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17th Open Scientific EIP Symposium on Immunogenicity of Biopharmaceuticals

16th — 19th March 2026

Altis Grand Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal

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Registration prices

Members

Non members

Academics

Symposium & Workshop

975€

1,275€

495€

All prices include 23% VAT.

Deadline for registration

9th March 2026

Sponsoring opportunities

In view of our upcoming conference in March 2026, we gladly welcome sponsors !

Three different sponsoring packages are available, please see the details below.

If you need more information, please email Barbara Vercruyssen, EIP Director Finance and Operations.

If you wish to register as a sponsor, please complete our online Jotform.

  Gold Silver Bronze
Price for non-members 13,500€ 10,000€ 7,500€
Price for EIP members 7,500€ 5,500€ 3,500€
Booth in the exhibition hall
Company page in the program brochure 2 pages 1 page half page
Your logo on the sponsor page on the EIP website
Your logo on the EIP website home page
Free registration to the conference 2 persons 1 person 1 person
Free entrance to the social event
Your logo on all mailings related to the conference
Your logo on the attendee lanyards
Possibility to host a drinks reception
Choose the location of your booth
(on a first come, first serve basis)
(all booths will be named after famous scientists)
 The deadline for sponsoring is 31st January 2026

Program

 

Monday, March 16th 2026

Trainings
09:00 Welcome and Introduction by the EIP Chairman
Daniel Kramer, Sanofi
09:15 Immunogenicity Training (one beginner and one advanced immunogenicity training in parallel sessions) – topics to be announced
EIP Team
10:15 coffee Coffee Break
10:45 Bring Your Own Problems – Break Out Sessions
EIP Team
12:15 cutlery 77 Lunch Break
Main Program
13:15 Keynote Presentation: Innate Immunity
Bruno Lemaître, EPFL
Session 1: Immunogenicity of New Modalities
Chair: Lydia Michaut, Novartis
14:15 Immunogenicity Risk Assessment for Nucleic Acid Therapeutics: A Comprehensive Evaluation for ASOs, siRNAs, and non-vaccine mRNA/LNPs
Joanna Grudzinska-Goebel, Bayer
14:45 Title to be confirmed
Speaker to be confirmed
15:15 Minimizing immunogenicity testing for development of oligonucleotide therapeutics: A risk-based strategy
An Zhao, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
15:45 coffee Coffee Break
16:15 Transient blockade of the CD28/B7 costimulatory pathway with abatacept inhibits immune responses to AAV vector and transgene product
Rebecca Xicluna, Roche
16:45 Advancing Immunogenicity Testing: Overcoming Drug Tolerance in a Neutralising Antibody Assay for an mRNA-Based Oncology Therapeutic
Juliane Ober-Blobaum, Moderna
17:15 Immunogenicity Risk Assessment and Mitigation Strategy for AAV Gene Therapy
Hélène Haegel, Roche
17:45 End of Day 1
 

