We are looking forward to the 2010 meeting, in a new venue - Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel

Keynote Presentations:

Protective Antibodies to Teach Vaccine Design
Dennis R. Burton, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute

Twenty-Two Years of Success--and Failure
George P. Smith, Ph.D., Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri

Combinatorial Antibody Libraries from Patients with Acute Infection or Transplant Rejection Reveal the Good and Bad of Immunological Attack
Richard A. Lerner, M.D., President, The Scripps Research Institute

Making Therapeutic Drugs by Phage Display: Combining Biology and Chemistry
Sir Gregory Winter, FRS, Head of Division of Protein & Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, United Kingdom

The 2010 Meeting will Cover These Topics:

Antibody Engineering

• Deep Sequencing
• Neutralizing Antibodies and Identification of Vaccine Targets
• 20 Years of Phage Display
• Antibody Biosynthesis, Structure and Stability
• Antibody Half-Life: the Long and the Short of It
• Antibodies in a Complex Environment
• Targeted Drug Loaded Nanoparticles
• Antibody Targeted Cancer Therapeutics
• Value and Limitations of Preclinical Models for Antibody Therapeutics

Antibody Therapeutics

• Preclinical Development of Therapeutic Antibodies
• Biosimilar and Biobetter Antibodies
• Intellectual Property, Business and Regulatory Issues
• Clinical Development of Therapeutic Antibodies

Plus Pre-Conference Workshop and Training Courses On:

• Deep Sequencing of Antibody Genes: The Technology, Data Storage and Analysis
• Introduction to Antibody Engineering
• Protein Characterization for Biotechnology Product Development

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