Speakers

Christiana Bardon, M.D.
Co-Managing Partner
MPM BioImpact
Farideh Bischoff, Ph.D.
Chief Medical Officer & Global Head of Diagnostics
Heranova Lifesciences Inc.
Melissa Bonner, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer
nChroma Bio Inc.
Luciana Borio, M.D.
Venture Partner
ARCH Venture Partners
Marty Burke, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Chemical Innovation
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
Todd Carter, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer
Voyager Therapeutics
Hearn Jay Cho, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Medical Officer
Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
Alex Cogdill, Ph.D.
Head, Strategic Initiatives, Global Business Development
Daiichi Sankyo
Adam Cotton, Ph.D.
Associate
Novartis Venture Fund
Guillermo Del Angel, Ph.D.
Rare Disease and Data Science Head, Center for Genomics Research
AstraZeneca
Jakob Dupont, M.D.
Executive Partner
Sofinnova Investments
Stacy Feld
Global Head, External Scientific Innovation
Johnson & Johnson
Simone Fishburn, Ph.D.
VP & Editor in Chief
BioCentury Inc.
Sasha Huhalov
Head of Search and Evaluation
Takeda
Ross Jeggo, Ph.D.
Head of Neurodegeneration and Emerging Research
Biogen
Jamie Kasuboski, Ph.D.
Partner & Head of Research
Luma Group
Shana Kelley
President
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago
Sean Khozin, M.D.
CEO
CEO Roundtable on cancer
Selina Koch, Ph.D.
Executive Editor, Head of Intelligence & Research
BioCentury Inc.
Gigi Kwik Gronvall, Ph.D.
Professor, Environmental Health and Engineering
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Patrick Malone, M.D., PH.D.
Partner
KdT Ventures
Lauren Martz
Executive Director of Biopharma Intelligence
BioCentury Inc.
Frank Nestle, M.D.
Partner and Chief Executive Officer, 3DC
Deerfield Management
Stephanie Oestreich, Ph.D.
Managing Director
Myeloma Investment Fund
Jamie Orengo, Ph.D.
SVP Research, Immunology and Inflammation
Regeneron
Deborah Palestrant, Ph.D.
Executive Chair, 4:59 Initiative and Partner,
5AM Ventures
Paul Peloso, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
COUR Pharmaceuticals
Koustubh Ranade, Ph.D.
SVP and Head of Translational Medicine
Immunocore
Tay Salimullah
Venture Partner
4BIO Capital
Kate Sasser, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer
Tempus AI
Jon Sedgwick, Ph.D.
SVP & Global Head Discovery
AbbVie
Karen Tkach Tuzman, Ph.D.
Director of Biopharma Intelligence and Head of Discovery and Preclinical Research
BioCentury Inc.
Jérôme Van Biervliet, Ph.D.
Managing Director
VIB
John Wojcik, M.D., Ph.D.
Executive Director, Head Translational Molecular Biomarkers
Merck
Shanshan Xu, M.D., Ph.D.
CEO
Bambusa Therapeutics
Shann Yu, Ph.D.
Associate Director
AbbVie Ventures
Maziar Zarrehparvar
Fund Advisor
Kurma Partners
Ashley Zehnder, Ph.D.
Founder & CEO
Fauna Bio