Sunil Acharya

Company: MD Anderson Cancer Center

Job title: Principal Research Scientist

Seminars:

Panel Discussion: Making the Most of Crosstalk Between Clinical Translation & Early R&D to Improve Product Development 2:30 pm

Discussing which questions should be asked in preclinical R&D, based on clinical findings and back translation Identifying the gaps in clinical efficacy to build on intelligent product design Understanding the patient needs to build patient-centric cell therapies Bridging the gap between clinical and researcher perspectives: ensuring we all ‘speak the same language’Read more

day: Day Two Track A PM

Driving Rapid Translation of Novel NK-CAR Constructs from Discovery Through to CMC & Clinical Development 2:00 pm

Balancing quality and quantity of information included in CMC packages to ensure clarity of communication and optimized contents Discussing regulatory expectations and requirements for potency, purity, safety, and GMP data throughout phase development Designing preclinical and translational workflows to expedite IND acceptance, sharing a case study from novel CD70- targeting CAR-NK development Sharing progress on…Read more

day: Day One Track C PM

Panel Discussion: Bringing New Therapies Through Phase Appropriate Development & Discussing the Testing & Analytical Requirements 2:30 pm

Considering the need for testing requirements of new allogeneic products such as viral panels Defining the characteristics that you are testing and how to build assays which align with analytical requirements Discussing the value of novel assays such as metabolic analyses to balance ‘need to know’ vs. ‘nice to know’ whilst maximizing product characterizationRead more

day: Day One Track C PM