Speakers

Nadine Ritter, Ph.D.

President and Analytical Advisor

Global Biotech Experts, LLC

Anthony Mire-Sluis

Head of Global Quality

AstraZeneca

Matt Shields

VP and Global Head of Specialty Care Manufacturing

Sanofi

Jeffrey Baker

Deputy Director, Office of Biotechnology Products, CDER, FDA

CDER, FDA

Kitty Agarwal

Senior Scientist, Biologics Process Development

Bristol-Myers Squibb, (pending final confirmation)

Christian Airiau, Ph.D

Global Head of Data Sciences & Biologics Development

Sanofi

Sally Alkass

Associate Director

Biogen

Kiran Andra

Scientist

Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc

Kathryn Aron, Ph.D.

Group Leader, Cell Culture Process Development

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Sarah Auclair

Scientist

Sanofi

Priya Baraniak

Scientist

RoosterBio

Michael Betenbaugh

Professor

Johns Hopkins University

Brendan Bishop

Associate Engineer/Scientist

Bristol-Myers Squibb

John Bowers

Senior Principal Scientist

Merck

Lars Brandén

Science Advisor

BioProcess International Academy

Michael Butler

Principal Investigator in Cell Technology

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

Alejandro Carpy

Group Leader

Roche

Lina Chakrabarti

Senior Manager, R & D

Astrazeneca

Weiqiang Cheng, Ph.D.

Principal Scientist

Takeda

David Chiu

Scientist

Seattle Genetics

Christine DeMaria

Director, Cell Line Development

Sanofi, (pending final confirmation)

Weibing Ding

Director

GSK

Julia Ding, PhD

Director, Process Development Analytical & Analytical Development

Bristol Myers Squibb

Brandon Downey

Principal Engineer

Lonza

Anita E.Tolouei

Scientist I

KBI Biopharma

Lianchun Fan, Ph D.

Director of Cellular & Molecular Biology Science, Process Science

Abbvie Bioresearch Center, (pending final confirmation)

Michael Francis

Chief Science Officer & Founder

Embody Inc.

Patrick Gammell

Executive Director

Amgen

Boris Gorovits

Bioanalytical Sciences Lead, Senior Director

Pfizer BioMedicine Design, USA

Rob Guenard, PhD

Senior Director, Global Manufacturing Science

Biogen

Charles Heise, Ph.D.

Senior Staff Scientist

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies

Christoph Herwig

Bioprocess Engineering Professor

TU Wien, Austria

Oliver Hesse

Director, Lab Automation and Data Management, Biological Development

Bayer Healthcare LLC

Monika Heydt

Associate Director

Merck & Co., Inc.

Gregory Hiller

Research Fellow

Pfizer

Moo Sun Hong

Postdoc

MIT

Justin Horvath

Director of Manufacturing Sciences

REGENXBIO Inc

Ting-Kuo Huang, PhD

Principal Engineer

Genentech

Marianthi Ierapetritou

Bob and Jane Gore Centennial Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

University of Delaware

Barrett J. Nehila

Associate Director, Analytical Development

Torque Therapeutics

Jan Jensen

CEO and Founder

Trailhead Biosystems Inc.

George Joseph Christ

Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery

University of Virginia

James Lambropoulos

Engineer

Biogen

Benson Li

Associate Principal Scientist

Merck

Seth Madren

Scientist II

Biogen

Rizwan Manzer

Director of CMC and Manufacturing

Verseau Therapeutics

Anke Mayer-Bartschmid,

Cell and Protein Sciences, Pharmaceuticals Division,

Bayer Pharma

Mary Clare McCorry

Director, Technology and Process Development

Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI)

Steve Oh

Director Stem Cell Bioprocessing & Institute Professor,

A*Star, Singapore

Pietro Perrone

Automation Process Engineer

GE Healthcare

Daryl Powers, PhD

Head US Upstream Cell Culture Development

Sanofi

Michael Roberts

Chief Technology Officer (Europe)

Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc.

Kelly Sackett

Principal Scientist

Pfizer

Ryan Sanford

Sr. Associate Scientist

Biogen

Hana Sheikh

Senior Engineer

Roche-Genentech

Lara Ionescu Silverman

Senior Director, Research and Development

DiscGenics

Andrew Sinclair

President and Founder

BioPharm Services Ltd, United Kingdom

Michael Sokolov

COO and Co-founder

Datahow AG

Yaping Sun

Senior Scientist

Takeda

Jonathan Tsang

Director, Manufacturing Sciences & Technology Biotech, Technology Transfer

Bayer

Eugene Tung

Executive Director of Manufacturing IT

Merck

Andreas Unsoeld

Head of Cell Culture Media

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG

Renata Varga, Ph.D.

Scientist - Characterization, Analytical Sciences, Global Biological CMC

Teva Pharmaceuticals

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

Steven Walfish

Principal Scientific Liaison

USP

Yan Wang

Senior Scientist

Amgen

Yang Wu

Scientist II

Macrogenics

Feng Xu

Sr. Scientist

Merck

Linda Yi

Senior Scientist, Analytical Development

Biogen

Bruce Yu

Professor

Maryland University

Lin Zhang, Ph.D.

Research Scientist, BioTechnology Discovery Research

Eli Lilly and Company

George Zhou, PhD

Research Fellow

Merck & Co., Inc.