9th International Conference on Complement Therapeutics

Program

Tuesday, June 28

 

 

 

6:00 PM

 

Conference Registration

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Welcome Reception/Dinner

 

 

 

Wednesday, June 29

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

9:00 AM

 

Welcome and Opening Remarks

 

 

 

9:05 AM

1

New milestones ahead in complement-targeted therapy

Daniel Ricklin and John Lambris

 

 

 

Session I

 

Antibodies in Autoimmunity, Therapy & Diagnostics Chairs: Sacha Zeerleder and Lubka Roumenina

9:30 AM

2

Amelioration of disease in the MRL/lpr model of lupus by treatment with an Anti-C3d monoclonal antibody that blocks C3d:CR2 ligand: Receptor interactions

Liudmila Kulik, Jennifer Laskowski, Joshua Thurman, and Michael Holers

9:55 AM

3

The role of complement component C3aR during vertebrate eye development

Erika Grajales-Esquivel, Agustín Luz-Madrigal, Jeff Bierly, Zachary McKinney, Edimara Reis, Apostolia Tzekou, Panagiotis Tsonis, John Lambris, and Katia Del Rio-Tsonis

10:20 AM

4

Automated CH50-like assay for assessment of the complement system

Ian Mackie, Chris Gardiner, Phil Lane, Andy Chitolie, Miles Nunn, and Sam Machin

10:35 AM

5

Plasma iC3b is reduced following successful eculizumab treatment in atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome using a rapid lateral flow assay platform

Nick Staten, W Schaiff, Robin Bruchas, Shangbin Yang, Haiwa Wu, Haifeng Wu, Paul Olson, Spero Cataland, and Martin Schmidt

10:50 AM

6

Considerations and pitfalls for complement biomarkers in drug development

Ashley Frazer-Abel, Jennifer Laskowski, Joshua Thurman, and Patricia Giclas

 

 

 

11:05 AM

 

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

 

 

 

 

Session II

 

 

Targeting the Amplification Loop

Chairs: Richard Smith and Mihaly Jozsi

12:00 PM

7

Compstatin Cp40 (AMY-101): a C3-targeted complement inhibitor reaching its prime for bedside intervention

John D Lambris, Edimara Reis, Alexandra Primikyri, Yiannis Sarigiannis, Sofia Koutsogiannaki, Malvina Papanastasiou, Hongbin Wang, Markus Huber-Lang, Martijn van Griensven, Bo Nilsson, Kristina Nilsson-Ekdahl, Richard J Smith, Dimitrios Mastellos, Margaret A Lindorfer, Ronald P Taylor, Laura Evgin, John Bell, Gang Chen, Evlambia Hajishengallis, George Hajishengallis, Despina Yancopoulou, Antonio M Risitano, and Daniel Ricklin

12:25 PM

8

Complement immunotherapy using compstatin derivatives

Delphine El Mehdi, Federico Grossi, Pascal Deschatelets, and Cedric Francois

12:40 PM

9

The molecular mechanisms underlying regulation of complement activity

Piet Gros

1:05 PM

10

Potentiation of natural complement regulators through protein engineering

Christoph Schmidt

1:30 PM

11

Antisense therapy targeting complement factor B

Tamar Grossman, Robert Johnson, Lijiang Shen, Lisa Hettrick, Michele Carrer, Scott Henry, Brett Monia, and Michael McCaleb

1:45 PM

12

Small-molecule Factor B inhibitors for oral treatment of alternative pathway driven diseases

Anna Schubart, Juergen Maibaum, Karen Anderson, Holger Sellner, Aengus MacSweeney, Amanda Littlewood-Evans, Antonio Risitano, Sha-Mei Liao, Finton Sirockin, Eric Valeur, Wolfgang Miltz, Stefan Randl, Bernd Gerhartz, Frederic Cumin, Bruce Jaffee, Richard Harrison, and Joerg Eder

2:00 PM

13

Preclinical evaluation of ACH-4471: A potent, specific and oral complement factor D inhibitor

Mingjun Huang, Xuan Yuan, Eleni Gavriilaki, Steven Podos, Jane Thanassi, Guangwei Yang, Andrea Baines, Dharaben Patel, Yongsen Zhao, Joanne Fabrycki, Manuel Galvan, Amanda Luu, Wengang Yang, Yongqing Huang, Avinash Phadke, Jason Wiles, and Robert Brodsky

 

 

 

2:15 PM

 

Lunch/Informal Discussions

 

 

 

7:30 PM

 

Dinner/Informal Discussions at a local Greek Restaurant

The buses for the restaurant will depart from the hotel at 7:30 PM

 

