Meet our Speakers

Thomas Van Cangh

Deputy Head of Unit - DG SANTE

European Commission

Thibaut Angevin

Director CMC Proteins

BioNTech SE

Gearóid Duane

Senior Principal Scientist

Bristol Myers Squibb, Cruiserath Biologics

Francisca Gouveia

Innovation Data & Digital Lead

Novartis, France

Dr. Mark Duerkop

Chief Executive Officer

Novasign, Austria

Frank Agbogbo

Vice President

Forge Biologics, USA

Hollie Bartley

Director, Process Development

Resolution Therapeutics

Mr Jason Beckwith

Research Group Lead

University of Dundee

Mr Ignasi Bofarull-Manzano

Industrial PhD Candidate, CMC Data Scientist and Consultant

RWTH Aachen University

Maria Boulieri

Lead Privacy Counsel

Chiesi Group

Michael Butler

Principal Investigator, Cell Technology

NIBRT

Johannes Buyel

Head of Department

BOKU, Austria

Thomas Chattaway

Senior Life Science Consultant

Independent

Lekan Daramola

Consultant

LD BioConsulting Limited

Maria del Carme Pons Royo

Postdoctoral Associate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Dr Lasse Ebdrup Pedersen

Associate Professor

The Technical University of Denmark

Alireza Ehsani

Senior Data Scientist - Upstream Process Development

Boehringer Ingelheim

Steven Fuller

Founder & Director

Race in STEM

Terri Gaskell (Pending Final Confirmation)

CTO

Rinri Therapeutics

A Representative from Genmab

(Pending Final Confirmation)

Genmab

Mario Gimona

Head of R&D 'Nanovesicular Therapeutics'

Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Nanovesicular Precision Medicine & Paracelsus Medical University, Austria

Andrew Harmon

Associate Manager, Strategic Consulting

Sia Partners

Margit Holzer

Scientific Director

Ulysse Consult

Moo Sun Hong

Assistant Professor

Seoul National University

Volker Huppert

Chief Development Officer

Glycostem Therapeutics

A Representative from Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

(Pending Final Confirmation)

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Manel Juan

Head of the Immunology Department

Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Spain

Alois Jungbauer

Professor, Dept. of Biotechnology

University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences

Rifat Kamarudheen

MSAT Emerging Tech Sr Scientist

Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicines

Kat Kozyrytska

Founder

Cell Therapy Manufacturability Program

Preethi Krishnaraj

Post.Doc

Boehringer Ingelheim

Dzulija Kuzmenko

Sr. Scientist Biologics AD

Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicines

Prof. Dr. Dong-Qiang Lin

Professor

Zhejiang University

Pablo Mancheño Corvo

Associate Scientific Director

Takeda, Spain

Paula Meleady

Associate Professor, School of Biotechnology

Dublin City University

Stefano Menegatti

Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NC State University

North Carolina State University

Matthias Müllner

CEO

bespark*bio

Peter Neubauer

Chair for Bioprocess Engineering

Berlin University of Technology (TU Berlin), Germany

A Representative from Novartis

(Pending Final Confirmation)

Novartis

Michael Palige, PhD

Drug Substance CMC Lead - Biotherapeutics Process Development Europe

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

Nic Preyat

Associate Director, CMC Development

UCB Pharma

Subash Ramamoorthy

Principal Automation & Robotics

Bayer AG

Dr Tiffany Rau, PhD

Adjunct Professor Biochemistry and Cell Biology

University College Cork, Ireland

Harsha Reddy Borra

Group Leader – Biosimilar Development

Accord Healthcare Limited, UK

Dr Ulrich Rumenapp

Senior Biotech Program Lead

Bayer AG

Peter Satzer

Founder & CTO

print4biotech (p4b)

Sebastian Schwaminger

Associate Professor

Medical University of Graz

Lior Shaltiel

CEO

NurExone Biologic

Sabrina Simpson-Koch

Senior Scientist - Gene Therapy Technical Research & Development

Roche

Harry Starkey

Research Manager

Informa Connect

Dr. Andy Wiranata Wijaya

Bioprocess Development Lead

Nestlé Product Technology Center

Felix Wittkopp

Director of Purification Development Gene Therapy - Gene Therapy Technical Research & Development

Roche, Germany

Dr. Christian Witz

CEO

SimVantage GmbH

Dr. Bhagya Yatipanthalawa

Research Fellow

The University of Melbourne / ARC Digital Bioprocess Development Hub

Ernest Šprager

Expert Science & Technology, DSPD

Novartis Technical Research & Development