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8:00 am Registration & Coffee

8:50 am Chair’s Opening Remarks

Director, T-Cell-Based Therapies (ProTCT), Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Using Clinical Learnings to Guide Next‑Generation TCR Innovation & Accelerate Progress

9:00 am C-Level Fireside Chat: Reflecting on Lessons from TCR Therapies to Drive Next-Generation Strategies

Chief Technology Officer, Immunocore
Chief Scientific Officer, Zelluna Immunotherapy
Chief Scientific Officer, T-knife Therapeutics
Chief Medical Officer, Immatics
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Anocca
  • Identifying pivotal learnings that can sharpen development strategies and accelerate stronger clinical outcomes
  • Framing actionable insights that translate early proof-of-concept gains into durable, real-world clinical impact
  • Exploring critical knowledge gaps and defining high-value priorities that can shape the next-generation of TCR innovations

10:00 am Expanding the Potential of TCR-Based T-Cell Engagers into Infectious Diseases

Chief Technology Officer, Immunocore
  • Sharing early clinical data on TCR-based bispecific molecules developed to treat HBV and HIV
  • Analyzing the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics associated with this mechanism of action
  • Highlighting the differences from oncology that emerge due to a lack of suppressive tumor microenvironment

10:30 am Delivering Transformational Benefit with TCR-Based Therapies for PRAME Positive Cancers

Chief Medical Officer, Immatics
  • Demonstrating first-generation autologous TCR therapy Anzu-Cel achieving 50-60% durable responses in melanoma
  • Advancing second-generation efficacy enhanced PRAME TCRs into ovarian and endometrial cancers and the prospect of tissue agnostic expansion
  • Bispecific TCR approaches to maximize clinical impact while addressing development and scalability challenges

11:00 am Morning Break & Speed Networking

Integrating Machine Learning & Advanced Screening for Safer Affinity Maturation

12:00 pm Accelerating Affinity Maturation with AI & Machine Learning to Shorten Development Timelines & Improve Precision

Associate Professor, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Exploring how AI-driven design can shorten traditional affinity maturation cycles and reduce experimental burden
  • Questioning whether current AI tools can reliably predict TCR-peptide-HLA interactions
  • Defining what success looks like for AI in TCR engineering and the data needed to prove clinical relevance

12:30 pm Building Next-Generation TCR-TCEs Through High-Titer Expression & Optimized Affinity Maturation

  • Achieving high-titer CHO production of soluble TCRs and TCR-TCEs using the WuXian Transient™ expression system
  • Optimizing TCR affinity maturation from phage libraries to routinely improve KD by ~10,000-fold (from 10-100 μM)
  • Integrating high-throughput expression and affinity maturation to efficiently generate building blocks for next-generation TCR-TCE therapeutics

1:00 pm Lunch Break & Networking

Driving Innovation with TCR Mimic Antibodies to Expand Therapeutic Possibilities

2:00 pm Next-Generation HLA/Peptide-Targeted Therapies: Lessons Learned from Comparing TCR-T Versus TCR Mimetic CAR-T

Senior Director, Immuno-Oncology, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
  • State-of-the-art techniques for discovering tumor-specific HLA/peptide targets and technologies for generating TCRs and TCR mimetic antibodies
  • Directly compare and contrast TCR-T versus TCR mimetic CAR-T cells in vitro and in vivo
  • Engineering T-cells and combinations with biologics for optimal deployment of HLA/ peptide-targeted therapies in the clinic

2:30 pm Applying TCR Mimic Antibodies in T-Cell Therapy to Achieve Durable & Persistent Clinical Responses

President & Chief Executive Officer, Eureka Therapeutics
  • Sharing developments in an ongoing phase 1 trial and key learnings from the clinic
  • Explaining how TCR mimic armed T-cell therapy enables dual activation of CD4 and CD8 T-cells
  • Discuss why CD4 engagement is critical for long-term efficacy

3:00 pm Session Reserved for Alloy Therapeutics

3:30 pm Afternoon Break & Poster Session

Achieving Both Efficacy & Commercial Viability with New Innovations in TCR-Based Therapies

4:30 pm Balancing Personalization & Scalability in Next-Generation TCR Therapies to Expand Patient Access

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Anocca
  • Examining how personalization can sharpen therapeutic precision while introducing cost and complexity trade-offs critical for strategic planning
  • Comparing personalized and shared TCR strategies to identify the optimal balance of precision, accessibility, and real-world patient reach
  • Designing regulatory and manufacturing pathways that enable scalable, compliant use of personalized TCR therapies

5:00 pm Integrating Cutting-Edge Technologies, Including Multi-Omics & AIDriven Data, to Advance Potent Personalized TCR-Based Therapies

Principal Scientist, BioNTech
  • Personalized TCRs are both achievable and practical, offering great potential to broaden patient populations
  • Enhanced TCR targetability and potency through the integration of multi-omics data
  • Leveraging AI to predict TCR-pMHC folding structures, guiding TCR specificity and enhancing target diversity

5:30 pm End of Conference Day One