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      <title>PIUG 2026 Joint Annual and Biotech Conference (19 May 2026)</title>
      <description>&lt;p align="center" style="line-height: 45px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; font-size: 18px;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.piug.org/page-1862074" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font face="Roboto Condensed" color="#0000FF" style="font-size: 32px;"&gt;PIUG 2026 Joint Annual and Biotech Conference&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style="line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;The plenary sessions will begin after a Welcome Reception and run through through Thursday afternoon, but you’ll have many great opportunities to learn and connect throughout the conference. More details are available on the Program Page at&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.piug.org/page-1862079"&gt;&lt;font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;PIUG Preliminary Program&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, WaWebKitSavedSpanIndex_3, WaWebKitSavedSpanIndex_3;"&gt;Tuesday, May 19: Welcome Reception, Plenary Sessions&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;Opportunities for informal dine-arounds in the evening.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;Wednesday, May 20: Plenary Sessions, Workshops, Exhibitor Happy Hour Reception and&amp;nbsp;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Opportunities for informal dine-arounds in the evening.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

  &lt;li&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Thursday, May 21: Plenary Sessions and Workshops.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

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    &lt;h4&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 18px;"&gt;Hotel Reservations&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;&lt;font style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;Hotel reservations at the PIUG group rate are available by contacting the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#58595B" face="Lato"&gt;SONESTA PHILADELPHIA RITTENHOUSE SQUARE, 1800 Market Street&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#58595B" face="Verdana, sans-serif"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;by phone at&amp;nbsp;&lt;font face="Lato"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;+1&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="tel:215.561.7500"&gt;&lt;font face="Lato"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;215-561-7500&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;or toll-free at&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;+1 800-SONESTA&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;for attendees or via the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://book.passkey.com/go/PIUG2026RoomBlock"&gt;PIUG Conference Reservation web page&lt;/a&gt;. Identify yourself as attending the PIUG 2026 Joint Annual and Biotechnology Conference.&amp;nbsp;&lt;font color="#FF0000"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please remember&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt; to make your hotel reservation prior to &lt;strong&gt;5:00 PM EDT&lt;/strong&gt; on &lt;strong&gt;April 27, 2026&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;in order to guarantee the room prices negotiated by PIUG for this conference.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;The conference is taking place at the Convene Center at Two Commerce Square 2001 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19103.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
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    &lt;p&gt;The Convene representative will check you off the registered list at the reception area and the meeting center is on the second floor. Please note that the entrance to Commerce Square is on Market Street halfway between 20&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;and 21&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt;. Convene is through the courtyard on the right side. There is also an entrance from JFK Blvd. for those coming from 30&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;St station.&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a href="https://www.piug.org/page-1862079"&gt;PIUG Preliminary Program&lt;/a&gt; for complete details including workshops and presentation titles, abstracts and speaker biographies&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;Note, although this program is nearly complete minor changes may still occur.&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;Please share the program with your colleagues that may be interested in attending as registration remains open right up to the conference start date at &lt;a href="https://www.piug.org/an26/reg"&gt;Conference Registration&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;If you have any questions, please direct them to &lt;a href="mailto:admin@piug.org"&gt;admin@piug.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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