Speakers

Nadine Ritter, Ph.D.

President and Analytical Advisor

Global Biotech Experts, LLC

Anthony Mire-Sluis

Head of Global Quality

AstraZeneca

Jeffrey Baker

Deputy Director, Office of Biotechnology Products, CDER, FDA

CDER, FDA

Oliver Hesse

Director, Lab Automation and Data Management, Biological Development

Bayer Healthcare LLC

Ross Acucena

Applications Director

Entegris LifeScience

Maral Adeli-Koudehi, PhD

Postdoc Researcher, Purification Development

Sanofi

Yongho Ahn

VP, Head of CDO R&D Team

Samsung Biologics

Kiran Andra

Scientist

Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc

Todd Andrews

Director, Application & Business Development – Biopharma

CPC - Colder Products Company

Kathryn Aron, Ph.D.

Group Leader, Cell Culture Process Development

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Artur Arsénio

Head of Product Management PAT, Automation & Software

Sartorius Stedim Biotech

Regina Au, MBA, MIM

Principal, New Product Planning/Strategic Planning

BioMarketing Insight

Sarah Auclair

Scientist

Sanofi

Luis Fernando Ayala Solares

Scientist, Life Science, Upstream R&D

Merck KGaA

Karthik Balakrishnan

CEO

Nodexus Inc

Randal Bass, Ph.D.

Vice President of Process Design

Just - Evotec Biologics

Michael Betenbaugh

Professor

Johns Hopkins University

Mike Bobbie

Senior Field Applications Specialist

Asahi Kasei Bioprocess America

Aniruddha Bose, MBA

Global Product Manager

MilliporeSigma

Amelie Boulais

Head of Market Entry Strategy Viral-based Therapeutics

Sartorius Stedim Biotech

Michael Bransby

Director of Process Technology

Repligen

Christopher Brau

Staff Scientist/Engineer

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Mike Brewer

Director, Global Principal Consultant, Regulatory

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Kurt Brorson, PhD

Vice President, Technical

Parexel International

Kristi Budzinski

Principal Product Stewardship Program Manager

Genentech

Michael Butler

Principal Investigator in Cell Technology

National Institute of Bioprocessing Research & Training (NIBRT), Ireland

Luke Cach

Scientific Solutions Lead

Synthace

Melisa Carpio

Global Technology Consultant

Sartorius Stedim Biotech

Andreas Castan, PhD

Strategic Technology Partnerships Leader

Cytvia

Alessandro Cataldo, PhD

Economic Evaluation of Biotechnological Processes

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences

Steven Chamow

President

Chamow & Associates, Inc.

David Chau, PhD

Senior Application Engineer

3M

Weiqiang Cheng, PhD

principal scientist

Takeda

Colin Clarke, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

National Institute for Bioprocessing

Yongping Crawford

Associate Director

NGM Biopharmaceuticals

Craig Curless

Senior Director of Manufacturing

Macrogenics, Inc.

Susan Dana Jones, Ph.D.

SVP, Product Development

Harpoon Therapeutics Inc.

Juliane Diedrich

Sr. Associate Scientist

Amgen

Kimberly DiGiandomenico, MS, RBP

Senior Manager – Biological, Radiation & Laboratory Safety Biosafety Officer

AstraZeneca

Weibing Ding, PhD

Director

GSK

Mandar Dixit

Principal Process Expert

Sartorius Stedium Biotech

Brandon Downey

Principal Engineer, R&D

Lonza

Brandon Downey

Principal Engineer

Lonza

Zorica Dragic

Unit Head Cell Line Screening and Development

Novartis

Rob Durham, PhD

Director of Service and Scientific Support

Gyros Protein Technologies

Yves Durocher, PhD

Section Head, Mammalian Cell Expression - NRC Human Health Therapeutics Research Center

National Research Council Canada

Cameron Durrant

Chairman and CEO

Humanigen, Inc.

Hani El-Sabbahy, PhD

Application Engineering Specialist

3M

Lianchun Fan, Ph D.

Director of Cellular & Molecular Biology Science, Process Science

Abbvie Bioresearch Center, (pending final confirmation)

Tom Fletcher

Scientific Director

FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific

Michael Francis

Chief Science Officer & Founder

Embody Inc.

Xiaotong Fu, PhD

Sr. Engineer

Biogen

Coral Fung Shek

Process Development Associate Scientist

Amgen

Jishna Ganguly

Associate Research Scientist

GSK

John Gill

Director, Cell Line Development

Samsung Biologics

Elena Gontarz

Manager of Scientific and Technical Affairs

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Uwe Gottschalk, Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer

Lonza

Yvonne Greenstreet

Chief Operating Officer

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Robert Gronke, PhD

Senior Principal Scientist, Technical Development

Biogen, Inc

Rob Guenard, PhD

Senior Director, Global Manufacturing Science

Biogen

Balrina Gupta

Associate Principal Scientist

Merck

Priyanka Gupta

Head of Market Entry Strategy, Segment Protein-based Therapeutics

Sartorius Stedim Biotech

Jason Gustin

Director - Cell Line Development & Engineering

MilliporeSigma

Troii Hall, M.S.

Associate Consultant Chemist, Bioprocess Research & Development

Eli Lilly and Company

Matthew Hammond, Ph.D.

Principal Scientist

Amgen

Abel Hastings

Director of Process Sciences

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies

Charles Heise, PhD

Senior Staff Scientist BioProcess Strategy & Development

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies

Christoph Herwig

Bioprocess Engineering Professor

TU Wien, Austria

Tony Hitchcock

Technical Director

Cobra Biologics

Sung Ho Hahm

CEO

Rophibio Inc.

Andrew Holloway

Senior Research Associate

Seattle Genetics

Moo Sun Hong

Postdoc

MIT

Shiqi Hong, PhD

Senior Biopharma Scientist

Roquette

Habib Horry

Associate Director of Marketing, Upstream Solutions

MilliporeSigma

Baochuan Huang

Senior Director, Cell Culture Development & Manufacturing

Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals

Ping Huang, PhD

Director, BioProcess Development

Abbvie

Marianthi Ierapetritou

Bob and Jane Gore Centennial Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

University of Delaware

Yelena Ilin

Scientist

Sanofi

Bo Jiang, PhD

Principal Scientist

Merck Biologics Process R&D

David Johnson

Team Lead Chromatography Systems Product Management

Sartorius Stedim Biotech

Ellen Johnson

Enterprise Solutions Technology Leader

Cytiva

Jeff Johnson

President

Biotech Design, LLC

George Joseph Christ

Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery

University of Virginia

David Kahn, Ph.D.

Vice President, Biopharmaceutical Development

Macrogenics

Joswin Kattoor

Global Product Manager for Pharma and Biopharma

Dr. Paul Lohmann GmbH & Co. KGaA

Martijn Kelder, PhD

Strategic Account Manager

Cergentis

Beomkyu Kim, PhD

Lead Scientist, DSP Part

Samsung Biologics

Jonathan Kingsbury

Head of Developability & Pre-formulation

Sanofi

Dan Kopec

Process Analytical Technolgy Expert

Sartorius Stedim Biotech

Leisha Kopp

Applications Scientist

Mirus Bio LLC

Anita Kundu

Senior Associate Scientist

Pfizer

Tae Kwang Ha

Specialist

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, DTU

Jana Langhoff

Product and Application Manager Cell Biology and Proteomics

Tecan

Lucia Lapazio

R&D Biologics Development, Process Purification Development

Sanofi

Melanie Lasher, PMP

Manager, Project Management – Global Strategic PMO

Catalent

David Lee

Research Associate III

Seattle Genetics

Nathan Lewis, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics

University of California, San Diego

Mengyao Li

Post Doc Next Generation High-Densit,Advanced Process & Manufacturing Technology

Novartis Pharma AG

Hongshan Li, PhD

Marketing Applications Manager

Sartorius

Pawel Linke

Scientist Lab Automation

Roche Diagnostics GmbH

Ryan Lybarger

Senior Field Application Consultant

Roche Diagnostics - CustomBiotech

Doug MacDonald

Principal Scientist

Seattle Genetics

Aaron Mack

Engineer III

Biogen

Seth Madren

Scientist II

Biogen

Craig Magee, PhD

Director, Business Development - Life Sciences

DRS Daylight Solutions

Katie Masterson

Director, Manufacturing Operations

REGENXBIO Inc.

Audrey Maudhuit, PhD

Process Engineer

Fluid Air

Brandon McKethan, PhD

Field Application Specialist

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.

Guangnan Meng, PhD

Product Leader, Microfluidics

PerkinElmer, Inc.

Shahram Misaghi, PhD

Senior Scientist

Genentech, Inc

Rafi Mohammed

Staff Development Scientist

Bayer U.S. LLC Pharmaceuticals

Mustafa Munye

Lead Scientist

Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult

Brian Murray, PhD

Scientist, Biologics Purification Development

Sanofi

Thomas Müller-Späth, PhD

Director, R&D Life Science Systems

ChromaCon AG, Switzerland

Negin Nejati, PhD Candidate

Research Assistant, Chemical Engineering Department

Pennsylvania State University

Michael Nelson

Senior Scientist

Merck & Co.

Benjamin Neunstoecklin, Ph.D.