 

 

Thursday, June 30

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

Session III

 

C3 Glomerulopathy and aHUS

Chairs: Matthew Pickering and Meryl Waldman

9:00 AM

14

C3G – Insights into a puzzling disease

Richard Smith, Yuzhou Zhang, Xue Xiao, Bertha Martin, Lexie Leonhardt, Nicolo Borsa, Fengxiao Bu, and Carla Nester

9:25 AM

15

Understanding complement-mediated renal diseases using protein structure-function relationships

Lubka Roumenina, Sophie Chauvet, Maria Chiara Marinozzi, Tania Rybkine, and Veronique Fremeaux- Bacchi

9:50 AM

16

Update on C3 glomerulopathy: role of complement receptor 3 (CR3)

Matthew Pickering

10:15 AM

17

Complement as target in C3 glomerulopathy

Carla Nester, Yuzhou Zhang, Xue Xiao, Bertha Martin, Lexie Leonhardt, Nicolo Borsa, Fengxiao Bu, and Richard Smith

10:40 AM

18

Properdin as a therapeutic target in the treatment of complement-mediated diseases

Wenchao Song, Damodar Gullipalli, Takashi Miwa, Yoshiyasu Ueda, and Sayaka Sato

11:05 AM

19

Functional characterization of a disease-associated N-terminal factor H mutation

Marcell Cserhalmi, Barbara Uzonyi, Dorottya Csuka, Edgar Meusburger, Karl Lhotta, Zoltán Prohászka, and Mihály Józsi

 

 

 

11:20 AM

 

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

 

 

 

Session IV

 

Neurological Diseases, IRI & Transplantation

Chairs: Markus Huber-Lang and Sander Connolly

12:00 PM

20

Complement in neurological disease: biology, biomarkers and magic bullets

Paul B Morgan

12:25 PM

21

The lectin pathway in acute brain injury

Maria-Grazia De Simoni

12:50 PM

22

Human models of cerebral reperfusion injury: Opportunities for development of anti-complement cascade therapies

Sander E Connolly

1:15 PM

23

Peptide Inhibitor of Complement C1 (PIC1) improves neurological outcomes in a rat model of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)

Tushar Shah, Jasmine Nejad, Haree Pallera, Frank Lattanzio, Rawad Farhat, Parvarthi Kumar, Pamela Hair, Kenji Cunnion, and Neel Krishna

1:30 PM

24

Role of Collectin 11 in injury of the newly transplanted kidney

Steven Sacks, Conrad Farrar, David Tran, Wilhelm Schwaeble, and Wuding Zhou

1:55 PM

25

TNT009 and its parental mouse monoclonal antibody TNT003 target complement component C1s and effectively block alloantibody-induced classical complement pathway activation

Markus Wahrmann, Jakob Mühlbacher, Lena Marinova, Heinz Regele, Nicole Huttary, Farsad Eskandary, James Gilbert, Sandip Panicker, and Georg Böhmig

 

 

 

2:10 PM

 

Lunch/Informal Discussions

 

 

 

7:30 PM

 

Dinner/Informal Discussions at a local Greek Restaurant

The buses for the restaurant will depart from the hotel at 7:30 PM

 

 

 

Friday, July 1

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

9:00 AM

26

Funding translational research and development of pharmaceutical innovation – sources and strategies to create novel therapeutics

Charles Baltic

 

 

 

Session V

 

PNH and Hematological Disorders

Chairs: Ron Taylor and Christoph Schmidt

9:25 AM

27

Complement inhibition for the treatment of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)

Rodrigo Calado

9:50 AM

28

Cross-talking between complement and coagulation in PNH: therapeutic implications

Anita Hill

10:15 AM

29

CD59 is critical for the control of C3 activation on erythrocytes surface

Michela Sica, Tommaso Rondelli, Patrizia Ricci, Maria De Angioletti, Antonio Risitano, and Rosario Notaro

10:30 AM

30

Therapeutic complement inhibition in PNH: where are we going?

