Speakers

James Thomas, Ph.D.

CEO

Just Biotherapeutics

Sarah Arden

Team Lead (Acting), New Technologies and Innovation Group: Manufacturing, Methods Development, Modeling/Simulations Science and Research Staff

Office of Pharmaceutical Quality (OPQ)/Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER)

Natraj Ram, Ph.D.

Senior Director, Biologics Process Development

Alkermes

Laurie Glimcher

President & CEO

Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Jorg Thommes, PhD

Head of CMC

Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute

Ciaran Brady, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Manufacturing Science and Technology - Drug Substance

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Luk H. Vandenberghe, PhD

Director, Grousbeck Gene Therapy Center, Mass Eye and Ear and Harvard Co-Founder, Akouos, Gensight, and Odylia Therapeutics

Massachusetts Eye and Ear

Derek Adams, PhD

Chief Technology and Manufacturing Officer

Bluebird Bio

Laura Adamson-Small

Director, Upstream Development

Homology Medicines Inc

Syama Adhibhatta

Head of Data Systems and Analytics

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Richard Affleck

Scientist

Sanofi Genzyme

Taby Ahsan

Director of Development

RoosterBio Inc., USA

Christian Airiau, Ph.D

Global Head, Data Sciences - Biologics Development

Sanofi

Eric Alonzo

Scientist, Cellular Analytics

Bluebird Bio

Jogi Amit, PhD

Associate Director- Biologics Manufacturing & Operations

SYNGENE INTERNATIONAL LTD

Henrik Andersen

Vice President, Process Development

Bristol-Myers Squibb

James Angelo, Ph.D.

Scientist

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Regina Au

Principal

BioMarketing Insight

Chris Barton

Head of US Characterization

Takeda

Mario Becker

Head of Product Management Cell Culture Technologies

Sartorius Stedim NA

Jean Bender, PhD

Vice President Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology

Visterra Inc.

Sarindr Bhumiratana

CSO, Co-Founder

EpiBone, USA

Marc Bisschops, Ph.D.

Technology Director, Continuous Processing

Pall Life Sciences, Holland

Jason Bock, PhD

Head of Biologic Therapeutic Development

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Edita Botonjic-Sehic, Ph.D.

Sr. Manager, Process Analytical Technology (PAT)

Pall Corporation

Richard Braatz, PhD

Edwin R. Gilliland Professor, Faculty Research Officer

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dan Bracewell, Ph.D.

Professor of Bioprocess Analysis

University College London

James Brady, PhD

VP, Technical Applications

MaxCyte

Michael Bransby

R&D Director of Process Technology

Repligen

Tim Brantley

Engineer II Cell Culture Development

Biogen

Michael Brem

Senior Scientist, Cell Line Development

Cytovance Biologics Inc.

Jennifer Briggs Braswell, PhD

Chief Administrative Officer

ARMI, BioFab, USA

Bruce A Bunnell

Professor

Director of the Tulane Center for Stem Cell Research & Regenerative Medicine, USA

Susan Burke, Ph.D.

Director Process Development

Amgen

Ricarda Busse

Product Manager Membrane Chromatography | Separation Technologies

Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH

Melisa Carpio

Global Technology Consultant, Cell Culture Technologies

Sartorius Stedim Biotech

Derek Carroll

R&D Manager

Repligen

Andreas Castan, PhD

Principal Scientist

GE Healthcare

Edward Chan

Technical Specialist III

Genetech, Inc.

Dattananda Chelur

Lab head

Novartis

Veronique Chotteau, PhD

Researcher at KTH - Director of AdBIOPRO

AdBIOPRO - Competence Centre for Advanced Bioproduction by Continuous Process

Michael Clark

PhD., Associate Director, Biologics CMC Sciences

Abbvie

Daniella Cohen

Senior Scientist

SystImmune Inc

James Colandene, Ph.D.

