Antibodies as Drugs: The Art in Antibody Engineering (C6)
May 5-8, 2024  | Beaver Run Conference Center, Breckenridge, CO, United States
Laura M. Walker and Paul W. H. I. Parren
Scholarship Deadline: Feb. 13, 2024 | Abstract Deadline: Feb. 13, 2024 | Early Registration Deadline: Mar. 5, 2024
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of August 23, 2025 8 AM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Sunday, May 5, 2024
4:00–8:00 PM Arrival and Registration Colorado Ballroom Foyer
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer Colorado Ballroom Foyer
Monday, May 6, 2024
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Summit Gallery
8:00–9:00 AM Welcome and Keynote Address Peaks 4 - 5
  * Laura M. Walker, Moderna
Session Chair
 
  * Paul W. H. I. Parren, Leiden University Medical Center
Session Chair
 
  Janine Schuurman, Lust for Life Science
Mining Antibody Biology for Novel Functionalities and Therapeutic Antibody Development
 
9:00–11:15 AM Fine-Tuning Antibody Fc Function Peaks 4 - 5
  * CM Hsieh, Gilead Sciences
Session Chair
 
  E. Sally Ward, University of Southampton
The Science of FcRn: Tuning Antibody and Antigen Degradation
 
  John R. Desjarlais, Xencor, Inc.
Engineering Therapeutic Antibodies to Optimize Half-Life and Function
 
  Jeanette H.W. Leusen, University Medical Center Utrecht
Engineered IgA Antibody Therapeutics
 
  Remy M Muts, UMC Utrecht
Short Talk: Short Talk: Conversion of S. Aureus Specific IgG Into IgM Broadens the Reactivity to Other Bacterial Species
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break Colorado Ballroom Foyer
11:15–1:00 PM Poster Setup Peaks 1 - 3
11:15–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Peaks 1 - 3
3:00–4:30 PM Career Roundtable Peaks 4 - 5
  Kartik Chandran, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Professor and Chair
 
  Joy Yu Zuchero, Denali Therapeutics Inc
Director and Principal Scientist
 
  Jeanette H.W. Leusen, University Medical Center Utrecht
Professor
 
  George Voren, Curie.Bio
Head of Founder Strategy and Operations
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Colorado Ballroom Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Engineered Antibodies in Infectious Disease Peaks 4 - 5
  * Jacqueline Kirchner, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Session Chair
 
  Kartik Chandran, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Engineered Antibodies for Treating Emerging Viral Infections
 
  Gary J. Nabel, ModeX Therapeutics
Multispecific Immunotherapies for Infectious Disease
 
  Galit Alter, Moderna, Inc.
Unraveling Correlates of Immunity with Systems Serology in Drug Development and Vaccines
 
  Michael P Doyle, AstraZeneca
Short Talk: Short Talk: Broad Coverage of Antibiotic-Resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae by Multi-Specific Antibodies Against the Lipopolysaccharide O-Antigen
 
  Jiaxuan Cheng, Vaccine Research Center, NIAID/NIH
Short Talk: Short Talk: Structural Insights into Multimeric Recognition by Glycan-Directed Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies Targeting HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Peaks 1 - 3
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 1 Peaks 1 - 3
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Summit Gallery
8:00–11:00 AM Orchestrating Immune Defense Against Cancer by Antibody Engineering Peaks 4 - 5
  * Diane Hollenbaugh, Bonum Therapeutics, Inc.
Session Chair
 
  Hans van der Vliet, Lava Therapeutics
Bispecific Antibodies for Recruiting Alternative Immune Cells for Cancer Therapy
 
  Jamie Spangler, Johns Hopkins University
Engineering Antibodies and Fusion Proteins for Disease Targeting
 
  Stephen A. Beers, University of Southampton
Interplay Between the Tumor Microenvironment and the Antibody Fc in Optimizing Therapy
 
  Mika Kamata-Sakurai, Chugai Pharmaceutical
Conditional Activation of Protein Therapeutics in the Tumor Microenvironment’
 
  Pratik Bhojnagarwala, The Wistar Institute
Short Talk: Short Talk: Customized Ovarian Cancer Therapy Using in vivo Assembled Bi-Specific Antibodies Targeting Her2 and FSHR
 
  John T Mulligan, Bonum Therapeutics, Inc.
Short Talk: Short Talk: A Novel Method for Generating Regulated Cytokine Therapeutics: Safety and Activity of a Conditionally Active cLAG3-IL2 in a Simple Antibody Format
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Colorado Ballroom Foyer
11:00–1:00 PM Poster Setup Peaks 1 - 3
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Peaks 1 - 3
2:30–4:30 PM Workshop: Computational Antibody Engineering Peak 4-5
  * Peter Tessier, University of Michigan
Session Chair
 