Antonio Risitano

10:55 AM

31

Thrombotic microangiopathy after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Régis Peffault de la Tour

11:20 AM

32

IgM mediated autoimmune hemolytic anemia: the role of complement inhibition

Inge Baas, Sacha Zeerleder, and Diana Wouters

 

 

 

11:45 AM

 

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

 

 

 

Session VI

 

Targeting Complement Initiation & Effectors

Chairs: Piet Gros and Suzan Rooijakkers

12:15 PM

33

The novel role of activation of complement cascade in pathogenesis of hematopoietic malignanices and modulatory effect of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1)

Mariusz Ratajczak

12:40 PM

34

The lectin pathway bridges the complement and the contact system in thromboinflammation

Bo Nilsson

1:05 PM

35

A monoclonal antibody against complement C2, as a novel complement inhibitor

Peter Boross, Cafer Yildiz, Peter Simons, Louis Boon, and C Hack

1:20 PM

36

Structural basis for eculizumab-mediated inhibition of complement C5

Janus Schatz-Jakobsen, Yuchun Zhang, Krista Johnson, Douglas Sheridan, and Gregers Andersen

1:35 PM

37

Discovery of the first functionally selective C5aR2 ligands

Daniel Croker, Peter Monk, Reena Halai, Geraldine Kaeslin, Zoe Schofield, Mike Wu, Richard Clark, Mark Blaskovich, Dimitrios Morikis, Christodoulos Floudas, Matthew Cooper, and Trent Woodruff

1:50 PM

38

Complement and Toll-like receptors as targets to treat inflammation: inhibition of C3 or C5 together with CD14 emerges as a promising strategy

Andreas Barratt-Due, Søren Pischke, Per Nilsson, Terje Espevik, and Tom Mollnes

 

 

 

2:05 PM

 

Lunch/Informal Discussions

 

 

 

3:30 PM

 

City Tour

The buses for the restaurant will depart from the hotel at 3:30 PM

 

 

 

7:30 PM

 

Dinner/Informal Discussions at a local Greek Restaurant

Please note buses do not pick-up at the hotel prior to dinner.

Dinner proceeds right after the tour.

 

 

 

Saturday, July 2

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

Session VII

 

Infection, Inflammation & Trauma

Chairs: George Hajishengallis and Edimara Reis

9:00 AM

39

Complement reactions on bacteria

Suzan Rooijakkers

9:25 AM

40

Unlocking the mysteries of the interplay between malaria and complement

Jose Stoute

9:50 AM

41

Complement inhibition in pre-clinical models of periodontitis and prospects for clinical application

George Hajishengallis, Tetsuhiro Kajikawa, Evlambia Hajishengallis, Baomei Wang, Edimara Reis, Despina Yancopoulou, Daniel Ricklin, and John Lambris

10:15 AM

42

Complementing the inflammasome

Kathy Triantafilou

10:40 AM

43

Protective Effects of Compstatin in Hemorrhagic Shock

Markus Huber-Lang, Stephanie Denk, John Lambris, and Martijn van Griensven

11:05 AM

44

Therapeutic inhibition of C3 promotes wound healing

Edimara Reis, Sophia Koutsogiannaki, Alexandra Primikyri, Ranillo Resuello, Joel Tuplano, Despina Yancopoulou, Daniel Ricklin, and John Lambris

 

 

 

11:20 AM

 

Coffee Break & Poster Viewing

 

 

 

Session VIII

 

Cancer and Proliferation

Chairs: Antonio Risitano and Cecilia Garlanda

11:50 AM

45

Antibodies that efficiently form hexamers upon antigen binding can induce CDC under complement-limiting conditions

Ronald Taylor, Erika Cook, Margaret Lindorfer, Frank Beurskens, Hilma van der Horst, Simone Oostindie, Janine Schuurman, Clive Zent, Richard Burack, and Paul Parren

12:15 PM

46

Soluble gC1qR activates the complement and kinin systems in a manner that sustains tumor growth, survival and migration

Berhane Ghebrehiwet and Ellinor Peerschke

12:40 PM

47

Role of Complement in murine cancer development and its translational relevance

Cecilia Garlanda

1:05 PM

48

Ribosomal protein S 19 suppresses antitumor immune responses via the complement C5a receptor

Maciej Markiewski, Magdalena Karbowniczek, Surya Vadrevu, Jun-Hyng Cho, Jalpa Patel, and Bhaumik Patel

1:20 PM

49

Complement C3a receptor: a therapeutic target for primary and metastatic melanoma?