Manager, Biopharmaceutical Product Sciences

GSK

Myra Coufal, PhD

Digital Integration & Predictive Technologies (DIPT), Process Development

Amgen

Susan Dana Jones, Ph.D.

SVP, Product Development

Harpoon Therapeutics Inc.

Gaston de los Reyes

CEO

SPF Technologies

Xavier de Mollerat du Jeu

Director, Product Management

Thermo Fisher Scientfic

Richard Denk

Senior Consultant Aseptic Processing & Containment.

SKAN AG

Nandu Deorkar

Vice President, Bioprocess Research & Development

Avantor

Kashappa-Goud Desai

Scientific Leader, Biopharmaceutical Product Sciences

GSK

Susan Dexter

Senior Principal Consultant

Latham BioPharm Group

Omkar Dhamale, Ph.D.

Research Investigator, Drug Product Technologies

Incyte

Jason Dictenberg

Founder, Executive Chairman

Evergreen Biosciences

Ralf Dieckhoff

VP North America

DPL-US (dba. Dr. Paul Lohmann, Inc.)

Jonathan Diep

Scientist

Amgen

Aoife Duffy

Production Manager, Regulatory Affairs and Training Manager

Centre for Cell Manufacturing Ireland (CCMI)

Becca Dunne

Process Development Engineer - Large Molecule

APC Ltd

Mark Dürkop

Scientist Department of Biotechnology and Co-Founder of “Novasign”

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences/ Novasign

Thomas Erdenberger

Global Technology Consultant Intensified Bioprocessing

Sartorius Stedim NA

Camille Evenou

Scientist

Celonic AG

Eric Falcone

Development Scientist I, Pharmaceutical Development

Alexion

Peter Ferguson

Global Market Manager

ROQUETTE

Rachel Ferguson

Associate Scientist III, Proteins Cell Line Development

Biogen

Dana Filoti

Senior Scientist

Abbvie

Ruth Frenkel

Scientist I

Biogen

Timo Frensing

Senior Scientist

Roche Diagnostics GmbH

Lynne Frick

Founder

Bioguides

David Fritsch

Senior Director, Strategic Programs, Project Management Office and Operational Excellence

Sanofi Genzyme

Keith Fritsky

Product Specialist, GORE STA-PURE Pump Tubing

Gore & Associates

Bert Frohlich, Ph.D.

Principal and Owner

Biopharm Designs, LLC

Matthew Gagnon

Principal Scientist

Pfizer

Rajiv Gangurde, Ph.D.

Director, CMC

Voyager Therapeutics

Timothy Gardner, PhD

CEO

Riffyn, Inc.

Markus Gershater, Ph.D

Chief Scientific Officer

Synthace

Hannah L. Gibbins

Lead Scientist

Lonza Biologics

John E. Gill IV

Director, Cell Line Development

Samsung BioLogics

Laurie Glimcher, MD

President and CEO

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Jeff Goby

Scientist II

Boehringer Ingelheim

Neal Gordon

Independent Consultant in biotools, biologics and diagnostics

Independent

Ingo Gorr

Director, Head of Early Stage Bioprocess Development (USP & DSP)

Boehringer Ingelheim

Julian Goy

Facilitator

BioPhorum

Lisa Graham, Ph.D.

Vice President, Analytics Engineering

Seeq

Jayanthi Grebin

Sr. Business Development Manager CGT

CPC - Colder Products Company

Luba Greenwood, J.D

Strategic Business Development and Corporate Ventures

Google

Qian Guan

Method Development Scientist II

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Paul E. Gulde, PhD

Staff Scientist, LSG: Research and Development

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Adele Gulfo

Chief of Commercial Development

Roivant Sciences

Steven Hager, Ph.D.

Senior Account Director

Catalent Pharma Solutions

Jonathan Haigh

Senior Director Bioprocess Strategy & Development

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies

David Hambly, Ph.D.

