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Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics Student and Post-doc Poster Competition

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Attention Student and Post-doc Members!
To recognize the research activities of promising student and postdoctoral attendees of the Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics conference, The Antibody Society is sponsoring a  student/postdoc poster competition. Two winners will be selected to receive:

1) Complimentary registration to attend the conference and pre-conference sessions;

2) An opportunity to give a short oral presentation of their work in a conference session; and

3) Support for travel expenses (up to $400 for domestic or $800 for international flights, 3 nights at the hotel, ground transportation).

In order to be considered for this poster competition, you must be a student or postdoc member of The Antibody Society. If you are not already a member, you may register here for a free student or postdoc membership:

You must also check the box on the poster submission form indicating that you want your abstract to be considered for the poster competition. Your poster abstract must be submitted using the poster submission form here.

The deadline for submission of your poster abstract is October 15, 2019.
Winners will be notified by Friday, October 25, 2019.
Poster abstracts may be submitted and accepted for presentation at the conference after October 15, but any submissions received after October 15 will not be considered for the poster competition.

Interested in attending the Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics meeting? Society members save 15% on the registration fee – contact us at membership@antibodysociety.org for the code!

 

Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics Europe: The European Meeting of The Antibody Society

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We look forward to seeing you June 11-13, 2019 at The Antibody Society’s 2nd annual Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics Europe meeting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Please join us for the Society’s networking session at Booth #25 at 5:45pm on  Wednesday June 12th. 

At this session, you’ll connect with industry and academic scientists and executives from Europe and around the world who focus on antibody and protein therapeutic discovery and development. And you can get a free T shirt!

The keynote speakers are Jane Osbourn, Ph.D., (Vice President R&D and Site Leader of Medimmune), who will discuss  antibody therapeutic developments, pipeline and progress at Medimmune, and Hans Clevers, M.D., Ph.D., (Group Leader, Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research and Professor of Molecular Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht and Utrecht University), who will discuss Lgr5 stem cell-based organoids and their applications in cancer research.

In addition, the meeting features sessions on Turning Antibody Leads into Drugs, Recent Advances in Immuno-Oncology Approaches, Bioinformatics and Repertoires in Antibody Discovery and Development, Antibody Therapeutics for Autoimmune and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Clinical Developments in Antibody Therapeutics, and New Antibody Formats and Effector Functions.

Society members receive a 15% discount on the registration fee!

The agenda can be downloaded here.

We hope to see you at Booth #25!

Grad/PostDoc Poster Awards presented at Antibody Engineering &Therapeutics

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Congratulations to our 2018 Graduate Student and Post-doctoral Poster Award winners! An award ceremony was held on December 12th at the Society’s annual meeting, Antibody Engineering &Therapeutics, to recognize the recipients. The winners were:

Junpeng Qi (Postdoctoral Associate, The Scripps Research Institute). Poster title: Potent and selective antitumor activity of a T cell-engaging bispecific antibody targeting a membrane-proximal epitope of ROR1.

Pietro Sormanni (Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellow (postdoctoral), University of Cambridge). Poster title: Third generation antibody discovery: In silico rational design.

Madeleine Jennewein (Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University). Poster title: Trans-placental antibody transfer selects for highly functional antibodies.


Junpeng Qi – Scripps Research Institute (The Rader Lab)

“I would to thank The Antibody Society for giving me this award. It is a great opportunity, especially for a young scientist, to get the latest progress in antibody engineering and therapeutics, and to be connected with the excellent scientists in the antibody field. From this impressive annual meeting I learned that we can do amazing science with antibodies and develop fantastic antibody therapeutics benefiting patients as well.”

Pietro Sormanni – University of Cambridge (The Vendruscolo Lab)

“I am immensely grateful to The Antibody Society for selecting my application, and even more for organizing this award. This award has given me the opportunity to attend this terrific meeting, to learn about world-class research in both industry and academia, and more importantly to share and discuss my own work with leading scientists from across the world. I would like to stress the importance of the existence of awards such as this, and I call for the Society and the sponsors of the meeting to make available more of these awards and travel grants to early career researchers. Because at the end of the day, the growing community of postdoctoral researchers and graduate students is the engine that powers biomedical research, certainly in academia, and increasingly also in industry. And these travel grants provide us with the unique opportunity to get out of the lab, come to these meetings and greatly expand our research horizons, and generate new ideas. So I hope to see a bit more space dedicated to early career researchers in future editions of this meeting, thank you all for your attention, and again to The Antibody Society for this award.”

Madeleine F Jennewein – Harvard University (The Alter Lab)

Madeleine Jennewein was unexpectedly unable to join us at the meeting in San Diego, but we thank her for her participation and wish her the best with her work.

The Antibody Society at Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics 2018

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The Antibody Society held its 2018 annual meeting at Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics in San Diego on December 9-13. It was a a great opportunity for the board members and volunteers to meet our society members and provide updates on Society initiatives.

Informative keynote addresses were given by Prof. Andreas Plückthun (University of Zurich), Prof. David Baker (University of Washington), Prof. Rachael Clark (Harvard Medical School) and Dr. Badrul Chowdhury (Medimmune).

One of the highlights of the conference was the Antibodies to Watch in 2019 presentation by Dr. Janice Reichert (Executive Director of TAbS and Editor-in-Chief of mAbs).


The ‘Antibodies to watch in 2019’ paper is currently online in the accepted (manuscript) form. Society members will be informed when the final article, which will be open access, is available.

The Antibody Society booth at Antibody Engineering &Therapeutics

Winners of the Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics Student/Postdoc Poster Competition

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Congratulations to our winners!

To recognize the research activities of promising student and postdoctoral attendees of Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics, The Antibody Society sponsors a competition for our student/postdoc members who submit posters for display at the meeting. Our judges select the best work based on originality, relevance and perceived impact on the field of antibody R&D.

This year, our judges selected 3 student/postdocs winners who receive: 1) a complimentary registration to attend the conference and pre-conference sessions; 2) an opportunity to give a short oral presentation of their work in one of the conference sessions; and 3) support for travel expenses.

The winners of the contest are:

Madeleine Jennewein (Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University). Poster title: Trans-placental antibody transfer selects for highly functional antibodies

Junpeng Qi (Postdoctoral Associate, The Scripps Research Institute. Poster title: Potent and selective antitumor activity of a T cell-engaging bispecific antibody targeting a membrane-proximal epitope of ROR1

Pietro Sormanni (Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellow (postdoctoral), University of Cambridge). Poster title: Third generation antibody discovery: In silico rational design

Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics, the annual meeting of The Antibody Society, is managed by KNect365. The meeting will be held December 10-13, 2018 in San Diego, CA. Society members receive a 15% discount on the registration fee. Contact us at membership@antibodysociety.org for the code.

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