Speakers

James Flynn

Managing Partner

Deerfield Management

Allison Jeynes-Ellis

Chief Executive Officer

Avillion LLP

Liz Barrett

President and Chief Executive Officer

UroGen Pharma

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

University Professor The Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine

Director, Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering Columbia University

Michael Aberman

President, CEO & Director

Quentis Therapeutics Inc

Gaylene Anderson, MBA

US Director, Contracts and Alliance Management

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals

Jennifer Bland

CEO

NewYorkBio

Thomas M. Brennan

Venture Partner

ARCH Venture Partners

Sarbani Chaudhuri

Global Marketing Portfolio Lead, Amyloidosis Franchise

Pfizer Rare Diseases

Ron Cohen

President and CEO

Acorda Therapeutics

Sammy Farah

CEO

Turnstone Biologics

Jenna Foger

Senior Vice President - Science & Technology

Alexandria Venture Investments

Brian Gallagher, Jr., Ph.D.

Partner

Abingworth

Maria Gotsch

President and CEO

Partnership Fund for New York City

John Gustofson

Managing Director

AbbVie Ventures

Elma Hawkins

President, CEO & Co-Founder

Redpin Therapeutics

Janneke House

Special Advisor

Office of U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Erik Lium, Ph.D

Executive Vice President

Mount Sinai Innovation Partners

Anurag Mehta

Interim Head of JLABS @ NYC & Head of Strategic Transactions, Consumer Business Development

Johnson & Johnson

Emily Minkow

Chief Business Officer

Prevail Therapeutics

Maria Mitchell PhD

Senior Vice President, Life Sciences

Empire State Development

Maria Pineda, Ph.D.

Co-Founder & CEO

Envisagenics

Nishta Rao

Managing Director

BioLabs@NYULangone

Rich Rieger

Managing Director, Life Sciences

Huron Consulting Group

Alan Rigby

CEO

HiberCell

Robert Schneider

Associate Dean for Therapeutics Alliances

NYU Cancer Institute,

Gaurav Shah

CEO & President

Rocket Pharma

Erika Smith

CEO

ReNetX Bio

Lee Taurman

Vice President, Commercial Innovation Solutions

Syneos Health

Doug Thiede

Senior Vice President of Life Sciences & Healthcare

New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC)

Nancy Thornberry

CEO

Kallyope

Anna Turetsky, Ph.D.

Principal, Venture Investments

The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research

Toral Untz

Vice President, Syneos One

Syneos Health

Misti Ushio

CEO

TARA Biosystems

John Westwood

Managing Partner

Huron Life Sciences

Ben Zeskind, Ph.D.

Co-Founder and CEO

Immuneering Corporation