Quantitative Systems Pharmacology (QSP) Summit Cambridge

Thursday, October 12th | Le Meridien Boston Cambridge

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About the Event

The Quantitative Systems Pharmacology (QSP) Summit is a premier, free conference dedicated to fostering an active community of industry and academic participants interested in topics relevant to QSP. In its sixth year, the QSP Summit is a one-day event featuring talks from key industry and academic researchers, a poster session, and networking time with peers.

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Featured Speakers

Jane Bai, PhD - Expert Regulatory Scientist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Rajat Desikan, PhD - Director of Quantitative Clinical Pharmacology at GSK

Jennifer Fretland, PhD - Senior Director of DMPK at EQRx

Irina Kareva, PhD - Associate Director at EMD Serono

Lyndsey Meyer, PhD - Researcher at Pfizer

Fereshteh Nazari, PhD - Translational PK/PD Modeler at Takeda

Alex Pellerin, PhD - Director at Seismic Therapeutic

Tianjing (Kiko) Ren, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow at University at Buffalo and GSK

Peter Sorger, PhD - Otto Krayer Professor of Systems Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School

Weirong Wang, PhD - Senior Scientific Director at Janssen R&D, Johnson & Johnson

Agenda

The agenda is still being finalized and is subject to change.

Start Time (ET)	Event
8:30 AM	Breakfast and registration
8:45 AM	Opening remarks
9:00 AM	Alex Pellerin, PhD Director at Seismic Therapeutic "Preclinical modeling of an IgG cleaving enzyme: A solution to a unique problem”
9:30 AM	TBD
10:00 AM	Fereshteh Nazari, PhD Translational PK/PD Modeler at Takeda "A Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Model Describing the Cellular Kinetic-Pharmacodynamic Relationship for a Live Biotherapeutic Product to Support Microbiome Drug Development"
10:30 AM	Break and poster session
11:00 AM	Irina Kareva, PhD Associate Director at EMD Serono "Minimally Sufficient Experimental Design using Identifiability Analysis"
11:30 AM	Lightning Talks Three, ten-minute talks selected from abstract submissions
12:00 PM	Lunch and poster session
1:00 PM	Weirong Wang, PhD Senior Scientific Director at Janssen "Exploring Immune Cell Dynamics with QSP Modeling: Case Studies in SLE and CRS"
1:30 PM	Jennifer Fretland, PhD Senior Director at EQRx "Application of Model-Informed Drug Development in Early Discovery"
2:00 PM	Break and poster session
2:30 PM	Rajat Desikan, PhD Director, Quantitative Clinical Pharmacology at GSK Tianjing (Kiko) Ren, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow at GSK and University of Buffalo "Mechanistic modeling of chronic Hepatitis B infection to inform combination therapies for maximizing functional cure"
3:00 PM	TBD
3:30 PM	Peter Sorger, PhD Otto Krayer Professor of Systems Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School "Multimodal tissue imaging and machine learning to advance precision medicine"
4:00 PM	QSP Summit Speaker Roundtable
5:00 PM	Closing remarks and poster awards
5:15 PM	QSP Summit concludes

Register for the QSP Summit

Submit an Abstract

Abstract Guidelines

Key dates
- Abstract submission deadline: Friday, September 29th
- Notification of acceptance: Monday, October 2nd
- QSP Summit: Thursday, October 12th
Abstract Guidelines
- Abstract submission is open to all undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, industry (biotechs and pharma) faculty and staff in any computational biology field.
- Abstracts presented at other forums may be repurposed for this event.
- Abstracts must represent scientific research that cannot be perceived as marketing a specific company or product.
- Abstracts will be considered for either a lightning presentation (10 minutes) and/or poster presentation.
- Please limit the abstract to 250 words.