  * Peter Tessier, University of Michigan
Predicting Antibody Developability using Interpretable Machine Learning
 
  Fabian C Spoendlin, University of Oxford
Improved Computational Epitope Profiling Using Structural Models Identifies a Broader Diversity of Antibodies that Bind to the Same Epitope
 
  Tobias Hegelund Olsen, GSK
Addressing the Antibody Germline Bias and its Effect on Language Models for Improved Antibody Design
 
  Benjamin Rubin, Adaptive Biotechnologies
Multi-Modal, Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza Discovered via High-Throughput Native Pairing of BCRs From Bulk B Cells
 
  Brett Blakeley, Generate Biomedicines
Industrializing Therapeutic Antibody Design. Generative AI Enables Intentional Antibody Engineering Over Random Chance Discovery
 
  Ira Zaretsky, Weizmann Institute of Science
From Mice to Men: Energy-Based Antibody Humanization
 
  Mark Hutchinson, AstraZeneca
Computational Optimization of an Anti-HEL Antibody Leads to Increased Antibody Thermostability and Affinity
 
  Fernando Luis Barroso da Silva, University of Sao Paulo
Computational Insights and New Strategies for Advanced Antibody Engineering
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Colorado Ballroom Foyer
5:00–7:15 PM Avidity Engineering and Antibody Cocktails Peaks 4 - 5
  * Ellen Wagner, GigaGen
Session Chair
 
  Paul W. H. I. Parren, Leiden University Medical Center
Avidity Engineering of Therapeutic Antibodies
 
  Bruce Keyt, IGM Biosciences
Multipecific, IgM-based, T Cell Engagers for Treating Cancer
 
  Jean-Philippe Julien, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute
Avid and Multispecific Biologics for Global Health
 
  Ira Mellman, Genentech, Inc.
Rational Design of Combinatorial Targeting to Optimize Checkpoint Blockade
 
  Alexandra Margaret Terry, Genmab
Short Talk: Short Talk: Exploring Interaction Rules for Multispecific Targeting using the HexElect Antibody Format
 
7:15–8:15 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Peaks 1 - 3
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 2 Peaks 1 - 3
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Summit Gallery
8:00–11:00 AM Engineered Antibody Constructs in the Clinic Peaks 4 - 5
  * Jonathan Davis, Creative Antibodies
Session Chair
 
  Koustubh Ranade, Immunocore
Advances Beyond Monoclonal Antibodies
 
  Laura M. Walker, Moderna
Prophylaxis and Treatment of Infectious Disease with Half-Life Extended Neutralizing Antibodies
 
  David P. Humphreys, UCB Pharma
TRYBE: An Fc-Free Antibody Format with Three Monovalent Targeting Arms and Engineered for Long in vivo Half-Life
 
  Jaileene Hernandez Escalante, Generate Biomedicines
Short Talk: Short Talk: Development of a Machine Learning (ML) Designed Anti-TSLP Antibody for the Treatment of Asthma
 
  Mark Kroenke, Amgen
Short Talk: Short Talk: Translatability of Findings from Cynomolgus Monkey to Human Suggests a Mechanistic Role for IL-21 in Promoting Immunogenicity to an Anti-PD-1/IL-21 Mutein Fusion Protein
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Colorado Ballroom Foyer
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Colorado Ballroom Foyer
5:00–6:45 PM Fast Forward: Promising New Technologies and Applications Peaks 4 - 5
  * Anna Park, Sanofi
Session Chair
 
  Sai T. Reddy, ETH Zurich
Rational Design of Antibody Therapeutics via Deep Learning
 
  Joy Yu Zuchero, Denali Therapeutics Inc
Brain Delivery of Therapeutic Proteins with Fc-Engineered Molecules
 
  Garrett Rappazzo, Adimab LLC
Short Talk: Short Talk: Rapid Engineering of Soluble T Cell Receptors for Enhanced Affinity via a High-Throughput Yeast-Based Platform
 
  Fangzhu Zhao, University of California San Francisco
Short Talk: Short Talk: Cytokine Receptor-Targeting Chimeras: Unveiling Dual Modalities for Targeted Protein Degradation and Immune Cell Engagement
 
6:45–7:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) Peaks 4 - 5
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Peaks 1 - 3
8:00–9:00 PM Trivia Peaks 4-5
8:00–9:00 PM Cash Bar Peaks 1 - 3
Thursday, May 9, 2024
7:00–11:59 PM Departure