Next Generation Antibody Therapeutics: From Discovery to Patient (Q5)
February 19-22, 2023  | Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, AB, Canada
Pamela M. Holland and James A. Wells
Scholarship Deadline: Nov. 28, 2022 | Abstract Deadline: Nov. 28, 2022 | Early Registration Deadline: Dec. 15, 2022
* 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, February 19, 2023
4:00–8:00 PM Arrival and Registration Riverview Lounge
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer Riverview Lounge
Monday, February 20, 2023
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Alberta/New Brunswick
8:00–9:00 AM Welcome and Keynote Address (Joint) Cascade Ballroom
  * Pamela M. Holland, InduPro
Session Chair
 
  * Pablo Umaña, Roche Innovation Center Zürich
Session Chair
 
  * James A. Wells, University of California, San Francisco
Session Chair
 
  Tomoyuki Igawa, Chugai Pharmaceutical
Conditional Activation of Antibody Therapeutics in the Tumor Microenvironment
 
9:00–11:15 AM Conditional Targeting with Multi-Specific Engagers (Joint) Cascade Ballroom
  Pamela M. Holland, InduPro
Session Chair
 
  Pablo Umaña, Roche Innovation Center Zürich
Session Chair
 
  Katarina Pance, Epi Biologics
Bispecific Antibodies for Targeted Degradation of Extracellular Proteins
 
  Wendy Ritacco, AbbVie Bioresearch Center
A Targeted Conditional PSCA-CTLA4 DVD-Ig for Immuno-Oncology: POC in Syngeneic Tumor and Metastasis Models
 
  Edward van der Horst, Sensei Biotherapeutics
Short Talk: Short Talk: SNS-101, A Conditionally Active Anti-VISTA Antibody, Potentiates Anti-tumor Effects of PD-1 Blockade and Displays Favorable Pharmacokinetic and Cytokine Release Characteristics
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break Riverview Lounge
11:15–1:00 PM Poster Setup Alberta/New Brunswick
11:15–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Alberta/New Brunswick
2:30–4:30 PM Workshop 1: New Ab Therapeutics and Engineering Platforms Cascade Ballroom
  Yanay Ofran, Biolojic
A Computationally Designed Selective Agonist/Antagonist anti-IL-2 Antibody Redirects Endogenous Human IL-2 to Enhance Teff Function, while Antagonizing Tregs
 
  Maxwell A Stefan, Twist Biosciences
Discovery of Novel Complement component 5a Receptor 1 Antagonistic Antibodies Using a Target-Specific Generated Phage Library
 
  Nazanin Rohani Larijani, National Research Council
CAIX VHH-based Therapies for Specific Targeting of Hypoxic Solid Tumor Areas
 
  Frank J. Beurskens, Genmab
Engineered Mutually-dependent IgG Antibody Combinations that Selectively Act on Cells Co-expressing Two Antigens
 
  Adam Zwolak, Janssen R&D
Mucosal Targeting of Antibodies: Hitchhiking on the Polymeric Ig Receptor
 
  * Christoph Rader, UF Scripps Biomedical Research, University of Florida
Concerted Antibody and Antigen Discovery by Differential Whole-cell Phage Display Selections and Multiomic Target Deconvolution
 
  Malin Jönsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
CaRA - Calcium-Regulated Affinity Domains with Novel Target Specificities for Enhanced Therapeutic Potential
 
  Lorenzo Maso, NYULMC
Creating MHC-restricted Neoantigens with Covalent Inhibitors that can be Targeted by Immune Therapy
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Riverview Lounge
5:00–7:00 PM Antibody Modality Cascade Ballroom
  Shelley Ackerman, Bolt Biotherapeutics
Remote Presentation: Development of Immune Stimulating Antibody Conjugates to Promote Durable Antitumor Immunity
 
  * John R. Desjarlais, Xencor, Inc.
A Variety of Antibody-based Modalities for T Cell Signals 1, 2, and 3
 
  Sai T. Reddy, ETH Zurich
Engineering Synthetic T Cell Receptors for Enhanced Potency and Specificity
 
  Francisco Leon, Provention Bio, Inc
Bi-Specific B Cell Targeting Diabody DART for Gene Therapy, SLE and Other Autoimmune Disorders
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Alberta/New Brunswick
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 1 Alberta/New Brunswick
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Alberta/New Brunswick
8:00–11:00 AM New Approaches Toward Target Identification Cascade Ballroom
  * Bernd Wollscheid, ETH Zürich
Leveraging Surfaceome Nanoscale Organization for Theranostics
 
  James A. Wells, University of California, San Francisco
Cell Surface Protolysis for Neo-Epitopes
 
