Abstracts for poster presentation only can be submitted up to two weeks before the event.

 Day 1:  Cell Culture Technology Event: Recent advances, future prospect 

Cell culture has matured to become the pivotal technology in biopharmaceutical research, development and production, and its use in this and other areas continues to expand rapidly.hm In vitro models are replacing animals in many tests and assays; its enormous potential in the fields of stem cell and regenerative medicine has hardly started to be realized; its utility in research grows ever faster.This session will examine some of the latest applications of cell culture technology, some that are still “over the horizon”, and some of the problems that must be solved before it can reach its full potential.

Day 2:  Therapeutic proteins and antibodies: from design to function
This session discusses new developments in therapeutic protein and antibody engineering with specific focus on science and technology of modifying proteins and antibodies (and the conditions of their manufacture) toward specific predefined properties that allow them to act as effective biological drugs. Special emphasis will be placed on structure-function relationships, mechanisms of action, potency and efficacy in disease-relevant models and in clinical trials. There will be plenty of opportunity for discussion and debate addressing the wide range of disciplines applied to the rapid and economical production of these molecules for biological therapies

 

Micro-cariers: its role in reducing the cost, time, and efforts towards industrial cells proliferation and protein productions
Dr Ali Hilal-Alnaqbi, Assistant Professor UAEU, Visiting Assistant Professor, Harvard, USA

 

Therapeutic IgE antibodies: enhanced effector functions for cancer therapy

Dr Sophia Karagiannis , Senior Research Fellow in Translational Cancer Immunology, Head of Cancer Antibody Discovery and Immunotherapy, King’s College London School of Medicine, UK

Introducing a Novel liquid 3 Dimensional Scaffold for Culturing Cells in 3D
Dr Anthony Mitchell Davies, Director of INCHSA, Dept Clinical Medicine Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Quantum dot- conjugated antibodies as diagnostic and therapeutic tools for cancer imaging and treatment
Dr Weiming Xu, CEO, London Biotech Ltd, UK

Real time, label-free characterisation of live cells in monolayer culture using high resolution, multi-modal light microscopy
Dr Melissa Mather, Principal Research Fellow, Institute of Biophysics, Imaging and Optical Science, University of Nottingham, UK

Biofabrication technologies for 3D cell culture systems
Dr Lorenzo Moroni, Associate Professor, University of Twente, Tissue Regeneration Department, The Netherlands

 

Selection of isotype for immunomodulatory anti-cancer antibodies

Dr Ann White, Senior Research Fellow, University of Southampton, UK

Developing of long acting glycoprotein hormones using gene fusion and gene transfer: from bench to clinics
Professor. Fuad Fares, University of Haifa, Israel

3D-tetraculture system mimicking the cellular organization at the alveolar barrier.
Dr Arno C. Gutleb, Chef de projet, Centre de Recherche Public – Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg

Protein based nano and micro particles for biological applications
Dr Deepak Kalaskar UCL , London

High-Throughput and Miniaturisation in Process Development
Dr Adrian Haines, Lonza Biologics plc, UK

Xanthine Oxidas and its organ specific forms are the target therapeutics molecules in the treatment of stroke
Dr Kristine Danielyan, Senior Scientific Worker, Team Leader. H Buniatian Inst of Biochemistry, National Academy of Science, Yerevan, Armenia

New method to identified amino acids, peptides and transjunctional proteins: Co-culture transwell system and mass spectrometry.
Dr. Maria D. Mayan, Cartilage Biology Research Group, Rheumatology Division, Biomedical Research Center (INIBIC), CH Universitario A Coruña, Spain

Talk title up be confirmed
Dr. Ajoy Velayudhan

Mitochondrial NAD pooland metastasis
Prof. Maria Luigia Pallotta, Assistant Professor / Researcher in Biochemistry, Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy

Talk title to be confirmed
Dr. Mark Peacock, Applikon Biotechnology UK, Basepoint Business Centre, Oakfield Close, Tewkesbury Business Park, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, GL20 8SD, UK

Additional Speakers Include

• Dr Sergio A. Quezada, Immune Regulation and Tumour Immunotherapy Group, UCL Cancer Institute, UK
• Dr Miriam Dwek, University of Westminster, UK