Director, Analytical and Vector Development

Atara Biotherapeutics

Matt Hammond

Principal Scientist, Process Development

Amgen

Jongyoon Han

Senior Applications Scientist and Northeast Regional Manager

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Julie Hang, PhD

Associate Director, PD Downstream

Sutro Biopharma

Joshua Hays

Associate Director of Commercial Strategy

BioContinuum™ Platform for Next Generation Bioprocessing, MilliporeSigma

Derek Hei

Senior VP, Manufacturing, Quality & Regulatory

BlueRock Therapeutics, USA

Christoph Herwig

Head Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Chemical Engineering

TU Wien, Austria

Charles Hill

Associate Engineer/Scientist

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Marc Hogreve

Senior Engineer Integrity Testing

Sartorius Stedim Biotech

Stacy Holdread

Manager, Research and Development

Advanced Bioprocessing

Linda Hoshan

Senior Scientist

Merck

Zachary Houle

Senior Development Specialist, Upstream Process Development

Takeda

Ting-Kuo Huang, PhD

Principal Engineer

Genentech

David James

Professor of Bioprocess Engineering and Director of the Advanced Biomanufacturing Centre

University of Sheffield

Indu Javeri, PhD

President and CEO

CuriRx, Inc

Michael Jenkins, PhD

Managing Director

BDO

Luka Jeromel, PhD

Senior Scientist, Downstream Process Development

Novartis

Hans Johansson

Global Applications Director, Life Sciences

Purolite Life Sciences

Jeffrey Johnson

New Technology Lead and Director, Center for BioManufacturing Sciences

Merck & Co., Inc.

Nick Johnson

Product Manager

CPC - Colder Products Company

Kirsten Jones

Manager of AS Separation Products

Sartorius Stedim NA

Christian Julien

Chief Science Officer

Meissner Filtration Products

Dharmesh Kanani, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist, Group Lead

Teva Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Yasser Kehail

Bioprocess Hardware Applications Leader

GE Healthcare

Abdul Kehail, PhD

Senior Process Development Engineer

Takeda

Michael Kennealy

Secretary, Executive Office of Housing & Economic Development

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Paul Kerr, Ph.D.

CEO

Fusion Antibodies

Anurag Khetan

Site Director, Biologics Process Development

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Gennady Khirich, Ph.D.,

Associate Scientist

Genentech

Alan Klotz, Ph.D.

Research Fellow, Pharmaceutical and Vaccine Science & Technology

Elanco Animal Health

Melvin Koch

Principal Scientist, CPAC

University of Washington

Marieke Koedood Zhao

Director, Cell Line Development

Mersana Therapeutics

Timothy Korwan

Director, New Product Development

Avantor

Steffen Kreye, Ph.D.

USP Process Development Expert

Bayer

Jeanet S.K. Kring

Senior Development Scientist, CMC API GMP Material Responsible

Novo Nordisk A/S, Denmark

Paul Kroll

Business Development Manager Lucullus

Securecell AG

Sourav Kundu, PhD

Senior Director

Teva Pharmaceuticals

Dave Lam

Manufacturing Technical Specialist

Genetech

Eric Lee

Associate Scientist II, Cell Culture Development

Biogen

Kelvin Lee

Institute Director

NIIMBL

Kenneth Lee, PhD

Senior Scientist

AstraZeneca

Peter Levison

Executive Director Business Development

Pall Life Sciences

Yolla Levitt

Vice President and General Manager 3M, SPSD

3M

Andy Lin, Ph.D.

Senior Technical Development Team Leader

Genentech, Inc.

Chiali Liu, Ph.D.

Principal Scientist

Janssen Supply Chain

Shengjiang "Shawn" Liu, Ph.D.

Chief Scientist, Pathogen Safety

Bayer Pharmaceuticals LLC

Deirdre Lowe

Senior Engineer, Protein Pharmaceutical Development

Biogen

Tom Lowry, Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer

T2 Biosystems

Nathaniel Macapagal

Scientist I, Purification Process Sciences

Astra Zeneca

Ben Madsen, Ph.D.

