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In vivo hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) engineering represents the next inflection point in genetic medicine - moving beyond transient delivery or ex vivo manipulation to direct, permanent reprogramming ...Breakout Session
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Cell and Gene Therapy and Genome Editing
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the world’s leading cause of death, yet policy prioritization and investment continue to lag behind its health and economic impact. This session will explore how g ...Breakout Session
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For the first time in history, a patient has survived more than eight months following a gene-edited pig organ transplant, marking a pivotal moment as xenotransplantation moves from experimental promi ...Breakout Session
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For decades, the biotech innovation engine has produced extraordinary breakthroughs in cancer, rare diseases, and metabolic disorders. Yet across vast areas of medicine from preeclampsia to sarcopenia ...Breakout Session
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11:00 AM (PT)
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This session will explore the critical journey of translating a scientific concept into a viable CNS therapeutic. Industry leaders will discuss the primary challenges and emerging solutions in neurosc ...Breakout Session
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Brain Health
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1:45 PM (PT)
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Central Nervous System (CNS) disorders remain among the most complex and urgent challenges in global healthcare. This session will spotlight the latest advancements in CNS research and development, hi ...Breakout Session
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Precision medicine has transformed oncology, but the next wave is unfolding in new therapeutic areas. The expansion into new areas promises enormous impact, yet the path forward is not straightforward ...Breakout Session
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Diagnostics and Personalized Medicine
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Rare diseases collectively affect more than 300 million people worldwide, yet fewer than 5% have an approved treatment. As cell and gene therapies (CGTs) progress from scientific aspiration to commerc ...Breakout Session
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Intelligence Precision Medicine cannot achieve its promise if entire populations remain underrepresented in the data that fuels it. As multiomic and real-world datasets expand, the next wave of therap ...Breakout Session
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4:15 PM (PT)
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The metabolic disease treatment landscape is transforming rapidly. While GLP-1 receptor agonists have demonstrated remarkable efficacy, addressing the full scope of metabolic dysfunction requires ther ...Breakout Session
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For years, therapeutic development for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases has focused on the pathologies within the brain such as, in the case of Alzheimer’s, amyloid plaques and tau tan ...Breakout Session
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As diagnostics and precision medicine continue to advance, companies developing novel diagnostic technologies, analytical tools, and data-enabled testing solutions are reshaping how disease is detecte ...Breakout Session
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Overall survival (OS) remains the gold standard endpoint in oncology trials, but the FDA’s August 2025 draft guidance highlights new complexities in assessing survival in an era of highly effective th ...Breakout Session
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Oncology
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Longevity science has entered its execution era. What once sounded speculative now rests on clearer biology, richer human datasets, and maturing toolkits that are pushing longevity from buzzword to bu ...Breakout Session
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Oncology continues to be the leading therapeutic area across the biopharma industry by almost all measures, including global drug sales, number of pipeline programs, venture capital dollar deployment, ...Breakout Session
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3:00 PM (PT)
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For 87 years, our industry had to operate under an uncomfortable truth: over 90% of cancer drugs that "cure" mice routinely fail patients in clinical trials. In 2022, the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 too ...Breakout Session
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For decades, autoimmune disease therapy has been defined by one trade-off - suppressing the immune system to relieve symptoms. That paradigm is now breaking. The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medi ...Breakout Session
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Inherited Retinal Diseases (IRDs) were once considered untreatable, leaving patients and families facing the certainty of progressive vision loss. Today, advances in gene therapy are changing that rea ...Breakout Session
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The advances in technology over the past decade have yielded a broad range of biologics for cancer, each with unique attributes. This is great news for patients to have so many tools in the toolkit, b ...Breakout Session
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Long-term post-marketing safety monitoring is crucial for understanding the risks of new therapies in real-world settings, yet current registries often create considerable burdens without delivering r ...Breakout Session
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The FDA’s new guidance supporting non-animal testing methods is reshaping preclinical drug development, creating unprecedented opportunities for biotech innovation. This session brings together biotec ...Breakout Session
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Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, with a person dying every 34 seconds from cardiovascular disease, claiming almost one million American lives every year and accou ...Breakout Session
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9:00 AM (PT)
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Long before immunotherapy took center stage, it lived on the margins of oncology. Those pursuing it were often politely dismissed as “dreamers,” relegated to the back rooms at ASCO as well-intentioned ...Breakout Session
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CAR-T cell therapy has fundamentally transformed outcomes for patients with certain hematologic malignancies and, increasingly, solid tumors — yet the vast majority of eligible patients never receive ...Breakout Session
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Over the past five decades, the Langer Lab has played a central role in shaping modern biotechnology—founding more than 40 companies and training over 1,000 scientists, many of whom are now professors ...Breakout Session
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Cell and gene therapies have become invaluable modalities in the medicine toolkit. Following recent safety concerns with AAV vector technology, experts will look increasingly toward new vectors and de ...Breakout Session
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Antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs) reshaped cancer treatment by combining the precision of targeted antibodies with the potency of cytotoxic therapies, but as the field matures, the focus is shifting tow ...Breakout Session
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