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7:30 am Check-In & Morning Coffee

8:20 am Chair’s Opening Remarks

Co-founder and CEO, Interdict Bio

Navigating the Evolving TPD Landscape to Understand Future Directions & Drive the Next-Generation of Proximity Therapeutics

8:30 am Panel Discussion: The TPD Investment Landscape: Lessons from Deals in 2025 & Expectations for 2026

Executive Director & Vice President - Business Development, Emerging Sciences & Innovation, Partner, Pfizer
Co-founder and CEO, Interdict Bio
Chief Business Officer, Foghorn Therapeutics
Head of Business Development & Strategic Finance, Degron Therapeutics
Principal, Venture, Perceptive Advisors LLC
Business Development Leader, Genentech
Chief Executive Officer, PhoreMost

9:15 am Discovery of a VHL-Based Molecular Glue Degrader Targeting GEMIN3 Using Picowell RNA-Sequencing

Vice President, Amgen Inc.

9:45 am Illuminating New Insights in Targeted Protein Degradation Kinetics, Mechanisms, & Selectivity

R&D Group Leader, Promega Corporation

10:15 am Expanding Targeted Glue Applications by Recruiting Novel E3 Ligases Across Diverse Targets

Chief Scientific Officer, Amphista Therapeutics

10:45 am Morning Break & Networking

Track A: Discovery

Accelerating Molecular Glue Innovation Through Structure-Guided Design & Empirical Discovery to Enable Selective Targeting & Unlock New Therapeutic Opportunities

11:30 am Structure-Based Development of Non-Degrader Molecular Glues to Selectively Stabilize a Tumor Suppressor Phosphatase Complex

Head of Structural Biology (Rappta Therapeutics); Professor (Case Western Reserve University), Case Western Reserve University

12:00 pm Session Reserved for LifeSensors Inc

Track B: Pre-Clinical Development
Track C: Translational & Clinical Development

12:30 pm Lunch Break & Networking

Track A: Discovery

Advancing Integrase Degraders & Decoding Cooperativity in Induced Proximity to Overcome Enable Potent, Orally Bioavailable & Safe Therapeutics

1:30 pm Developing an HIV Integrase Degrader to Unlock the Infectious Indication Landscape for Degraders

Chief Executive Officer, EndoTarget

2:00 pm Panel Discussion: Cracking the Code: Understanding & Measuring Cooperativity in Induced Proximity Modalities

Vice President & Head of Chemistry, Rapafusyn Pharmaceuticals
Director - Biophysics, High Throughput Screening & Oncology, Pfizer
Executive Director - Discovery Science, Revolution Medicines
CEO, TenAces Biosciences
Track B: Pre-Clinical Development
Track C: Translational & Clinical Development

3:00 pm Afternoon Break & Networking

Securing the Future of Induced Proximity with Pioneering Academic Breakthroughs & Emerging Biotech Pioneers Ready to Take 2026 by Storm

3:45 pm Harnessing Degradation to Achieve Selectivity & First-in-Class Targeting of Challenging Chromatin Regulatory Proteins

Chief Scientific Officer, Foghorn Therapeutics

4:15 pm tPRIME: A Novel Induced Proximity Approach to Targeting p53-Y220C Mutant Cancers

Vice President - Biology, Photys Therapeutics

4:45 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks

5:00 pm End of Industry Day 2