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Welcome to hubXchange's Advanced Therapies Xchange Boston 2026. 

This event brings together senior-level scientists and executives from the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors to tackle key challenges in Next Gen Vector Engineering & Delivery,  Cell Therapy Development Gene Therapy Development , Cell Therapy Manufacturing.Gene Therapy Manufacturing

Attendees can engage in roundtable discussions, pre-booked 1:1 meetings, presentations, and networking sessions with top industry experts, to foster collaboration and find innovative solutions to accelerate advanced therapies.

Boston | Monday 4th May 2026  | 08:00am - 18:15pm

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08:00
  1. Registration
    30 mins
    • Next Gen Vector Engineering & Delivery
    • Cell Therapy Development
    • Cell Therapy Manufacturing
    • Gene Therapy Development
    • Gene Therapy Manufacturing
08:30
  1. Opening Address & Keynote Presentation:
    30 mins
    • Next Gen Vector Engineering & Delivery
    • Cell Therapy Development
    • Cell Therapy Manufacturing
    • Gene Therapy Development
    • Gene Therapy Manufacturing
09:05
  1. Next Gen Vector Engineering & Delivery
    60 mins
    • Next Gen Vector Engineering & Delivery
    How can research and CMC teams collaborate from the earliest stages of capsid discovery to ensure that machine‑learning–designed, receptor‑targeted or immune‑evading capsids—engineered to improve on‑t ...
  2. Cell Therapy Development
    60 mins
    • Cell Therapy Development
    Can we effectively modulate the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment? Can we engineer cell therapies that are resilient within the TME? Do combination approaches with synergistic effects represent ...
  3. Cell Therapy Manufacturing
    60 mins
    • Cell Therapy Manufacturing
    How can we ensure an analytical method is truly robust across different labs, instruments, and operators? What factors most commonly undermine reproducibility during method transfer, and how can they ...
  4. Gene Therapy Development
    60 mins
    • Gene Therapy Development
    AAV: How can capsid engineering improve tissue tropism, reduce immunogenicity, and enhance transduction efficiency? What are the key challenges in achieving specificity in targeted non-viral gene ther ...
  5. Gene Therapy Manufacturing
    60 mins
    • Gene Therapy Manufacturing
    Which upstream design and process levers have the greatest impact on improving packaging efficiency and reducing empty capsids? How do different production platforms fundamentally influence capsid ass ...
10:10
  1. 1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break
    30 mins
    • Next Gen Vector Engineering & Delivery
    • Cell Therapy Development
    • Cell Therapy Manufacturing
    • Gene Therapy Development
    • Gene Therapy Manufacturing
10:40
  1. 1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break
    30 mins
    • Next Gen Vector Engineering & Delivery
    • Cell Therapy Development
    • Cell Therapy Manufacturing
    • Gene Therapy Development
    • Gene Therapy Manufacturing
11:10
  1. Morning Refreshments
    10 mins
    • Next Gen Vector Engineering & Delivery
    • Cell Therapy Development
    • Cell Therapy Manufacturing
    • Gene Therapy Development
    • Gene Therapy Manufacturing
11:20
  1. Next Gen Vector Engineering & Delivery
    60 mins
    • Next Gen Vector Engineering & Delivery
    What are the primary sources of process variability across cell expansion, transduction, and fill finish, and how can they be systematically reduced? How can we improve process robustness while mainta ...

    Aldevron

  2. Cell Therapy Development
    60 mins
    • Cell Therapy Development
    Platform flexibility to accelerate time to market Process flexibility to develop scalable, consistent, effective manufacturing strategies Flexible and alternative strategies to reduce COGS New conside ...

    Thermo Fisher

  3. Cell Therapy Manufacturing
    60 mins
    • Cell Therapy Manufacturing
    Using connected data to reduce risk and speed release: How can real-time visibility across manufacturing, quality, and documentation improve traceability, comparability, and audit readiness while shor ...

