Engaging Thought Leadership
Over 90 dynamic interactive discussions, roundtables, and presentations curated with insights from top industry leaders and experts
Cell & Gene US 2024
04 - 05 December 2024 | San Diego, CA
Connecting leaders from every stage of the value chain to drive advanced therapy development and novel biologics processing
Cell & Gene US 2024
Meet Our Expert Speakers
The event brings together a panel of prominent leaders and scientists, sharing new case studies, innovative data, and industry outlooks. Below were some of the featured speakers at Cell & Gene US 2024: 04 - 05 December 2024, San Diego, CA, USA
Alix Eastham
Senior Manager,
Ultragenyx Gene Therapy
Amish Patel
VP of Technical Operations,
Calidi Biotherapeutics
Ashley Winslow
President & CSO,
Odylia Therapeutics
Biren Mistry
Associate Director,
Zentalis Pharmaceuticals
Chien-Chung Chen
Director, Analytical Development,
Cabaletta Bio
Dan Odenwelder
Senior Engineer III,
Biogen
Dan Shelly
VP Business Development,
Prescient Therapeutics
Gargi Roy
Associate Director,
AstraZeneca
Hemant Khanna
VP,
Iveric bio
Irina Klimanskaya
Senior Director,
Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Jack Scarcelli
Director, Head of Cell Science and Technology,
Pfizer Ltd
John Rossi
Vice President,
CARGO Theraputics Inc
Kenneth Green
Senior Director,
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Kerry Sieger
Senior Director, Global Quality Operations,
Immatics US, Inc.
Kumkum Saxena
Vice President, Head of Research and Development,
Versatope Therapeutics
Mahwish Natalia
Associate Director,
Takeda
Morten Sogaard
Senior Vice President, Gene Therapy Research and Technical Operations,
Astellas
Nathan Moore
Director,
Takeda
Nelly Viseux
Senior Vice President,Process & AnalyticalDevelopment & ClinicalManufacturing,
2Seventybio
Nicholas Marshall
Head of Protein Sciences,
Invenra
Nitin Garg
Senior Director,
PTC Therapeutics
Shyam Subramanian
Chief Technical Officer,
Obsidian Therapeutics
Stefanie Brady
Sr. Director, Supply Chain,
REGENXBIO
Taylor Forte
Associate Director,
Biogen
William Beck
Director, Supply Chain,
CARISMA Therapeutics
Zhu Zhen Pirot
Platform CGT analytical lead,
Bayer
Meet Our Esteemed Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Network & Programme Sponsors
Sponsors of Cell 2023 included
Beckman Coulter
Bronze Sponsor
We have a vital role: our focus on innovation, reliability and efficiency has led us to become the partner of choice for clinical, research and industrial customers around the globe. In the life sciences, researchers use Beckman Coulter’s precision instruments to study complex biological problems, including causes of disease and potential new treatments. Our team of experts dedicates the time and energy to understand the complexity of research for laboratory customers in a wide variety of settings: universities, government, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and commercial laboratories. By innovating new processes and technologies, we’re challenging conventional wisdom;our goal is to develop the best, most widely trusted laboratory solutions available on the market today.
Bio-Techne
Network & Programme Sponsor
Bio-Techne empowers researchers in Life Science and Clinical Diagnostics by providing high-quality reagents, instruments, custom manufacturing, and testing services. Our family of brands creates a unique portfolio of products and services. Science is our passion;it drives us to collaborate, develop, and manufacture award-winning tools that help researchers achieve reproducible and consistent results. Whether you are at the cutting edge of academic research, translating basic discoveries to therapeutic leads, or at a facility that requires the highest level of diagnostic testing, our innovative products and services provide the solutions you need to achieve success.
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BioMerieux
Bronze Sponsor
A family-owned company, bioMérieux has grown to become a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics. Our entrepreneurial adventure, begun over a century ago, is driven by an unrelenting commitment to improve public health worldwide. As a global pioneer with an unrelenting spirit to improve upon public health and safety, our mission is to provide the pharmaceutical industries with innovative, precise technologies that help you manufacture safe products, improve your bottom line, and increase your productivity levels. We develop solutions that cater to each client’s requirements, enabling you to protect your brand reputation through consistent product safety and quality. With a partner-first approach to Pharmaceutical Quality Control, our experts deliver an integrated offer that easily adapts to your facilities, products, and processes, allowing our customers to provide critical therapies quickly and safely to patients.
CancerTools
Bronze Sponsor
CancerTools.org is the first-of-its-kind non-profit, cancer-focused biorepository where researchers can deposit research tools they have developed in their labs including antibodies, cell lines, organoids, small molecules, mouse models, cell culture media and other state-of- the-art technologies. With our in-house production and global coverage, we can produce, store and supply these tools to fellow scientists in their research to deepen our understanding of cancer and drive innovation.
Cherwell Laboratories
Network & Programme Sponsor
Cherwell’s philosophy is to support our customer's journey through the provision of the right solution to fit any graded space. Our products provide essential information about your final product's integrity. The Redipor Beta Bag, a testament to Cherwell’s innovation, can transfer culture media into Isolators or RABS quickly and efficiently, and with its secure seal drastically reduces the risk of contamination. The SAS air sampling range, a symbol of reliability for many years, delivers on Annex 1 requirements, ensuring a pristine environment for those critical processes. In our pursuit of advancement in environmental monitoring, we proudly introduce the BioAerosol Monitoring System (BAMS), an advanced method to understanding your surroundings. BAMS, the latest portable microbial monitoring device, and utilizes Laser-Induced Fluorescence to distinguish biological particles from inert ones, giving unparalleled real-time insight and data. This is a game-changer, especially when it comes to high-risk and quick-release products. Cherwell has a legacy of being an environmental monitoring solutions provider for over 50 years, which demonstrates our commitment to excellence and innovation. However, our customers, those who deliver the necessary medical therapies to improve patient outcomes are who inspire us, to evolve and deliver solutions that elevate the manufacturing process. Together, we shape the future of the GMP industry, ensuring high-quality and safety standards for the products that benefit patient health.
Genomic Vision
Bronze Sponsor
GENOMIC VISION is a biotechnology company that develops products and services for the highly accurate characterization of genome modifications. We deliver high-quality integrated genomic analysis solutions to improve quality control and bioproduction standards of advanced gene therapies at scale. Based on molecular combing technology and artificial intelligence, The Company provides robust quantitative measurements needed for high confidence characterization of transformed cell lines and prediction of cell line performance, in particular in the context of the biomanufacturing processes of cell and gene therapies. Genomic Vision’s molecular combing technology has further applications in drug development of agents targeting DNA replication and damage response mechanisms, visualizing DNA replication kinetics and telomere length maintenance.
iotaSciences
Network & Programme Sponsor
iotaSciences provides instrumentation to facilitate and simplify applications that require single-cell isolation, such as cell line development, genome editing and omics-based analyses. Using automated fluid handling, our single-cell isolation technology streamlines your experiments without the need for complex protocols and excessive manual handling. Our portfolio of scientific instruments deliver powerful automation, high single-cell isolation efficiency and maximises viability, while providing documented proof of single-cell isolation with image-capture capabilities. We additionally operate an efficient and streamlined genome-editing pipeline for hiPSCs and provide professional services for bespoke genome editing projects, combining our expertise in both CRISPR-Cas technologies and single-cell isolation.
LiveDrop
Network & Programme Sponsor
LiveDrop develops instruments for high-throughput single-cell functional screening and gentle cell sorting, especially for cell therapy and antibody discovery. The instruments ModaFlow and OneFlow provides functional assays including potency assay, killing assay, or co-culture assay that are performed within aqueous-in-oil droplets at the single-cell level. LiveDrop also provides solutions in the field of spheroids, organoids, 3D cell aggregates formation at high throughput, within aqueous-in-oil droplets.
RoslinCT
Network & Programme Sponsor
RoslinCT is a leading global contract development and manufacturing services organization (CDMO) focused on Advanced Cell and Gene Therapies. Established in 2006 and built upon the groundbreaking technology cloning of Dolly the Sheep at the Roslin Institute in 1997, RoslinCT has harnessed cutting-edge science to advance the development of human medicines. With a remarkable heritage in the field, the company has achieved significant milestones, including being among the first in the world to produce clinical-grade human pluripotent stem cells and advancing the first CRISPR-edited stem cell-based therapy for a major disease to marketing authorization. Equipped with 22 purpose-built cGMP cell therapy processing suites in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Hopkinton, Massachusetts, RoslinCT provides innovative process and analytical development, cGMP clinical and commercial manufacturing for a range of cell types for both autologous and allogeneic processes, and cGMP iPSC cell line development, gene editing, and differentiation. With tailored CDMO solutions, RoslinCT enables partners to efficiently progress from development to commercialization and deliver life-saving Cell and Gene Therapies worldwide.
