Description of event:
Scientific Organizers: Paul Carter and Andreas G. Plückthun
January 27—Feb 1, 2013
Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Meeting Summary
Antibodies have come of age as therapeutics since the late 1990s with 26
antibody therapeutics marketed in the USA and ~300 additional
antibodies in
clinical development. Many of these
antibody drugs are targeted to malignant
cells and are used for the treatment of a variety of cancers. Participants at this meeting will consider new
therapeutic opportunities for
antibodies and engineered targeting molecules across a broad range of
clinical settings including
oncology,
autoimmunity and chronic
inflammation, infectious diseases and neurology. Progress in molecular engineering to increase their
clinical potential will be discussed including
antibody-
drug conjugates, bispecific and multispecific targeting molecules, effector function enhancement and half-life extension. New frontiers will be explored including engineering
antibodies to cross the
blood-
brain barrier and tackling fundamental questions in
antibody targeting, mechanisms of action and
resistance, and immunogenicity of engineered
proteins. This symposium will bring together experts from academia and industry, from molecular engineering to biomedical applications, at the forefront of advancing
antibodies as
drugs and will be of broad interest to scientists working in this area. Opportunities for interdisciplinary
interactions will be significantly enhanced by the concurrent meeting on
Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy, which will share two plenary sessions with this meeting.
General information:
The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver is a beautiful and historic landmark in downtown Vancouver surrounded by the majestic North Coast Mountains. The hotel offers a complimentary fitness facility, spa, (charges apply), indoor swimming pool, hot tub, and two restaurants. Within a few minutes' walk from the hotel is Robson Street for superb shopping and dining options. Other highly suggested attractions of this oceanfront city are Stanley Park, The Vancouver Art Museum, and Granville Island. Three ski areas are only a short drive away, offering alpine, cross-country, and snowboarding as well as snowshoeing, ice-skating, and sleigh rides, (weather permitting). Complimentary ski shuttles will be available. Vancouver provides all the options of a resort combined with a cosmopolitan city appeal.
Location:
Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
900 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 2W6
Canada
Contact us:
Keystone Symposia
160 U.S. Highway 6, Suite 200
PO Box 1630
Silverthorne, CO 80498