Conference Day Two - Thursday November 6, 2025

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8:00 am Check-In & Light Breakfast

8:55 am Chair’s Opening Remarks

Refining Inflammasome-Driven Immune Modulation to Enable Meaningful Clinical Outcomes

9:00 am Spotlighting Phase II Clinical Data: Advancing GPCR19 Agonists for Patients with Atopic Dermatitis

9:30 am Immune Surveillance Upstream of NLRP3 Pathway: Clinical Insights on Diabetes & Retinal Disease

  • Brian Levy Chief Executive Officer, InflammX Therapeutics

Unravelling Pathway Biology to Spotlight Untouched Activation Routes & Other Disease Links

10:00 am First-in-Class Caspase-4/5 Inhibition: Unlocking New Frontiers in Inflammasome Therapeutics

10:30 am Morning Refreshments & Networking

11:15 am Tissue-Specific Regulation of Neutrophils: Citrullination, Polarization & NLRP3 Targeting

11:45 am Roundtable Discussion: Inflammasomes at the Frontier: Charting the Next Move of Therapeutic Innovation

  • Hal Hoffman Professor, Pediatrics & Medicine, University of California, San Diego

12:30 pm Exploring the Gut-Brain Axis: Inflammasome-Mediated Inflammation & Pharmacological Inhibition Strategies

  • Roberto De Luca Instructor of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Harvard Medical School)
  • Roberto Negro Senior Scientist, S. de Bellis

1:00 pm Lunch & Networking

Introducing Delivery & Therapeutic Targeting Tactics for Inflammasome-Focused Drug Innovation

2:00 pm Novel Virus-Like-Particle (VLP)-Based Vaccines Targeting Inflammasomes & Tau Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease

2:30 pm Disrupting RHAMM-Target Interactions Within the NLRP3 Pathway Through Novel Peptide Inhibitors

3:00 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks

3:15 pm End of Conference Day Two