Process Development Engineer II

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Balrina Malik Gupta

Associate Principal Scientist

Merck & Co

Thomas Matthews

Scientist II

Biogen

Jesse McCool

Chief Technology Officer

Cytovance Biologics

Molly McGlauglhin

Senior Vice President and Global Lead, Biologics CDMO

BioLexis

Kyle McHugh

Scientist

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Krunal Mehta

Senior Scientist

Amgen

Stefano Menegatti

Scientific Advisor for Ligatrap and Assistant Professor at NC State University

LigaTrap Technologies

Jose C. Menezes, Ph.D.

CEO

4Tune Engineering

Michael Mietzner

Principle Engineer

Lonza

Tatsiana Mironava

Senior Specialist Technical Specifications

Amgen

Alessandro Mora

Principal Scientist, CMC Operations

Jounce Therapeutics

Apurva More

Scientist, Global Pharmaceutical Development Biologics

Sanofi

Sigma Mostafa, PhD

Vice President, Upstream & Downstream Process Development

KBI Biopharma

Benoit Mothes, PharmD

Head of Purification Process Development (France) & Breakthrough Technologies skill center

Sanofi

Jungmin Oh

Senior Entrepreneurial Scientist

Avantor

Helena Ohrvik, PhD

Scientist, R&D Bioprocess

GE Healthcare

Joe Orlando, Ph.D.

Principal Scientist

MilliporeSigma

Lars Pampel, Ph.D

Head, Process Sciences

Novartis

Christina Passno

Process Development Engineer III

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Prasad Pathange

Senior Manager

Bayer U.S.

Toby Peach

Coney Associate

BBC Fellow in Community Theatre, Creative Climate Leader, Theatre Maker

Maarten Pennings

Chief Technology Officer

Biosana Pharma

Cindy Perettie

CEO

Foundation Medicine

David Pollard, Ph.D.

Head, New Materials & Components, Corporate Research

Sartorius Stedim

Alison Porter

Head of Expression Systems Sciences

Lonza

Mojdeh Poul

Executive Vice President - Health Care Business Group

3M

Philip Probert, PhD

Senior Upstream Scientist

CPI Biologics

Todd Przybycien

Professor

RPI

Jean Qiu

Chief Technology Officer, Founder

Nexcelom Bioscience

Kara Quinn

Global Technical Operations Raw Material Center of Excellence

Merck & Co., Inc

Tom Ransohoff

Vice President & Principal Consultant

Bioprocess Technology Consultants

Mike Redfern

Project Manager

Intertek

Jun Ren

Data Scientist / Manufacturing Scientist

Biogen

A Representative from Amgen

.

Vikas Revankar

Head of digital Product Management - BioContinuum™ Platform

MilliporeSigma

Anne Richelle

Senior Specialist - Metabolic Modeling

GSK

Richard A. Richieri

GMP Operations

Avid Bioservices

Frank Riske, Ph.D.

Managing Director

BioProcess Technology Group

Frank Romanski, Ph.D

Head of Global Marketing

BASF

Paul Rousseau

Engineer II

Biogen

Fabien Rousset, PhD

Head of Bioseparations

Daicel Bioseparations / Chiral Technologies Inc

Janelle Rupkalvis

Field Applications Engineer

Entegris

Saurabh Saha, MD, PhD

Senior Vice President R&D and Global Head of Translational Medicine

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Andrew Sandford

VP Global Business Development Biologics

Catalent

Charles Sardonini

Director, Process Engineering/Development

Genzyme

Karen Savage

VP Site Head Milford

Rentschler Biopharma Inc.

