CHAIR
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SPEAKER
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David Zopf, MD, Executive Vice President & CSO, Neose Technologies, Inc.
Anne De Groot, President and CEO, EpiVax Inc.
Glenn Pierce, Vice President of Research, Biological Products Div., Bayer HealthCare LLC
Description
By many industry accounts, the therapeutic proteins market could reach $57 billion by 2010. The experienced academic and industry members of this panel will talk about the challenges in the development of protein therapeutics and describe new means of overcoming potential barriers to enter the clinic and achieve therapeutic success.
Objectives:
Discuss how to assessing and avoid immunogenicity in biologicals.
Describe engineering of novel scaffolds for biologicals.
Discuss improving biologicals with glycosylation technologies.