Speakers

Shenjiang (Shawn) Liu

President & CEO

Avirmax Inc.

Sharif Ahmed

Senior Product Supply Product Lead for rFVIII Products

Bayer Pharmaceuticals, USA

Aaron Almeida

Manager, Manufacturing Process Optimization

Catalent Biologics

Jeffrey Baker

Deputy Director, Office of Biotechnology Products, CDER, FDA

CDER, FDA

Lili Belcastro

Principal Scientist, Cell Therapy Raw Materials

Bristol Myers Squibb

Kapil Bharti

Earl Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator, National Eye Institute

National Institutes of Health

Travis Block

Chief Technology Officer

Cell X Technologies, USA

Thomas Bollenbach

Chief Technology Officer

Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute

Breanna Borys

PhD Candidate

PBS Biotech, Inc., USA

Jessica Carmen, PhD

US Business Development Adviser

Oxford Biomedica, USA

Trent Carrier

Chief Operating Officer

L7 Informatics, Inc., USA

Steven Cates

Chief Technology Officer

Repligen

Lina Chakrabarti

Senior Manager, R & D

Astrazeneca

Rajeshwar Chinnawar

Senior R&D Engineer

Pall Corporation, USA

Maria Cho

VP Business Development & Corporate Strategy

Dendreon, USA

Carter Cliff

Founder & CEO

Vascugen Inc., USA

Bernardo Cordovez

Chief Science Officer and Founder

Halo Labs, USA

Kathryn Corzo

Head of Development Oncology Cell Therapies

Takeda

Anthony Davies, Ph.D.

Founder & CEO

Dark Horse Consulting

Ray Davis

Consultant

RuffLife Consulting

Marianne De Backer, MBA, PhD

EVP, Head of Strategy, BD&L

Bayer

Nandu Deorkar

Vice President

Avantor

Chathuranga "Chat" DeSilva

Director of Business Development

BioCentriq, USA

David Dobnik

Senior Research Associate

National Institute of Biology, Slovenia

Lianchun Fan, Ph D.

Director of Cellular & Molecular Biology Science, Process Science

Abbvie Bioresearch Center

Miguel Forte

CEO

Bone Therapeutics, Belgium

Anna French

Principal

Qiming Venture Partners USA

Lynne Frick

Co-Head, Biologics Franchise, Resilience and Co-Executive Director

The BioInnovation Group

Shaan Gandhi

Director

Northpond Ventures

Rene Gantier

Director of Technology, Gene Therapy

Repligen

James Geiger, PhD

Field Application Scientist

PerkinElmer, USA

Chris Gemmiti, Ph.D.

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

CRISPR Therapeutics

Fabian Gerlinghaus

Co-Founder & CEO

Cellares

Ruti Goldberg

Compliance and Methods Validations Manager

Pluristem Therapeutics

Brian Goodman, PhD

Principal

MPM

Mike Graffeo

CEO & Co-Founder

FluidForm, USA

Jayanthi Grebin

Sr. Business Development Manager CGT

CPC - Colder Products Coompany

Christina Grigoriadou

Associate Director

AstraZeneca

Sadik H. Kassim

Chief Technology Officer

Vor Biopharma

Elie Hanania

Director of Upstream Process Development

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies

Andrew Hanneman

Scientific Advisor, Biologics Testing

Charles River Massachusetts, Biologics Division, USA

Charles Hill

Field Applications Scientist

Repligen

Juliette Hilliard

Director, Talent Acquisition

Novartis GT

Nathaniel Hogrebe

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Jeffrey Millman Laboratory, Washington University School of Medicine, USA

Daniel Hui

Associate Director – Product Characterization/Clinical Assay Development

Tmunity Therapeutics

Cheryl Huie

Co-Executive Director

BioInnovation Group

Gabrielle Humphrey

CMC Consultant

VECTAPLUS (formerly Adaptimmune)

Jeffrey Hung

Chief Commercial Officer

Vigene Biosciences, Inc., USA

Nithya Jesuraj

Product Manager, CGT

Bio-Techne, USA

Sunghoon Jung PhD

Senior Director of Bioprocess Research & Development

, PBS Biotech, Inc., USA

Silky Kamdar

Manager

BMS

Huan Kang

Pharmaceutical Development Scientist

Alexion

Katalin Karikó, PhD

Senior Vice President RNA Protein Replacement Therapy

BioNTech

Aleks Katane

Liver Program Manager

Miromatrix, USA

Georgios Katsikis

Postdoctoral Associate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Yasser Kehail

Single Use & Enterprise Business Development Leader

Cytiva, USA

S. Jordan Kerns, PhD

Director of Applied Biosciences

Emulate, Inc., USA

Santoshkumar Khatwani

Associate Director, Analytical Development

Sangamo Therapeutics

Paratsoo Khoshakhlagh, Ph.D.