Tuesday, March 17th 2026

Session 2: Regulatory
Chair: Daniel Kramer, Sanofi
9:00 New Version of the FDA Immunogenicity Guidance (title to be confirmed)
Joao Pedras-Vasconcelos, FDA
9:30 Future Direction of Immunogenicity at FDA (title to be confirmed)
Susan Kirshner, FDA
10:00 Harmonizing Adalimumab Anti-drug Antibody Assays through WHO International Standards
Meenu Wadhwa, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
10:30 coffee Coffee Break
Session 3: Immunogenicity of Therapeutic Peptides
Chair: Arno Kromminga, BioNTech
11:00 Immunogenicity Risk in Peptide Therapeutics: Navigating Complexity, Prediction tools, and Bioanalytical Strategies
Montserrat Puig, Merck Sharp & Dome
11:30 Clinical Pharmacology Perspectives on Immunogenicity of Peptide Drugs
Rajabi Mohsen, Novartis
12:00 Aligning Regulatory Expectations on Immunogenicity to Support Peptide Drug Product Approvals
Laura Salazar-Fontana, Immunogenicity Integrated
12:30 cutlery 77 Lunch Break
Session 4: Immunogenicity Assays
Chair: Christopher Tiedje, Bioagilytix
13:30 EIP Immunogenicity Assays and EIP Immunogenicity Risk Assessment Working Group Update
Linlin Luo, Merck Sharp & Dome on behalf of EIP Assay Working Group
Veerle Snoeck, UCB & Joanna Grudzinska-Goebel, Bayer on behalf of the EIP Immunogenicity Risk Assessment (IRA) Working Group
13:45 Overcoming Unexpected Interference in a Highly Drug-Tolerant and Ultrasensitive ADA-SPEAD Assay
Florian Anlauff, Bioagilytix
14:15 PABAD in Practice: Achieving High Drug Tolerance in NAb Assays
Lysie Champion, Celerion
14:45 When Generic Assays Succeed (and Fail): Case Studies and a Fit-for-Purpose Strategy for Non-Clinical ADA Support
Noor Bodrul, Roche
15:15 coffee Coffee Break
15:45 The Immunogenicity Nexus: Investigating the Predictive Relationship Between Early-Onset ADA Kinetics in NHP and Human Immune Responses
Griet Conickx, Sanofi
16:15 Positive Controls in Immunogenicity Assays: Case Studies and Best Practices
Esther Biemans, Ardena
16:45 A Drug and Target-Tolerant Hybrid LBA-LC-MS Method for (Semi-)Quantification of ADA Isotopes, Using a Single-Tier Approach
Hendrik Folkerts, ICON Bioanalytical Laboratory
17:15 End of Day 2
 

Wednesday, March 18th 2026

Session 5: Biosimilars
Chair: Denise Sickert
09:00 EIP Biosimilar Working Group Update
Martin Ullmann, Fesenius Kabi on behalf of EIP
09:15 Establishing in-vitro assays for non-clinical immunogenicity assessment of bio-similars
Marc Rosenbaum, Hexal AG
09:45 Title to be confirmed
Speaker to be confirmed
Session 6: Prediction of immunogenicity
Chair: Sofie Pattyn
10:15 EIP NCIRA Working Group Update
Sebastian Spindeldreher, Integrated Biologix
10:30 Immunogenicity Risk Assessment: Enabling Quality by Design in Therapeutic Protein Discovery and Development
Tim Hickling, Quasor
Sophie Tourdot, Pfizer
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 How to translate pre-clinical in silico immunogenicity profiling results to clinical immunogenicity rates?
Unraveling xRNA Immunogenicity: Insights and Future Horizons
Michael Gutknecht, Novartis
12:00 Unmasking Hidden Epitopes: Bridging In Silico Prediction and MAPPs Detection in Immunogenicity Assessment
Andreas Hollenstein, Roche
12:30 cutlery 77 Lunch Break
13:30 Advancing Preclinical Immunogenicity Prediction: Machine Learning on Clinical Data and Pathogen Cross-Reactivity Integration
Olga Obrezanova, Astra Zeneca
14:00 An Innovative Reductionist Antigen Presenting System to Rapidly Screen Protein Immunogenicity in Human Lysosomes
Sergio Gabriele Colangelo, RBM S.p.A. (an affiliate of Merck KGaA)
14:30 coffee Coffee Break
Session 7: Clinical Relevance of Immunogenicity
Chair: Noel Smith, Lonza
15:00 Immunogenicity Assessment in Acromegaly Patients Treated with Ready-to-Use, Sustained-Release, Octreotide Subcutaneous Depot
K. Järås, Camurus
15:30 Assessment of Long-term Immunogenicity of Lonapegsomatropin in Children With Growth Hormone Deficiency
Per Holse Mygind, Ascendis
16:00 Short Talk: Immunogenicity Publication Bias and Its Consequences for Predictive Models: A Call for Transparent Reporting
Sophie Tascedda, RC2NB
16:15 End of Day 3
17:00 multiple 11 Session 8: Social Event
Reconvene in the Altis lobby
Chair: Barbara Vercruyssen
 

