Hear Dr. Zheng Wei share a comprehensive payload-linker CMC development strategy that covers regulatory guidance, RSM selection, and stage-appropriate quality control to navigate the evolving complexities of ADC design from IND to NDA.

With expanding ADC programs and more complex conjugate designs, payload-linker CMC strategy can be decisive for a program’s IND-to-NDA path. As this novel modality continues to develop rapidly, innovative and AI-enabled responsive linkers, highly toxic payloads with low immunogenicity, and site-specific glycoconjugation techniques are receiving increasing attention. In this webinar, Dr. Wei highlights four areas of the CMC development strategy: guidance and interpretation, route design and principles for regulatory starting material (RSM) selection, stage-appropriate quality control (QC) strategy, and separation/purification process optimization.

The session highlights how payload-linker CMC planning differs between clinical supply and commercial registration, and what drives route definition and RSM designation. An IND versus NDA filing strategy example is used to illustrate stage-appropriate route planning. The session also explains how QC expectations move from release testing and characterization to CQA-linked specifications, with optimization considerations mapped to a typical process flow.

Key Topics Include:

  • Key guideline statements referenced for payload-linker CMC, and scientifically justified adjustments under technical constraints
  • Route definition and RSM designation strategy for registration planning across clinical and commercial stages
  • Stage-appropriate QC strategy from release testing and characterization to CQA-linked specifications, with impurity-control considerations
  • Optimization considerations across purification, crystallization, lyophilization, ultrafiltration, and nanofiltration

Presenters

Head of Payload-Linker Team
Chemical Macromolecule Division (CMMD)
Asymchem

Dr. Zheng Wei leads the Payload-Linker team at Asymchem CMMD, overseeing route optimization, tech transfer, process development, process characterization, non-GMP, and GMP manufacturing for pre-IND, IND, and NDA projects.

Webinar Host

AsymBio

AsymBio is a technology-driven global CDMO specializing in biologics, bioconjugates (ADCs, AOCs, PDCs, RDCs), antibodies and recombinant proteins. We deliver comprehensive end-to-end CDMO services from early-stage R&D to commercial-scale manufacturing, backed by GMP-compliant facilities meeting US, EU and China standards.

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