of Pharmaceuticals
    Location: 309 AB West
    Speaker: Naomi Kruhlak, PhD (she/her/hers) – US Food and Drug Administration
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Wednesday, Oct 25th
    9:30 AM – 10:00 AM ET
    A Novel in vitro Hepatocyte Culture System (icHep) for Biliary Drug Excretion Analysis Using Permeation Assay
    Location: 309 AB West
    Speaker: Ikumi Tamai, Ph.D (he/him/his) – Kanazawa University
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Wednesday, Oct 25th
    10:00 AM – 10:30 AM ET
    SafetAI Initiative: AI Based Prediction Initiative For Predicting Toxicity End-Points
    Location: 309 AB West
    Speaker: Shraddha Thakkar, MSc, M.S., PhD – US FDA/CDER/OTS/OCS
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Wednesday, Oct 25th
    9:00 AM – 11:00 AM ET
    Symposium: Methodologies to Expedite Drug Development
    Location: 311 CD West
    Moderator: Aniruddha S. Karve, PhD – University of Cincinnati
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Wednesday, Oct 25th
    9:30 AM – 10:00 AM ET
    Promises and Pitfalls of Phase 0/1 Clinical Trials
    Location: 311 CD West
    Speaker: David M. Peereboom, MD – Cleveland Clinic Burkhardt Brain Tumor and Neuro-oncology Center
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Wednesday, Oct 25th
    10:00 AM – 10:30 AM ET
    Bridging the Gap: Preclinical Modeling for Effective PK/PD-Driven Clinical Trials
    Location: 311 CD West
    Speaker: Shwetal Mehta, PhD – Ivy Brain Tumor Center / Barrow Neurological Institute
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Wednesday, Oct 25th
    10:30 AM – 11:00 AM ET
    Marker Molecules to Measure BBB Permeability in and Around Brain Tumors
    Location: 311 CD West
    Speaker: William F. elmquist, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Minnesota
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Wednesday, Oct 25th
    11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET
    U.S. Government Contracts & Grants: Non-Dilutive Funding for Life Sciences
    Location: 360 Stage #4 Exhibit Hall West A4-B3
    Partner Presentation Speaker: Laura Powell, PhD – EverGlade Consulting
    Partner Presentation Speaker: Steve Morris, PhD – EverGlade Consulting
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
    Presented By 
  • Wednesday, Oct 25th
    11:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET
    Speaker Spotlight: Innovative PK-PD is Helping Informed-Decision in Neuro-Oncology
    Location: Spotlight Stage B Exhibit Hall West A4-B3
    Moderator: Pankaj B. Desai, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Cincinnati
    Spotlight Speaker: Nader Sanai, MD (he/him/his) – Ivy Brain Tumor Center at Barrow Neurological Institute
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Wednesday, Oct 25th
    1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET
    Keynote: Novel Tools and Insights into Predicting Systemic and Tissue Drug Concentrations in Humans Including Special Populations
    Location: 309 AB West
    Keynote Speaker: Jashvant D. Unadkat, PhD – University of Washington
    Moderator: Yurong Lai, PhD (he/him/his) – Gilead Sciences, Inc.
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Wednesday, Oct 25th
    1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET
    Keynote: Predictive Drug Discovery Platforms
    Location: 311 CD West
    Keynote Speaker: James R. Gosset (he/him/his) – Pfizer Inc
    Moderator: Fei Hua, PhD – Applied BioMath
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Wednesday, Oct 25th
    3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET
    Hot Topic: Understanding Data Needs for AI/ML Approaches During Preclinical Development
    Location: 308 CD West
    Hot Topic Speaker: Vibha Jawa, PhD, FAAPS – Bristol Myers Squibb
    Hot Topic Moderator: Fei Hua, PhD – Applied BioMath
    Hot Topic Speaker: Anant Madabhushi, PhD (he/him/his) – Emory University
    Hot Topic Speaker: Michelle Graham, PhD (she/her/hers) – AbbVie
    Hot Topic Speaker: Narendra Chirmule, Dr. (he/him/his) – SymphonyTech Biologucs
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Wednesday, Oct 25th
    3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET
    Rapid Fires: Novel Predictive Preclinical Models for Efficacy and Toxicology 1
    Location: 309 AB West
    Rapid Fire Moderator: Claudio M. Marzo, PhD (he/him/his) – Evotec SE
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences
  • Wednesday, Oct 25th
    3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET
    Rapid Fires: Novel Predictive Preclinical Models for Efficacy and Toxicology 2
    Location: 311 CD West
    Rapid Fire Moderator: Bill R. Thelin, PhD (he/him/his) – Altis Biosystems
    Preclinical and Translational Sciences