Jamileh Nabizadeh, Helga Manthey, Frederik Steyn, Glen Boyle, Stephen Taylor, Trent Woodruff, and Barbara Rolfe

1:35 PM

50

Role of C3a-C3aR axis during intestinal tumorigenesis

Silvia Guglietta, Lukas Weber, Carsten Krieg, Bruno Fosso, Graziano Pesole, Giuseppe Penna, Mark Robinson, and Maria Rescigno

1:50 PM

51

Complement-mediated adverse reactions to PEGylated nanocarriers: Role of natural and induced anti-drug antibodies

Janos Szebeni, Tamas Mészáros, Rudolf Urbanics, and Gergely Kozma

 

 

 

2:15 PM

 

Closing Remarks

 

 

 

2:20 PM

 

Lunch/Informal Discussions

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Farewell Dinner

 

 

 

Sunday, July 3

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

9:00 AM

 

Departure

 

 

Posters

52

Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of complement-mediated neutrophil phagocytosis

Ronald Gorham Jr, Shi You Fu, Fernanda Paganelli, and Suzan Rooijakkers

53

Discriminating complement-mediated acute transfusion reaction (ATR) for type O+ erythrocytes transfused into a B+ recipient with the Complement Hemolysis Using Human Erythrocytes (CHUHE) assay

Kenji Cunnion, Pamela Hair, Pamela Whitley, Corinne Goldberg, Emmanuel Fadeyi, Lanne Maes, and Neel Krishna

54

Improving complement regulation by a potentiating antibody against complement factor H as a new therapeutic strategy

Richard Pouw, Mieke Brouwer, Taco Kuijpers, and Diana Wouters

55

In vitro evaluation of a novel CRIg-Factor H hybrid complement inhibitor

Marcell Cserhalmi, Mario Hebecker, Tam Tamás Mészáros, János Szebeni, and Mihály Józsi

56

Complement regulator CTRP6 and inflammatory diseases

Masanori Murayama, Kenzo Matsuo, Kaori Yoshida, Nanako Katagiri, and Yoichiro Iwakura

57

A novel and pivotal role of the mannose-binding lectin (MBL) pathway of complement cascade (ComC) activation in triggering mobilization of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs)

Mateusz Adamiak, Ahmed Abdel-Latif, Janina Ratajczak, and Mariusz Ratajczak

58

The long pentraxin PTX3 and the alternative complement pathway cooperate in the immune response to Aspergillus fumigatus

Raffaella Parente, Francesca Petroni, Sonia Valentino, Marina Sironi, Barbara Bottazzi, Alberto Mantovani, and Antonio Inforzato

59

Creation of mouse models of complement-mediated renal disease using CRISPR-CAS9 to introduce known human Factor H mutations in human C5a-receptor knock-in mice

Chris Li, Israel Charo, Linda Ertl, Pirow Bekker, and Thomas Schall

60

Possible tegimes to inhibit cholesterol crystal-induced inflammation in atherogenesis

Terje Espevik, Siril Bakke, Nathalie Niyonzima, Marie Aune, Stig Nymo, Eivind Samstad, Liv Ryan, Jan Damås, Bente Halvorsen, Eicke Latz, and Tom Mollnes

61

 C5L2 and C5aR, the good guys and the bad guys, in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy

Manolis Mavroidis

62

Proliferation of medulloblastoma cells stimulated by tumor necrosis-initiated complement activation

Joshua Burks, Robert Briggs, Phillip Bonney, Shweta Agarwal, James Battiste, Kar-Ming Fung, and Michael Sughrue

63

The complement system in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Ulrike Werner, Monir Jalilpour, Franziska Wendt, Ralph Pries, and Barbara Wollenberg

64

Safety and effectiveness of restricted eculizumab regimen in atypical HUS

Kioa Wijnsma, Elena Volokhina, Lambertus van den Heuvel, Jack Wetzels, and Nicole van de Kar

65

Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of eculizumab in individualized treatment of atypical HUS

Elena Volokhina, Kioa Wijnsma, Fred Sweep, Roger Brüggemann, Jack Wetzels, Nicole van de Kar, and Lambertus van den Heuvel

66

Glycans of α1-antichymotrypsin impurity in C1-inhibitor therapeutics exhibit antiinflammatory effect attributed to C1-inhibitor

Ruchira Engel, Laura Nuñez, Dorina Roem, Gerard van Mierlo, Stephanie Holst, Agnes Ederveen, Jaap van Buul, Manfred Wuhrer, Diana Wouters, and Sacha Zeerleder

67

Pediatric C3 glomerulopathy: One center experience

Marie-Michèle Gaudreault-Tremblay, Natacha Patey, Arnaud Bonnefoy, Geneviève Benoit, Marie-José Clermont, Aicha Mérouani, Véronique Phan, and Anne-Laure Lapeyraque

68

Persistent isolated serum C3 consumption identifies a high-risk subgroup in lupus nephritis (LN)

Lucio Manenti, Maria Letizia Urban, and Augusto Vaglio

69

Homing strategies which target iC3b promote neurologic recovery after traumatic brain injury in mice

Marieta Ruseva, Valeria Ramaglia, Paul Morgan, and Claire Harris