Thursday, March 19th 2026

Workshop – Parallel Sessions
09:00 Deep Dive:
Recent Publication “Immunogenicity Risk Assessment for Tailored Mitigation and Monitoring of Biotherapeutics and Biosimilars”
Veerle Snoeck, UCB & Joanna Grudzinska-Goebel, Bayer on behalf of the EIP Immunogenicity Risk Assessment (IRA) Working Group
9:00 Deep Dive:
Three Recent Publications of the NCIRA Working Group (EIP Recommendations for Dendritic Cell Maturation Assays, MAPPs and T-Cell Assays)
Sebastian Spindeldreher, Integrated Biologix on behalf of the EIP NCIRA Working Group
10:30 coffee Coffee Break
11:00 Bring Your Own Problems – Break Out Sessions
EIP Team
12:30 Summary and Outlook of the EIP Chairman
Daniel Kramer, Sanofi
12:45 End of the conference

Hotel accommodation

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Altis Grand Hotel

The conference venue. Special rates have been negotiated for conference attendees. Please book via the special EIP link for these rates to be applied.

Address

Rua Castilho 11
1269-072 Lisboa
Portugal

Phone
+351 21 310 6000
Email
reservations@altishotels.com
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Ibis Lisboa Centro Liberdade

Just next door to the conference venue, a 2 minute walk.

Address

Rua Barata Salgueiro 53
1250-043 Lisboa
Portugal

Phone
+351 21 330 0630
Email
h3137@accor.com
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Avani Avenida Liberdade Lisbon

A 10 minute walk to the conference venue.

Address

Rua Júlio César Machado 7/9
1250-135 Lisboa
Portugal

Phone
+351 21 359 1000
Email
lisbon@avani-hotels.com
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Ibis Styles Lisboa Centro Marquês de Pombal

A 15 minute walk to the conference venue.

Address

Av. Fontes Pereira de Melo 5
1069-114 Lisboa
Portugal

Phone
+351 21 350 3900
Email
ha9r8@accor.com

Sponsors

We are very happy to have the support of our sponsors for this year’s Symposium.

BioAgilytix

Gold sponsor

BioAgilytix is the trusted partner for bioanalytical services throughout every phase of the drug development process. As a leading global bioanalytical laboratory, the company provides established and emerging pharmaceutical and biotechnology organizations with pharmacokinetic (PK), immunogenicity, biomarker, and CMC analytical testing services in a GxP environment. BioAgilytix maintains state-of-the-art laboratories in Durham, North Carolina; Boston, Massachusetts; San Diego, California; Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia; and Hamburg, Germany.

For more information, please visit the BioAgilytix website

Celerion

Gold sponsor

Celerion, an early clinical research organization, has the experience and capacity to exceed your bioanalytical expectations from method development and validation through rapid sample analysis supporting studies from late discovery through preclinical and late stage clinical development. With over 40 years’ experience, laboratories in Zürich, Switzerland and Lincoln, Nebraska USA, combining state-of-the-art technology and scientific expertise to accelerate the drug development by rapidly delivering high-quality data for comprehensive immunogenicity assessments, pharmacokinetics and biomarkers.

For more information, please visit the Celerion website

KCAS Bio

Gold sponsor

KCAS Bio is a leading bioanalytical contract research organization (CRO) with a proven record of advancing drug development worldwide. We have supported more than 315 FDA-approved drugs, developed over 6,200 proprietary and non-proprietary assays, and successfully completed more than 20 FDA audits with no major findings. As a top bioanalytical CRO lab, we continually invest in the latest instrumentation and combine this technical expertise with a consultative approach, ensuring our clients’ goals are achieved with confidence. Our teams also bring specialized expertise in advanced modalities, allowing us to support the evolving needs of modern drug development. By consistently benchmarking and optimizing our operations, we help scientific innovators and investors move forward with greater certainty. With facilities across the US and Europe, along with a strategic alliance in Australia, we provide global sponsors with comprehensive services including bioanalytical, biomarker, immunogenicity, cellular and molecular assay capabilities, as well as clinical kitting and sample management.

