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Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Time	Session	Conférencier
3:00-8:30 PM	Registration Desk Open & Poster Set-Up
5:00-5:10 PM	Présentation et salutations de la PRF	Medical Director Leslie Gordon, MD, PhD, Executive Director Audrey Gordon, Esq., Board Chair Scott Berns, MD, MPH, FAAP
5:10-5:15 PM	Sponsor Remarks	Riccardo Zanolli
5:15-6:15 PM	“Coming of Age” Conversations: Young Adults with HGPS as Research Partners	Moderator: Merlin Waldron Riccardo Zanolli Nathan Falcone Michiel Vandeweert
6:15-6:30 PM	Musical Kickoff	Dr Francis Collins, Ph. D.
6:30-7:30 PM	Dinner & Networking
7:30-8:30 PM	Affiche ronde éclair

Thursday, October 30, 2025
7:15 AM-8:30 PM	Registration Desk Open
7:30-9:00 AM	Bridging the Bench Mentor Session	Breakfast
Résultats des essais thérapeutiques actuels sur la progéria Moderator: Mark Keiran, MD
9:00-9:20 AM	Essai de traitement à long terme par lonafarnib sur l'histoire naturelle	Dr Leslie Gordon, Ph. D.
9:20-9:40 AM	Essai clinique de phase 2a sur la progérine dans le traitement de la progéria	Dr Monica Kleinman
9:40-10:00 AM	Break
10:00-10:20 AM	Tools for Pivotal Science and Medicine in Progeria: Biomarker Assay Development, Qualification and Reagent Generation	Barbara Natke, Ph. D.
10:20-10:40 AM	Evaluation of Coronary Artery and Aortic Calcium by Computed Tomography in Progeria	Dr Sunil Ghelani
10:40-12:00 PM	Lunch
Cardiovascular Disease in HGPS and Aging Moderator: Maria Eriksson, PhD
12:00-12:20 PM	Single-cell Analysis Reveals the Phenotypic Landscape of Arterial Cells in Progeria	Maria Eriksson, Ph. D.
12:20-12:40 PM	Title To Be Announced	Dr Shannon Lyon
12:40-1:00 PM	Angiopoietin-2: A Potential Therapeutic Target for Vascular Protection in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome	Kan Cao, Ph. D.
1:00-1:20 PM	Break
1:20-1:40 PM	Progeria et calcification vasculaire : régime alimentaire et traitements	Ricardo Villa Bellosta, Ph. D.
1:40-2:00 PM	Title To Be Announced	Ashwin Prakash, MD
2:00-2:20 PM	Title To Be Announced
2:20-3:00 PM	Break
5:00-6:30 PM	Dinner & Networking
6:30-7:30 PM	Poster Session Part 1	Even Numbered Posters
7:30-8:30 PM	Poster Session Part 2	Odd Numbered Posters

Friday, October 31, 2025
8:00 AM-2:00 PM	Registration Desk Open
8:00-9:00 AM	Breakfast & Networking
Progeria Treatment Discovery for a Healthy Future Moderator: Francis Collins, MD, PhD
9:00-9:20 AM	Title To Be Announced	David Liu, Ph. D.
9:20-9:40 AM	ProSPER: PROgeria Streamlined Platform Gene Editing for Rare diseases	David Liu, PhD & Francis Collins, MD, PhD
9:40-10:00 AM	Development of Gene Silencing (RNAi) and Gene Editing Therapeutics for Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS)	Nizar Saad, Ph. D.
10:00-10:20 AM	Break
10:20-11:00 AM	AI-driven Therapeutic Antisense Oligonucleotide for Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria	Ning Shen, Ph. D.
11:00-11:20 AM	First-Generation PROTACs for Improving Progeria Phenotype	Silvia Ortega Gutierrez, Ph. D.
11:20-12:20 PM	Lunch & Networking
Endocrine and GI Disease in Progeria Moderator: Vicente Andres, PhD
12:20-12:40 PM	Lipodistrophy and Cardiovascular Pathology in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome	Vicente Andres, PhD
12:40-1:00 PM	Unraveling Accelerated Intestinal Ageing in HGPS Physiopathology: An Integrative Approach	Laurence Arbibe, Ph. D.
1:00-1:20 PM	Targeting Inflammation to Ameliorate HGPS Pathologies	Susana Gonzalo, Ph. D.
1:20-1:40 PM	Break
1:40-2:40 PM	Bilan de l'atelier All-hands meeting discussion on key findings and highest priorities for future success.	Dr Leslie Gordon, Ph. D. Dr Francis Collins, Ph. D. Mark Keiran, MD

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