Meet the 2026 Speakers

Dr Jack Prior

Head of Process Monitoring & Data Science/AI Strategy

Sanofi

Jon Coffman

Executive Director of Bioprocess Technology and Engineering

Astra Zeneca

Nelly Viseux

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

Regeneron

Sarfaraz Niazi, PhD

Affiliate Professor

Washington State University

Alois Jungbauer

Professor, Dept. of Biotechnology

BOKU University (BOKU)

Todd McDevitt

Vice President, Cell Therapy

Genentech

Sarwat Khattak

Head of Cell Culture and Cell Line Development

Biogen

Robert Hofmeister

Chief Scientific Officer

CREATE Medicines

Phillip Ramsey

CTO, SVP Technical Operations

Sangamo Therapeutics

Kevin Brower

Global Head of Purification Development

Sanofi

Dr Lenora Dieyi

Modeling & Simulation Engineer - Investigator, Drug Product Development

GSK

A Representative

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ATCC

Aaron Moulin

Field Applications Specialist

Ecolab Life Sciences

Aditya Walveka

Scientist

Genentech

Alaina Anand

Scientist, Upstream Process Development, Bioprocess R & D

Pfizer

Alex Vaca

Senior Engineer II

Biogen

Alex Williams

Senior Associate Scientist, Biologics Development

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Alexa Kopf

Consultant, BioProcess Technology Group (BDO) and Founder

LabScale AI

Dr Allison Tang

Senior Scientist

Merck

Alpana Naresh, Ph.D.

Chief Manufacturing Officer

Hinge Bio, Inc.

Alyssa Melville

Engineer, Cell Culture Development

Biogen (USA)

Amy Shaw

Head of Process and Product Development

Takeda

Andrea Little

Associate Research Fellow – Cell Culture

Pfizer

Andrew Zydney, Ph.D.

Bayard D. Kunkle Chair, Chemical Engineering

Penn State University

Arvind Natarajan

Senior Vice President, Technical Development

Iovance Biotherapeutics

Arvind Srivastava, Ph.D.

Senior Vice President

ThirdArcBio

Benjamin Borow

Associate Scientist

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Benjamin Ko, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Development Operations Drug Substance

Boehringer Ingelheim

Bharat Dixit

Chief Technology Officer

ClearB Therapeutics

Dr Bingyu Kuan

Scientist II

Abbvie

Bo Yan, PhD

Senior Director, Analytical Development

Beam Therapeutics

Brandon Veres

Staff Engineer

Regeneron

Brian Murphy

VP Cell Process Science

Arcellx

Chen Wang

Principal Scientist GMU CMC Purification Process Development

Sanofi

Christian Airiau, Ph.D

Global Head, Data Sciences

Sanofi

Christian Uhrich

Executive Investment Director

M Ventures

Christina Passno

Senior Staff Engineer

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Christoph Herwig

Senior Scientific Advisor

Körber Pharma Austria GmbH, Austria

Christopher Bravery

Consulting Regulatory Scientist

Advbiols

Craig Malzahn

EVP, Product Development and Chief Technology Officer

Regenxbio

Dr Daniel Yur

Senior Scientist

Merck

Daniel Friedman

Managing Director

BroadOak Capital

Daniela Espinosa Hoyos

Principal Scientist

Sanofi

Deniz Temel

Director, CMC & Analytical Development

Third Arc Bio

Devyn M. Smith

Chief Executive Officer

Arbor Biotechnologies

Dong Seong Cho

Technical Development Associate Scientist

Genentech

Dunie Navarro

Senior Scientist

Pfizer

Dylan Frabutt

Research Scientist

Elanco

Eashwar Rajaraman

Principal Scientist I

Novartis

Elisabeth Krug

Executive Director

Eli Lilly & Company

Elisaveta Todorova

Associate Director, Process Development and Technology Innovation

TScan Therapeutics

Eva Aning

Co-Founder & CEO

Quintess Quality AI

Garima Thakur

Staff Engineer

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Gavin Wild

Associate Director

UCB

Dr Gayatri Dhara

Principal Scientist

Pfizer

Gill Roth

Founder & President

Pharma & Biopharma Outsourcing Association

Dr Gregory Zarbis-Papastoitsis, Ph.D

Chief Process and Manufacturing Officer

Ankyra

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

Hunter Reese

Senior Scientist

AskBio

Ihita Banik

PhD Candidate, Department of Chemical Engineering

Pennsylvania State University

Jacqualyn Schulman, Ph.D.

