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Why Attend
The gut microbiome is becoming an increasingly important druggable target for pharma companies through a range of modalities from FMT to small molecule and even phage. 2020 looks set to be a pivotal year for the microbiome industry with a handful of companies (including Seres, Rebiotix and Finch Therapeutics) set to release ground-breaking phase 3 clinical data. We’re a step away from market approval, but there’s still so much to learn…
Major advances in shotgun metagenomic sequencing and computational biology allow us to see what’s going on at a strain-specific and metabolomic level of detail. Elucidating the key metabolites and mechanisms of action in both extra-intestinal and intestinal indications is a key objective in 2020/2021 and is a cornerstone of the discussion at Microbiome Connect: Human.
Join key opinion leaders to examine the latest preclinical and clinical data in extra-intestinal and intestinal indications. This is your opportunity to translate gut-microbiome research into therapeutics that have the power to treat oncological, neurological, gastro-intestinal & metabolic diseases.
Previously known as North American Microbiome Congress, Microbiome Connect: Human USA is all about connecting leading academics and biotech companies presenting preclinical and clinical data, to network, educate and share knowledge.
What's new for 2020
- Deep dive into the microbiome’s mechanistic and metabolomic role in Neurological, Oncological, Gastro-Intestinal & Metabolic indications with three distinct scientific streams of the latest pre-clinical and clinical data.
- Assess how leading biotech companies and academics are designing a range of therapeutic microbiome-modulating modalities from small-molecule and Phage to rationally designed live bio-therapeutics and FMT.
- Meet your next commercial partner and learn exactly what Pharma and VCs are looking for in terms of pre-clinical and clinical data to finance academic spin-outs and later-stage clinical trials.
Speakers
Johan van Hylckama Vlieg
Johan E.T. van Hylckama Vlieg is currently Senior Director Microbiome at Chr. Hansen AS, one of the largest microbe producing companies in the world. He is responsible for the microbiome innovation program and heading the microbiome research and pilot facility. He has 20 years of experience and leadership in gut microbiology, probiotics and food biotechnology in industry and academia. He is (co)author of more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and inventor of 13 patents or patent applications.
Dan Couto
Jessica Schneider
Christopher Missling
Christopher U. Missling, PhD is President and CEO of Anavex Life Sciences Corp and has over 20 years of healthcare industry experience within large pharmaceutical companies and the biotech industry. Prior to joining Anavex, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of Curis and ImmunoGen. In addition, at Aventis (now Sanofi), Christopher’s work was dedicated to finding potential cures for neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental diseases, like Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease, as well as Rett syndrome, Fragile X, Angelman’s syndrome, infantile spasms. Dr. Missling is working with his team to advance new potential treatments through clinical trials by involving the respective advocacy groups early on. Dr. Missling has an MS and PhD from the University of Munich in Chemistry and an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management and WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management.
Julius Goepp
Assaf Oron
Frank Middleton
Grégory Lambert
Grégory Lambert’s career has been split between biotech and pharma as VP of R&D and CSO in companies such as Novagali Pharma (now Santen) and Septodont. His responsibilities have included innovation, CMC, pre-clinical and clinical development in both Europe and North America. Grégory also has experience managing IP, business development and general management. He is an inventor on more than 20 patents, he was involved in the IPO of Novagali Pharma and he has driven the development of several pharmaceutical products from the laboratory through to market authorisation. In 2014, Gregory joined the scientific founders of TargEDys as CEO to setup the business plan and start operations, so far has raised over 10M€ in a mixture of grant and VC funding and begins human clinical trials this year.
Serguei Fetissov
Dan Couto
Mike Romanos
Mike Romanos is a co-founder and Chief Executive of Microbiotica. He has 30 years’ experience in the biotech and pharma industry and previously co-founded Crescendo Biologics which he built and led as CEO and CSO, developing a leading antibody fragment discovery platform and pipeline in oncology and inflammation. Prior to that he held global VP roles in GlaxoSmithKline R&D over 10 years, during which time he formed and led major transnational divisions which helped shape the company’s discovery platforms and pipelines across therapeutic areas and modalities. In his last role he led a transnational group of 300 staff providing genomics, target and biomarker discovery, and platform biology for R&D. Mike is highly experienced in biotech translation and commercialisation, currently serving as a Non-Exec Director of the life-sciences charity LifeArc, and previously as Translational Adviser in Biomedicine at Imperial College, Venture Partner to UK Innovation and Science Seed Fund, and committee member on the MRC’s Developmental Pathway Funding Scheme for translational academic research. Mike holds a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University, a PhD in Molecular Virology from Imperial College, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.
