2026 Speakers

Todd McDevitt

Vice President, Cell Therapy

Genentech

Arvind Natarajan

Senior Vice President, Technical Development

Iovance Biotherapeutics

Craig Malzahn

EVP, Product Development and Chief Technology Officer

Regenxbio

Mayo Pujols

CTO

Kyverna

Nelly Viseux

Vice President, Cell Therapies Development, Manufacturing, Supply & Quality

Regeneron

Robert Hofmeister

Chief Scientific Officer

CREATE Medicines

Silviu Itescu

CEO

Mesoblast

Tadayuki Tanimura

Executive Vice President

Cuorips Inc.

Angela Moore

VP, US GM, CAR-T Immunology and Oncology

Novartis

Amy Shaw

Senior Director, Process Development

Genetix Biotherapeutics

Andrew Zydney, Ph.D.

Bayard D. Kunkle Chair, Chemical Engineering

Penn State University

Bo Yan, PhD

Senior Director, Analytical Development

Beam Therapeutics

Brian Murphy

VP Cell Process Science

Arcellx

Chen Wang

Principal Scientist, GMU CMC Purification Process Development

Sanofi

Christian Uhrich

Executive Investment Director

M Ventures

Christoph Herwig

Senior Scientific Advisor

Körber Pharma Austria GmbH, Austria

Christopher Bravery

Consulting Regulatory Scientist

Advbiols

Daniel Friedman

Managing Director

BroadOak Capital

Devyn M. Smith

Chief Executive Officer

Arbor Biotechnologies

Dunie Navarro

Senior Scientist

Pfizer

Elisaveta Todorova

Associate Director of Process Development and Technology Innovation

TScan Therapeutics

Miss Eva Aning

CMMS & AI Solution Architect

Moderna

Garima Thakur

Staff Engineer

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Guillaume Cornelis

Senior Director, AD and Global Head of AS&T

Cellectis

Hari Pujar

Chief Operating Officer

Tessera Therapeutics

Hugh Gannon

Associate Director

KSQ Therapeutics

Huiyi Zhu

Head of US Project Management

ProBio

Hunter Reese

Senior Scientist

AskBio

James Blackwell

President and Principal Consultant

The Windshire Group, LLC

Jared Simons

VP, Manufacturing

Solid Biosciences Inc.

Keenan Bashour

VP, Manufacturing & Process Development

4D Molecular Therapeutics

Kelly Cybulski

Principal Scientist

Cytiva

Kevin Cognetti

Head of Corporate Strategy

Kite Pharma

Khandan Baradaran

Principal

Mill Creek Consulting LLC

Kumar Dhanasekharan, PhD

President and CEO

Gokyo Biosciences Inc.

Laura Pierce

Biomedical Engineer

NIST

Laura Stoppel

Partner

RA Capital Management

Lauren Kelly

Director of Translational Research

Siren Biotechnology

Lukas Maloney

Process Development Engineer I

Regeneron

Dr Lynn Mao

Senior Scientist

AstraZeneca

Madhuresh Sumit

Associate Director, Genomic Medicine CMC

Sanofi

Marcia Blackmoore

Chief Commercial Officer & Customer Operations

L7 Informatics, Inc.

Margit Holzer

Scientific Director

Ulysse Consult

Mariana Loperfido

Senior Expert - Cell & Gene Therapy - Analytical Development

Novartis

Mark Duerkop

Chief Executive Officer

Novasign

Matthias Müllner

CEO

bespark*bio

Minjia Wang

Analytical Development Scientist II

Prime Medicine

Muhammad "Arshad" Chaudhry

Principal Engineer

Alkermes

Nafees Rahman

Senior Director, Process Development

Nkarta, Inc.

Nathalie Clement

SVP, Vector Development

Siren Biotechnology

Neil Templeton

Director, Upstream Process Development

Solid Biosciences

Nicola Ambler

Co-Founder

CGT Circle

Philip Wills

Chief Commercial Officer

Catalent

Phillip Ramsey

CTO, SVP Technical Operations

Sangamo Therapeutics

Pooja Sabhachandani

Associate Director, Science and Technology, Cell & Gene Therapy

Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Rahul Visalakshan

Innovation Lead- Global MSAT

Legend Biotech

Dr. Rajeev Boregowda

Associate Director, Bioassay & Molecular Analytical Development, Genomic Medicine CMC

Sanofi

Rashed Harun

Scientist

Genentech

Ratnesh Joshi

Associate Director, Downstream Process Development

Editas Medicine

Richard McFarland

Chief Regulatory Officer

Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI)

Rishi Kothari

Process Development Engineer

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Ronnie Lum

Director Analytical Development, Analytical and Quality Control

BlueRock Therapeutics

Rui Tostoes

CTO

ImmuneBridge

Ryan Schweller

Associate Director, Process Development

AskBio Inc.

Scott Jeffers

Chief Technology Officer

GenSight Biologics

Sha Sha

Senior Scientist

Ultragenyx

Shahrooz Rabizadeh

CEO & Co-Founder

Sagittarius Bio, Inc

Shankar Swaminathan, PhD

Team Lead, Drug Product Development, CMC-Tech Ops

Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Shashi Murthy

Vice Provost for Global Innovation and Head, Dublin Innovation Institute

Northeastern University

Sheila Sharifzad

Process Development Scientist - Cell Therapy

Bayer

Stefano Menegatti

Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NC State University

North Carolina State University

Stephen Kennedy

Head of Technical Operations

CRISPR Therapeutics

Stephen Krause

Executive Director, Analytical Strategy, Cell Therapies Global Quality

Bristol Myers Squibb

Tatyana Matveeva

Director of cGMP Operations, Regenerative Cell Therapy

Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Tero-Pekka Alastalo

CEO

Avenue Biosciences

Therese Choquette

Chief Technical Officer

Tigen Pharma SA

Thomas Chattaway

Senior Life Science Consultant

Independent

Thorsten Gorba

VP, Process & Analytical Development

Aspen Neuroscience, Inc.

Dr Tiffany D Rau, PhD

Principal Consultant BioPharma Technical Consulting and Rau Consulting, Adjunct Professor Biochemistry and Cell Biology

University College Cork, Ireland

Vishwanath Hebbi

Senior Scientist

Merck & Co., Inc.

Dr Xinbo Zhang

Scientist II

Alexion Pharmaceuticals

Ying Cai

MSAT Executive Director

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical