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8:00 am Registration & Morning Coffee

8:55 am Chair’s Opening Remarks

Advancing Process Development in Oligonucleotide Synthesis to Control Variability from Early Design to Scale

9:00 am Bridging Process Development & CMC to De-Risk Scale-Up of Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Toward Commercial Readiness

Director - Process Development, Wave Life Sciences Ltd.
  • Designing process development strategies that proactively define critical process parameters (CPPs) and critical quality attributes (CQAs) to enable a seamless transition into robust CMC control strategies
  • Translating early-phase process understanding into scalable, reproducible manufacturing workflows to minimize variability and avoid late-stage rework during scale-up
  • Establishing effective knowledge transfer between process development, analytical, and CMC teams to ensure alignment on impurity control, process consistency, and regulatory expectations

9:30 am Establishing Process & Analytical Readiness for First Oligonucleotide Programs to Enable IND Filing & Seamless Technology Transfer

Senior Vice President - Technical Operations, Chemistry, Manufacturing, & Controls, CAMP4 Therapeutics
  • Defining the critical analytical, process, and raw material requirements across DS and DP to support IND submission
  • Designing scaled-down models and analytical strategies to build process understanding and de-risk scale-up
  • Overcoming technical and organizational challenges in early CDMO partnerships and technology transfer to ensure alignment on methods, specifications, and accelerate GMP readiness

10:00 am Speaker Q&A: What Breaks First When You Scale Oligos from IND to Commercial?

Senior Engineer - Process Development & Scale up Lab, Amgen Inc.
  • Which early-stage assumptions around CPPs and impurity control most commonly fail at commercial scale?
  • How to predict the point where oligo impurity complexity outpaces the existing analytical control strategy?
  • What elements of process design, raw material qualification, or method validation are most frequently reworked post-Phase II, and why?

10:30 am Morning Break & Networking

Expanding the Analytical Toolkit for Novel Oligonucleotide Modalities to Address Increased Structural Complexity

11:30 am Expanding the Analytical Toolkit for siRNA Development to Build Phase- Appropriate CMC Control Strategies

Director - Chemistry Manufacturing Control & Analytical Development, City Therapeutics
  • Assessing which analytical tools are most critical for characterizing siRNA quality attributes to support confident progression from early development into the clinic
  • Exploring how impurity, conjugation, and structural complexity considerations are shaping analytical strategy as siRNA programs become more advanced and diverse
  • Sharing how analytical development, QC, and CMC teams can align on phase appropriate expectations so resources are focused on what matters most at each stage of development

12:00 pm Analytical Strategies for Oligonucleotide Conjugates: Overcoming Heterogeneity to Enable IND Readiness

Head of Analytical Sciences, Souffle Therapeutics
  • Addressing conjugation-driven heterogeneity and complexity in oligonucleotide conjugates to enable robust characterization and control
  • Defining and controlling critical quality attributes (CQAs) such as DAR, linkage stability, and payload distribution to support IND readiness
  • Designing scalable analytical strategies across internal teams and CDMOs to ensure consistent characterization through development and tech transfer

12:30 pm Lunch Break & Networking

Digitalizing Oligonucleotide Development to Improve Control, Comparability, & Speed

1:30 pm Harnessing Sequencing for Digital QC & Impurity Intelligence to Build Actionable & Reproducible Oligonucleotide Manufacturing Control Strategies

Scientific evaluation expert, Saudi FDA
  • Identifying sequence-related variants that influence batch consistency and downstream complexity to better inform manufacturing control strategies
  • Apply high-resolution variant profiling to anticipate impurity shifts during scale-up and tech transfer, to enable more predictable manufacturing
  • Integrating sequencing data into comparability assessments to strengthen regulatory confidence across the product lifecycle

2:00 pm Roundtable Discussion: Data to Decisions: Applying AI to Transform Complex Analytical Datasets into Predictive Insight for Oligonucleotide Process Optimization

  • Applying AI to integrate chromatographic, spectrometric, and in-process datasets to uncover relationships between process parameters and product quality
  • Developing predictive models to simulate scale-up performance, parameter sensitivity, and process robustness before implementing manufacturing changes
  • Embedding AI-driven analytics into change control and lifecycle management workflows to support consistent, data-backed manufacturing decisions across sites and stages

3:00 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks

3:05 pm End of 5th Oligonucleotide Analytical Development & CMC Summit 2026