Sophion User Meeting, Boston 2019
We look forward to seeing you again this year for our Sophion User Meeting in Boston.
Venue:
Hilton Boston/Woburn, 2 Forbes Rd. Woburn, MA 01801
Agenda:
April 9
11:30 AM Registration and lunch buffet
01:00 PM Novel small molecule Nav channel blockers selectively targeting nociceptors
Dr Xiaguang Victor Chen, Nocion
01:30 PM KnotBodies: an efficient platform to generate ion channel modulating antibodies by fusing venom-derived knottins into antibody CDR loops
Dr Damian Bell, Iontas
02:00 PM Utilising the Qube in a CRO environment: Case studies from HTS and hit-to-lead projects
Dr Abigail Marklew, Charles River Laboratories
02:30 PM Coffee break
03:30 PM IPSC-Derived Human Neurons for Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Dr Mike Hendrickson, BrainXell
04:00 PM Expanding ion channel assay capabilities using high-performance cell engineering
Dr Joan Foster, MaxCyte
04:30 PM Qube update – version Eagle, motor neurons and adaptive protocols
Dr. Mads P G Korsgaard, Sophion Bioscience A/S
05:00 PM Dinner
April 10
08:00 AM Coffee
09:00 AM Profiling sodium channels to improve drug candidate safety and efficacy using the
QPatch HT
Dr Bryan Koci, Eurofins
09:30 AM Inhibitory effects of cannabidiol on voltage-dependent sodium currents
Dr Reza Ghovanloo, Simon Fraser University and Xenon Pharmaceuticals
10:00 AM Coffee break
10:30 AM Impact of equilibrium om interpretation of hERG QPatch data
Dr Anatoli Lvov, Novartis
11:00 AM QPatch II – The next generation QPatch
Dr Göran Mattsson, Sophion Bioscience A/S
11:30 AM Lunch at the hotel
01:00 PM Open house at Sophion Bioscience, Inc.
05:00 PM Wrap-up
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Local hotels:
Hilton Boston/Woburn
2 Forbes Road, Woburn, MA
Phone: +1 781-932-0999
Crowne Plaza Boston/Woburn
15 Middlesex Canal Park Drive, Woburn, MA
Phone: +1 781-935-8760
Comfort Inn Boston/Woburn
14 Hill St, Woburn, MA 01801
Phone: +1 781-933-5363