Dear friends,
Some of you may remember that Reina Bendayan (University of Toronto) and I organized the 1st 'Drug Delivery to the Brain' Keystone Symposium back in January 2023. This 2023 meeting was highly successful with over 200 attendees, 2 amazing keynote talks, 18 cutting-edge plenary session talks, and 12 short talks selected from nearly 70 poster abstracts, with participants that unusually represented almost an exact 50:50 split between academic and private sector affiliations.
Well, I am quite excited to say that the 2nd 'Drug Delivery to the Brain' Keystone Symposium is scheduled to be held jointly with the 'Antibodies as Drugs' meeting at the flagship Keystone Resort from Feb 17-20, 2025. Please consider joining me there along with the wonderful organizers James Gorman (Harvard's Wyss Institute) and Stina Syvänen (Uppsala University, Sweden). I am honored to be delivering the opening keynote address ('Delivery of Therapeutics to the CNS via Different Routes of Administration: An Overview of Applications, Advantages and Disadvantages'), where I will plan to highlight the state-of-the-field and new emerging approaches. We are at nothing less than an inflection point for the entire CNS delivery scientific community, with the next few years offering the potential of new approvals and the clinical advancement of several novel brain-targeted disease-modifying therapies across a range of indications including Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, brain cancer, and rare diseases such as the mucopolysaccharidoses. As with the 2023 Keystone meeting, I anticipate that this upcoming 2025 edition will uniquely combine academic and industry perspectives, making this THE MEETING to attend for a complete picture of where the field is currently at and where we are likely heading in the coming several years!
PLEASE help Stina, Jim, and I to advertise this meeting and feel free to share this email
with whoever you think might be interested! Thanks in advance!
KEY DATES -- Please note that the early registration deadline is DEC 23 & poster abstract deadline is JAN 27 (let me also say that this is a meeting where posters are very much a feature, with lots of attention and feedback provided by the participants). There will be multiple awards on offer for junior presenters! And I am particularly pleased to announce that the International Brain Barriers Society (IBBS) will sponsor two very special awards honoring the scientific legacies of Joan Abbott (King's College London) and the late Danica Stanimirovic (NRC Canada)...
What more can I say? I am looking forward to meeting old friends, new attendees, and brand new entrants into the field, particularly new trainees - please consider attending and/or presenting at this one-of-a-kind meeting!!
All the best,
Robert
WEBPAGE for the meeting: https://www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/conference-listing/meeting/onpage-program/Q42025
P.S. This is definitely a Keystone Symposium where the mountain will feature with some great skiing for those who might be interested to combine the meeting with winter recreation:
