Oligonucleotide therapeutics at TIDES Europe 2026

Nov 3–5, 2026 Amsterdam, Netherlands ~900 attendees Website

69 organizations at TIDES Europe 2026 present work in oligonucleotides: 34 suppliers and service providers, 30 drug developers and 5 academic, government and non-profit bodies. Between them they bring 93 presentations to the program. Most represented: Novo Nordisk (6 on the program), Bachem (5 on the program), Roche (5 on the program). 40 of them have their own page in this guide. As of Sep 25, 2026.

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OrganizationTIDES Europe 2026 Attendance
Novo Nordisk
Bagsværd, Denmark
Large pharma
Danish pharmaceutical company known for diabetes and obesity medicines, including the GLP-1 peptide drugs semaglutide and liraglutide.
Keynote
Tue Nov 3
13:50–14:25
Next Generation GLP-1 Therapeutics
How GLP-1 drugs for metabolic disease became longer-acting, and what it would take to dose them less often or swallow them as pills.
PeptidesObesity & Metabolic
Talk
Wed Nov 4
08:05–08:35
Shifting Landscape: Global Regulatory CMC Guidance for Synthetic Oligonucleotides
Where regulators around the world now agree and disagree on manufacturing and quality rules for synthetic oligonucleotides, and how those rules could align.
with Roche
Talk
Thu Nov 5
09:05–09:35
Identity Testing of Synthetic Peptides: From Multi-Method Evaluation to a Compliant Two-Test Scheme
Why two well-chosen laboratory tests can prove a manufactured peptide is the intended molecule, rather than the longer list of tests regulators expect.
Talk
Thu Nov 5
08:35–09:05
siRNA Conjugate Mediated Delivery to Disease Specific Cell Types Occurs through a Novel Mechanism
How siRNA drugs attached to a carrier reach the cells behind chronic inflammatory disease and cancer, and how that route was worked out.
Talk
Fri Nov 6
09:10–10:00
Keynote Panel: From Lab to Launch - Navigating the European Obesity Therapeutics Landscape
What it takes to turn obesity research into a product Europe will approve, manufacture at scale and actually pay for.
Post-event symposium · with Cantoni Therapeutics, Aphaia Pharma, Constructive Bio
Talk
Fri Nov 6
08:40–09:10
Keynote Presentation: Decoding The Future of Obesity Care: The Signals Worth Paying Attention To
Where obesity drug development stands in 2026 and which companies and market openings across Europe are worth watching.
Post-event symposium
Talk
Fri Nov 6
12:00–12:25
Presentation: Energy Expenditure Modulation as an Emerging Therapeutic Strategy for Obesity
Post-event symposium: Clinical & Translational Updates
Bachem
Bubendorf, Switzerland
CDMO & CROPlatinum sponsor
Contract development and manufacturing organization for peptide and oligonucleotide active pharmaceutical ingredients, from research quantities to commercial scale.
Booth
Exhibiting (no floor booth listed)
Wed, Nov 49:35am–4:15pmThu, Nov 59:35am–4:00pm
Talk
Wed Nov 4
15:00–15:30
A Mild and Sustainable Platform for Disulfide Bond Formation in Peptide Manufacturing Using Dehydroascorbic Acid
Using an oxidised form of vitamin C instead of harsh chemicals to form the sulfur bridges that hold many peptide drugs in shape.
Talk
Wed Nov 4
14:30–15:00
Beyond Packed Beds: Advancing Scalable Oligonucleotide Manufacturing Through Stirred-Bed Technology
Building oligonucleotides in a continuously stirred reactor rather than a packed column, so reagents mix evenly and batches can reach ton scale.
Talk
Wed Nov 4
16:15–16:45
Dapiglutide: From Lab to Large Scale Manufacture through Innovative Peptide Process Development
How process changes in making the peptide drug dapiglutide raised its overall yield from about 20% to over 60%.
with Zealand Pharma
Talk
Wed Nov 4
11:50–12:20
Digital Manufacturing in Practice: Enabling Efficient and Compliant Large-scale Production
Running large-scale production on digital records and automation, and what that changed for output, consistency and the ability to spot process problems.