Bharat Dixit
Lucy Yanckello
Imke Mulder
Mingyang Song
Fyza Shaikh
Isabelle De Cremoux
Nicole McKnight
Diwakar Davar
Romain Dailiere
Nikole Kimes
Talk to me about… your research
Our mission at Siolta Therapeutics is to transform the therapeutic landscape of inflammatory diseases, such as asthma, through the power of the microbiome. As the lead executive driving Siolta’s early-stage development, I head a talented team of scientists, blending microbiology, immunology, and bioinformatics expertise to leverage microbiome data for the improvement of patient stratification and development of targeted microbial therapeutics. We are developing FDA-approved live biotherapeutics, as well as companion diagnostics, aimed not only at treating disease but also preventing disease, starting with asthma.
Talk to me about…something people may not know about you
My two professional passions have always been environmental systems and health. I have spent the entirety of my career exploring the relationship between these two concepts, from my time in the Solomon Islands as a Peace Corps Volunteer to my PhD work in marine ecosystems impacted by environmental alterations.
Heidi Hau
Morten Isaksen
Christopher Weidenmaier
Greg Perry
Sarah Garant
Laurent Chesnel
Qun Wang
Peter Nara
Dr. Nara is currently on of the co-founders, the Chief Scientific Officer and President Business Development for Keystone Bio Inc. in St. Louis, Mo., a Systemic-Oral Health Biomedical company that is targeting precision microbiome bio-therapeutics for the elimination of a specific oral bacterial associated with systemic inflammation. He is also the former co-founder, President, Chairman and CEO (1997-2017)and now Chairman Emeritus at Biological Mimetics, Inc. and cofounder of Lantern Pharma Inc. He holds a M.Sc. in Immuno-pharmacology, a combined Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Ph.D. (retro-virology/oncogenesis) from The Ohio State University, 4 year combined residency in Comparative Pathology and NIH post-doctoral Fellowship at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and a NIH respectively. Dr. Nara currently holds the Endowed Eugene Lloyd Chair, Professor in Vaccinology, founding Center Director for the Center for Advanced Host Defense, Immunobiotics, and Translational Comparative Medicine in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University and also the Chief Executive Officer, President, Chairman & co-founder of Biological Mimetics, Inc.,. He is also an distinguished Alumni of The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine 2014, and an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011. His comparative medical research interests are to more fully understand how early and pre-determined events in the host innate and acquired immune systems are sculpted and bias the development of protective long lasting responses against infectious pathogens and cancer. More importantly he and his team are interested developing new technologies and strategies to circumvent the non-protective immune responses for the development of novel classes of immunobiotics and vaccines focused on the prevention of disease and are translating these into viably products via a new academic- private-commercial model. He has been and continues as National and International member of numerous programs at the National Academy of Science, Institutes of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, and Centers for Disease Control AIDS, World Health Organization, United Nations Global AIDS Characterization program–related and infectious diseases national planning, human and animal agricultural biodefense, vaccine development & policy reporting meetings involving pathogenesis, vaccine discovery, standardization, correlates of protection committees and consults and serves on numerous scientific advisory boards of corporate, private foundations and academic initiatives in the area of national biodefense, comparative medicine and immunology, vaccine discovery and immuno-therapeutics and a recent member of the U.S. State Department Bio-Industry Initiative Program, The Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CDRF) and The International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for non-proliferation of biological agents.
Thought Leadership Partner
LabSkin
Website: https://www.labskin.co.uk/
Labskin’s pioneering approach to testing skin care products by cloning a patient’s skin microbiome and transplanting it on to Labskin human skin equivalent allows a wide range of testing that no longer requires invasive procedures on patients. Data from next generation sequencing of the Labskin and skin biome is coupled with AI processes to interpret and direct further development of skincare products in a controlled and efficient manner, reducing development time and costs.
