Developability and CMC at Antibody Engineering 2026

Dec 13–16, 2026 San Diego, CA ~900 attendees Website

33 organizations at Antibody Engineering 2026 present work in developability & CMC: 20 suppliers and service providers, 11 drug developers and 2 academic, government and non-profit bodies. Between them they bring 36 presentations to the program. Most represented: Xencor (4 on the program), Regeneron (3 on the program), Amgen (2 on the program). 24 of them have their own page in this guide. As of Sep 26, 2026.

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OrganizationAntibody Engineering 2026 Attendance
Xencor
Pasadena, CA
Biotech
Develops engineered antibodies using its XmAb Fc and bispecific technologies, for cancer and autoimmune diseases.
Talk
Sun Dec 13
1:00pm–1:15pm
Co-Chairs' Remarks: From Discovery to IND: What Matters Most and How to Get it Right
Workshop 1: From Discovery to IND: What Matters Most and How to Get it Right · with Amgen
Talk
Sun Dec 13
4:15pm–5:00pm
Moderated Panel Discussion with Session Speakers
Workshop 1: From Discovery to IND: What Matters Most and How to Get it Right · with Amgen
Talk
Mon Dec 14
8:00am–8:05am
Co-Chairs' Welcome and Opening Remarks
Keynote Presentations - Livestream · with Gyes
Talk
Mon Dec 14
10:55am–11:30am
Jim Huston Science Talent Award and Presentation:
Keynote Presentations - Livestream · with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Talk
Wed Dec 16
8:10am–8:15am
Co-Chairs’ Remarks
Track 2: Engineering Antibody Interfaces: Unlocking New Biology · with Dualitas Therapeutics
Talk
Wed Dec 16
9:15am–9:45am
XenLock™ Fab domains for controlled heavy-light chain pairing in native-like 1+1 bispecific antibodies with extended half-life
Redesigned antibody arms that pair only with their intended partner, used to build two-target antibodies that last longer in blood.
Bispecifics & multispecifics
Regeneron
Tarrytown, NY
Large pharma
Biotechnology company that discovers, develops and markets antibody medicines, including bispecific antibodies, using its VelocImmune mouse platform.
Talk
Sun Dec 13
3:45pm–4:15pm
From Molecule Design to Approved Regimens: A Clinical Pharmacology Perspective on Dose Selection for Next-Generation Biologics
How measurements of drug levels and effects in the body guide the first human dose and the final approved dosing schedule.
Talk
Mon Dec 14
5:15pm–5:45pm
Targeting IgE Responses
Track 2: Engineering Solutions for Accessing Difficult Targets
Beyond oncology
Talk
Wed Dec 16
8:10am–8:15am
Co-Chairs’ Remarks
Track 1: Beyond Bispecifics: Next Wave of Tri- & Multi-Specific Abs · with Rondo Therapeutics
Amgen
Thousand Oaks, CA
Large pharma
Global biopharmaceutical company developing and manufacturing biologic medicines, including bispecific T-cell engagers.
Talk
Sun Dec 13
1:00pm–1:15pm
Co-Chairs' Remarks: From Discovery to IND: What Matters Most and How to Get it Right
Workshop 1: From Discovery to IND: What Matters Most and How to Get it Right · with Xencor
Talk
Sun Dec 13
1:15pm–1:45pm
Developability-Guided Generative Biology for Therapeutic Protein Engineering
Designing new therapeutic proteins by computer while checking from the start that they can be made and purified.
AI & computational design
Talk
Sun Dec 13
4:15pm–5:00pm
Moderated Panel Discussion with Session Speakers
Workshop 1: From Discovery to IND: What Matters Most and How to Get it Right · with Xencor
Johnson & Johnson
New Brunswick, NJ
Large pharma
Healthcare company whose Innovative Medicine segment develops antibodies, bispecifics and other medicines.
Talk
Sun Dec 13
2:15pm–2:45pm
Format Matters: Biophysical Characterization and Developability of Complex Biotherapeutics
How a molecule's overall shape changes whether it can be made into a drug, across many measured antibody formats.
Talk
Tue Dec 15
8:10am–8:15am
Co-Chairs’ Remarks
Track 1: Advanced In Vivo Approaches to Antibody Discovery · with Genentech
Academic
Public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Talk
Sun Dec 13
1:00pm–1:15pm
Co-Chairs’ Remarks- Engineering Considerations for Candidate Selection and Developability
Workshop 2: Engineering Considerations for Candidate Selection and Developability · with Atlas Venture NewCo
Talk
Tue Dec 15
3:00pm–3:30pm
Dual-targeted Oligoshuttles Mediate Efficient Reduction of Neuronal Gene Expression after Peripheral Administration
Antibodies that grab two receptors to cross into the brain and deliver gene-silencing strands into nerve cells.
Bispecifics & multispecifics
Biotech
