Gautam Sanyal | Principal Consultant
Vaccine Analytics, LLC, USA

Gautam Sanyal, Principal Consultant, Vaccine Analytics, LLC, USA

Gautam Sanyal is a scientific leader in development of analytical and biophysical methods that are essential to batch release and characterization of vaccines and biopharmaceuticals. His expertise extends to rational formulation design, as demonstrated by delivery of several safe and effective formulations to clinical trials for recombinant protein based VLPs and attenuated viral vaccines as well as therapeutic proteins and oncolytic viruses. More recently, Gautam has been involved in advisory roles on projects emerging from the newer vaccine technologies, with a focus on analytical characterization and assays for mRNA and viral vectored vaccines. Apart from his extensive work on vaccines and biologics, Gautam led biochemistry, biophysics and protein science teams in target- based discovery of antibacterial therapeutics. He has published extensively research papers, book chapters and review articles. During the 27 years that Gautam spent in pharmaceutical industry, he headed R&D departments and groups at Merck, AstraZeneca and MedImmune (AstraZeneca Biopharmaceuticals). For the past several years, Gautam has focused his efforts on global health initiatives. He is a CMC Subject Matter Expert with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and has been associated with other global health organizations such as CEPI and PATH. Gautam also serves in the faculty of the Global Training Hub for Biomanufacturing (GTH-B) at the International Vaccine Institute.

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Pre-Congress Workshops - Monday 1st April @ 10:00

RNA - From vaccines to therapeutics

How are we improving our understanding of RNA technology for next generation vaccines? How will RNA transform therapeutics and cancer treatment?

10:00 Chair opening remarks

Prof Jeffrey Coller, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of RNA Biology and Therapeutics Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University

10:10 mRNA vaccines of the future: Bridging the Knowledge Gaps

Dr Sudha Chivukula, AVP, Head of Discovery Biology, mRNA Centre of Excellence, Sanofi

10:25 Beyond respiratory vaccines

Dr Jacqueline Miller, SVP, Therapeutic Area Head - Infectious Disease Development, Moderna

10:45 Individualized mRNA vaccines

Ruben Rizzi, Senior Vice President Global Regulatory Affairs, BioNtech

11:00 Accessing vast design space with modular high throughput platform for RNA therapeutics and vaccines

Dr Sarit Schwartz, Head of RNA, Business Development Gingko Bioworks

11:15 Analytical challenges in characterization of multivalent mRNA vaccines

Dr Gautam Sanyal, Principal Consultant and Founder, Vaccine Analytics, LLC

11:30 RNABL: A Novel RNA Delivery Platform for Therapeutic Applications

Dr Micheal Breen, Scientist, Tiba Biotech

11:45 From a preventive vaccine to a therapeutic vaccine

Dr Jason Zhang, CEO and Co-Founder, ZipCode Bio

12:00 – 1:00 Panel: Beyond prophylactic vaccines: the future of RNA therapeutics

  • What is the potential for RNA use in therapeutics?
  • Cancer, immunotherapy, gene editing etc.
  • What gaps remain to successfully utilize the potential of RNA beyond vaccines?

Moderator: Anna Rose Welch, Editorial and Community Director, Advancing RNA, Life Science Connect

Dr Gilles Besin, Chief Scientific Officer, Orbital Therapeutics

Dr Gopi Shanker, Chief Scientific Officer, Beam Therapeutics

Dr Andrew Geall, Chief Development Officer, Replicate Bioscience

Dr Kate Zhang, Chief Scientific Officer, Hopewell Therapeutics

last published: 28/Mar/24 22:05 GMT

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