Welcome!

On behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee and CASSS, we are excited to welcome you to Bioassays 2020: Scientific Approaches & Regulatory Strategies.

The CASSS Bioassays meeting has established itself as a premier conference and unique opportunity for participants and opinion leaders to discuss and debate current regulatory and industry topics regarding bioassays. Bioassays are a critical component of the analytical control strategies for biologics and other complex molecules. The ability of an assay to characterize and demonstrate biological activity is essential and developing such bioassays is becoming more difficult as biologic drugs are engineered to be more complex and/or have multiple modes of action.

Bioassays 2020 is responding to the global situation with COVID-19 by going virtual. Each session will still include case study presentations followed by a panel discussion, allowing for lively dialogue between attendees from academia, industry and regulatory agencies. As in previous years, we expect this format to result in additional focus on the technical and regulatory details of the topic.