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7:30 am Check-In & Morning Coffee

8:20 am Chair’s Opening Remarks

Co-founder, President 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

Co-founder, President and CEO, Interdict Bio
CBO, Foghorn Therapeutics
Senior Director, Head of Business Development & Strategic Finance, Degron Therapeutics
Principal, Perceptive Advisors LLC
Business Development Project Leader, Pharma Partnering, Genentech
Chief Executive Officer, PhoreMost

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

Director - Induced Proximity Platform, 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

Utilizing Novel Discovery Platforms to Find Potent & Selective Molecular Glues to Progress Cures Against Autoimmune & Cancer Indication

11:30 am Orally Bioavailable NRF2 Molecular Glue Degrader Effective in KEAP1-Mutant Cancer

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Arpeggio Bio

12:00 pm Targeting K-RAS Molecular Glues: Kidnapping a New Ligase to Discover Novel Degraders

Assistant Director, LifeSensors Inc
Track B: Pre-Clinical Development
Track C: Translational & Clinical Development

12:30 pm Lunch Break & Networking

Track A: Discovery

Designing Innovative Activating Molecular Glues Through Structure-Guided Design & AI/ML to Unlock New Therapeutic Opportunities

1:30 pm 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), Rappta Therapeutics

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

Director - Biophysics, High Throughput Screening & Oncology, Pfizer
Executive Director, Discovery Science, Revolution Medicines

2:30 pm Building A Computational Design Platform For Any Molecular Glue

Chief Executive Officer, Ternary Therapeutics

3:00 pm From Design to Discovery: A Diverse CRBN Molecular Glue Library for HTS Applications

vp, HitChem
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

3:40 pm Harnessing Degradation to Achieve Selectivity & First-in-Class Targeting of Challenging Chromatin Regulatory Proteins

Chief Scientific Officer, Foghorn Therapeutics

4:10 pm Degrader Antibody Conjugates (DACs): Targeted Protein Degraders (TPD) as Next-Generation Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) Payloads

Senior Vice President & Head of Early Drug Discovery, Nurix Therapeutics

4:40 pm A Landscape Review of TPD-Based Drug Development

Research Analyst, Beacon

5:00 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks & End of Industry Day 2