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2024 Technology Showcase

September 4, 2024 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Frederick National Laboratory Advanced Technology Research Facility Frederick, MD

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2024 Technology Showcase, National Cancer Institute, Frederick National Laboratory

REGISTER for 2024 Technology Showcase, the annual event for potential and current industry partners that highlights how they can and do work with the NCI and the Frederick National Laboratory (FNL).

Keynote Speaker

Steven Walker, Chairman, Maryland Life Sciences

Steven Walker

Chairman

Maryland Life Sciences

Overview

  • September 4, 2024
  • Free, in-person event with networking and one-on-one partnering opportunities.
  • NCI and FNL inventors highlight technologies for commercialization and/or collaboration.
  • NCI and FNL programmatic leaders share opportunities to collaborate.
  • How to partner with the NCI and the FNL, including the company perspective.
  • Panel sessions feature collaboration success stories and topics relevant to commercializing biomedical technology.
  • Technology Lightning Pitch followed by a Poster Presentation / Competition that highlights NIH technologies for co-development and/or licensing—presented by the NCI Technology Transfer Ambassadors Program.
  • Who should attend? Great opportunity for companies, investors, entrepreneurs, technology scouts seeking technologies to commercialize and all biotech stakeholders.

Agenda

Speakers and session times to be posted as they become available.

Time Session and Presenter
8:45 to 10:00 am Onsite check-in; Coffee, One-on-One Partnering, Networking
10:00 to 10:15 am Welcome
10:15 to 11:00 am Fireside chat
Presenter TBD
11:00 to 11:10 am

Voice of the Patient
 

11:10 to 11:40 am Technology Presentations 
Moderator: TBD

“Topoisomerase III (TOP3) Inhibitors and Antiviral Compounds based on Cyanine Dyes” - E-027-2022,
Yves Pommier, M.D., Ph.D.,
Chief, Developmental Therapeutics Branch (DTB), Center for Cancer Research (CCR), NCI
To be presented by: Shar-Yin Huang,Ph.D., Staff Scientist, DTB, CCR, NCI

“Directed Acetylation of Cytidine in Cellular mRNA through Engineered snoRNA Adapters for the Treatment of Haploinsufficiencies” - E-017-2023,
Shalini Oberdoerffer, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
Laboratory of Receptor of Biology and Gene Expression
CCR, NCI

