Day 1 - UTC+08:00
Highlighting the strategic role of government programs in Singapore, Korea, Australia, and Japan in advancing RNA vaccine and therapeutic development, with a focus on funding, infrastructure, and fostering innovation ecosystems.
Exploring collaborative frameworks between governments, academia, and industry to enhance RNA research, streamline clinical tri
- Mangki Song - Deputy Director General of Science, International Vaccine Institute
- Soon Tuck Sit - Director, BMRC,, A*STAR
- Rosalind Tan - Venture Architect, GRIP
- Evolution of RNA Therapeutics, Multiple Mechanisms and Approved Drugs
- Unique Features of RNAi Therapeutics
- Hepatic and extra-hepatic Delivery
- Challenges and Opportunities
- Muthiah (Mano) Manoharan, PhD - Senior Vice President of Drug Innovation and Distinguished Research Scientist, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Highlighting Singapore’s Nucleic Acid Therapeutic Initiative (NATi) as a catalyst for regional collaboration, driving advancements in diverse RNA modalities such as mRNA, siRNA, and circular RNA through partnerships with APAC biotech, academic institutions, and industry leaders.
- Mohamed ElSayed - Executive Director, NATi
- Demonstrating Abogen's unique mRNA and LNP platform
- Sharing clinical data and progress of mRNA cancer vaccines
- Accelerating preclinical and clinical development of mRNA-based T cell engagers and in vivo CAR-T
- Bo Ying - CEO, Abogen Biosciences
Resistant cancers survive by deploying RNA strategies that regulate translation and stability, thereby modulating tumor persistence and immune signaling. By decoding these adaptive RNA programs, we can harness or modulate these regulatory circuits to control tumor adaptation and reduce the emergence of new resistance mechanisms. Leveraging multi-omic profiling and AI-guided modeling, this approach transforms stress-responsive RNA programs into programmable RNA therapeutics, including inducible translation circuits and targeted RNA modulators. Through this framework, RNA therapeutics can dynamically respond to tumor stress—enhancing resilience, precision, and adaptability—while exploiting the same code-control mechanisms tumors use to survive.
- Adaptive RNA Programs: Resistant tumors rewire coding and noncoding RNA programs to regulate translation and stability, enabling therapeutic persistence and immune evasion. These adaptive circuits can be therapeutically harnessed or modulated to control tumor persistence.
- Programmable RNA Therapeutics: By integrating multi-omic data and AI-guided modeling, stress-responsive translation circuits can be designed as programmable RNA therapeutics that dynamically respond to tumor adaptation, control protein output, and reduce the emergence of new resistance mechanisms.
- Shobha Vasudevan - Senior Group Leader, Principal Investigator, A*STAR
- Yacoub Habib - CEO, Ophidion, Inc.
- Oxana Beskrovnaya, Ph.D. - Chief Innovation Officer, Dyne Therapeutics
- Hideaki Sato - President and CEO, Luxna Biotech
- Conventional in vitro transcription (IVT) has enabled the first wave of mRNA products, but important challenges remain for broader therapeutic use, including dsRNA impurities, excessive immunogenicity and/or reactogenicity, repeat-dosing limitations, scalability, and supply-chain complexity.
- This presentation will introduce Sensible Biotechnologies’ cell-based platform for mRNA design, manufacturing, and scale-up, and discuss how a cell-based production approach can enable high-purity mRNA with a favorable immunogenicity profile.
- It will also explore what this could mean for the future of mRNA therapeutics, particularly in applications where repeat dosing, high purity, low immunogenicity, and strong translational performance are critical.
- Miroslav Gaparek - CEO, Sensible Biotechnologies
- Rebecca McKenzie - Project Leader RNA Platform, Malaghan Institute
- Jochem Vink - Development Lead RNA Platform, Ferrier Research Institute