For more information, please visit the KCAS Bio website

QPS

Gold sponsor

QPS is a global, full-service, GLP/GCP-compliant contract research organization (CRO) delivering the highest grade of discovery, bioanalysis, preclinical and clinical drug development services. Since 1995, QPS has grown from a small bioanalysis shop into a full-service CRO with 1,200+ employees in the US, Europe, and Asia. Today, QPS offers expanded pharmaceutical contract R&D services with special expertise in pharmacology, DMPK, toxicology, bioanalysis, translational medicine, cell therapy products (such as Leukopaks and PBMCs), clinical trials, and clinical research services. QPS has four advanced bioanalytical facilities in the US, Netherlands, Taiwan and India to serve the evolving needs of the Pharmaceutical and Biotech industries. Our staff are experts in the analysis of conventional matrices (plasma, serum, whole-blood, urine, feces), as well as various animal and human tissues

For more information, please visit the QPS website

Resolian

Gold sponsor

Resolian is a leading global Contract Research Organization (CRO) providing specialized services in GxP and non-regulated bioanalysis, drug metabolism/pharmacokinetic (DMPK), and GMP CMC analytical and materials science. Its team of more than 500 experts across the US, UK, and Australia, Resolian supports pharma and biotech companies’ programs throughout the entire drug development continuum.

For more information, please visit the Resolian website

Svar Life Science

Gold sponsor

Svar Life Science is a Swedish group of companies that invents, develops, and applies the best assay technology for drug development and clinical diagnostics with the goal of delivering new solutions tailored to customer requirements. They offer advanced technology platforms such as Functional Complement Biomarker and Screening assays and Cell-based Reporter Gene assays, as well as unique service models for Bioassays Customization, Custom Cell line Development in combination with GxP Laboratory Services, all designed to meet their customers’ specific project needs.

For more information, please visit the Svar Life Science website

ACM Global Laboratories

Bronze sponsor

ACM Bioanalytical Services, can help optimize your drug development program and ensure that you have the technical insight needed to successfully complete your bioanalytical studies. Our chemists have the expertise and flexibility to assist you with complex assay method development and validation for the quantification of drugs, metabolites, and biomarkers in biological samples. Pharmaceutical research and development is a complex and demanding endeavor. While the pace and scope of scientific information accumulates rapidly, most clinical trials take approximately seven years to complete. However, on average less than 12% of drugs entering clinical testing are approved. To increase the likelihood of success, it is critical to connect with experts that understand the complexities of the industry.

For more information, please visit the ACM Global Laboratories website

ImmuneSpec

Bronze sponsor

ImmuneSpec is your partner for MAPPs.

We combine high-sensitivity immunopeptidomics with optimized workflows to uncover MHC-presented peptides and deliver the most complete immunogenic profile of your biotherapeutic by identifying all putative immunogenic T cell epitopes. ImmuneSpec enables rapid and reliable identification of immunogenic peptides, precisely mapping the peptide regions that trigger an immune response.

Our approach integrates:

  • Optimized MHC peptide purification – ensuring efficient solubilization, purification, and extraction.
  • Precision mass spectrometry (TimsTOF-ULTRA2) – enabling ultra-precise peptide detection.
  • Extensive data analysis pipelines – maximizing the identification of true immunopeptides.

This makes ImmuneSpec the trusted partner for biotech, pharma, and clinicians seeking MAPPs- and immunopeptidomics-based insights into the T cell epitopes that drive immune responses. We deliver powerful data for (unwanted) immunogenicity risk assessment, immunotherapy development, precision medicine, and vaccine research.

For more information, please visit the ImmuneSpec website

Institute Krems Bioanalytics

Bronze sponsor

Krems Bioanalytics is a contract research institute providing cutting-edge bioanalytical services in the fields of immunology, hematology, and oncology since 2014. We have a long-standing expertise in the development and validation of customised and GxP compliant analytical assays for large molecules and vaccines. We offer sample analytics for early and late preclinical studies (R&D or GLP) and for clinical trials (GCP).

For more information, please visit the Institute Krems Bioanalytics website

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