From Genetic Discovery to Curative Medicines 

The Festival has a larger than ever focus on Advanced Therapies with presentations and panel discussions as well as formal and informal networking opportunities.

The Advanced Therapies Theatre brings together the scientific, clinical, manufacturing and regulatory communities working to turn cutting‑edge treatments into routine care.

Across discovery, GMP manufacturing, clinical translation, AI‑enabled design, healthcare delivery and patient access, the theatre sessions will explore how the UK and EU ecosystem can accelerate safe, scalable and curative therapies for patients.

The challenges you'll explore include: 

  • Accelerating discovery, design and clinical translation of next‑generation advanced therapies.

  • Solving manufacturing and GMP scale‑up challenges to enable reliable, commercially viable production.

  • Building regulatory, healthcare and reimbursement pathways that support routine adoption.

  • Delivering personalised and curative therapies safely and efficiently to more patients.

  • Strengthening collaboration across the NHS, research, biotech, industry and regulators to reduce barriers from discovery to patient access.

Talkaoke discussions
Curated networking
Presentations
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Speakers

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Speaker profile image for Adrian Thrasher

Adrian Thrasher

Professor in Paediatric Immunology and Wellcome Trust SRF
University College London
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Claire Booth

Consultant Paediatric Immunologist
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
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Jacqueline Barry

Chief Clinical Officer
Cell and Gene Therapy, Catapult
Speaker profile image for Annelise Vuidepot

Annelise Vuidepot

SVP, Chief Science & Technology Officer and UK Site Head
Immunocore
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Andrew Champion

Programme Director
AWTTC
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Dan O'Connor

Director, Regulatory Policy & Early Access
ABPI
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Deborah Richards

VP & General Manager, UK & Ireland
Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease
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Guy Maissis

Clinical Psychologist
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
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John Spoors

Programme Director, Commercial, Managed Access and Medicines Policy
NICE
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Killian Hanlon

CEO & Chief Scientist
Lir Therapeutics
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Kingyin Lee

Head of Clinical Trials
MHRA
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Lara Campana

SVP, Head of Research and Translational Science
Resolution Therapeutics
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Marion Hitchcock

Managing Director, CGT Incubator
Bayer
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Molly Stevens

John Black Professor of Bionanoscience
University of Oxford
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Tassos Georgiadis

SVP Discovery & Preclinical Development
MeiraGTx