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8:00 am Check in & Morning Coffee

8:50 am Chair’s Opening Remarks

Honing Potency Assays to Improve Biological Relevance & In-depth Understanding of Your Therapeutic’s Efficacy

9:00 am Developing Robust & Reproducible Potency Assays to Address Variability in Biologics & Assay Standardisation

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Xosomix Therapeutics
  • Managing biological variability in exosome preparations through well-defined reference standards and controls
  • Implementing cell-based and functional assays with high sensitivity and reproducibility across manufacturing batches
  • Establishing assay validation frameworks to ensure robustness, precision, and regulatory compliance

9:30 am Defining Potency Assays for Exosome Therapeutics to Link Mechanism of Action to Measurable Biological Activity & Better Understand Product CQAs

Senior Vice President, Research & Development, Rion
  • Establishing potency assays that reflect the proposed mechanism of action, including immunomodulation, angiogenesis or tissue repair
  • Moving beyond surrogate markers to functional readouts that capture biologically relevant exosome activity
  • Correlating in vitro potency with in vivo efficacy to support clinical translation and dose justification

10:00 am Extracellular Vesicles from Microbial Cells for Clinical Applications

Director of Analytics, Versatope Therapeutics
  • Establishing in process controls upstream to monitor yield and quality
  • Providing analytics acceptable to regulatory authorities
  • Proactively developing potency assays that reflect the proposed mechanism of action, including stability, integrity and immunomodulation

10:30 am Morning Break

Evaluating the Applications of Exosomes For Various Indications & How Analytical Testing Can Help Improve Understanding of Key Quality Metrics

11:30 am Extracellular Vesicles From Human Cerebral Endothelial Cells Exposed to Oxygen-Glucose Deprivation Exhibit Potent Activity Against Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Medical Director, Liver Transplantation, Henry Ford Health System
  • Understanding why EVs from hCEC cells exposed to OGD deprivation express potent activity against hepatocellular cell lines
  • Identifying how EVs from hCEC cell exposed to OGD deprivation express potent activity against a wide array of cancer cell lines
  • Evaluating why EVs from hCEC cells exposed to OGD deprivation have no activity against benign cells

12:00 pm Analyzing Real World Exosomes from Lab to the Clinic to Understanding Clinical & Analytical Experience

Hemato-Oncologist, Centro Oncologico de Antioquia
  • Reviewing case reports from current exosome-based therapeutics
  • Understanding the benefits of exosomes in high-cost diseases
  • Identifying the accessibility in manufacturing & analysis to better understand your exosomes

12:30 pm Lunch

Standardising Exosome & EV Analysis to Improve Consistency of Data & Streamline Testing Timelines

1:30 pm Engineering Programmable Natural Nanoparticles for Organ-Targeted Delivery: Immunology to CNS Therapeutics

Chief Executive Officer, SHIFTBIO
  • NNP Design AI: AI-guided engineering for DDS design
  • NNP Manufacturing: Scalable production and analytical development of engineered NNPs
  • Brain-Targeted and Immunology-Targeted Natural Nanoparticle Platforms

2:30 pm Roundtable Discussion- Examining Regulatory Alignment & Validation of Analytical Methods for Exosome Therapeutics to Build Confidence in Clinical Grade Manufacturing

  • Aligning analytical validation with regulatory expectations for accuracy, precision, specificity, and robustness in complex biologics
  • Integrating analytical standardisation into GMP workflows for batch release and comparability assessments
  • Supporting regulatory submissions with validated, reproducible datasets that demonstrate consistent product quality and safety

3:30 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks

3:40 pm End of Pre-Conference Day