4th Annual European Sample Management Symposium

"Challenges and Solutions of Sample Management"

Join us to hear from industry experts on how they store and retrieve their pre-clinical and clinical samples.

The European Sample Management Symposium is an industry forum aimed at those working in this area. This is an opportunity to share experiences, learn how others approach sample management and network with your peers. Following a successful event last year, we are hosting our 4th Symposium this year with the theme of “Sample Management, Challenges and Solutions.” You will hear from expert speakers from BASF, BioNTech, UCB and Novartis.

Thursday 20^th June 2024, Avantor’s Frankfurt Biorepository and Archiving Facility
(Gutenbergstrasse 10, 65830 Kriftel)

Agenda

9.15 – 9.45	Registration
9.45 – 10.00	Welcome	Farooq Hussain (Regional Director EU, Clinical Services Avantor)
10.00 – 10.30	Pitfalls and Opportunities for Archiving GLP Raw Data in the Chemical Industry	Dr Patrick Roman Merz (Head of Quality Assurance Unit – Experimental Toxicology and Ecology, BASF)
10.30 – 11.00	Importance of Biomarker Sample Operations in Clinical Trials	Orkun Ozhelvaci (Assistance Director BioMarker Operations, BioNTech)
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee Break & Networking
11.30 – 12.00	Sample Retention in Pharmaceutical R&D: Why, What and How?	Neil Gow (Head of Records Management, UK-Ireland, and Germany – UCB)
12.00 – 13.30	Lunch, Networking and Tour of the Frankfurt Biorepository Facility
13.30 – 14.00	Reshaping Clinical Sample Traking and Reconciliation at Novartis	Xavier Briand (Associate Director)
14.00 – 14.30	Clinical Sample Shipments & Carbon Emissions	Dr. Luc Alexis Leuthold (Clinical Innovation, Senior Principal Scientist, Novartis)
14.30 – 14.45	Coffee Break
14.45 – 15.00	Summary & Close	Farooq Hussain (Regional Director EU, Clinical Services Avantor)

Note - some of the presentations above have a working title and may be subject to change.