Thursday, 29 September 2016


Draft Agenda- Subject to Change

08:00

Registration

09:00

Inauguration

09:20

Rathnam ChaguturuKeynote Presentation

Welcome Address
Rathnam Chaguturu, CEO, Innovation Czar-iDDPartners, United States of America

09:40

V NagarajaKeynote Presentation

Inaugural Talk- Targeting Topology Modulators to Counter Resurgent Tuberculosis
V Nagaraja, President, JNCASR, India


Session I: Emerging Trends in Antibody Drug Conjugates

10:10

Coffee Break and Networking in the Exhibition Area

10:40

Antibody Drug Conjugates- Current Status & Future Prospects
Sanjay Bajaj, Managing Director, Select Biosciences India Pvt Ltd, India

11:10

Syngene International LtdAntibody Drug Conjugates: Highroad of New Technologies
Priyaranjan Pattanaik, Associate Research Director, Syngene International Ltd


Session II: ADC for Cancer Treatment

11:55

ADC - A Magic Bullet to Cancer Therapy
Lavleen Kumar Gupta, Director, IgY Immunologix India Pvt Ltd, India

12:40

Andrew  PolsonKeynote Presentation

Antibody-Drug Conjugates for Hematological Malignancies
Andrew Polson, Principal Scientist, Genentech, United States of America

13:40

Lunch Break and Networking in the Exhibition Area


Session III: Advances in Antibody and ADC-I

14:40

Cell Line Engineering Approaches towards Quantity and Quality Improvement of Recombinant mAb
Sanjeev Gupta, General Manager -Advanced Biotech Lab, Ipca Laboratories Ltd., India

15:25

Antibody Drug Conjugates beyond Cancer Therapeutics
Pazhanimuthu Annamalai , Managing Director, AURA Biotechnologies Private Limited, India

16:10

Coffee Break and Networking in the Exhibition Area


Session IV: Advances in Antibody and ADC-II

16:40

Monoclonal Antibody and Drug combination Therapy for an Effective Treatment of Type I Diabetes
T Mahesh, Research Scholar, JSS College of Pharmacy, India

17:10

Title to be Finalized
Jens Lohrmann, Senior Global Program Manager- Translational Clinical Oncology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Switzerland

17:55

End of Day 1 of Conference

Friday, 30 September 2016

09:30

Rakesh  KumarKeynote Presentation

Targeting Chromatin Remodeling and Bromodomain in Cancer
Rakesh Kumar, Distinguished Professor and National Chair in Cancer Research, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, India

10:15

Coffee Break and Networking in the Exhibition Area


Session V: Advances in Development & Analysis of ADCs

10:45

Plenary Talk: Antibody based Radiopharmaceuticals for Diagnosis and Therapy
Mythili Kameswaran, Scientific Officer "G", Bhabha Atomic Research Centre , India

11:45

Best Practices in Developing Bioanalytical Assays for Assessment of Antibody-Drug Conjugates
Arumugam Muruganandam, Mananging Director & Chief Scientific Officer, Affigenix Biosolutions Pvt Ltd, India

12:30

ADCs : Analytical Approaches
Rajgopal Rudrarapu, Research Associate, Aurobindo Pharma, India

13:00

Poster Viewing

13:15

Lunch Break and Networking in the Exhibition Area


Session VI: Novel Approaches in ADC

14:15

Monideepa RoyKeynote Presentation

Generation of a Novel Antibody Drug Conjugate using Platinum as a Linker
Monideepa Roy, Director- Research & Development, Invictus Oncology Pvt Ltd, India

15:15

Development of Robust, Scalable Site-Specific Conjugation for Monoclonal and Bispecific mAbs: A DOE Approach
Sanjay Nilapwar, Scientist (Development- ADC), MedImmune, United States of America

16:00

Coffee Break and Networking in the Exhibition Area

16:30

Panel Discussion: Drug Discovery and ADC- An Industry Perspective
Moderator: V N Balaji, Discovery Research Advisor, India Panelists: Andrew Polson, Principal Scientist, Genentech, USA Monideepa Roy, Director- Research & Development, Invictus Oncology Pvt Ltd, India Subrahmanyam Vangala, CEO, InCan Solutions Pvt Ltd, Canada Susanta Samajdar, Vice President - Med Chem, Aurigene Technologies, India

17:20

End of Conference