BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250514T070634EDT-4389BA8Eon@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250514T110634Z DESCRIPTION:Join D2R and the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Institute of Genomic M edicine for this hybrid seminar on Tuesday November 26 at 9am (EST) titled 'The Wellcome Leap R3 Program: RNA Readiness and Response'.\n\nGuest spea ker Duccio Medini\, a scientist and pharmaceutical executive\, currently s erving as R3 Program Director at Wellcome Leap\, will talk about the R3 pr ogram which aims to increase access to biologics development in non-emerge ncy times and to create economically sustainable\, equitably distributed s urge capacity in pandemic emergency (20B vaccine doses/month).\n\nAbstract \n\nThe Wellcome Leap R3 program\, jointly funded with CEPI\, aims to incr ease access to biologics development in non-emergency times and to create economically sustainable\, equitably distributed surge capacity in pandemi c emergency (20B vaccine doses/month). The R3: RNA Readiness and Response program\, took a page from the semiconductor industry transformation in th e 1980s\, which developed multi-product foundries with standardized proces ses and design tools that exploded global innovation.\n\nThis session will cover R3 advances in (i) manufacturing processes\, with potential for 10m g to 1kg of RNA-based product\, or up to 100 products\, per day\, in a 35 m2 footprint\; (ii) vaccines and therapeutic products that target >30X dos e-reduction and >100X cost-reduction compared to state-of-the-art\; (iii) in-silico design tools that enable >5X dose-reduction and manufacturabilit y verification with >90% accuracy\, for a democratized access to the RNA E cosystem.\n\nAgenda\n\n\n \n \n 9:00\n \n Welcome\n by Vincent Mooser\, Professo r\, Department of Human Genetics\, ɫTV\n \n \n \n 9:05\n \n The We llcome Leap R3 Program: RNA Readiness and Response\n by Duccio Medini\, R3 Program Director at Wellcome Leap\n \n \n \n 10:05\n Q&A\n \n \n\n\nAbout the spe aker\n\nDuccio Medini is a scientist and pharmaceutical executive\, curren tly serving as R3 Program Director at Wellcome Leap\, a global ARPA for He alth\, and as Strategic Data Science Director at Toscana Life Sciences Fou ndation\, Siena (Italy).\n\nHe leads the $60M “R3: RNA Readiness and Respo nse” program\, co-funded by CEPI\, to develop standardized\, multi-product RNA manufacturing capabilities providing increased access to diverse biol ogics and sustainable pandemic response.\n\nIn executive roles of growing responsibility at Chiron\, Novartis and GSK corporations\, he led hundreds of data scientists in Vaccines R&D and AI across Europe\, US and Asia\, h olding Research Board\, Innovation Board\, Clinical Quality Board and Data Governance Board responsibilities.\n\nWorking across biological discovery \, clinical development and public health\, he discovered the pangenome co ncept co-founding the pangenomics discipline\, contributed to the successf ul registration of four novel vaccines\, including the first universal vac cine against serogroup B meningitis\, led the Meningococcal Antigen Typing System (MATS) platform worldwide\, developed transformative corporate dat a strategies\, authored 60+ publications\, books and patents in data scien ce for health\, population genomics and mathematical vaccinology.\n\nProf. Medini received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Perugia\, Ita ly\, with a residency at the Northeastern University in Boston\, MA\; is h abilitated Full Professor of Molecular Biology\; has served in internation al PhD school committees at the Perugia and Turin Universities in Italy\; is honorary member of the Cuban Immunology Society\, Fellow of the ISI Fou ndation\, Board member of the WHO mRNA Hub program and CINI’s Italian Nati onal Digital Health Lab\; an IMD\, ADVAC and UC Berkley alumnus.\n\nReserv e Your Spot Now!\n\nRSVP by Monday November 25:\n\nRegister to join online . \n\nWant to attend in-person? Reserve your spot by emailing D2R.comms [a t] mcgill.ca\n\nConfirmation emails will be provided to registered partici pants. \n DTSTART:20241126T140000Z DTEND:20241126T153000Z LOCATION:Room 6001\, Penfield 740 (Genome)\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G1\ , 740 avenue du Docteur-Penfield SUMMARY:Seminar: The Wellcome Leap R3 Program: RNA Readiness and Response URL:/dna-to-rna/channels/event/seminar-wellcome-leap-r 3-program-rna-readiness-and-response-360576 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR