Speakers

Katalin Karikó, PhD

Senior Vice President RNA Protein Replacement Therapy

BioNTech

John Maraganore, PhD

Chief Executive Officer

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc

Hao Chen, PhD

Head of Cell & Viral Drug Substance

GSK Vaccines

Charles Sardonini

R&D Director

Sanofi

Natraj Ram, Ph.D.

Senior Director, Vaccine Process Development

Takeda

Chris Gemmiti, Ph.D.

Executive Director of Technical Operations; Head of Early Stage CMC and Product Launch Programs

CRISPR Therapeutics

Xiaotong Fu, PhD

Sr. Engineer

Biogen

Roy Sorek

Director, Quality Assurance

bluebird bio

Hanne Bak, Ph.D.

Senior Vice President, Pre-clinical Manufacturing & Process Development

Regeneron Pharmaceutical, Inc.

Shenjiang (Shawn) Liu

President & CEO

Avirmax Inc.

Anne Altmeyer

Formerly, CBO

Sigilon Tx

Sarah Auclair

Scientist

Sanofi

Andrew Barmasse

Regeneron

Lili Belcastro

Senior Scientist, Cell Therapy Dev and Ops (CTDO), Technical Center of Excellence (TCoE) for Early Development Raw Materials

BMS

Kapil Bharti

Earl Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator, National Eye Institute

National Institutes of Health

Shanta Boddapati

Senior Scientist

Seagen

Jose Bonfiglio

Research Fellow

Roche

Ehsan Borujeni

Principal Scientist, Global BioProcess Development, Downstream

Bristol-Myers Squibb

A Representative from BPOG

BPOG

Dan Bracewell, Ph.D.

Professor of Bioprocess Analysis

University College London

Alexander Brix, Ph.D.,

Head of Laboratory ATMP II

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG

Lina Chakrabarti

Senior Manager, R & D

Astrazeneca

Dattananda Chelur

Lab head

Novartis

Jia Chen

Quality Control Technical Manager, Department of Analytical Development and Quality Control

Genentech, Roche

Veronique Chotteau, PhD

Director

AdBIOPRO - Competence Centre for Advanced Bioproduction by Continuous Process

Kathryn Corzo

Head of Development Oncology Cell Therapies

Takeda Oncology

Steve Cramer, Ph.D.

Walker Professor

RPI

Amlan Das

CMC Biologics

Teva Pharmaceuticals

Anthony Davies, Ph.D.

Founder & CEO

Dark Horse Consulting

Marianne De Backer, MBA, PhD

EVP, Head of Strategy, BD&L

Bayer AG

Roland DeAngelis

SVP, Commercial Operations

Vericel (pending final confirmation)

Vasell Dillard

Director of Supply Chain

Macrogenics

Julia Ding, PhD

Head, Global Process Analytics

Bristol Myers Squibb

Fabien Dorange

Head Analytical CMC

Genethon

Lisa D’Costa, MSc.

Senior Process Development Associate, Downstream Process Development

KBI Biopharma

Kris Elverum

SVP, BD & Strategy

Rubius Tx

Andrew Falconbridge

Vice President of Process Technology and Innovation

Alvotech

Lianchun Fan, Ph D.

Director of Cellular & Molecular Biology Science, Process Science

Abbvie Bioresearch Center

Miguel Forte

Chief Executive Officer

Bone Therapeutics

Shinichiro (Shin) Fuse, Ph.D.

Managing Director

MPM Capital

Shaan Gandhi

Director

Northpond Ventures

Fabian Gerlinghaus

Co-Founder & CEO

Cellares

Ruti Goldberg

Compliance and Methods Validations Manager

Pluristem

Brian Goodman, PhD

Partner

MPM

Francisca Gouveia, Ph.D

Senior Process Expert, MS&T

Novartis

Jennifer Griffin

VP Industrial Strategy & Investments

Mass Life Sciences

Sadik H. Kassim

Chief Technology Officer

Vor Biopharma

Michael Hausladen

Devens Cell Therapy Facility Program Lead

BMS (pending final confirmation)

Juliette Hilliard

Director, TA

Novartis GT

Zachary Houle

Senior Development Specialist, Upstream Process Development

Takeda

Yue Hu, Ph.D.,

Scientist, Material Sciences

Janssen

Daniel Hui

Associate Director – Product Characterization/Clinical Assay Development

Tmunity Therapeutics

Gabrielle Humphrey

CMC Consultant

VECTAPLUS (formerly Adaptimmune)

Lara Ionescu Silverman

Senior Director, Research & Development

DiscGenics

Ramesh Iyer, Ph.D.

Principal Research Scientist II, Global Protein Sciences

AbbVie Inc.