Daniel Sayut

Senior Scientist

AbbVie

John Schreffler

Principal Scientist

Janssen R and D

Greg Sears

Global Director of Process Validation, Manufacturing Sciences and Technology

Patheon, part of ThermoFisher Scientific

Hana Sheikh

Senior Engineer, Technology Acceleration Team

Genentech

Rustin Shenkman, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Biologics Process Development

Shire HGT Inc., a Takeda Company

Sushma Shivaswamy

Chief Scientific Officer

XBiotech Inc.

Anshuman Shukla

Biophysical Expert

Intertek

Mahsa Siavashpouri

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sanofi US

Nripen Singh, Ph.D.

Associate Director, MS&T Downstream

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Rahul Singhvi, ScD

Chief Operating Officer

Takeda Vaccines, Inc.

Mark Smith

Staff Engineer, Advanced Technology Research

Thermo Fisher Scientfic

Mark A. Snyder, Ph.D.

R&D Manager, Process Chromatography Applications

Bio-Rad Laboratories

Michael Sokolov

Lecturer

ETH Zurich and COO and Co-founder, DataHow AG

Jonathan Souquet, Ph.D.

Head of Technology & Innovation, Global Development & Launch

Merck

Tom Spitznagel

Senior Vice President, BioPharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing

MarcroGenics, Inc.

Arvind Srivastava, PhD

Vice President

Avantor

Kevin Tan

Senior Scientist

FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific

Chor Sing Tan, Ph.D.

Senior Upstream Bioprocessing Applications Leader

GE Healthcare, Life Sciences

Ronen Tchelet, PhD

CSO

Dyadic International, Inc.

Bruno Tricoire

Head of Tech Transfers and leader of the Sanofi Single Use Network

Sanofi Pasteur

Konstantinos Tsioris, Ph.D.

Co-Founder and President

OneCyte Biotechnologies

Vaughn Tunstall

Site Head, Quality, Oceanside

Genentech, Inc

Michael E. Ulteemit, Ph.D.

Principal

Ulteemit BioConsulting

Elisabeth Vachette

Head of PM Bags/Mixing/Tanks

Sartorius Stedim Biotech

Kristin Valente

Director, Vaccine Technical Operations, Laboratory Process Support

Merck

Divya Vasudevan

Engineer II, Pharma Innovation, Technology and MSAT

Genentech

Pranav Vengsarkar

Sr. Research Scientist

Avantor

James Dean Vogel

Founder and Director

The BioProcess Institute

Esha Vyas

Field Applications Manager

Asahi Kasei Bioprocess America

Jason Wade

Senior Scientist - Molecular Discovery

Pfizer

Steven Walfish

Principal Scientist & Standards Liaison

USP

Zhongqiang Wang

Research Scientist

Gilead Sciences

George Weeden Jr.

Process Engineer III

Sanofi

Dalit Weinstein-Fischer

CTO

VAYU Sense

Michaela Wendeler, Ph.D.

Principal Scientist, Biopharmaceutical Development

AstraZeneca

Peter Wojciechowski

Head Drug Substance Process Development

Moderna Therapeutics

Yige Wu

Scientist II - Vector Process Development

Bluebird Bio

Gang Xue

Scientific Director, Process Analytics

Amgen

Zhiping Yao, Ph.D.

Director, Process Science

JOINN Biologics US Inc

Andrew Yongky

Scientist II,Upstream Process Development, Global Product Development and Supply

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Helen Young, PhD

Upstream Scientist

CPI, National Biologics Manufacturing Centre

Timur Yusufzai, Ph.D.

Entrepreneur In Residence

Third Rock Ventures

Joseph Zaia

Professor of Biochemistry

Boston University

Ru Zang

Associate Director

Mersana

Alicia Zeng, Ph.D.

Process Development Scientist

Amgen

Min Zhang

Director, Manufacturing Sciences and Technology (Upstream)

AstraZeneca

Weifeng (Frank) Zhang, M.S.

Vice President of BDBU Manufacturing

GenScript

Xiaoyang Zheng

Associate Director

Takeda

Jesús Zurdo

Senior Vice President Innovation

Rentschler Biopharma SE