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Sponsorship Event Briefing: Cell 2026

Tuesday 6 October 2026
Sponsor Briefing held on Zoom

Advances in Protein Expression and Production

Tuesday 6 October 2026
3 - 3.40 PM UK | 10 - 10.40 AM EST GMT (UTC +0)
Virtual Thought Leadership Session held on Zoom

AGENDA OVERVIEW

 Tuesday, 6 October | 3:00–3:40 pm UK | 10:00-10:40 am EST

The session will explore key themes including:

  • Current challenges in protein expression, purification, and quality control
  • Why protein production remains a key bottleneck in drug discovery
  • How improved data capture can support future machine learning models
  • Lessons from difficult-to-express proteins and complex target classes
  • How initiatives such as Target 2035 can help accelerate discovery
  • Future opportunities for predictive models in protein production success

Confirmed panellists

  • Kim Remans — Head of Protein Expression and Purification Core Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
  • Lovisa Holmberg Schiavone — Protein Sciences, Structure and Biophysics, Discovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca
  • Evgeny Tankhilevich — European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus
  • Christopher Cooper - School of Biosciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey

Moderated by Nicola Burgess-Brown — Professorial Research Fellow in Protein Science, University College London; Chief Operating Officer, Protein Sciences, Structural Genomics Consortium

You can catch up on our past NextGen Biomed webinar recordings on our Resources page.

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