Register for the DDW Turning Science into Business Summit, ‘Cancer research opportunities and advances’, to hear insight and expertise from leading figures. It will be hosted by DDW and sponsored by Taconic Biosciences.
The event will take place online on 16 November at 7AM PST / 10AM EST / 3PM GMT / 4PM CET and will also be available on-demand.
Register for free to secure your place and to receive your exclusive download link after the event.
The free two-hour summit will outline areas of opportunity in the oncology market and will feature insights from thought leaders in cancer research, precision medicine and immunotherapy.
What you will learn:
- The latest research strategies to support the acceleration of oncology antibody drugs to market.
- How to unlock novel cancer insights with multi-scale data integration.
- Why therapeutic cancer vaccines are the next frontier in immuno-oncology.
- How to leverage biomarker information early to streamline the path to the clinic.
Expert speakers include:
- Andreas Dreps, SrVP and Global Head of Science, and Muaiad Kittaneh, Senior Director at ICON. One of the world’s leading contract research organisations, ICON is partnering with the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority on a clinical trial of next-generation Covid-19 vaccine candidates.
- Joseph R Peterson, PhD, CTO & Co-founder of SimBioSy, one of the founding members of CancerX, a new US public-private partnership to boost innovation in the fight against cancer.
- Qasim Ahmad, Chief Medical Officer of IO Biotech. The company’s lead therapeutic cancer vaccine candidate is currently being evaluated in Phase III study for melanoma.
- Dr Raffi Tonikian, Director of Translational Biomarkers at AbCellera. The company works with some of most influential companies in the drug discovery space, pushing antibody discovery programmes forward.





The presentations will be followed by a panel discussion addressing new drug discovery and development concepts and tools in cancer research.
Register for free to secure your place and to receive your exclusive download link after the event.