Principal Scientist, Cell Line Development & ‘Omics Biologics Development

Bristol-Myers Squibb

James Blackwell

President and Principal Consultant

The Windshire Group, LLC

Jared Auclair, PhD

Dean Northeastern University College of Professional Studies, Director of Bioinnovation

Northeastern University

Jared Simons

VP, Manufacturing

Solid Biosciences Inc.

Jesse Fisher

Senior Associate Scientist

Gilead

Jian Ren, Ph.D.

Principal Scientist

AbbVie

Jin Xu

Senior Scientist

AstraZeneca

Jin Yu

Senior Scientist, Process Development Downstream

Amgen

Jonathan Forstrom

Director, Manufacturing Science and Technology

Sanofi

Jonathan Jones

Manager, Microbial-Upstream

CPI

Joseph Pekny

Professor, Chemical Engineering

Purdue University

Kabir Dhingra

Senior Scientist

Merck

Keenan Bashour

VP, Manufacturing & Process Development

4D Molecular Therapeutics

Kelly Wei

Associate Director

AstraZeneca

Ken Lee

Director

AstraZeneca

Khandan Baradaran

Principal

Mill Creek Consulting LLC

Kumar Dhanasekharan, PhD

President and CEO

Gokyo Biosciences Inc.

Lalitha Ramasubramanian

Senior Scientist

Gilead Sciences

Dr Laura Greenfield

Senior Scientist

Pfizer

Miss Laura Pierce

Biomedical Engineer

NIST

Laura Stoppel

Partner

RA Capital Management

Lauren Kelly

Director of Translational Research

Siren Biotechnology

Lea Wagner

Product Manager

INFORS HT

Dr Lei Wang

Principal Scientist

Gilead Sciences

Lukas Maloney

Process Development Engineer I

Regeneron

Dr Lynn Mao

Senior Scientist

AstraZeneca

Madhuresh Sumit

Associate Director, Genomic Medicine CMC

Sanofi

Manasi Nawathe

Scientist I

Macrogenics

Margit Holzer

Scientific Director

Ulysse Consult

Dr Mark Blenner

Professor

University of Delaware

Mark Duerkop

Chief Executive Officer

Novasign

Mark Shannon, Ph.D.

Associate Director of Operations

Abbvie

Martin Kockx

Principal Manufacturing Systems Engineer

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Dr Matthew Rittler

Strategic Innovative Leader in Biologics Manufacturing Operations

AstraZeneca

Matthias Müllner

CEO

bespark*bio

May Zhu

Director

Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Mayo Pujols

CTO

Kyverna

Michael Betenbaugh

Professor, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Johns Hopkins University

Dr Mike Lucas (pending final confirmation)

Senior Scientist

AbbVie

Minjia Wang

Analytical Development Scientist II

Prime Medicine

Muhammad "Arshad" Chaudhry

Principal Engineer

Alkermes

Nafees Rahman

Senior Director, Process Development

Nkarta, Inc.

Nathalie Clement

VP Vector Development for Translational Gene Therapies

Siren Biotechnology

Dr Nathan Lewis

Professor, Co-Founder

University of Georgia, NeuImmune

Neil Templeton

Director, Upstream Process Development

Solid Biosciences

Paul Rousseau

Sr. Engineer II, Cell Line Development

Biogen

Dr Pernesso Geffrard

Scientist

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Miss Preeya Boppana

Director Manufacturing Science & Technology

AstraZeneca

Dr Qingxuan Li

Principal Scientist

Sanofi

Dr. Rajeev Boregowda

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

Sanofi

Rajlaxmi Deshpande

Associate Scientist II

Alexion Pharmaceuticals

Ramona Cheriaparambil

PhD Student

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Dr Ran Chen

Associate Director of Process Development Downstream

Henlius Bioscience

Rashed Harun

Scientist

Genentech

Dr Rashmi Korke-Kshirsager

Bioprocessing Expert

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Ratnesh Joshi

Associate Director, Downstream Process Development

Editas Medicine

Renée Hart

President & Chief Business Officer

LumaCyte

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.

Sarah Kenney

Bioanalytical Scientist

MilliporeSigma

Sarah Scully

Scientist, Purification Process Development

Pfizer

Sebastien Latapie

Partner

AVANT BIO

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

Sheila Sharifzad

Process Development Scientist - Cell Therapy

Bayer

Siddhartha (Sidd) Shrivastava, PhD

SVP, Head of CMC and Global Technical Operations

Cue Biopharma

Sigma Mostafa, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer

KBI Biopharma

Silviu Itescu

CEO

Mesoblast

Skaison Kim

Sr. Staff Engineer, Process Development

Takeda

Dr Sowmya Balasubramanian

Associate Director, Cell Line Development

Gilead Sciences

Dr Stefan Schmidt

Advisor

Optigenomics Ltd

Stefano Menegatti

Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NC State University

North Carolina State University

Stephan Krause

Executive Director, Analytical Strategy, Cell Therapies Global Quality

Bristol Myers Squibb

Stephen Kennedy

Head of Technical Operations

CRISPR Therapeutics

Tadayuki Tanimura

Executive Vice President

Cuorips Inc.

Tania Chakraborty Kelly

Senior Scientist

Merck

Tatyana Matveeva

Director of cGMP Operations, Regenerative Cell Therapy

Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Therese Choquette

Chief Technical Officer

Tigen Pharma SA

Thomas Chattaway

Senior Life Science Consultant

Independent Consultant

Dr Thomas Fuerst

Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics Director, Center Glycoengineering of Advanced Biologics

University of Maryland

Thomas Jostock, PhD

Associate Director

Novartis

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

Till Briskot

Senior Scientist

Boehringer Ingelheim

Tom Gervais

Vice President, Manufacturing

Macrogenics

Dr Tomohiro Makino

Senior Director, Head of Cell Line Development at Bioprocess Technology Research Laboratory II

Daiichi Sankyo

Tyler Koop

Vice President, Global Commercial, Cell Therapy

Bristol Myers Squibb

Utsavi Sevak

Senior Associate Scientist, Bioprocess Development

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Valerie Cusick

Director

Regeneron

Dr Veera Padmanabhan

Head of Manufacturing Sciences & Technology

AstraZeneca

Verzhiniya Aho

Senior Scientist

Pfizer

Vishwanath Hebbi

Senior Scientist

Merck & Co., Inc.

Dr Wei Lu

Senior Staff Engineer

Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Xiaofeng Lu, Ph.D.,

Principal Research Scientist,

AbbVie

Dr Xiaolin Zhang

Associate Principal Scientist

Merck & Co

Dr Xinbo Zhang

Scientist II

Alexion Pharmaceuticals

Yang Li Ph.D.

Vice President, CMC Development

Altruist Biologics

Yi Li

Principal Scientist

Amgen, Inc.

Yi Wang

Senior Scientist

Merck

Yifeng Xu

Principal Scientist

Pfizer

Dr Yizhou Zhou

Director, Cell Line Development & Engineering

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Younghoon Oh

Senior Scientist

J&J Innovative Medicine

Dr Yu Yuan

Senior Data Scientist

Amgen

Dr Yun Bai

Executive Vice President of CMC

Santa Ana Bio

Dr Yuxiang (Henry) Zhao

Senior Scientist

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Duncan Omune

Senior Director of MSAT

Lonza

Sanjay Kumar

Senior Subject Matter Expert

Lonza Bioscience, USA

Scott Wilson

Director of Raw Material & Manufacturing Innovation R&D

MilliporeSigma

Lior Shaltiel

CEO

NurExone Biologic

Udayanath Aich, Ph.D.

Associate Director

Bristol Myers Squibb