Main Workshop DAY 2B - Wednesday April 15, 2026: 7am to 5:45pm - Discussion Topic List

" Regulators' Advice on Immunogenicity/Technologies of Biotherapeutic, & Gene, Cell & Vaccine Therapies "

Session 1: Immunogenicity of Biotherapeutics

  • US FDA:

    Immunogenicity Risk Assessment of Novel Modalities using in silico, in vitro and ex vivo tools.

  • Health Canada:

    Assessing the Clinical Impact of Immunogenicity in the Absence of a Neutralizing Antibody (NAb) Assay

  • US FDA:

    Immunogenicity Risk Assessment in the AI Era: A Regulatory CMC Perspective

  • Austria AGES/ EU EMA:

    Reflection Paper on a Tailored Clinical Approach in Biosimilar Development

  • US FDA:

    Clinical Pharmacology Evaluations of Immunogenicity Impact

  • Health Canada:

    Health Canada Review Process based on the use of Foreign Reviews

  • US FDA:

    Assessing Immunogenicity of Biological Drug Products using the Immune-Humanized Mouse Model

  • US FDA:

    Immunogenicity Risk Assessment and Mitigation Strategies for Therapeutic Peptides

ASK THE REGULATORS!

  • Have an Open Dialogue with the Regulators including US FDA, Austria AGES/ EU EMA, Health Canada
  • Ask the Regulators any questions you have on Immunogenicity of Biotherapeutics, and Hear Their Feedbacks on Submitted Studies and Inspections/Audits Outcomes

Session 2: Gene Therapy, Cell Therapy, and Vaccines

  • US FDA:

    Regulatory Updates on Gene Therapy Products

  • UK MHRA:

    Individualized mRNA Cancer Immunotherapies

  • US FDA:

    Immunogenicity Risk Assessment of SaCas9, AsCas12a and CasΦ 

  • EU EMA:

    Regulatory Science Changes in the EU Vaccine Approval Processes

  • US FDA:

    Immune Response to Ebola and Marburg

  • Health Canada:

    Secondary Malignancies related to CAR-T Cell Therapies

  • UK MHRA:

    Development of T cell Suppression Assay Controls for Cell Therapy Products

  • US FDA:

    NGS Bioinformatics Pipeline for Detecting Adventitious Viral Agents in Gene and Cell Therapy Products

  • Health Canada:

    Use of Next-generation Sequencing (NGS) in Drug Development

  • UK MHRA:

    Ensuring the Safety of Cell Therapies through Standards and Assay Development

  • Health Canada:

    Regulatory Perspective on Vaccine Clinical Assays & Current Regulations

ASK THE REGULATORS!

  • Have an Open Dialogue with the Regulators including US FDA, EU EMA, UK MHRA, Health Canada
  • Ask the Regulators any questions you have on Gene Therapy, Cell Therapy, and Vaccines, and Hear Their Feedbacks on Submitted Studies and Inspections/Audits Outcomes





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