11:40 to 11:55 am Lightning Pitch 
11:55 am to 1:05 pm

Lunch, Poster Session / Competition, Networking, One-on-One Partnering

Technology Posters

  1. "Small Molecule Ephrin (Eph) Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Colorectal Cancer and Other Eph Growth-dependent Solid Tumors," (E-182-2019); Poster Presenter, Daphna Fertil, TTAP Ambassador
    Technology Inventors, Giovanna Tosato, M.D., Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, NCI Center for Cancer Research (CCR); Michael Diprima, Ph.D., NCI CCR; Harald Schwalbe, Ph.D., JW Goethe University, Frankfurt; Alix Troster, Ph.D., JW Goethe University, Frankfurt; Nathalie Jores, M.S., JW Goethe University, Frankfurt; Denis Kudlinzki, Ph.D., German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ
  2. "Pigment Epithelium-Derived Factor Peptides and Use for Treating Retinal Degeneration," (E-028-2023)
    Poster presenter, Isadora Rocha De Abreu, TTAP Ambassador
    Technology Inventors: Patricia Becerra, Ph.D. (NEI); Alexandra Bernardo-Colon, M.S. (NEI)
  3. "Methods and Kits for Measuring and Quantifying DNA Double-Stranded Breaks Using Gamma-H2AX and H2AX" (E-276-2014)
    Poster presenter, Shiran Su, Ph.D. NCI TTC Technology Transfer CRTA Fellow
    Technology Inventors: Christophe Redon, Ph.D., Research Assistant, Developmental Therapeutics Branch, NCI CCR; Yiping Zhang, Ph.D., NCI, CCR; William Bonner, Ph.D. NCI CCR; Jiuping Ji, Ph.D., NCI CCR
  4. "CD28 Hinge and Transmembrane Containing Chimeric Antigen Receptors Targeting GPC2 and Use Thereof" (E-025-2022)
    Poster presenter, Kiyoharu Joshua Miyagishima, Ph.D., TTAP Ambassador
    Technology Inventors: Mitchell Ho, Ph.D., Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NCI CCR; Carol Thiele Galetto, Ph.D., NCI CCR; Nan Li, Ph.D., NCI CCR; Rosa Nguyen, M.D., Ph.D., NCI CCR; Rosandra Kaplan, M.D., NCI CCR
  5. "Design and Biological Activity of Novel Stealth Polymeric Lipid Nanoparticles for Enhanced Delivery of Hydrophobic Photodynamic Therapy Drugs" (E-154-2018)
    Poster presenter, Julie Hixon, M.S., TTAP Ambassador
    Technology Inventors: Anu Puri, Ph.D., Program Director, NCI Center for Cancer Training;  Mathias Viard, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Laboratory of Integrative Cancer Immunology (NCI CCR)
  6. "Single Source-Detector Separation Approach to Calculate Tissue Oxygen Saturation" (E-037-2023)
    Poster presenter, Thien Nguyen, Ph.D., NICHD, TTAP Ambassador
    Technology Inventors: Thien Nguyen, Ph.D. (NICHD); Soongho Park, Ph.D. (NICHD); Brian Hill (NICHD); Amir Gandjbakhche, Ph.D. (NICHD)
  7. "Engineering RNA Devices in Human T-cells to Control Gene Expression Externally" (E-234-2023)
    Poster presenter, Barbara Murphy, M.S., TTAP Ambassado
    Technology Inventor: Yun-Xing Wang, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Center for Structural Biology, NCI CCR
  8. "Bile Acids and Other Agents that Modulate the Gut Microbiome for the Treatment of Liver Cancer" (E-229-2017)
    Poster presenter, Yonghe Ma, Ph.D., TTAP Ambassador
    Technology Inventors Tim Greten, M.D., Deputy Chief, Thoracic and GI Malignancies Branch, NCI CCR; Chi Ma, Ph.D. NCI CCR 
  9. "3-o-sulfo-galactosylceramide Analogs as Activators of Type II Natural Killer T Cells to Reduce Cancer Metastasis to the Lung" (E-100-2018)
    Poster presenter, Paul Suhwan Lee, TTAP Ambassador,
    Technology Inventors, Lise Pasquet, Ph.D., NCI CCR; Jay Berzofsky, M.D., Ph.D. NCI CCR; Amy Howell, Ph.D. University of Connecticut; Masaki Terabe, Ph.D. NCI CCR; Kaddy Camara, Ph.D. University of Connecticut
  10. "T Cell Receptor Targeting CD22 for the Treatment of Lymphomas and Leukemias" (E-029-2021)
    Poster presenter, Saad Khan, M.D., Johns Hopkins University 
    Technology Inventors Kazusa Ishii, M.D., M.P.H., NCI; Christian Hinrichs, M.D., Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, formerly NCI CCR
1:05 to 1:30 pm Technology Presentations
1:30 to 1:35 pm Announcement of Poster Session Winners 
1:35 to 2:35 pm NCI and FNL Programmatic Presentations
 
2:35 to 3:25 pm

How to Work with the NCI and FNL

Moderator: Steven Ferguson, MBA, Deputy Director Licensing and Entrepreneurship, NIH Office of Technology Transfer

  • Amanda Corbel, Partnership Alliance Manager, Partnership Development Office, FNL
  • Rose Freel, Ph.D., Supervisory Technology Transfer Manager, NCI TTC
  • Andrew Sinkoe, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, Sesh, Inc.
  • Xiaonao Liu, Ph.D. CEO, NanoBioFAB
3:30 to 4:00 pm Keynote Presentation
Steven Walker, Chairman, Maryland Life Sciences
4:00 to 4:45 pm

Dilutive and Non-Dilutive Sources of Support

Moderator: Michael Salgaller, Ph.D., Technology Analysis and Marketing Unit Supervisor, NCI TTC

  • Deborah Moorad, Ph.D., CEO, CorriXR Therapeutics
  • Ruchika Nijhara, Ph.D., Executive Director, Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund
  • David Speer, Executive Director, Maryland Israel Development Center 
  • Javeed Froozan, Ph.D., Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

 

4:45 pm Thank you

The Technology Showcase will be followed by an independently sponsored networking event nearby with no resources from the Department of Health and Human Services.

Location

Frederick National Laboratory


The Advanced Technology Research Facility at the Frederick National Laboratory
8560 Progress Drive
Frederick, MD 21701

 

 

 

Updated: July 15, 2024

 

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