Upcoming Events
11th January, 2026
San Francisco, CA
ACCESS China Biotech Forum
Effective partnering and China market assessment platform – ACCESS CHINA is the most effective deal-making platform for Western pharma and biotech leaders looking to enter or expand in the Chinese market. ACCESS CHINA creates invaluable BD opportunities by directly connecting and meeting with the right partners for development, licensing or commercial collaborations.

10th December, 2025
San Francisco, CA
CLS Innovation Showcase
Held biannually, the CLS Innovation Showcase brings approximately 300+ life sciences stakeholders, including biopharma representatives, investors, key advisors, and expert service providers, together to foster connections and vital partnering conversations while spotlighting California’s robust innovation. The full-day event typically features a keynote presentation, panel discussions, pitches by our FAST cohort to a panel of early-stage investors and the opportunity to set up one-on-one partnering meetings. The afternoon will conclude with a networking reception and solutions corridor, featuring CLS cost savings partners.

2nd December, 2025
Virtual
Streamline the Critical Path for Gene Therapy: Key Considerations for the AAV Analytical Lifecycle
AAV vectors offer clear benefits for gene therapy, and continued advances in technology have increased target specificity, improved potency, and intensified production efficiency. Even with significant attention early in development, analytical activities for gene therapy often land on the critical path.
This webinar provides considerations for phase-appropriate AAV characterization and release activities from pre-clinical to late-phase products. Early-stage analytical topics will address how to leverage platform analytics, client-specific methods and transfers, formulation verifications, tox material testing, and stability. Late-stage focus will review continued development activities, timing of method validation, IPC verifications, and data trending. We will discuss potential challenges in validation of late-stage analytics for PPQ and late-phase testing and paths for maturation of platform and product-specific analytics.

13th – 14th November, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
5th Investigator-Initiated Trials Summit
As investigator-initiated trials grow more intricate, your team needs the most up-to-date strategies on building successful IITs, forecasting budgets, achieving study milestones, and brainstorming innovative KPI strategies. Save the date for November 13-14 for DGE’s 5th Investigator Initiated Trials conference! Back by popular demand, our all-new agenda provides answers to your most urgent questions about the best practices for reviewing, selecting, and funding research investigators!