    MasterControl

  4. Gene Therapy Development
    60 mins
    • Gene Therapy Development
  5. Gene Therapy Manufacturing
    60 mins
    • Gene Therapy Manufacturing
    How can assay design be optimized to ensure robust performance across the variability inherent in cell and gene therapies? What sources of biological and process variability most impact assay reliabil ...

    Slingshot Biosciences

12:20
  1. Networking Lunch
    60 mins
    • Next Gen Vector Engineering & Delivery
    • Cell Therapy Development
    • Cell Therapy Manufacturing
    • Gene Therapy Development
    • Gene Therapy Manufacturing
13:25
  1. Spotlight Presentation: Commercial Readiness for Advanced Therapeutics: Strategy, Scale, and Execution
    30 mins
    • Next Gen Vector Engineering & Delivery
    • Cell Therapy Development
    • Cell Therapy Manufacturing
    • Gene Therapy Development
    • Gene Therapy Manufacturing
    This panel brings together expertise from Dark Horse Consulting and Converge Consulting spanning CMC, MS&T, supply chain, and commercial launch to explore key considerations to account for when prepar ...
14:00
  1. 1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break
    30 mins
    • Next Gen Vector Engineering & Delivery
    • Cell Therapy Development
    • Cell Therapy Manufacturing
    • Gene Therapy Development
    • Gene Therapy Manufacturing
14:30
  1. 1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break
    30 mins
    • Next Gen Vector Engineering & Delivery
    • Cell Therapy Development
    • Cell Therapy Manufacturing
    • Gene Therapy Development
    • Gene Therapy Manufacturing
15:05
  1. Spotlight Presentation: Advanced Analytical Solutions for Gene Therapy: Genomic Safety and Characterization
    30 mins
    • Next Gen Vector Engineering & Delivery
    • Cell Therapy Development
    • Cell Therapy Manufacturing
    • Gene Therapy Development
    • Gene Therapy Manufacturing
    Genomic safety is essential for gene therapy success and regulatory approval, as well as commercial testing. ProtaGene offers a comprehensive suite of analytical platforms to address this need, includ ...
15:35
  1. Afternoon Refreshments
    10 mins
    • Next Gen Vector Engineering & Delivery
    • Cell Therapy Development
    • Cell Therapy Manufacturing
    • Gene Therapy Development
    • Gene Therapy Manufacturing
16:15
  1. Cell Therapy Development
    60 mins
    • Cell Therapy Development
    How does the choice of cell type for iPSC generation influence epigenetic memory? Which enables more efficient differentiation into specific cell types: mature cells or progenitor cells? How can healt ...
  2. Cell Therapy Manufacturing
    60 mins
    • Cell Therapy Manufacturing
    What experimental designs are required to transform novel findings into robust preclinical datasets that withstand rigorous scrutiny regarding clinical translatability? How can research programs simul ...
  3. Gene Therapy Development
    60 mins
    • Gene Therapy Development
    Does the physical titer or genome titer correlate with (or match) the functional titer? How is rAAV genome integrity characterized, specifically with respect to partial versus full-length genomes? Wha ...
  4. Gene Therapy Manufacturing
    60 mins
    • Gene Therapy Manufacturing
    What are the key challenges associated with DS/DP release testing? How does testing differ when performed at a CDMO versus a CRO? What are the main differences and considerations when testing at the D ...
17:15
  1. Evening Drinks Reception
    60 mins
    • Next Gen Vector Engineering & Delivery
    • Cell Therapy Development
    • Cell Therapy Manufacturing
    • Gene Therapy Development
    • Gene Therapy Manufacturing

EVENT INFORMATION

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DATES

Boston
4 May 2026
Monday 4th May 2026

 

Hilton Woburn Hotel

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Hilton Munich Airport Hotel

2 Forbes Rd
Woburn
MA 01801
United States

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REGISTRATION FORM - Register for free!

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Complimentary Registration is only available for Senior Scientists & above, in Pharma & Bio Tech, with an active drug pipeline.

 

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