Jeff Johnson

President

Biotech Design, LLC

Silky Kamdar

Manager

BMS

Georgios Katsikis

Postdoctoral Associate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Santoshkumar Khatwani

Associate Director, Analytical Development

Sangamo Therapeutics

Michael Klichinsky

Co-Founder and VP, Discovery Research

Carisma Therapeutics

Sushma Kommareddy

Director, Head of Drug product Development

Takeda Vaccines

Cleo Kontoravdi

Senior Lecturer,

Imperial College London

Walter Kowtonuik

Principal

Third Rock

Janet Lambert

Chief Executive Officer

Alliance for Regenerative Medicine

Julia Leach

Senior Scientist, Analytical

Centre for Process Innovation Limited

Sophia Levitskaya-Seaman

Analytical Development Scientist III, Lead PAT

Macrogenics

Wenyan Liao

ASQ Certified Quality Auditor, Sr. QA Disposition, External Biologics (Global Quality)

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

Raymond Luke

Associate Director, MS&T

Adaptimmune, USA

Robert Luo

Scientific Director, BioPharm Process Development

GSK

Marinna Madrid

Co-Founder

Cellino

Muthiah (Mano) Manoharan, PhD

Senior Vice President of Drug Discovery

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Bruno Marques

Head of Process & Produt Development

Century Therapeutics

Krishanu Mathur

CMC, Early & Late Stage Gene Therapy

Voyager Therapeutics, USA

Robert Mayer

GDD TRD biologics

Novartis

Kyle McHugh

Scientist

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Tiffany McLamarrah

Scientist

Sanofi

José Menezes, Ph.D.,

Chairman

4Tune Engineering

Alex Meola

Scientist II, Downstream Process Development

Homology Medicines

Tanya Mezhebovsky, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Injectable Drug Product Development

Alexion Pharmaceuticals

Sheila Mikhail

CEO & Co-Founder

AskBio

Ali Mohamed

Vice President, CMC

Immatics, USA

Nick Morse

Scientist, Upstream Process Development

Alexion

Manal Morsy, MD, PhD, MBA

Senior Vice President, Head Global Regulatory Affairs

Athersys, Inc.

Rachel Mullen

Senior Analytical Scientist

Regeneron

Steve M. Muller

Senior Manager, IT for GPS – Global Quality

Bristol Myers Squibb

Shashi Murthy, PhD

Founder & CTO

Flaskworks

William Napoli

Scientist

Sanofi

Tam Nguyen

PhD Candidate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Sarah Nikiforow

Clinical Instructor of Medicine

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Knut Niss

Chief Technology Officer

Mustang Bio

Michal Preminger, Ph.D., MBA

Head, Johnson & Johnson Innovation East North America

J&J

Lior Raviv

Vice President Development & Operations

Pluristem Therapeutics Inc.

Kareem Reda

CBO

Elevate Bio

Kelvin Rembert

Scientist

Sanofi

Jian Ren, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

AbbVie

Lyndi Rice

Head of QC Viral Vector Analytical

BioMarin

Andrew Rigoglioso

Associate Director, TA, Cell Therapy Development & Ops

BMS

Nadine Ritter

President and Analytical Advisor

Global Biotech Experts, LLC.

Richard Rogers, Ph.D.

Associate Director

Bristol-Myers Squib

Jon A. Rowley, Ph.D.

Founder & Chief Product Officer

RoosterBio Inc.

Eva Rubio-Marrero

Scientist I, CLD, Drug Substance-Biologics

BMS

Shefali Shah

Independent Consultant

Indi

Gregory Shimamura

Process Scientist

Boehringer Ingelheim

Khandaker Siddiquee, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Abbott Labartories

Naveenkumar Singh, Ph.D.

Scientist II, Process Development – Downstream

Ambrx

Devyn Smith

Chief Operating Officer

Sigilon Therapeutics

Sarah Snykers

Cell Therapy Manufacturing Director

Celyad

Raja Srinivas

Founder

Asimov

Cenk Sumen

Chief Technology Officer

Stemson Therapeutics

Stuart Taylor

Analytical Development Scientist, CMC Analytical Development

Gyroscope

Garima Thakur

Researcher

Indian Institute of Technology

Alayna Thomspson

Sr Research Scientist II, NBE ARD

AbbVie Inc

Hélène Trottin

Senior Technical Specialist, Process Sciences

Allergan Biologics (an Abbvie company)

Georgette Verdin

Chief HRO

Avrobio

James Dean Vogel

Founder and Director

The BioProcess Institute

Tom Walls

Global Planning and Logistics Lead

Spark Therapeutics

Gang Wang

Scientist, Late Stage Process Development

Boehringer Ingelheim

Adam Washburn

Senior Research Scientist

Eli Lilly

Greg White

Senior Director , Global Market Access Policy

Janssen

Kristin Wolff

Senior Director, Global Government Affairs & Public Policy

Bluebird

Feng Xu

Senior Scientist

Merck

Lihua Yang

Principal Scientist, Bioprocess Development

AbbVie

Linda Yi

Senior Scientist, Analytical Development

Biogen

Christopher Yu, Ph.D.

Director, Protein Analytical Chemistry Quality Control

Genentech

Sisi Zhang, Msc.

Lead Research Specialist, Analytical Chemistry

Regeneron