About the 10th Antifibrotic Drug Development Summit:
The 10th Antifibrotic Drug Development Summit is the leading industry-focused meeting dedicated to advancing the discovery, translation and early clinical development of antifibrotic therapies. Bringing together biopharma leaders, researchers, clinicians and solution providers working across fibrotic diseases, the summit provides a unique platform to share scientific advances, translational insights and development strategies to improve predictive models, identify responsive patients, demonstrate antifibrotic activity earlier and progress more differentiated therapies towards the clinic.
Despite continued scientific progress, fibrosis remains a major challenge across multiple organ systems, with developers still working to improve translational predictability, identify the right patients, demonstrate treatment activity earlier and determine what it will take to move beyond disease stabilization towards meaningful modification or resolution.
This summit provides a dedicated cross-indication forum for the fibrosis community to compare approaches, share emerging data and apply lessons across lung, liver, kidney, cardiac, gastrointestinal and other fibrotic diseases. By bringing together teams facing shared development challenges, the summit helps enable better-informed development decisions and accelerate the progression of more effective antifibrotic therapies towards patients.
Celebrating a decade of innovation, the 10th Antifibrotic Drug Development Summit reflects on the significant advances made across the fibrosis landscape while looking ahead to the next generation of therapeutic opportunities. Attendees will gain insights from veteran industry leaders, emerging biotech innovators, and experts shaping the future of antifibrotic drug development.
The 2026 agenda explores the key scientific and translational questions shaping the next phase of antifibrotic drug development, including shared fibrotic mechanisms across organs, human-relevant models, predictive biomarkers and patient stratification, earlier demonstration of treatment activity, fibrosis resolution and tissue repair, mechanobiology, cell-selective targeting and delivery, and strategies for translating promising approaches across multiple fibrotic indications.
Unlike indication-specific fibrosis meetings, the Antifibrotic Drug Development Summit is industry’s dedicated one-stop shop for antifibrotic drug development insights.
Bringing together developers working across lung, liver, kidney, cardiac, gastrointestinal, skin and other fibrotic diseases, the summit gives attendees a unique opportunity to understand what is working across the field, compare approaches across organs and take relevant lessons back into their own programs.
The event will take place in Boston, MA. This is an in-person meeting.
December 1-3, 2026
We will soon have a dedicated Room Block link to a nearby hotel, where you will be able to get discounted rates to. Please get in touch with a member of the team for more information: inquire here
Registration:
You can register directly via our registration page, or you may also get in touch with a member of our team for any support.
Depending on the ticket, if you select a Conference Only ticket, you will only be eligible in joining Day 1 and 2 of the conference. However, if you select a Conference + Full Workshop Day ticket, you will be eligible to join both conference days as well as our Full Workshop Day which includes 3 dedicated workshop topics focused on:
- Mapping fibrogenic cascades across organs to determine when to intervene
- Designing translational evidence packages including selecting the right human-relevant models
- Building predictive biomarker strategies to prove antifibrotic activity earlier in development
Absolutely, please refer to our registration page for the latest available discount.
Absolutely, get 10% off when you register with another colleague, 15% with a team of 3 and 20% as a team of 4!
Sponsorship & Exhibition:
At AFDD, no two partnerships are the same. We work with you to understand your business development goals, ensuring you meet who you want to meet and how you want to meet them, getting the most out of this opportunity. Opportunities include: Keynote presentations, Expert Panel Contributions, access to full delegate list, custom exhibition booths, bespoke hosting of your choice (drinks reception, networking lunch etc), pre event and onsite branding, champion industry and more. Please speak to our Senior Partnerships Director Oliver Smare for more information.
You can request an Attendee Breakdown List here.