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

GC Therapeutics, USA

Michael Klichinsky

Co-Founder and VP, Discovery Research

Carisma Therapeutics

Walter Kowtonuik

Principal

Third Rock

Ratish Krishnan

Associate Director - Cell & Gene Therapy BioProcessing

MilliporeSigma

Janet Lambert

Chief Executive Officer

Alliance for Regenerative Medicine

Ho-Tak Lau

Senior Scientist

Bristol Myers Squibb, USA

Jane Lebkowski

President

Regenerative Patch Technologies Inc., USA

Claire Leurent, Ph.D. MBA

Principal, Venture Investments

J&J

Sophia Levitskaya-Seaman

Analytical Development Scientist III, Lead PAT

Macrogenics

Raymond Luke

Associate Director, MS&T

Adaptimmune (pending final confirmation)

Marinna Madrid

Co-Founder

Cellino

Muthiah (Mano) Manoharan, PhD

Senior Vice President of Drug Discovery

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Arkadi Manukyan

Scientist, Analytical Development

Sanofi, USA

John Maraganore, PhD

Chief Executive Officer

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc

Bruno Marques

Head of Process & Product Development

Century Therapeutics

Krishanu Mathur

CMC, Early & Late Stage Gene Therapy

Voyager Therapeutics, USA

Tiffany McLamarrah

Scientist

Sanofi

Suman McLinden

Senior Scientist

Avantor

Stefano Menegatti

Associate Professor

North Carolina State University, USA

Alex Meola

Scientist II, Downstream Process Development

Homology Medicines

Sheila Mikhail

CEO & Co-Founder

AskBio

Ali Mohamed

VP, CMC

Immatics

Shashi Murthy, PhD

Founder & CTO

Flaskworks

Tam Nguyen

PhD Candidate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Vinit Nijhawan

Managing Director, MassVentures

Lecturer, Boston University, USA

Sarah Nikiforow

Asst. Professor, Stem Cell Transplantation Program, Asst. Medical Director, Cell Manipulation Core Facility

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Knut Niss

Chief Technology Officer

Mustang Bio

Courtney O'dell, MS

Senior Scientist

Avantor

Roland Pach

Project Leader

F.Hoffmann-La Roche, Switzerland

Mike Paglia

COO

Elevate Bio

Xiao Pan, PhD

Director of Bioprocessing

GenScript ProBio

Eleni Papanikolaou

Manager Hemapoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy and Graft Engineering

Miltenyi Biotec, Germany

Deborah Pascoe

Vice President of Operations

Culture Biosciences

David Peritt

Founder and CSO

Lupagen, USA

Lyndi Rice

Head of QC Viral Vector Analytical

BioMarin

Andrew Rigoglioso

Director, Talent Acquisition, Global Cell Therapy Franchise

BMS

Nadine M. Ritter, Ph.D.

President and Analytical Advisor

Global Biotech Experts, LLC

Jon A. Rowley, Ph.D.

Founder & Chief Product Officer

RoosterBio Inc.

Eva Rubio-Marrero

Senior Scientist

Bristol Myers Squibb

Ravi Samavedam

President & COO of Azzur Cleanrooms on Demand™

Azzur Group, USA

Jorge Santiago-Ortiz, Ph.D.

Director, Process Development

BioCentriq, USA

Mark Schofield

Senior Manager, Research and Development

Pall Corporation

Armon Sharei

Chief Executive Officer & Founder

SQZ Biotechnologies, USA

Susan Sharfstein, PhD

Professor of Nanobioscience, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering

SUNY Polytechnic Institute

Nagendra Singh

Senior Scientist, Downstream Process Development

Catalent Cell & Gene Therapy, USA

Devyn Smith

Chief Executive Officer

Arbor Biotechnologies, Inc.

Sarah Snykers

QC Manager

Celyad

Leon Song

Senior BD Director

GenScript ProBio

Roy Sorek

Director, Quality Assurance

bluebird bio

Raja Srinivas

Founder

Asimov

Peter Strack

Scientific VP, Integrative Sciences

Bristol Myers Squibb, USA

Ales Strancar, PhD

Managing Director

BIA Separations

Cenk Sumen

Chief Technology Officer

Stemson Therapeutics

Ashlee Sun

Field Application Specialist

Polyplus-transfection, USA

Amanda Trent

Director of Assay Development

Accellix, Inc., USA

Parth Trivedi M.S.

Team Manager

Pall Corporation, USA

Hélène Trottin

Senior Technical Specialist, Process Sciences

Pharmaron

Stacey Veysey

Director, Talent Acquisition

Vertex Pharmaceuticals, USA

James Dean Vogel

Founder and Director

The BioProcess Institute

Tom Walls

Global Planning and Logistics Lead

Spark Therapeutics, USA

Beth Webb

Chief Commerical Officer

Aldevron, USA

Silke Wissing

CSO

CEVEC

W. Hong Yeo

Assistant Professor of George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the IEN Center for Human-Centric Interfaces and Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA