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Founder & CEO Clarissa Desjardins describes Congruence's Revenir product engine and walks us through programs that include MC4R deficient obesity, which is in the clinic, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficienty, and Parkinson's.

CEO Rohit Batta describes the unmet need in myeloproliferative neoplasms and the rational for targeting G6B, a protein expressed on platelets and megakaryocytes. Their pre-clinical work just earned Alethio an oral presentation at the upcoming ASH Annual Meeting.

Sofinnova Investments' Maha Katabi, Finchley Healthcare Ventures' Pierre Beauparlant, and Amplitude Ventures' Jean-Francois Pariseau describe the biotech scene here, what Montreal and other Canadian biotech hubs do well, what could be improved, and the environment for entrepreneurs to turn ideas into companies.

CEO Sarah Leonard describes the company's focus and process. The lead program, TC25, is scheduled to be in the clinic in 2028, and the company also has plans to go after auto-immune conditions in addition to oncology.

President and CEO Malte Peters summarizes the ESMO data for vopemetistat, which was in second and third line pancreatic cancer in combination with daraxonrasib, and discusses plans for a phase 3 in first line (plus the regulatory path for later lines as well). Additionally, he discusses using PRMT5 inhibition in lung cancer and GBM.

CEO Markus Rohrwild and CDMO Thomas Langenickel provide an update on the company's peptide based drug development side, as well as venture and CRO arms.

CEO John Baker describes how the project, done in collaboration with Ultima Genomics and Waters Corporation, will give researcher a tool to better understand the immune system. He also describes how IMU's blood sample based system works, and how it has been used for things such as to better understand which patients will respond to cancer immunotherapies.

CEO Ros Deegan describes the raise and the new investors that it brings into the company, and updates us on the company's pipeline progress.

They discuss recent advances, what's ahead, Cigall's work in epigenetics, and how a new hospital will be purpose built for patients with the best new technologies in clinical research.