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8:00 am Check-In & Light Breakfast

8:50 am Chair’s Opening Remarks

Professor, Immunology, Mayo Clinic

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

Associate Director, Therapeutics Immunology & Protein Engineering, Moderna Therapeutics
  • 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

President & Chief Executive Officer, Geneos Therapeutics
  • 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

Chief Medical Officer, AiVita Biomedical
  • 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

Professor, Immunology, Mayo Clinic
  • 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

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Transgene
  • 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

Chief Executive Officer, Echo Immune
  • 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

Chief Medical Officer, AiVita Biomedical
Director, Section of Breast Cancer Clinical Research & Professor, Department of Breast Medical Oncology & Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Chief Scientific Officer & Founder, SeqCure Immunology
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Medici Therapeutics
  • 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?

Chief Scientific Officer & Founder, SeqCure Immunology
  • 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

Executive Chairman & Chief Innovation Officer, Syncromune
  • 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

5:00 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks

Professor, Immunology, Mayo Clinic

5:10 pm End of Conference Day One