Wyatt Technology
Bronze Sponsor
Wyatt Technology is the recognized leader in innovative light scattering instruments, accessories, software and services for determining the properties of macromolecules and nanoparticles in solution. Wyatt’s tools are used in discovery, product development, QC and manufacturing settings for determining the properties of novel therapeutics such as nano-drug carriers, vaccines, biopolymers and proteins;as well as synthetic polymers and nanoparticles. With Wyatt's instruments you can measure molar mass, size, particle concentration and viral titer, charge or zeta potential, biomolecular interactions, conformation and composition changes.
UNIVERCell: Engineering Red Blood Cells for Targeted Therapy
Scarlet Therapeutics uses genetic manipulation of red blood cells to carry a higher load of therapeutic proteins to help treat rare metabolic diseases.
Enhancing Gene Editing Efficiency: Multi-Tailed mRNA Integration in CRISPR-Cas9 Systems
A study conducted by the Broad Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) demonstrated that when multi-tailed mRNAs were integrated into a CRISPR-Cas9 system they proved to be more efficient gene editors than unmodified mRNA.
Cell Therapy for Solid Tumors: An Innovative Approach to Cancer Treatment
Cell therapy for solid tumours is an innovative cancer treatment that uses a patient's own immune cells or donor cells to fight cancer, but its effectiveness varies by tumour type and patient's immune system. Although it offers new hope, it poses risks such as cytokine release syndrome and neurotoxicity. Recent advancements have led to better targeting, combination therapies, and next-generation treatments, with future research aimed at improving safety, effectiveness, and accessibility, potentially revolutionising cancer care.
Post-Event Proceedings – Gene Therapy Development & Manufacturing 2023
Concise and insightful summaries of presentations delivered by prominent thought leaders at Gene Therapy Development & Manufacturing 2023.
Advancing Melanoma Treatment: The FDA Gives Lifileucel The Greenlight in Historic Cell & Gene Therapy Breakthrough
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved lifileucel, a one-of-a-kind T-cell therapy developed by Iovance Biotherapeutics for treating melanoma.
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Spotlight On: Lindsay Davies, Chief Scientific Officer of NextCell Pharma
We caught up with Lindsay Davies, Chief Scientific Officer of NextCell Pharma, to hear about to hear about the latest advancements in stromal cell therapy in anticipation of her presentation at our Cell & Gene 2024 Congress this November.
Doubletree by Hilton San Diego Mission Valley
7450 Hazard Center Dr, San Diego, CA 92108
By Trolley
The closest Trolley stop to the hotel is Hazard Center Station – this stop is served by the Sycuan Green Line. The hotel is a 7 mins walk from the station. When alighting at this stop, walk north on Hazard Center East Driveway towards Hazard Center Drive. Then turn left and the hotel will be on your right.
By Car
There is self-parking available (garage parking) at the hotel for $34 (this may be subject to state local taxes). There is no valet parking at this venue. For further information please contact the hotel directly. For driving instructions and a map, please click here
By Air
San Diego International Airport – The DoubleTree by Hilton San Diego – Mission Valley is 7 miles from the International Airport. A single taxi ride to the hotel will cost approx. $40 and will take around 20 minutes. Transportation to/from the hotel is provided by Super Shuttle, Cloud 9, or other shuttle services for approx. $10-$15 per person. Please click here for more information on travelling to the hotel from the airport.
By Bus
The closest bus stop to the venue is Camino De La Reina & Mission Center Rd, which is a 13min walk away. When alighting at this stop, walk north on Mission Center Rd towards Camino De La Reina. Turn left onto Hazard Center Dr and then right on to Frazee Rd – the hotel should be on the right hand side. Please click here for more information on Trolley and bus services in the area.
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