  Niyi Fadeyi, InduPro
A Photocatalytic Toolbox for Cataloging Inherent Protein Proximity at the Membrane Surface
 
  Erica Ollmann Saphire, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Structural Biology of Viruses Toward Therapeutic Development
 
  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
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Riverview Lounge
11:00–1:00 PM Poster Setup Alberta/New Brunswick
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Alberta/New Brunswick
2:30–4:00 PM Workshop 2: Emerging Approaches to Expand Biologic Therapies Cascade Ballroom
  * Andrea Imle, BioNTech SE
Session Chair
 
  Benjamin Bell, Merck & Co., Inc.
Enzyme Engineering of Human Hyaluronidase-1 for Subcutaneous Delivery of Biologics
 
  Andrea Imle, BioNTech SE
HexaBody-CD27 Enhances Proliferation, Cytokine Secretion and Cytotoxic Activity of Activated T cells without Requirement for Fc Gamma Receptor-mediated Crosslinking
 
  Jonathan Back, GlycoEra
Glycoengineered Lysosomal-Targeting Constructs (G-LyTAC) engaging ASGPR: A Novel Class of Targeted Extracellular Proteins Degraders
 
  Noel T. Pauli, Adimab LLC
Efficient Antibody Discovery against Membrane-obligate Drug Targets Utilizing a Yeast-based, Single B cell Cloning Platform
 
  Shaheen Farhadi, Merck & Co., Inc.
Targeting Interleukin-12 and -23 Private Receptors with Agonist Antibodies
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Riverview Lounge
5:00–7:00 PM Emerging Costimulatory Therapies in Oncology (Joint) Cascade Ballroom
  * Pablo Umaña, Roche Innovation Center Zürich
Off-the-Shelf Enhanced T Cell Redirection via Tumor-Targeted Costimulatory Agonist and Engager Combinations
 
  Janelle Christine Waite, Regeneron
Tumor-Targeted Costimulation via Bispecific CD28 Antibodies
 
  * Pamela M. Holland, InduPro
Conditional Targeting of CD28 in the Tumor Micorenvironment
 
  Sara Majocchi, Novimmune SA
Tumor and Immune Checkpoint-Dependent CD28 Agonism Using Bispecific Antibodies
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Alberta/New Brunswick
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 2 Alberta/New Brunswick
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Alberta/New Brunswick
8:00–11:00 AM Discovery Platforms Cascade Ballroom
  * Jamie Spangler, Johns Hopkins University
A Suspension-based Cell-cell Interaction Platform for Membrane Protein-targeted Antibody Discovery
 
  Shohei Koide, New York University Langone Health
Targeting Intracellular Proteins with Biologics
 
  Mart Ustav Jr., Icosagen Therapeutics
Functional Antibodies Against Multi Span Transmembrane Proteins - Revisiting the Warburg Effect in Cancer Cells
 
  Nora Karnowski, Apis Assay Technologies Ltd
Short Talk: Short Talk: Targeting Highly Homologous Pathogens With Supremely Specific Clickmers
 
  Bhuvaneshwari Shunmuganathan, National University of Singapore
Short Talk: Short Talk: The Application of Advanced Antibody Engineering Methodologies for Development of Prognostic and Diagnostic Assays for COVID-19
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Riverview Lounge
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
3:00–4:30 PM Career Roundtable Alhambra
  Markus G G. Manz, University Hospital Zürich
Department Chair, Prof. of Hematology
 
  Francisco Leon, Provention Bio, Inc
Chief Scientific Officer, Co-Founder
 
  Jamie Spangler, Johns Hopkins University
Assistant Professor
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Riverview Lounge
5:00–6:45 PM Emerging Antibody Therapeutics in Infectious Disease Cascade Ballroom
  * James A. Wells, University of California, San Francisco
Session Chair
 
  Christopher O. Barnes, Stanford University
Structural Characterization of Antibody Responses to SARS-CoV-2
 
  Ting Y Wong, WRAIR
Short Talk: Short Talk: Murine Monoclonal Antibodies against Secreted Staphylococcus Aureus Prothrombin-activating Virulence Factors Induce Macrophage Opsonophagocytosis
 
  Elizabeth Parzych, The Wistar Institute
Short Talk: Short Talk: Development of DNA-encoded, Functionally- enhanced Antibody Therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2
 
  Jason Kang, West Virginia University
Short Talk: Short Talk: Monoclonal Antibodies to Lipopolysaccharide Protect against Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Infection
 
6:45–7:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) Cascade Ballroom
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Alberta/New Brunswick
8:00–11:00 PM Cash Bar Alberta/New Brunswick
Thursday, February 23, 2023
8:00–8:00 AM Departure