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Delegate Resources

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Abstracts

KEY2

Invited Speaker

Fiona Watt, EMBL Heidelberg

Harnessing fibroblast heterogeneity for skin regeneration

TL01

Invited Speaker

Carol Knevelman, Oxford BioMedica

Lentiviral vector process development and GMP manufacturing

TL02

Invited Speaker

Weiheng Su, Oxford Genetics Ltd

Exploiting Adenovirus Biology for Advancing Adeno-Associated Viral Vector Manufacturing

TL03

Invited Speaker

Piers Walser, NHS Blood and Transplant

Innovation Hubs for Gene Therapies initiative in the UK

INV03

Invited Speaker

Aurelie Goyenvalle, University of Versailles saint Quentin en Yvelines

Antisense approaches for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and recent advances to address DMD brain comorbidities

INV05

Invited Speaker

Ivana Barbaric, University of Sheffield

Culture-acquired genetic changes in human pluripotent stem cells: implications for basic research and regenerative medicine

INV06

Invited Speaker

Simon Waddington, UCL

Gene therapy for an inherited childhood parkinsonism - dopamine transporter deficiency syndrome

INV07

Invited Speaker

Jasmina Kapetanovic, University of Oxford

Genetic therapies for retinal disease

INV08

Invited Speaker

Ralph Hector, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh; Neurogene Inc., New York, USA

A Self-regulating Gene Therapy for Rett Syndrome

INV10

Invited Speaker

Alan Parker, Cardiff University School of Medicine

Development of genetically refined “precision virotherapies” suitable for systemic anti-cancer applications

INV11

Invited Speaker

Deborah Gill, University of Oxford

Gene therapy for rare surfactant protein deficiencies

FB01

CV & Respiratory

Kamran Miah, University of Oxford

Rescue of lethal SP-B deficiency in a murine model using lentiviral vector-mediated gene therapy

FB02

Genome Editing/Blood

Rebeca Gil, Royal Holloway, University of London

Generation of a de novo intronic junction in the DMD gene through CRISPR/Cas genome editing as a potential therapy for a high proportion of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy patients.

FB03

Other

Loukia Touramanidou, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London

Liver-directed lentiviral gene therapy is safe and curative in Argininosuccinic aciduria

FB04

Other

Andrei Claudiu Cozmescu, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK

Safety and efficacy analysis of in vivo lentiviral gene therapy for ARC syndrome

OR01

Genome Editing/Blood

Jakob Hansen Haldrup,

Traceless delivery of prime editor ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes in engineered nanoparticles

OR02

Genome Editing/Blood

Annelotte Mudde, University College London

Developing a universal haematopoietic stem cell gene editing therapy for XIAP deficiency

OR03

Oligonucleotide

Houze Zhang, Imperial College London

Administration of mRNA alleviates disease biomarkers in a mouse model of pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP)

OR04

CV & Respiratory

John Louca, University of Cambridge

Synthetic modified mRNA administration in a first in-human ex-situ heart failure model validates its use as a novel, effective and safe method of evaluating drug exposure and efficacy.

OR05

Stem Cell Therapy

Margherita Berti, San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (HSR-TIGET)

Molecular characterisation of a novel knock-out mouse model in the context of MPSIVA ex-vivo gene therapy development

OR06

Stem Cell Therapy

Alexandru Robert Podovei, Cell Therapy Catapult

Towards a scalable, closed and automated platform for the production of cost-efficient allogeneic cell therapies: showcase of an exemplar iNK process

OR07

Ocular & CNS

Katie Binley, Ikarovec

IKC159V: A Next Generation Bicistronic Gene Therapy for the Treatment of Geographic Atrophy

OR09

Cancer

Rebecca Bayliss, Cardiff University

Development of a precision immunovirotherapy expressing a folate receptor α bispecific immune cell engager for treatment of ovarian cancer

OR10

Cancer

John Bridgeman, Instil Bio

Single cell sequencing analysis of a CD28/CD40-based chimeric costimulatory antigen receptor (CoStAR™) activity reveals multiple functionally validated effector activities in CD4+ and CD8+ T cells.

OR11

CV & Respiratory

Robert Hynds, UCL Institute of Child Health

Toward combined cell and gene therapy for airway epidermolysis bullosa

OR12

CV & Respiratory

Claudia Ivette Juarez Molina, Imperial College London

Non-viral GM-CSF Gene Therapy is an Effective Treatment in a Novel Murine Model of Autoimmune PAP

P01

Cancer

Rahul Khanolkar, Accession Therapeutics

TROCEPT- an oncolytic virus platform engineered for αvβ6 integrin targeted tumour-localized expression of an immune checkpoint inhibitor following intravenous delivery.

P02

Cancer

Anurag Kulkarni, Oxford BioMedica

Primary T-cell transduction performance as the guiding principle behind LV process development and platform innovation 

P03

Cancer

David Cole, Accession Therapeutics Limited, Building 7600 C, The Quorum, Oxford Business Park North, Oxford, OX4 2JZ, UK.

TROCEPT: a unique adenovirus for in-tumour expression of immunotherapies via intravenous delivery

P04

Cancer

Thomas Webb, Accession Therapeutics

αvβ6 Integrin Expression In Solid Tumours: A TROCEPT Target for Oncolytic Viral Therapy

P05

Cancer

David Johnson, University of Oxford

Normothermically perfused human liver lobes containing tumours as a model to profile viral therapeutics.

P06

CV & Respiratory

Arlene Glasgow, University of Oxford

Induced pluripotent stem cell derived alveolar type 2 cells as a model for testing novel gene therapies for interstitial lung diseases

P07

CV & Respiratory

Josie Fullerton, University of Glasgow/SNBTS

Developing targeted extracellular vesicles for therapeutic delivery in cardiovascular disease.  

P08

CV & Respiratory

Andrew Farr, UCL Institute of Child Health

A bioluminescence-based lentiviral approach to identify regulators of the transcription factor TP63 in airway basal cells.

P09

CV & Respiratory

Jessica Orr, University College London

Compound screening in primary human airway basal cells identifies Wnt pathway modulators as potential pro-regenerative therapies

P10

CV & Respiratory

Hamid Dolatshad, University of Oxford

Surfactant air liquid interface model of ABCA3 surfactant protein deficiency

P11

CV & Respiratory

Ian Pringle, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Commercial Scale Production (1000L) of AAV Using the Gibco™ CTS™ AAV-MAX Production System

P12

CV & Respiratory

Eric Alton, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK

Lenticlair™ 1: A Phase 1/2 trial evaluating the safety, tolerability and efficacy of an inhaled F/HN-pseudotyped lentiviral vector for CF gene therapy in people with CF ineligible for CFTR modulators 

P13

CV & Respiratory

Aimee Ruffle, University of Oxford

Lentiviral gene therapy for fatal ABCA3 surfactant protein deficiency

P14

CV & Respiratory

Uta Griesenbach, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK

Administration of lentiviral vector doses achieving high transduction efficiency is well tolerated in mice

P15

CV & Respiratory

Eric Alton, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK

Lenticlair™-ON: An extension trial examining long-term safety and efficacy outcomes associated with an inhaled F/HN-pseudotyped lentiviral vector for CF gene therapy in people with CF

P16

Genome Editing/Blood

Gavin Turnbull, University of Oxford

Mitigating Indel Impact: Precision Genome Editing through Homology Independent Targeted Integration (HITI)

P17

Genome Editing/Blood

Isabelle Rose, St. George's University of London

Functional analysis of gene-edited CF variant G542X

P18

Genome Editing/Blood

Soumyasree Bhattacharyya, UK Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff University, Hadyn Ellis Building, Maindy Road, Cardiff, United Kingdom, CF24 4HQ

Cas9 nickase-mediated contraction of CAG/CTG repeats at multiple disease loci

P19

Genome Editing/Blood

Brannon Nicholls, University of Oxford

Normothermically perfused livers as a model for profiling lentiviral pharmacokinetics and transduction

P20

Genome Editing/Blood

Omer F. Anakok, Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University

The new chromatin opening models as a strong potential tool for recombinant production and gene therapy applications

P21

Genome Editing/Blood

Charles Moore-Kelly, Oxford BioMedica

PKC agonists as small molecule inducing agents for enhancing lentiviral vector production

P22

Genome Editing/Blood

Vanina Hangu, 4basebio

Targeted, non-viral delivery of gene editing technologies for the treatment of ASL deficiency

P23

Genome Editing/Blood

Ian Pringle, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Conquering gene editing off-targets with Gibco™ CTS™ HiFi Cas9 Protein

P24

Genome Editing/Blood

Ellie Kirby, Promega Corporation

Simple, rapid and robust bioluminescent cell-based assay for detecting neutralising antibodies against AAV in serum

P25

Genome Editing/Blood

Ellie Kirby, Promega Corporation

Elevate Your CAR-T Therapy with Plasmid DNA Sanger Sequencing

P26

Genome Editing/Blood

Hsin Yi Lin, Cell Therapy Catapult

CRISPR/Cas9-based cell engineering approaches to boost recombinant AVV productivity.

P27

Genome Editing/Blood

Dwiantari Satyapertiwi, University of Oxford

High throughput pegRNA screening platform using lentiviral delivery

P29

Ocular & CNS

Yunan Gao, UCL

AAV-Kir4.1 astrocyte gene therapy reduces seizure frequency in rodent models of acute and chronic epilepsy

P30

Ocular & CNS

Ceri Pickering, Imperial College London

AAV-shRNA mediated knockdown of CDKL5 to generate a novel human in vitro model of CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder

P31

Oligonucleotide

Deborah Entiriwaa, 4basebio

Synthetic, enzymatically produced DNA for gene therapy and vaccine applications

P32

Other

Omaymah Belhaj-Fahsi, Cell Therapy Catapult

Transfer of an AAV production platform from bench-scale to 50 L: experiences, challenges and learnings.

P33

Other

Roksana Tarnowska, Cell Therapy Catapult

Automation and comparability of qPCR and ddPCR for AAV genome titration for in-process samples.

P34

Other

Thomas Evans, Oxford BioMedica

Mechanistic and data driven models for optimisation and troubleshooting cell and gene therapy processes  

P35

Other

Ben Alberts, Oxford BioMedica

The TetraVecta™ System: A new tool kit enhancing lentiviral vector production for the next generation of gene therapies.

P36

Other

Hayder Abdul-Razak, Mirus Bio LLC, Madison, Wisconsin USA

RevITTM A Universal AAV Enhancer and TransIT-VirusGEN® transfection reagent for Improved AAV Manufacturing.

P38

Other

TALIA levy, Cell Therapy Catapult

High-throughput purification method for adeno-associated viruses using capture plates.

P39

Other

Theodoros Kontogiannis, University of Kent

Integrated metrology approaches for the characterization of viral vectors: From mass spectrometry to molecular assays

P40

Other

Oliver Goodyear, Oxford BioMedica

A Novel, Perfusion-Based Lentiviral Vector Manufacturing Process Demonstrating Increased Productivity and Enhanced Purity

P41

Other

Mariana Viegas, University of Oxford

Comparison of droplet digital PCR and real-time quantitative PCR for lentiviral vector titration

P42

Other

Nicholas Akosa, MFX

Leveraging microfluidics for reproducible high lentiviral transduction efficiency

P43

Other

Matthew Dicks, SpyBiotech

SpyVector; a modular capsid decoration platform to boost adenovirus vaccine-induced humoral immunity

P44

Other

Roizza Beth So, University of Nottingham

Combined biolistic and cell penetrating delivery for an effective and scalable intradermal DNA vaccine 

P45

Other

Bilal Ozdoganoglu, Cell Therapy Catapult

Size-exclusion chromatography with multi angle light scattering (SEC-MALS) for AAV characterisation.

P46

Other

Adam Inche, Lentitek Ltd

Bad and ugly? Mechanisms and implications for payload expression in lentivirus manufacture

P47

Other

Ammad Iqbal, Pharmaron Ltd.

Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Production: A Collaborative Approach to Accelerate Process Optimisation

P48

Other

Fathema Chowdhury, Cell Therapy Catapult

Optimisation of a high throughput residual DNA Picogreen assay for analysing lysate samples from AAV production without GFP interference. 

P49

Stem Cell Therapy

Aishwarya Nair, Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult

Investigating the extracellular microenvironment as a potential target to monitor and control large-scale haematopoietic differentiation

P50

Stem Cell Therapy

Ofure Awonusi, Cell Therapy Catapult

Non-viral delivery of CRISPR activation tools for directed differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells.

P51

Stem Cell Therapy

Mina Nazari, UCL Institute of Child Health

Developing stem cell and gene therapy for VPS33B deficiency

P52

Cancer

Alicia Teijeira Crespo, Cardiff University

Development of a tumour selective precision immunovirotherapy expressing immune checkpoint inhibitors targeting LAG-3

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