Develops multispecific antibody therapeutics and antibody–drug conjugates using its Azymetric bispecific and other protein engineering platforms.
Talk
Sun Dec 13
1:45pm–2:15pm
Engineering Conditional Co-stimulation: Key Considerations for Developing Next-Generation T Cell Engagers
What to get right, from target choice to safety testing, when building T-cell-recruiting antibodies with a built-in second signal.
Bispecifics & multispecifics
Talk
Wed Dec 16
8:45am–9:15am
Engineering Trispecific T Cell Engagers (TriTCEs) For Optimal Activity and Developability
Antibodies that bind three things at once to give T cells an extra activating signal inside solid tumors.
Developability & CMC
Twist Bioscience
South San Francisco, CA
Reagents & consumablesEvent partner
Synthetic DNA company whose biopharma unit provides antibody libraries and antibody discovery and optimization services.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth 201
Mon, Dec 144:00pm–4:45pmTue, Dec 159:45am–4:45pm
Talk
Mon Dec 14
12:15pm–1:15pm
Engineering for Better Bispecifics: Introducing the B-Body® Platform
A two-target antibody design meant to assemble reliably, avoiding low yields and hard purification when production scales up.
Bispecifics & multispecificsDevelopability & CMC
Talk
Wed Dec 16
7:30am–8:00am
A High-Throughput Ecosystem to Power AI-Driven Antibody Discovery
Building large custom variant libraries so computer-designed antibodies can be made and tested in the lab within weeks.
Antibody discoveryAI & computational design
Primrose Bio
San Diego, CA
CRO & CDMOSilver sponsor
Licenses its Pseudomonas-based Pfenex expression technology and provides strain engineering to take protein therapeutics from sequence to a GMP-ready process.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth 305
Mon, Dec 144:00pm–4:45pmTue, Dec 159:45am–4:45pm
Talk
Tue Dec 15
12:05pm–12:35pm
From Hit Selection to Functional Testing: Reducing Expression Bottlenecks in Antibody Discovery
Producing antibody fragments earlier in a different host organism, so more hits can actually be purified and tested.
Antibody discoveryDevelopability & CMC
Reagents & consumablesSilver sponsor
Supplies Optimum Growth shake flasks, well plates and filter vials for transient and stable cell culture and sample preparation.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth 218
Mon, Dec 144:00pm–4:45pmTue, Dec 159:45am–4:45pm
Talk
Mon Dec 14
12:15pm–1:15pm
Tips and Tricks in Speeding up Transient HEK293 and Transient/Stable CHO from 96 Well, 24 Well, 6 Well, 125mL-7L Optimum Growth Flasks
Practical ways to get more protein out of small-volume cell cultures, from well plates up to multi-liter flasks.
Developability & CMC
Adimab
Lebanon, NH
Discovery platforms
Discovers and optimizes antibodies for drug developers using a yeast-based display platform, through partnerships.
Talk
Sun Dec 13
3:45pm–4:15pm
Antibody Polyspecificity Profiling
Workshop 2: Engineering Considerations for Candidate Selection and Developability
AV
Atlas Venture NewCo
Talk
Sun Dec 13
1:00pm–1:15pm
Co-Chairs’ Remarks- Engineering Considerations for Candidate Selection and Developability
Workshop 2: Engineering Considerations for Candidate Selection and Developability · with University of Michigan
EMD Serono
Rockland, MA
Large pharma
US and Canadian healthcare business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, developing medicines in oncology, neurology and fertility.
Talk
Sun Dec 13
1:45pm–2:15pm
A Combined Computational and Experimental Cascade for Variable Domain Assessment and Optimization Towards Developable Multispecific Antibodies
Splitting a multi-target antibody into its binding pieces and improving each one without losing target binding.
AI & computational design
EpiVax
Providence, RI
Software & AI
Offers in silico immunogenicity screening tools and matching human immune assays for antibody and protein therapeutics.
Panel
Sun Dec 13
4:15pm–4:45pm
Beyond Sequence Prediction: Integrating AI-Driven In Silico Analysis with Human Immune Assays for Antibody Engineering
Combining predictions of immune reactions against a drug with tests on human blood cells to design safer antibodies.
AI & computational design
Inhibrx
San Diego, CA
Biotech
Develops engineered multivalent antibody therapeutics, including a tetravalent DR5 agonist for cancer.
Talk
Sun Dec 13
3:15pm–3:45pm
Ozekibart: A Tetravalent Antibody Precisely Engineered for Optimal DR5 Agonism and Safety
An antibody with four arms that clusters a cell-death receptor just enough to kill tumor cells without added toxicity.
Protein engineering

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