Portus Congress Center
8:30 – 9:00
Registration (at the registration desk)
Session 1: Viruses, VLPs & Nanoparticles
Chairs: Ivana Petrović Koshmak (Sartorius BIA Separations) and Maja Leskovec (Sartorius BIA Separations, Slovenia)
9:00 – 9:35
Where does the cell and gene field need to go to thrive?
Andrew Knudten, Advanced Medicine Partners
9:35 – 10:00
Key parameters to improve your AAV production
Marine Guise, Polyplus Online
10:00 – 10:25
New approaches for viral vector genome integrity evaluation
David Dobnik, National Institute of Biology
10:25 – 10:55
Coffee Break
Session 2
Chairs: Bernd Giebel (Essen University Hospital, Germany) and Andrew Knudten (Advanced Medicine Partners, USA)
10:55 – 11:20
Development of capture and polishing chromatography steps using Sartorius CIM monolithic chromatography technology
Christopher Nieder, CBM Online
11:20 – 11:45
You don't need affinity to purify rAAV part 2 & beyond empty | full separation
Michael J. Hatfield, Advanced Medicine Partners
11:45 – 12:10
Advancing AAV empty/full capsids separation with ExoReady™ platform
Tiago Albano, Exhotera Online
12:10 – 1:10
Lunch (provided by the organizer)
Session 3
Chairs: Manfred Reiter (Nuvonis, Austria) and Sebastijan Peljhan (Sartorius BIA Separations, Slovenia)
1:10 – 1:45
GET+VIRAL: a purification toolbox for the gene-editing tools and viral vectors
Stefano Menegatti, North Carolina State University Online
1:45 – 2:10
Two streams, a single process: optimizing AAV production for improved purification
Ivana Petrović Koshmak, Sartorius BIA Separations
2:10 – 2:35
Limitations of various analytical techniques in characterizing recombinant adeno-associated virus empty capsids
Kazuhiro Oka, Baylor College of Medicine Online
2:35 – 3:00
Clinical potential of MSC-EVs and translational challenges
Bernd Giebel, Essen University Hospital
3:00 – 3:30
Coffee Break
Session 4
Chairs: Beata Halassy (University of Zagreb, Croatia) and J. Michael Hatfield (Advanced Medicine Partners, USA)
3:30 – 3:55
Leveraging new CIMmultus QA HR for successful AAV polishing
Maja Leskovec, Sartorius BIA Separations
3:55 – 4:20
Monoliths to bridge the gap between purity and yield in viral vectors downstream processing
Hana Jug, Sartorius BIA Separations
4:20 – 4:45
Navigating successful characterization of AAV vectors: key steps to success
Alicja Fiedorowicz, Dark Horse Consulting Europe Online
5:00 – 6:30
Experts' Banquet – networking, refreshments and snacks (Congress Center)