2026 Center for Protein Therapeutics Symposium

Join faculty, post-doctoral fellows and graduate students from the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences for the 18th Annual Center for Protein Therapeutics (CPT) Symposium. The symposium presents the results of the research projects funded by the CPT during the past year.

The Symposium will be held in a hybrid format, both in-person and via Zoom. There is no fee for the Symposium for members of CPT Consortium Sponsors or for students, fellows, or faculty of the University at Buffalo.

Registration information coming soon

2026 CPT Symposium Agenda

Monday, July 27, 2026
Time Presentation Presenter/Lab
8:50 a.m. Introduction to the Annual CPT Symposium Joseph Balthasar, PhD
9:00 a.m. Quantitative Investigation of Target-Mediated Drug Disposition via Fluorescence-Based Internalization and QSPKR Modeling  Mager Lab
9:30 a.m. Informing PBPK models for bispecific constructs through investigation of relationships between single-cell RNA sequence data and cell-surface protein expression  Balthasar Lab
10:00 a.m. Critical Investigation of the Differential Pharmacology of Dual-Payload ADC  Shah Lab
10:30 a.m. Break  
11:00 a.m. Comparative evaluation of anti-idiotypic distribution enhancers and priming doses of naked mAb for enhancing ADC efficacy in small and large tumors  Balthasar Lab
11:20 a.m. Biodistribution and kinetics of membrane permeable ADC payloads and ADC in extra-cellular space, cell membrane, cytosol and microtubule compartments  Qu Lab
11:40 a.m. Continuous time tracking of immune activation, exhaustion, and therapeutic perturbation in the tumor                 microenvironment  Talkington Lab
12:00 p.m. Break  
1:00 p.m. Development and Validation of IVIVC and PBPK/PD of siRNA Therapeutics  Woo Lab
1:20 p.m. Development of Translational PBPK Model to Characterize Brain Disposition of Antibody-Conjugated and Non-Conjugated Oligonucleotides (FDCs) Shah Lab
1:40 p.m. Evaluation of Strategies to Overcome the Binding-Site Barrier for ADCs  Shah Lab
2:00 p.m. In Vitro Evaluation of the Improved Therapeutic Index of Bi-specific ADC  Shah Lab
2:20 p.m. Systematic Analysis of RNA-seq and Proteomic Data  Mager Lab
2:40 p.m. Break  
3:10 p.m. Investigation of the Determinants for Therapeutic Antibody Biodistribution to the Placenta and Embryo at Different Stages of Development  Shah Lab
3:30 p.m. Prediction of immunogenicity and its consequence: Integration of Preclinical Data, PK/PD Information, and a LLM to inform on biologics drug design and modelling  Balu-Iyer Lab
3:50 p.m. PBPK Model to Characterize Maternal to Fetal Transfer of Antibody-Based Therapeutics  Shah Lab
4:10 p.m. Systems Pharmacology Modeling of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell Induced Neurotoxicity  Mager Lab
4:30 p.m. Assessment of factors that mediate TROP2-targeting antibody drug conjugate intracellular localization and                 changes associated with drug resistance  Sprowl Lab
4:50 p.m. Translational PBPK Model for Protein Tx with Different Size and FcRn Affinity  Shah Lab
5:10 p.m. Concluding Remarks Joseph Balthasar, PhD