Formulating the Future:
Nucleic Acid Therapeutics Explained

March 5th 2026 - 16:00pm (CET) / 10:00am (ET)

Formulating the Future:
Nucleic Acid Therapeutics Explained

March 5th 2026 - 16:00pm (CET) / 10:00am (ET)

Addressed Challenges

  • Understanding the complexity and diversity of nucleic acid therapeutics
  • Exploring delivery system structure and stability, with a focus on lipid nanoparticles (LNPs)
  • Identifying and selecting appropriate analytical tools for characterization and quality control

What You Will Learn

  • Overview of the current nucleic acid therapeutics landscape.
  • Understanding and identifying critical quality attributes for mRNA-LNP formulations
  • Detailed insights into the analytical toolbox for nucleic acid-based products

Gideon Kersten

Director Scientific Affairs

Dr. Gideon Kersten is a Director Scientific Affairs at Coriolis Pharma. He has 40 years of experience in development of vaccines and other biopharmaceuticals. He is a biochemist by training and holds a PhD on nanoparticulate delivery of subunit vaccines (Utrecht university, the Netherlands). At the Institute for Public Health in the Netherlands and related vaccine institutes he became deeply involved in vaccine development with a focus on formulation development and vaccine characterization. This included the development of adjuvants and delivery systems. Since 2012 he holds a special professorship in vaccine development at the Leiden university in the Netherlands. In 2017 he became chief scientific officer of Intravacc, a vaccine R&D institute. In 2020 he joined Coriolis Pharma. He has published more than hundred peer reviewed scientific papers and several book chapters and supervised 10 PhD students, covering subjects such adjuvants and delivery systems, needle free vaccination and characterization of biopharmaceuticals.
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Anna Gebhardt

Business Development Manager

Dr. Anna Gebhardt is a Business Development Manager working at the intersection of research and partnerships in advanced therapies. She earned her PhD in Biochemistry investigating innate immune pathways, with a focus on protein and nucleic acid biology, at LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. After postdoctoral research at TUM and Max Planck and leading projects in biopharmaceutical R&D, she transitioned into business development to connect scientific innovation with patientoriented solutions. Her current focus is on advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs). She works across cell and gene therapies, with particular emphasis on nucleic acid therapeutics, viral vectors, and cellbased therapeutics.
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