CMC & Manufacturing
Talk
Thu Nov 5
08:00–08:05
Chairman’s Remarks: Innovations in Peptide CMC
Peptide Discovery to CMC
Roche
Basel, Switzerland
Large pharma
Swiss pharmaceutical and diagnostics company with oligonucleotide and peptide programmes in its drug pipeline.
Chair
Wed Nov 4
08:00–08:05
Chairperson’s Remarks: Regulatory CMC Strategies for Oligonucleotides
Oligonucleotide Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls
Talk
Wed Nov 4
14:00–14:30
Enzymatic Ligation for the Production of Oligonucleotides
Screening many ways to cut and rejoin siRNA strands with enzymes, then scaling the best one up for cleaner, higher-yield production.
Talk
Wed Nov 4
08:05–08:35
Shifting Landscape: Global Regulatory CMC Guidance for Synthetic Oligonucleotides
Where regulators around the world now agree and disagree on manufacturing and quality rules for synthetic oligonucleotides, and how those rules could align.
with Novo Nordisk
Talk
Thu Nov 5
10:45–11:15
MCSGP Process Control and Characterization Strategy
Keeping a multi-column peptide purification system dependable by working out which settings must stay within range to hold purity steady at full scale.
Talk
Thu Nov 5
11:15–11:45
Regulatory Insights from Recent Global Phase 3 Peptide Filings
What health authorities asked about manufacturing, quality control and delivery devices during recent late-stage applications for peptide drugs.
AstraZeneca
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Large pharma
Global pharmaceutical company developing medicines across modalities, including oligonucleotide and peptide therapeutics.
Talk
Thu Nov 5
15:00–15:30
Maintaining Diastereomeric Control in Phosphorothioate siRNAs: Integrated Analytical and Manufacturing Approaches for Reliable Clinical Development
Why purifying siRNA can quietly shift the mix of mirror-image sulfur linkages between batches, and how to keep that mix steady.
Talk
Thu Nov 5
09:05–09:35
Peptide-Targeted Delivery of Oligonucleotide Therapeutics
Early, pre-clinical work on a short peptide that steers gene-silencing drugs into the tissue where they are meant to act.
Talk
Thu Nov 5
09:05–09:35
Rethinking Green Credentials for Oligo Manufacturing
Why simple waste-per-kilogram scores misjudge how green oligonucleotide production is, and what real improvement would involve.
Talk
Thu Nov 5
08:35–09:05
Systematic Route Design for Fragment-Based Peptide Synthesis: Enabling Liquid-Phase Transition
A way to choose where to split a long peptide into fragments so it can be built in solution with better yield.
Eli Lilly and Company
Indianapolis, IN
Large pharma
Global pharmaceutical company whose peptide medicines include tirzepatide, with programs in oligonucleotide therapeutics.
Keynote
Tue Nov 3
13:15–13:50
Making Oligonucleotides a High-Volume Reality: Next-Gen Platforms and Strategy for Oligonucleotide Manufacturing
Keynote Sessions - MAIN CONFERENCE
OligonucleotidesCMC & Manufacturing
Keynote
Tue Nov 3
14:25–15:00
Retatrutide: From Breakthrough Science to Global Medicine — The CMC Story Behind a Novel GIP, GLP-1, and Glucagon Receptor Agonist
How the obesity and diabetes drug retatrutide is made at world supply scale by joining peptide fragments in solution with far less waste.
PeptidesCMC & Manufacturing
Talk
Wed Nov 4
16:45–17:15
Made to Scale: What Tirzepatide's Manufacturing Challenge Teaches Us About Innovation Under Pressure
Lessons from scaling up production of the diabetes and obesity drug tirzepatide, from an odd result at the bench to tonnes of material.
