Portus Congress Center
8:30 – 9:00
Registration (at the registration desk)
Session 1
Chairs: Dan Peer (NeoVac, UK) and Urh Černigoj (Sartorius BIA Separations, Slovenia)
9:00 – 9:35
Chromatography in mRNA production: from analytics to purification
Rok Sekirnik, Sartorius BIA Separations
9:35 – 10:00
Bioproduction of messenger RNA: key benefits and challenges
Chantal Pichon, INSERM
10:00 – 10:25
Optimization of mRNA production and purification: characterization and controlling of post-transcriptional polyadenylation
Pooja Tiwari, Arnav Biotech Online
10:25 – 10:55
Coffee Break
Session 2
Chairs: Sara Sousa Rosa (UCL, UK) and Salomé de Sa Magalhaes (UCL, UK)
10:55 – 11:20
Innovating and digitalising mRNA vaccine and therapeutics production processes
Zoltán Kis, University of Sheffield
11:20 – 11:45
Manufacturing of mRNA for pre-clinical and clinical studies
Tjaša Legen, BioNTech
11:45 – 12:10
Engineering a robust and scalable mRNA manufacturing process
Bill Grier, Omega Therapeutics
12:10 – 1:10
Lunch (provided by the organizer)
Session 3
Chairs: Andrew Knudten (Advanced Medicine Partners, USA) and Rok Sekirnik (Sartorius BIA Separations, Slovenia)
1:10 – 1:45
Next generation lipid nanoparticles for RNA vaccines and therapeutics
Dan Peer, NeoVac
1:45 – 2:10
LipidBrick®: An innovative cationic lipid library for efficient and tunable mRNA-LNPs
Guillaume Freund, Polyplus
2:10 – 2:35
Engineered EVs for mRNA cargo loading and delivery
Antje Zickler, Karolinska Institutet
2:35 – 3:00
Thermodynamic analysis of chromatography media and mRNA properties
Connor Smith, Orbital Therapeutics
3:00 – 3:30
Coffee Break
Session 4
Chairs: Zoltán Kis (University of Sheffield, UK) and Sebastijan Peljhan (Sartorius BIA Separations, Slovenia)
3:30 – 3:55
All-scale continuous mRNA-LNP manufacturing
Flora Binder, Dillico
3:55 – 4:10
YRC: Monolithic columns enable streamlined downstream processing and analytics of lipid nanoparticles
Tristan Kovačič, Sartorius BIA Separations
4:10 – 4:30
YRC: Optimization of in vitro transcription reaction with design of experiments
Tjaša Marušič (COBIK) & Jimmy Boman (Sartorius)
4:30
Free afternoon – at the beach with organized games for attendees