Wednesday 3rd December, 2025 – Post-Conference WorkshopsWednesday, 3 December 2025 - GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, GMTZ)

This interactive workshop will run from 9am – 4:30pm

Through a series of presentations, case studies, interactive discussion and exercises this workshop will delve deeply into the underlying science of developing potency assays.

Some of the topics to be discussed include:

• Overview of what potency is, and what it is not
• Considerations when qualifying and validating bioassays
• From initial ideas, through characterisation to the final potency method
• Clinical correlation
• Regulator objections and why
• Examples of potency assays for approved products
• Examples of a cell and gene therapy potency assays for various product types

Note: The case studies of real potency assays will delve deeply into the underlying science for each product discussed in order to understand why the approach was taken.