Talk
Thu Nov 5
16:00–16:30
Cycle Time Is a Quality Metric: Eloralintide from Discovery to Clinical Proof of Concept
How the peptide eloralintide moved from discovery into patients by overlapping chemistry and biology cycles instead of running them one after another.
Agilent Technologies
Santa Clara, CA
Analytics & instrumentsPlatinum sponsor
Makes liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry and other analytical instruments, and manufactures oligonucleotide active pharmaceutical ingredients under contract.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth 317
Wed, Nov 49:35am–4:15pmThu, Nov 59:35am–4:00pm
Talk
Wed Nov 4
16:45–17:15
Analytical Method Validation Across the Oligonucleotide Lifecycle
How a contract manufacturer validates the tests used to check oligonucleotide drugs, from raw materials to release, without slowing development.
Talk
Wed Nov 4
11:50–12:20
Integrated Analytical Workflows for Synthetic Peptide Development: From Peptide Separation to Sequence Confirmation
Combining separation, mass measurement and software to confirm a synthetic peptide's sequence, purity and starting materials at every stage.
PeptidesCMC & Manufacturing
Almac
Craigavon, United Kingdom
CDMO & CROExhibitor
Drug development services for small molecules and peptides, including analytical testing, API supply, radiolabelling, formulation and solid-state services.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth 227
Wed, Nov 49:35am–4:15pmThu, Nov 59:35am–4:00pm
Talk
Tue Nov 3
11:00–11:30
Individualised Cancer Vaccines: Developing a High-throughput cGMP Peptide Manufacturing Philosophy
How to make twenty different peptides to clinical quality in twenty days for one patient's personalised cancer vaccine, then do it again.
Talk
Thu Nov 5
10:45–11:25
Part 1: siRELIS: A Convergent Enzymatic Ligation Strategy for siRNA Manufacturing; Part 2: Enzyme Development for Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Manufacturing
Using engineered joining enzymes to assemble siRNA from short building blocks, and what scaling that approach taught two companies.
with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Asymchem
Tianjin, China
CDMO & CRODiamond sponsor
Contract development and manufacturing organization for small molecules, oligonucleotides and peptides, with flow chemistry and enzymatic process capabilities.
Booth
Exhibiting (no floor booth listed)
Wed, Nov 49:35am–4:15pmThu, Nov 59:35am–4:00pm
Talk
Tue Nov 3
12:15–12:45
Innovating Oligonucleotide Production: Enzymatic Fragment Ligation for siRNA
Joining short RNA fragments with enzymes in water instead of standard solid-phase steps, for purer siRNA at lower cost and larger scale.
OligonucleotidesCMC & Manufacturing
Talk
Thu Nov 5
07:30–08:00
Advancing TIDES with Flow Chemistry
How running peptide and oligonucleotide chemistry as a continuous flowing stream tightens control, improves safety and cuts waste.
CMC & Manufacturing
Axolabs
Kulmbach, Germany
CDMO & CROPlatinum sponsor
Oligonucleotide contract research and manufacturing organization offering discovery, preclinical, analytical and GMP manufacturing services.
Booth
Exhibiting (no floor booth listed)
Wed, Nov 49:35am–4:15pmThu, Nov 59:35am–4:00pm
Talk
Tue Nov 3
09:00–12:00
CMC Decisions That Influence Cost of Goods (COGs) in Oligo Scale-up: Levers for Scientific and Commercial Impact
Which early manufacturing and quality decisions set what an oligonucleotide drug costs to produce, and when in development they should be taken.
with Livinovea
Talk
Wed Nov 4
13:25–13:55
From Development Candidate Nomination to First-in-Human: Accelerating Oligonucleotide Development Through Integrated Strategies
What it took to move a sugar-tagged siRNA candidate from selection to its first human trial on a tight schedule.
OligonucleotidesCMC & Manufacturing

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