April 1–2, 2025
Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI
Perlickstraße 1
04103 Leipzig
Germany
12:00 pm
Check-in
12:30 pm
Session I – Medical potential of AAV
Keynote: Hildegard Büning, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
AAVs in precision medicine of hearing
Keynote: Tobias Moser, University Medical Center Göttingen / German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany
2:00 pm
Break
2:30 pm
Session II – Pitfalls from lab scale to GMP
Navigating the roadblocks: Overcoming challenges in the translation of pre-clinical research to GMP production in the AAV field Keynote: Thomas Schmid & Jacqueline Breuer, Fraunhofer IZI, Leipzig, Germany
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Indusry Session
5:00 pm
Break
5:30 pm
Session III – Quality by design
Model-based decision support in process design and operation
Keynote: Michael Bortz, Fraunhofer ITWM, Kaiserslautern, Germany
6:30 pm
Get-together
9:00 am
Check-in
9:15 am
Session IV – Clinical expieriences and innovations
AAV targeting T cells to generate gene targeted CAR-T cells in vivo
Keynote: William Nyberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
Poster session
11:45 am
Break
12:30 pm
Session V – Manufacturing AAV vectors
AAV manufacturing challenges
Keynote: Eduard Ayuso, DINAMIQS, Schlieren, Switzerland
1:45 pm
Break
2:15 pm
Session VI – Regulatory and funding
The translation of gene therapies from bench to bedside – the European regulatory perspective
Keynote: Martina Schüssler-Lenz, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines, Langen, Germany
Keynote: Stephan Junker, Eurogrant GmbH, Dresden, Germany
3:45 pm
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