Lead Process Engineer

Bayer

Jungmin Oh

Manager - New Product Development

Avantor

David Page

Director, MS&T (Manufacturing Sciences & Technology)

KBI Biopharma

Thomas Page, PhD

VP, Engineering and Asset Development

Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies Texas

Dhavalkumar Patel

Executive Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer

UCB

Tania Pereira Chilima

Deputy Chief Technology Officer

Univercells Technologies

Loren Perelman, PhD

Vice President of Scientific Solutions

Riffyn

Josefine Persson, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Purification Development

Genentech

Jeremy Pike

Scientist

Alexion Pharmaceuticals

Nuno Pinto, PhD

Associate Principle Scientist

Merck & Co., Inc.

Andrew Plump

President, Research & Development

Takeda

Daryl Powers, PhD

Head US Upstream Cell Culture Development

Sanofi

Igor Quinones-Garcia, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Biologics Development

Mersana Therapeutics

Thomas Ransohoff, MS

Chief Operating Office

4th Dimension Bioprocess, Inc.

Dave Reese

Executive Vice President, Research and Development

Amgen

Dot Reilly, MS

Senior Technical Development Leader

Genentech

Michael Roberts

Chief Technology Officer (Europe)

Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc.

Mahsa Rohini, Ph.D.

Scientist, Pivotal Drug Substance, Process Development

Amgen

Karen Rutherford, PhD

Technical Development Sr. Scientist

Genentech

Kelly Sackett

Principal Scientist

Pfizer

Richa Sarin

Scientist, Technical Development

Biogen

Valerie Schmieder

PostDoc

Boehringer Ingelheim

Tim Schroeder

Director, Product Management

Repligen GmbH

Chad Schwartz, PhD

Senior Product Manager

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Christiane Schwittay

Director, Strategic Marketing Biopharma Production

Avantor

David Serway

Global Director, TFF Systems and ProConnex Technology

Repligen

Joe Sexton

Principal Technical Specialist

Genentech

Hana Sheikh

Senior Engineer

Roche-Genentech

Bonnie Shum

Principal Engineer

Genentech

Ricardo Silva, PhD

Senior Scientist, Animal Cell Technology Group

iBET - Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Portugal

Andrew Sinclair

President and Founder

BioPharm Services Ltd, United Kingdom

Anupam Singhal, PhD

Product Manager, Antibody Therapeutics

Berkeley Lights, Inc.

Michael Sokolov

COO and Co-founder

Datahow AG

Ting Song

QC Specialist

Amgen

Rick St. John, Ph.D.

Head of Digital Sciences

Genentech, Inc

Bob St. Onge

Research Scientist

Stanford University

Mark Stockdale

Amalgamator of Business and Biology

Solentim

Felipe Tapia

Bioprocess Engineering

Max Planck Institute

Bala Thangaraj, PhD

Senior Scientist, Bioprocess Sciences & Technologies

Amgen Inc.

Mark Tié

Scientist

Biogen

Matthew Townsend, PhD

Senior Research Scientist

Cytiva

Jonathan Tsang

Director, Manufacturing Sciences & Technology Biotech, Technology Transfer

Bayer

Nobel Vale

Research Scientist II

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Joris Van de Velde

Senior Application Engineer

3M Separation and Purification Sciences Division

Arne Vandenbroucke, PhD

Senior Automation Engineer

Synthace, Ltd

Samir Varma

General Manager, Head of Manufacturing

Enzene Biosciences

Christos Varsakelis

Senior Manager Global Data Analytics & Innovation

GSK Vaccines

James Dean Vogel

Founder and Director

The BioProcess Institute

Alexei Voloshin, PhD

Biopharma Application Engineering Manager

3M

Steven Walfish

Principal Scientific Liaison

USP

Gang Wang

Scientist, Late Stage Process Development

Boehringer Ingelheim

Leah Wang

Principal Scientist

Pfizer

Yan Wang

Senior Scientist

Amgen

Dhanuka Wasalathanthri

Senior Scientist

Bristol Myers Squibb

Tristan Winneker

Product Manager

Meissner Filtration Products

Leslie Wolfe, PhD

Director, Downstream Process Development

KBI Biopharma

Yang Wu

Scientist II

Macrogenics

Jianlin (Jim) Xu, PhD

Principal Scientist

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Haiou (Hio) Yang

Director, Process Development

Avid Bioservices, Inc.

Denizhan Yilmaz

Senior Scientist

Sanofi

Bruce Yu

Professor

Maryland University

Lin Zhang, Ph.D.

Research Scientist, BioTechnology Discovery Research

Eli Lilly and Company

Marieke Zhao

Director, Cell Line Development

Mersana Therapeutics

Ji Zheng, PhD

Associate Director

Celgene

George Zhou, PhD

Research Fellow

Merck & Co., Inc.

Yizhou Zhou, PhD

Scientist II, Protein Cell Line Development

Biogen

Andrew Zydney, Ph.D.

Bayard D. Kunkle Chair and Professor of Chemical Engineering

The Pennsylvania State University