AACR 2026 Special Report: An In-Depth Review of Medicilon’s Three Technical Posters | Bilingual

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The AACR Annual Meeting convenes leading cancer experts in San Diego, California, from April 17-22, 2026. Medicilon, with over 20 years of preclinical CRO experience, is represented by Dr. Qingcong Lin, Dr. Mingfeng Bai, and Dr. Steven Zhang. The team is presenting three technical posters highlighting Medicilon’s integrated solutions in conjugate drug analysis, autoimmune CAR-T evaluation models, and end-to-end AOC/RNAi drug development.

Poster I      Conjugate Drugs Analysis

Conjugate Drugs Analysis
  • Presenter: Dr. Min Fang
  • Time: Wednesday, April 22, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
  • Location: Poster Section 38, Board #24, Poster #7670
  • Title: Integrated Mass Spectrometric Workflows Enabling Next-Generation Conjugate Therapeutics in Cancer Research
Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) have advanced into complex, next-generation therapies, with novel formats like antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates (AOCs) and antibody-immunostimulant conjugates entering clinical trials. However, their in vivo behavior is more complex than traditional small molecules or monoclonal antibodies, presenting challenges for conventional analytical methods:
  • Differentiating total antibody from conjugated antibody: Traditional ligand-binding assays (LBAs) measure total antibody concentration but fail to determine payload attachment, leading to inaccurate drug exposure and stability assessments.
  • Detecting free payload and metabolites: Premature payload release or metabolic inactivation affects efficacy and safety, but requires highly sensitive detection methods (often at pg/mL levels).
  • Tracking click-chemistry activation: Bioorthogonal activation kinetics and product profiles of prodrugs in the tumor microenvironment are difficult to monitor with routine methods.

Medicilon’s Solution——

Medicilon’s integrated LC-MS/MS workflow features: optimized sample pretreatment to minimize artifactual payload release for accurate in vivo representation; high-sensitivity bioanalysis with validated linearity and matrix tolerance for diverse matrices, enabling microsampling and continuous PK studies; and a dedicated MS-enhanced detection scheme for bioorthogonal click-chemistry, facilitating simultaneous quantification of prodrugs and activated products for PK/PD correlation. This platform reliably supports pharmacokinetic evaluations of ADCs, AOCs, and click-chemistry-activated drugs, providing valuable insights into biotransformation and exposure-response relationships.

Poster II      When CAR-T Goes Beyond Oncology

When CAR-T Goes Beyond Oncology
  • Presenter: Dr. Ruowen Zhang
  • Time: Tuesday, April 21, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
  • Location: Poster Section 49, Board #25, Poster #6714
  • Title: Humanized SLE Mouse Model for Evaluating B-Cell CAR-T Therapy Efficacy and Safety
B-cell-targeted CAR-T therapies show promise in autoimmune diseases like SLE, but traditional animal models lack humanized immune systems, limiting their ability to simulate CAR-T behavior in humans. Key limitations include:
  • Cytokine release syndrome (CRS): Murine cytokine profiles differ significantly from human profiles, hindering accurate toxicity assessment.
  • Anti-drug antibodies (ADA): Human CAR constructs can elicit immunogenic responses in mice, confounding efficacy evaluations.
  • Target expression differences: Variations in CD19 expression between humans and mice affect CAR-T expansion and persistence.

Medicilon’s Solution——

Medicilon’s humanized SLE mouse model overcomes preclinical bottlenecks in autoimmune CAR-T therapy through the following key features: a humanized immune system reconstituted with CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells, TLR7 agonist induction using Imiquimod (IMQ) to stimulate human pDCs and B cells, inducing SLE biomarkers mirroring active human lupus, and in vivo CAR-T generation and delivery via anti-CD5 antibody-targeted LNPs encapsulating CD19 CAR DNA, directly transfecting CD5+ T cells in vivo. This in vivo approach bypasses the complexities of ex vivo viral transduction and better reflects future in vivo CAR-T strategies. This model is ideal for assessing CAR-T therapy efficacy, toxicology, and PK/PD in autoimmune disease research.

Poster III      AOC from Design to Production

AOC from Design to Production
  • Presenter: Dr. Ao Huang
  • Location: Medicilon Booth #1553
  • Title: From Sequence Design to AOC Production: Medicilon’s End-to-End RNAi Development Platform
The development of antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates (AOCs) and RNAi drugs faces key challenges, including inefficient sequence design, limited conjugation strategies, difficulties in large-scale synthesis, lack of precise characterization, and incomplete in vivo evaluation. Key pain points include:
  • Sequence design: Difficulty in accurately identifying optimal mRNA silencing windows, balancing specificity and cross-species homology, leading to low efficiency in siRNA/ASO design.
  • Synthesis and conjugation: Insufficient capacity for large-scale oligonucleotide synthesis; lack of diverse, site-specific antibody-oligonucleotide conjugation technologies; difficulty in controlling DAR values.
  • Delivery systems: Lack of development capabilities for efficient delivery vectors such as GalNAc and ionizable lipids, hindering efficient delivery of oligonucleotide drugs.

Medicilon’s Solution—— 

Medicilon’s RNAi-AOC R&D platform provides end-to-end extrahepatic delivery solutions, encompassing sequence design to preclinical evaluation. Our capabilities include: AI-driven sequence design for optimal siRNA/ASO candidate selection; large-scale oligonucleotide synthesis for high-quality payloads; diverse AOC conjugation strategies (click chemistry, maleimide-thiol coupling, AOAC, site-specific conjugation); rigorous AOC purification and characterization (AEX, SEC, UPLC-MS, TOF); and closed-loop development integrating chemical modification, conjugation engineering, analytical characterization, and in vivo DMPK/efficacy evaluation to accelerate AOC discovery.

Beyond Posters      Tumor Model Database

Medicilon has launched a Tumor Model Database, a systematic resource platform based on over 700 tumor models, covering:
Tumor Model Database
Medicilon’s Pharmacology/Pharmacodynamics team leverages over 20 years of IND filing experience to support hundreds of innovative drug projects entering clinical trials.
  1. Small-molecule drugs
  2. Antibodies, ADCs, AOCs
  3. Cell therapies (CAR-T, TCR-T, CAR-NK)
  4. Oncolytic viruses, AAV gene therapy
  5. Nucleic acid drugs (siRNA, ASO)
  6. And more

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Top Star      Dr. Panda

Medicilon’s booth (#1553) is a hub of activity, drawing researchers for technical discussions. Dr. Panda, Medicilon’s Chief Charm Officer, is a major attraction, with attendees lining up to get their own panda, adding warmth and approachability to the booth’s energetic atmosphere.
Dr Panda
If you missed the event, contact Medicilon to request the posters or schedule an online discussion. Contact us now: https://medicilon.com/aacr-2026/

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