Event Partners
Biose Industrie
Website: https://www.biose.com/en/cdmo/
Biose Industrie is a Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), specialised in Live Biotherapeutic Products. Founded in 1951, Biose Industrie has more than 65 years of experience in the development and production of live bacteria based drugs. Company offers lab development specialised in microbiology (anaerobic, aerobic, GMO strains) and is Drug GMP certified for the manufacturing of API (From 300L to 3 500L), clinical batches and commercial drug products (capsules in blisters or pills, sachets).
BioMe
Website: http://www.bio-me.no
Bio-Me AS is a Norwegian-based biotech company, and the culmination of 20 years research on best ways to detect various bacteria in communities. This research has led to novel, patented technologies and new approaches in bacterial analysis.
Leveraging on the vast information of gut bacteria and their function, Bio-Me's business model is built on three pillars of strength:
1. The proprietary GutCheck™
2. Unique access to 30,000+ fecal samples together with extensive patient information
3. A comprehensive database containing the output from 1 and 2 above, combined with sophisticated Machine Learning tools to discover novel connections between lifestyle, genetics and microbiome patterns.
This provides important insights to support Food and Pharma companies in creating better regimes for Personalized Nutrition and Precision Medicine, as well as offering other gut microbiome analysis services.
DNA Genotek Inc. and Diversigen are subsidiaries of OraSure Technologies, Inc
Website: http://www.dnagenotek.com
DNA Genotek Inc. and Diversigen are subsidiaries of OraSure Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSUR) working as a group to provide high-quality microbial sample collection products and comprehensive services for sample processing, sequencing, and bioinformatic analysis. DNA Genotek’s OMNIgene product line immediately stabilizes microbiota samples at the point of collection, ensuring an unbiased ‘snapshot’ of the microbial community. Self-collection kits for stool, oral, skin, vaginal and animal sampling are available. Diversigen (powered by CoreBiome analytics) offers the best science available to accelerate microbiome discovery for academic, pharmaceutical, therapeutic, agricultural and environmental applications. From study design to sample processing, data generation, and full custom analysis we ensure you get the most out of your data.
Eagle Genomics
Website: http://www.eaglegenomics.com
Eagle Genomics innovates at the intersection of biology, data science and bioinformatics to enable scientific decision making and to drive scientific discovery in the fields of microbiomics and human genomics.
Eagle Genomics knowledge discovery platform, e[automateddataascientist], transforms data into actionable insights that drive scientific decision making. The insight gained enables quick assessment of product potential, accelerates market entry and mitigates risk. Customers use our platform, powered by life sciences data, to prove the viability, efficacy and safety of products.
Media Partner
Rapid Microbiology
Website: https://www.rapidmicrobiology.com/
Rapidmicrobiology.com is a well-established online resource for microbiologists worldwide, find the right products for your microbiology lab using our specially designed search functions.
To keep up-to-date with the latest microbiology news get our free weekly newsletter which includes updates on products, services, webinars, training courses and conferences.
Microbiome Therapeutic Innovation Group
Website: https://microbiometig.org/
The Microbiome Therapeutics Innovation Group (MTIG) is an independent 501(c)(6) coalition of companies leading the research and development of FDA-approved microbiome therapeutics and microbiome-based products to address unmet medical needs, improve clinical outcomes, and reduce health care costs. The human microbiome is one of the new frontiers of medical innovation that has the potential to benefit patients suffering from numerous diseases afflicting millions of patients and consuming billions of dollars of healthcare resources. Through a collective voice, the MTIG membership works together to enhance the regulatory, investment, and commercial environment to accelerate microbiome therapeutic product development and expand availability of life-changing and life-saving FDA approved microbiome therapies to patients. MTIG is committed to working with stakeholders who share in our mission and seek to collaborate with patients, patient advocates, professional societies/organizations/public health officials, scientists, government policymakers, healthcare providers and payers who seek tangible policy and regulatory solutions to issues in the emerging microbiome arena.
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What you can expect from the 2020 Congress:
- 200+ Academic and Industry Leaders Onsite
- 50+ Thought Leaders on the Speaker Faculty
- 3 Distinct Streams
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