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.

Hari Pujar

Chief Operating Officer

Tessera Therapeutics

Phillip Ramsey

CTO, SVP Technical Operations

Sangamo Therapeutics

Kumar Dhanasekharan, PhD

President and CEO

Gokyo Biosciences Inc.

Bo Yan, PhD

Senior Director, Analytical Development

Beam Therapeutics

Ratnesh Joshi

Associate Director, Downstream Process Development

Editas Medicine

Shankar Swaminathan, PhD

Team Lead, Drug Product Development, CMC-Tech Ops

Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Dr. Rajeev Boregowda

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

Sanofi

James Blackwell

President and Principal Consultant

The Windshire Group, LLC

Daniel Friedman

Managing Director

BroadOak Capital

Laura Stoppel

Partner

RA Capital Management

Christian Uhrich

Executive Investment Director

M Ventures

Sebastien Latapie

Partner

AVANT BIO

Khandan Baradaran

Principal

Mill Creek Consulting LLC

Andrew Zydney, Ph.D.

Bayard D. Kunkle Chair, Chemical Engineering

Penn State University

Jared Simons

VP, Manufacturing

Solid Biosciences Inc.

Brian Murphy

VP Cell Process Science

Arcellx

Keenan Bashour

VP, Manufacturing & Process Development

4D Molecular Therapeutics

Rui Tostoes

CTO

ImmuneBridge

Stephen Krause

Executive Director, Analytical Strategy, Cell Therapies Global Quality

Bristol Myers Squibb

Nafees Rahman

Senior Director, Process Development

Nkarta, Inc.

Guillaume Cornelis

Senior Director, AD and Global Head of AS&T

Cellectis

Lauren Kelly

Director of Translational Research

Siren Biotechnology

Ryan Schweller

Associate Director, Process Development

AskBio Inc.

Elisaveta Todorova

Associate Director of Process Development and Technology Innovation

TScan Therapeutics

Ronnie Lum

Director Analytical Development, Analytical and Quality Control

BlueRock Therapeutics

Hugh Gannon

Associate Director

KSQ Therapeutics

Lukas Maloney

Process Development Engineer I

Regeneron

Sha Sha

Senior Scientist

Ultragenyx

Sheila Sharifzad

Process Development Scientist - Cell Therapy

Bayer

Madhuresh Sumit

Associate Director, Genomic Medicine CMC

Sanofi

Christopher Bravery

Consulting Regulatory Scientist

Advbiols

Tyler Koop

Vice President, Global Commercial, Cell Therapy

Bristol Myers Squibb

Devyn M. Smith

Chief Executive Officer

Arbor Biotechnologies

Shahrooz Rabizadeh

CEO & Co-Founder

Sagittarius Bio, Inc

Amy Shaw

Head of Process Development

Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Therese Choquette

Chief Technical Officer

Tigen Pharma SA

Hunter Reese

Senior Scientist

AskBio

Muhammad "Arshad" Chaudhry

Principal Engineer

Alkermes

Margit Holzer

Scientific Director

Ulysse Consult

Thomas Chattaway

Senior Life Science Consultant

Independent

Dr Xinbo Zhang

Scientist II

Alexion Pharmaceuticals

Dunie Navarro

Senior Scientist

Pfizer

Christoph Herwig

Senior Scientific Advisor

Körber Pharma Austria GmbH, Austria

Stefano Menegatti

Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NC State University

North Carolina State University

Dr Lynn Mao

Senior Scientist

AstraZeneca

Miss Eva Aning

CMMS & AI Solution Architect

Moderna

Garima Thakur

Staff Engineer

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Mark Duerkop

Chief Executive Officer

Novasign

Matthias Müllner

CEO

bespark*bio

Vishwanath Hebbi

Senior Scientist

Merck & Co., Inc.

Rashed Harun

Scientist

Genentech

Neil Templeton

Director, Upstream Process Development

Solid Biosciences

Stephen Kennedy

Head of Technical Operations

CRISPR Therapeutics

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

Tatyana Matveeva

Director of cGMP Operations, Regenerative Cell Therapy

Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Laura Pierce

Biomedical Engineer

NIST

Rishi Kothari

Process Development Engineer

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Nathalie Clement

SVP, Vector Development

Siren Biotechnology

Minjia Wang

Analytical Development Scientist II

Prime Medicine

Chen Wang

Principal Scientist, GMU CMC Purification Process Development

Sanofi