Drug developers at TIDES Europe 2026

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

43 drug developers are at TIDES Europe 2026 — 66 presentations on the program and 2 with a booth in the exhibit hall. Most represented: Novo Nordisk (6 on the program), Roche (5 on the program), AstraZeneca (4 on the program). 14 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
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.
Biotech
Develops and markets RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, including GalNAc-conjugated siRNA medicines for genetic, cardiometabolic and other diseases.
Talk
Thu Nov 5
15:00–15:30
Genetically Validated Targets and the Next Wave of RNAi Therapeutics: Progress from the Alnylam Pipeline
Progress in gene-silencing medicines at one company, including how human genetics points to new targets and what a broad pipeline has taught them.
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 Almac
Biogen
Cambridge, MA
Large pharma
Biopharmaceutical company developing and marketing neuroscience medicines, including antisense oligonucleotide treatments.
Talk
Wed Nov 4
10:15–10:45
Finding the Right Balance: How Formulation Aspects and Regulatory Expectations Affect Steam Sterilization of Antisense Oligonucleotide (ASO) Drug Products
Whether antisense drug products can survive steam sterilisation, and how the liquid formula and container can be tuned so regulators accept it.
Talk
Thu Nov 5
08:05–08:35
Strategies for Implementing a Comprehensive Impurity Control Approach Across Oligonucleotide Purification Process
A risk-based plan for clearing unwanted by-products, solvents and bacterial toxins from an oligonucleotide drug during two purification steps and filtration.
CB
Constructive Bio
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Biotech
Develops genetic code expansion technology to make proteins and peptides containing non-standard amino acids.
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, Novo Nordisk, Aphaia Pharma
Talk
Fri Nov 6
13:30–13:45
Presentation: Engineering Advanced GLP-1 Peptides Through Targeted Site-Specific Modifications
Post-event symposium: Technology and Process Innovation Spotlight
Biotech
Develops and markets antisense oligonucleotide medicines for neurological, cardiometabolic and rare diseases.
Talk
Wed Nov 4
08:35–09:05
Regulatory CMC Strategies and Health Authority Interactions for Oligonucleotide Programs
How manufacturing and quality filings for antisense drugs differ between the US and other regions, drawn from recent commercial applications.
Talk
Thu Nov 5
08:35–09:05
Moving Towards a Greener SPOS Process
Practical ways to cut the environmental cost of oligonucleotide synthesis, including smaller wash volumes, new column designs and recycled solvent.
Wave Life Sciences
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Biotech
Develops stereopure oligonucleotide medicines, including siRNA, antisense and RNA editing candidates.
Talk
Wed Nov 4
09:05–09:35
Applying Small Molecule Drug Design Principles to Improve the Drug-like Properties of siRNA
Designing siRNA the way chemists design small-molecule drugs, controlling each linkage to get lasting gene silencing in mouse liver and kidney.
Talk
Thu Nov 5
16:30–17:00
Synthesis and Characterization of Stereopure Chimeric Oligonucleotides
Making and testing oligonucleotides in which every backbone link has one fixed mirror-image form, in small batches, to link structure to activity.
Zealand Pharma
Søborg, Denmark
Biotech
Danish biotech developing peptide medicines for obesity and metabolic diseases, including amylin and GLP-1 analogues.
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 Bachem
Talk
Fri Nov 6
10:30–10:55
Presentation: Exploring A Selective Amylin Receptor Agonist for Metabolic Disease
Post-event symposium: Clinical & Translational Updates
Biotech
Develops oral treatments for obesity and metabolic disease, including a beaded glucose formulation that activates enteroendocrine cells.
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, Novo Nordisk, Constructive Bio
Talk
Fri Nov 6
14:15–14:30
Presentation: Enteroendocrine Cell Activation via Beaded Oral Glucose: A Multi-Hormonal Approach to Metabolic Regulation
Post-event symposium: Technology and Process Innovation Spotlight
Silence Therapeutics
London, United Kingdom
Biotech
Develops siRNA medicines using its mRNAi GOLD platform for cardiovascular, haematological and other diseases.
Talk
Wed Nov 4
10:15–10:45
Elongating siRNA Duration of Action by Enhanced Nuclease Resistance: End Stabilization Revisited
A modification near each end of a siRNA made gene silencing in mice last longer while needing fewer sulfur linkages.
Talk
Fri Nov 6
11:35–12:00
Presentation: Genetically-Validated INHBE Silencing with SLN098 siRNA for Enhanced Fat Loss and Lean Mass Preservation
Post-event symposium: Clinical & Translational Updates

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