Meetings – Ardat https://ardat.org Accelerating R&D for Advanced Therapies Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:10:40 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://ardat.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cropped-Asset-2-3-32x32.png Meetings – Ardat https://ardat.org 32 32 PPIE Communication and Dissemination https://ardat.org/ppie-communication-and-dissemination/ Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:11:54 +0000 https://ardat.org/?p=10503 Read More "PPIE Communication and Dissemination"

]]> A fantastic PPIE event and tour around the GTIMC facility at The University of Sheffield last week. Great to see the translational work of gene therapy being developed and eventually manufactured here in Sheffield for use in patients. Also an exciting communication and dissemination meeting with lots of ongoing and planned PPIE work through Accelerating Research & Development for Advanced Therapies (ARDAT). Mimoun Azzouz, Tim Hickling, Amy Hunter, Helen Matthews, Joe Cartwright, Joseph Scarrott, Christopher Mann, Tamas Letoha, Will Newman, Eros Bresolin and Charlie Berners-Price

]]> ARDAT General Assembly, Coimbra, Portugal 15/16 June 2023 https://ardat.org/ardat-general-assembly-coimbra-portugal-15-16-june-2023/ Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:19:39 +0000 http://ardat.org/?p=10226 Read More "ARDAT General Assembly, Coimbra, Portugal 15/16 June 2023"

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The third face to face meeting for members of the ARDAT consortium was kindly hosted by the team from the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC) based in the beautiful city of Coimbra in central Portugal. Over 50 individuals from across the consortium met over two days to receive progress updates and discuss progress and future for the four key work packages. The meeting was once again set up as a real time hybrid format so that members who were unable to travel to Coimbra could follow the proceedings and indeed, present their own work to the Assembly.

After a full day of presentations and discussion the meeting moved to the spectacular hall of the Colegio da Trindade to listen to invited speaker Jude Samulski give an entertaining and thought provoking talk on the history of gene therapies, highlighting the challenges and learning that has taken place over the past 50 years.

After the day’s formal proceedings the Assembly decamped to a local restaurant for the Meeting Dinner where discussions continued in a more relaxed environment. It was great to see the professional and personal bonds between individuals and groups developing.

As before, the second day was given over to breakout meetings where the different work package teams could sit down and engage in a thorough review of progress, roadblocks, issues and mitigation, very important ahead of the Project’s Mid-point Review on the 29th June.

In summary, this was another successful meeting where it was obvious that real strides are being taken to achieving the objectives of the ARDAT project.

 

The plenary session underway with remote presenters contributing via video link

Programme leader Mimoun Azzouz opening the meeting

The participants in the Third ARDAT General Assembly

ARDAT team members socialising at the Meeting Dinner

Jude Samulski Presenting his talk in the Colegio da Trindade

]]> ARDAT General Assembly, Edinburgh UK 16/17 October 2022 https://ardat.org/ardat-general-assembly-edinburgh-uk-16-17-october-2022/ Sun, 23 Oct 2022 08:44:46 +0000 http://ardat.org/?p=10178 Read More "ARDAT General Assembly, Edinburgh UK 16/17 October 2022"

]]> Although the ARDAT Project has been running for almost 2 years, because of the restrictions placed upon travel and meeting throughout the COVID pandemic, all interactions between  the project partners had been through various forms of  videoconferencing. The General Assembly 2022 was therefore the first opportunity that most participants had to meet face to face. The Meeting was scheduled to happen immediately  after the European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy Meeting in Edinburgh so that the many ARDAT members who were attending that meeting could stay on to attend the General Assembly.
After an informal get together the night before where everyone was required to “guess the oher ARDAT member”  the Meeting proper started on the Morning of 16th October with 50 ARDAT members convening together for the first time. To allow full participation, the meeting was run in  a hybrid real-time/virtual format, allowing members who could not physically attend to see and interact as though they were in the room. Thanks to the team at Video Production Edinburgh for providing a seamless hybrid meeting service over both days of the meeting.
The first days proceedings were kicked off by a welcome from Greg LaRosa (Project Lead) and Mimoun Azzouz (Project Coordinator) who then gave way for a full agenda of presentations and discussions on the work carried out in the various work-packages over the preceding 2 years. For many, it was the first opportunity to engage with members outside of their work-package groups and by the end of the day many new alliances started to form. The first day was concluded by a Meeting Dinner  where people could continue their conversations in a more relaxed environment.
The second day was given over to round table break-out groups split by work package to allow an uninterrupted discussion on the progress and future direction of the Tasks and Sub-Tasks, the face to face format allowing real progress to be made on many of the ongoing issues.
All in all, the meeting was a great success and helped to bring together some very good and productive work streams as the project enters its third year.

 


One of the many useful discussion sessions


Manuela Braun (Bayer) presenting on assay development strategies


Chris Mann (Asphalion) explaining the developing relationships with Regulatory Agencies pursued by WP5


Mark Trautwein (Bayer) presenting an overview of activities in WP2

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