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)

Kiran Andra

Scientist

Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc

Kathryn Aron, Ph.D.

Group Leader, Cell Culture Process Development

Bristol-Myers Squibb

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

Brendan Bishop

Associate Engineer/Scientist

Bristol-Myers Squibb

John Bowers

Senior Principal Scientist

Merck

Kristi Budzinski

Principal Product Stewardship Program Manager

Genentech

Michael Butler

Principal Investigator in Cell Technology

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

David Chiu

Scientist

Seattle Genetics

Colin Clarke, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

National Institute for Bioprocessing

Craig Curless

Senior Director of Manufacturing

Macrogenics, Inc.

Susan Dana Jones, Ph.D.

SVP, Product Development

Harpoon Therapeutics Inc.

Christine DeMaria

Director, Cell Line Development

Sanofi, (pending final confirmation)

Juliane Diedrich

Sr. Associate Scientist

Amgen

Julia Ding, PhD

Director, Process Development Analytical & Analytical Development

Bristol Myers Squibb

Weibing Ding, PhD

Director

GSK

Brandon Downey

Principal Engineer

Lonza

Zorica Dragic

Unit Head Cell Line Screening and Development

Novartis

Yves Durocher, PhD

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

National Research Council Canada

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.

Jishna Ganguly

Associate Research Scientist

GSK

Boris Gorovits

Bioanalytical Sciences Lead, Senior Director

Pfizer BioMedicine Design, USA

Uwe Gottschalk, Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer

Lonza

Rob Guenard, PhD

Senior Director, Global Manufacturing Science

Biogen

Troii Hall, M.S.

Associate Consultant Chemist, Bioprocess Research & Development

Eli Lilly and Company

Matthew Hammond, Ph.D.

Principal Scientist

Amgen

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

Sung Ho Hahm

CEO

Rophibio Inc.

Andrew Holloway

Senior Research Associate

Seattle Genetics

Moo Sun Hong

Postdoc

MIT

Justin Horvath

Director of Manufacturing Sciences

REGENXBIO Inc

Ping Huang, PhD

Director, BioProcess Development

Abbvie

Ting-Kuo Huang, PhD

Principal Engineer

Genentech

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

George Joseph Christ

Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery

University of Virginia

Jonathan Kingsbury

Head of Developability & Pre-formulation

Sanofi

Tae Kwang Ha

Specialist

Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, DTU

James Lambropoulos

Engineer

Biogen

David Lee

Research Associate III

Seattle Genetics

Nathan Lewis, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics

University of California, San Diego

Benson Li

Associate Principal Scientist

Merck

Mengyao Li

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

Novartis Pharma AG

Doug MacDonald

Senior Scientist

Seattle Genetics

Aaron Mack

Engineer III

Biogen

Seth Madren

Scientist II

Biogen

Padmadhar Madupu, MS

Technical Manager

Pfizer

Anke Mayer-Bartschmid,

Cell and Protein Sciences, Pharmaceuticals Division,

Bayer Pharma

Shahram Misaghi, PhD

Senior Scientist

Genentech, Inc

Mustafa Munye

Lead Scientist

Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult

Thomas Müller-Späth, PhD

Director, R&D Life Science Systems

ChromaCon AG, Switzerland

David Page

Director, MS&T (Manufacturing Sciences & Technology)

KBI Biopharma

Josefine Persson, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Purification Development

Genentech

Nuno Pinto, PhD

Associate Principle Scientist

Merck & Co., Inc.

Daryl Powers, PhD

Head US Upstream Cell Culture Development

Sanofi

Igor Quinones-Garcia, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Biologics Development

Mersana Therapeutics

Dot Reilly, MS

Senior Technical Development Leader

Genentech

Michael Roberts

Chief Technology Officer (Europe)

Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc.

Kelly Sackett

Principal Scientist

Pfizer

Richa Sarin

Scientist, Technical Development

Biogen

Joe Sexton

Principal Technical Specialist

Genentech

Hana Sheikh

Senior Engineer

Roche-Genentech

Bonnie Shum

Senior Engineer

Genentech

Andrew Sinclair

President and Founder

BioPharm Services Ltd, United Kingdom

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

Felipe Tapia

Bioprocess Engineering

Max Planck Institute

Barbara Tevelev

Senior Scientist, Molecular Discovery, Cell Line Development, Bioprocess Research and Development

Pfizer

Bala Thangaraj, PhD

Senior Scientist, Bioprocess Sciences & Technologies

Amgen Inc.

Mark Tié

Scientist

Biogen

Jonathan Tsang

Director, Manufacturing Sciences & Technology Biotech, Technology Transfer

Bayer

Nobel Vale

Research Scientist II

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Renata Varga, Ph.D.

Sr. Scientist

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

Gang Wang

Scientist, Late Stage Process Development

Boehringer Ingelheim

Leah Wang

Senior Scientist

Pfizer

Yan Wang

Senior Scientist

Amgen

Dhanuka Wasalathanthri

Senior Scientist

Bristol Myers Squibb

Yang Wu

Scientist II

Macrogenics

Jianlin (Jim) Xu, PhD

Principal Scientist

Bristol-Myers Squibb

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