Industry Consortium Workshop
The Hormel Institute
Program
Thursday, September 21, 2023 |
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| 5:00pm | Reception at SPAM® Museum |
Friday, September 22, 2023 |
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| 8:00am | Coffee/Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45am | Opening Remarks Robert Clarke, PhD, DSc, FRS Biol, FRS Chem, FRS Med(UK) Executive Director, The Hormel Institute, Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics, CBS, University of Minnesota |
| 8:55am | Initiatives and Rationale for Workshop Shashank Priya, PhD, Vice President for Research, OVPR, University of Minnesota |
| 9:05am | Vector Core Development and Function & Introduction of Keynote Speaker Georgiy Aslanidi, PhD, Professor, The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota |
| 9:25am | Keynote Talk #1: H. Trent Spencer, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, School of Medicine, Director, Cell and Gene Therapy, Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA |
| 10:25am | Gene Therapy for Ultra-Rare Diseases & Introduction of Keynote Speaker Christina Pacak, PhD, Assistant Professor, Neurology, Medical School, University of Minnesota |
| 10:45am | Keynote Talk #2: Junhae Suh, PhD, Vice President, Gene Therapy Accelerator Unit, Biogen, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 11:45am | Bringing Business to Austin Tom Yezzi, MSc, Chief Executive Officer, Nu-Tek BioSciences, Austin, Minnesota |
| 12:15pm | Lunch, Expo & Social Hour (tours) |
| 1:30pm | Roundtables/Small Group Discussions Each table will have a topic to attract specific attendees. Several tables can have similar topics. Questions/suggestions can then be transferred to panel discussions scheduled immediately after. |
| 2:30pm | Panel Discussion: Challenges for Virus Production and Downstream Purification & Pre-Clinical and Clinical Trials Using Viral Vectors
R. Scott McIvor, PhD, Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, Department of Genetics, College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota Masato Yamamoto, MD, PhD, Professor, Surgery, Eugene C. and Gail V. Sit Chair in Pancreatic and Gastrointestinal Cancer Research, Vice-Chair of Surgical Science, Medical School, University of Minnesota Sandra Wells, PhD, Director, Office of Discovery and Translation, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Minnesota Christina Pacak, PhD, Assistant Professor, Neurology, Medical School, University of Minnesota |
| 3:30pm | Closing Remarks/End of Workshop |
| 3:45pm-5:00pm | Reception |