5th International
Antibody Validation Meeting
- University of Bath
- 09/09/25 - 11/09/25
- TBC Speakers
The event
A unique meeting which aims to bring together scientists from academia, the pharmaceutical / biotech sector and antibody suppliers in order to discuss best practices in research antibody validation and help improve antibody validation for the life science community.
Why come?
Join us in the beautiful city of Bath to help drive progress in antibody validation. The 2025 meeting will include discussion panels, poster sessions, a meeting dinner and a series of talks.
If you're interested in submitting an abstract or poster for the meeting, you can do so here.
Register now, or for further enquiries about registration, just drop us an email.
Confirmed speakers
Will Howat
Abcam, UK
Dr Will Howat is the VP of Validation and Technical Quality at Abcam. Abcam has a keen interest in antibody validation and ensuring quality is a key driver for future scientific publications.
Ulf Landegren
Uppsala University, SE
Ulf Landegren, Uppsala professor, develops molecular tools for nucleic acid and protein analysis. He's a member of EMBO and the Royal Swedish Academy, with 230+ publications and 55+ patents. His lab gave rise to companies like Olink and Navinci, and his tech is licensed by major biotech firms.
Deborah Moshinsky
Institute for Protein Innovation, US
Deborah, with a Ph.D. from MIT, has extensive biotech/pharma experience at Pfizer, Novartis, and SUGEN. She's an entrepreneur, having led Cell Assay Innovations for a decade. Currently, she directs antibody validation at IPI, focusing on quality control and testing.
Libby Wiseman
Astrazeneca, UK
Libby is an AstraZeneca Senior Scientist in the Translational Pathology group within Early Oncology Cancer Biomarker Development. She focuses on antibody validation, especially PTMs, and studies pre-analytical factors affecting labile biomarkers.
Harvinder Virk
Only Good Antibodies, UK
Dr. Harvinder Virk, NIHR lecturer in Respiratory Sciences, has a focus on better research translation. He co-leads the Only Good Antibodies and UK YCharOS teams and their projects. He's a Royal College of Physicians member and on the UK Reproducibility Network Supervisory board.
More Speakers TBC
Invited and Abstract Speakers
2 selected abstract speakers and 10 other invited speakers to be confirmed.
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We hope to see you at the next International Antibody Validation meeting.
