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8:00 am Check-In & Light Breakfast
8:50 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Uncovering Recent Clinical Outcomes to Refine Individualized Cancer Immunotherapy Strategies for Greater Patient Impact
9:00 am Understanding the Immune Response to Personalized Cancer Vaccines: Insights from Intismeran Autogene
- Examining how personalized cancer vaccines generate broad and durable tumor specific immune responses, drawing on findings from the intismeran clinical program
- Discussing how emerging translational insights are deepening our understanding of personalized cancer vaccine biology and informing the future development of this therapeutic approach
9:30 am Advances in Personalized DNA Vaccine Platform Drive Enhanced Clinical Outcomes
- Reviewing clinical data in advanced liver cancer and adjuvant GBM patients demonstrating the safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy of Geneos’ personalized vaccine platform
- Exploring how patient-specific neoantigen targeting can enhance anti-tumor immunity across multiple solid tumor indications
- Discussing the implications of these findings for personalized cancer vaccines in advanced and adjuvant cancer treatment settings
10:00 am Morning Break & Speed Networking
Our dedicated speed networking session is the perfect opportunity to have in-depth conversations and forge long-lasting connections with fellow experts working within Personalized Cancer Vaccines.
Comparing Novel Vaccine Modalities to Guide Next-Generation Design Strategies for Enhanced Efficacy & Safety
11:00 am Leveraging Autologous Tumor-Initiating Cells & Dendritic Cells as a Platform for Personal Cancer Vaccines
- Short-term autologous cancer cell cultures enriched for tumour-initiating cells may be a better source of patient-specific antigens than whole tumour or neo-antigen prediction models
- Antigen presentation by autologous dendritic cells provides some advantages over other means of antigen presentation
- Feasibility, safety, and suggestion of efficacy of such patient-specific vaccines have documented in several cancers
11:30 am Session Reserved for Personalis
12:00 pm Benchmarking Dendritic Cells Against Other Vaccine Platforms to Reveal Advantages & Overcoming Challenges, Helping Advance Effective Cancer Vaccines
- Evaluating dendritic cell vaccine platforms against RNA, peptide and viral vector based approaches to select the most clinically relevant approach
- Highlighting molecular and cellular features of effective dendritic cell vaccines, including overcoming challenges with abnormal differentiation
- Uncovering strategies for preventing cancer recurrence and improving treatments for the patients in need
12:30 pm Lunch & Networking
Optimizing Neoantigen Selection & Immune-Informed Vaccine Design to Increase Response Rates for More Durable Results
1:30 pm Mutational Landscape of Patients Treated With TG4050, an Individualized Neoantigen Therapeutic Vaccine In Early-Stage Cancer Treatment
- Phase 1 study of a viral-vectored individualized neoantigen vaccine in HNSCC
- Dive deeper into the mutational landscape of the patient population and factors influencing vaccine composition
- Immunogenicity of vaccine neoantigens and potential validation of bioinformatic prediction approach
2:00 pm Session Reserved for DNA Script
2:10 pm The Immune System as a Design Variable: Building the Operating System for Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccines
- Why immune state matters: How prior therapy, disease biology, and immune competence influence the magnitude, quality, and durability of responses to personalized mRNA cancer vaccines
- Building the operating system: An end-to-end clinical and computational platform integrating patient identification, sequencing, vaccine design, manufacturing, regulatory execution, immune monitoring, and longitudinal clinical follow-up
- Learning from every patient: Using standardized, longitudinal clinical and immunologic data to continuously improve antigen selection, vaccine design, treatment strategies, and future personalized mRNA cancer vaccines
2:40 pm Afternoon Networking Break & Poster Session
Contribute to the conversation and share your cutting-edge research with like-minded PCV experts. To present a poster, register your place and submit an abstract highlighting your breakthroughs. *Please visit the website for T&Cs for presenting a poster
Optimizing Combination & Clinical Development Strategies to Improve Therapeutic Outcomes for Maximizing Clinical Success
3:30 pm Panel Discussion: Advancing Personalized Cancer Vaccines by Optimizing Clinical Development, Combination Strategies & Scalable Manufacturing to Achieve Commercial Reality
- Which patient populations and disease settings offer the greatest opportunity to demonstrate the value of personalized cancer vaccines in clinical development?
- How should developers balance efficacy, durability, toxicity, and operational complexity when designing combination regimens?
- What manufacturing innovations and regulatory strategies are needed to consistently deliver individualized therapies at scale?
4:00 pm Could the Combination of a Personalized Neoantigen-Specific T-Cell Therapy & a Personalized Cancer-Vaccine Alleviate Some of the Potency Problems with Cancer Vaccines?
- We have developed SeqCureNEO to make a T-cell therapy with full control over specificity, potency and therapeutic dose
- Currently cancer vaccines have only shown promise in the setting of minimal residual disease and vaccine responses are commonly only seen to a few of the neoantigen epitopes
- We propose combining SeqCureNEO with a cancer vaccine based on the same neoepitopes. Why such a combination would create more potent clinical responses will be discussed in the talk
4:30 pm Combining SYNC-T Immunotherapy with SV102 for Metastatic Prostate Cancer
- Limited impact of immunotherapy on metastatic prostate cancer
- Key need to combine multiple immunotherapy mechanisms to overcome tumor resistance to the immune system
- Using a local-regional approach SYNC-T therapy allows multiple mechanisms to be combined without severe autoimmunity