Philly Legal Frontiers: Pioneering Cell & Gene Therapy Innovations - Presented by CLTT

Friday, November 10, 2023

9:00 AM-3:30 PM

Join the Center for Law & Transformational Technology at the Kline Trial Advocacy Center for our program. Philadelphia continues to be among the world leaders in Cell & Gene Therapy. Discover Philly’s cutting-edge intersection of law and Cell & Gene Therapy, diving into the challenges of research in an emerging field, bringing it to market, and the ecosystem required to build on Philadelphia’s lead in this critical new industry.

Agenda

• 8:15  a.m. –  Breakfast & Registration
• 9:00 a.m. – Research Shaping the Future of Cell & Gene Therapy
• Luciana Negro Demontel, Research Scientist, Drexel School of Biomedical Engineering
• Rebecca Grant, DVM, Philadelphia Commerce Dept., Director, Lifesciences and Biotechnology
• Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• 10:30-10:45 a.m. – Break
• 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. – Intellectual Property Landscape, Strategy, and Development in Cell & Gene Therapy
  • Sima Singadia Kulkarni, JD, Member, Duane Morris, Intellectual Property
  • Carly Shanahan, PhD, JD, Sr. Patent Counsel, GSK
  • Justin Crotty, Partner, Saul Ewing, Intellectual Property
• 12:15-12:45 p.m. – Break/Lunch
• 12:45-2:15 p.m. – Concurrent Panels – Rooms 202 and 501 Commercialization Village - How to Get Cell & Gene Therapies to Market
  • Nick Siciliano, PhD, CEO, Vittoria BioTech
  • Aron Starosta, PhD, Commercialization Consultant
  • Mark Engleka, PhD, Corporate Alliances at Penn PCI
  • Melina Blees, Director, BioLabs Philadelphia
• 2:15-2:30 p.m. –  Break
• 2:30-3:45 p.m. – Ethics Panel on Access & Equity
  • Will Dampier, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine
  • Getnet Yimer, MD, PhD, Assistant Director for Global Research, Sr. Research Investigator, Penn Center for Global Genomics & Health Equity
  • Robert Field, JD, PhD, MPH, Kline School of Law, Drexel University

Provides 6 CLE credits: 5 substantive; 1 ethics. Supported by the Green Family Foundation.