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Welcome to hubXchange's Antibody Manufacturing Xchange Boston 2026.

This event brings together senior-level scientists and executives from the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors to tackle key challenges in Cell Line DevelopmentUpstream Development, Downstream Processing & PurificationFormulation & Stability, and Quality Control & Characterization.

Attendees can engage in roundtable discussions, pre-booked 1:1 meetingspresentations, and networking sessions with top industry experts to foster collaboration and find innovative solutions to accelerate antibody manufacturing.

Take advantage of this unique, highly interactive meeting format designed for maximum engagement, collaboration, and networking.

Boston | Wednesday 29th April 2026 | 08:00am - 05:30pm

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08:00
  1. Registration
    30 mins
    • Cell Line Development
    • Upstream Development
    • Downstream Processing & Purification
    • Formulation & Stability
    • Quality Control & Characterization
08:30
  1. Opening Address & Keynote Presentation: Applying Artificial Intelligence in Cell Culture Media Development for Antibody Production
    30 mins
    • Cell Line Development
    • Upstream Development
    • Downstream Processing & Purification
    • Formulation & Stability
    • Quality Control & Characterization
    Cell culture media development for antibody production is beginning to incorporate artificial intelligence as an alternative to traditional trial-and-error workflows. This presentation will outline a ...
09:05
  1. Cell Line Development
    60 mins
    • Cell Line Development
    What attributes make multispecific antibodies a promising emerging class of therapeutic modalities? How does the structural complexity of multispecific antibodies, typically comprising three or more u ...
  2. Upstream Development
    60 mins
    • Upstream Development
    How can we meet the growing demand for early developability assessment across expanding pipelines? What strategies enable testing more clones earlier in discovery without compromising data quality or ...
  3. Downstream Processing & Purification
    60 mins
    • Downstream Processing & Purification
    How can optimized chromatographic techniques such as SEC or IEX be employed to effectively distinguish aggregates, fragments, and monomers while maintaining high resolution and recovery rates? How can ...
  4. Formulation & Stability
    60 mins
    • Formulation & Stability
    What criteria are used to select buffers/additives during mAb purification?  Are they driven by process requirements (e.g. chromatography), and/or also to protect against further loss of quality attri ...
  5. Quality Control & Characterization
    60 mins
    • Quality Control & Characterization
    What level of glycan shift is considered clinically meaningful after pivotal trials, and how should that threshold be justified in the absence of new clinical data? When analytical comparability is ma ...
10:05
  1. 1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break
    25 mins
    • Cell Line Development
    • Upstream Development
    • Downstream Processing & Purification
    • Formulation & Stability
    • Quality Control & Characterization
10:30
  1. 1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break
    30 mins
    • Cell Line Development
    • Upstream Development
    • Downstream Processing & Purification
    • Formulation & Stability
    • Quality Control & Characterization
11:00
  1. Morning Refreshments
    10 mins
    • Cell Line Development
    • Upstream Development
    • Downstream Processing & Purification
    • Formulation & Stability
    • Quality Control & Characterization
11:10
  1. Cell Line Development
    60 mins
    • Cell Line Development
    How are emerging therapeutic modalities (e.g., bispecifics, fusion proteins, non-mAbs) reshaping the requirements for cell line development? What are the primary bottlenecks limiting speed and success ...

    Kemp Proteins X OneCyte

     

  2. Upstream Development
    60 mins
    • Upstream Development
    What are the real ceilings of codon design? From coding sequence optimization to full transcript design Expanding the objective function

    Converge Bio

  3. Upstream Development
    60 mins
    • Upstream Development

    ThermoFisher Scientific

12:10
  1. Networking Lunch
    60 mins
    • Cell Line Development
    • Upstream Development
    • Downstream Processing & Purification
    • Formulation & Stability
    • Quality Control & Characterization
13:10
  1. Spotlight Presentation: Speed Without Compromise: Rapid High-Concentration Formulation Screening and Tox Batch Delivery from a Single Clone Within 4 Months
    30 mins
    • Cell Line Development
    • Upstream Development
    • Downstream Processing & Purification
    • Formulation & Stability
    • Quality Control & Characterization
    Biopharma innovators face increasing pressure to advance biologic drug candidates to IND rapidly without compromising product quality or downstream scalability. Traditional development timelines often ...
13:45
  1. 1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break
    30 mins
    • Cell Line Development
    • Upstream Development
    • Downstream Processing & Purification
    • Formulation & Stability
    • Quality Control & Characterization
14:15
  1. 1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break
    30 mins
    • Cell Line Development
    • Upstream Development
    • Downstream Processing & Purification
    • Formulation & Stability
    • Quality Control & Characterization
14:45
  1. Afternoon Refreshments
    10 mins
    • Cell Line Development
    • Upstream Development
    • Downstream Processing & Purification
    • Formulation & Stability
    • Quality Control & Characterization
14:55
  1. Cell Line Development
    30 mins
    • Cell Line Development

    Thermofisher Scientific

  2. Upstream Development
    30 mins
    • Upstream Development
    Traditional fed-batch processes have traditionally relied on scale-up to increase production, introducing significant risk, cost, and operational complexity due to non-linear scaling and facility cons ...

    Jusr Evotec Biologics

  3. Downstream Processing & Purification
    30 mins
    • Downstream Processing & Purification
    Therapeutic antibody modalities continue to advance, as do the needs for reliable sourcing and timely manufacturing. Buffers and solutions serve as critical materials in bioprocessing, analytical deve ...

    Boston BioProducts

  4. Formulation & Stability
    30 mins
    • Formulation & Stability
    IDT Biologika is a biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization with more than 100 years of experience in the production of biological products. The company provides integrate ...

    IDT Biologika

15:30
  1. Cell Line Development
    60 mins
    • Cell Line Development
    How can we ensure consistency in genetic integrity when implementing updated or intensified processes? What strategies can be employed to maintain robust product quality in an intensified process form ...
  2. Upstream Development
    60 mins
    • Upstream Development
    What aspects of a process can be established prior to clone selection or stability?  How early can we supply representative material?  What investments have demonstrated value for acceleration and eff ...
  3. Formulation & Stability
    60 mins
    • Formulation & Stability
    What study setup and design considerations should be taken into account, including understanding the molecule, selecting study conditions, choosing testing intervals, selecting appropriate methods (QC ...
  4. Quality Control & Characterization
    60 mins
    • Quality Control & Characterization
    What issues are you faced with when developing high concentration formulations for novel modalities? What excipient(s) (amino acids, salts, surfactants, polymers) have you tested or considered to redu ...
16:30
  1. Drinks-Canape Reception
    60 mins
    • Cell Line Development
    • Upstream Development
    • Downstream Processing & Purification
    • Formulation & Stability
    • Quality Control & Characterization

EVENT INFORMATION

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DATES

Boston
29 April 2026
Wednesday 29th April 2026

 

Hilton Woburn Hotel

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Hilton Munich Airport Hotel

2 Forbes Rd
Woburn
MA 01801
United States

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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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