2024 SPEAKER FACULTY

Alisha Jones

Assistant Professor, Chemistry

New York University

Amanda Hargrove

Research Professor - Chemistry

University of Toronto

Anu Bhattacharyya

Vice President, Splicing Drug Development

PTC Therapeutics

Can Ozbal

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Momentum Biotechnologies

Chris Burge

Whitaker Professor of Biology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chris Yates

Executive Director & Head of Medicinal Chemistry

Rgenta Therapeutics

Chuhern Hwang

Head of Drug Discovery

Wayfinder Biosciences

David Brower

Chief Business Officer

Accent Therapeutics

Domi Stickens

Vice President, Discovery Biology & Translational Sciences

Arrakis Therapeutics

Dominic Reynolds

Chief Scientific Officer

Remix Therapeutics

Hashim Al-Hashimi

Co-founder & Platform Architect

Base4 Biotechnology

Jennifer Petter

Founder & Chief Scientific Innovation Officer

Arrakis Therapeutics

John Schneekloth

Senior Principal Investigator

National Cancer Institute

Joon Lee

Associate Scientific Director

Biogen

Joy Ghosh

Managing Director

Abingworth

Karen Wu

Co-Founder & President

Lucerna, Inc.

Kenneth Duncan

SVP, Chemistry

Accent Therapeutics

Kerstin Effenberger

Principal Scientist - Biology

PTC Therapeutics

Kevin Weeks

Professor of Chemistry, Founder

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Manisha Sinha

Head Of Translational Sciences

Expansion Therapeutics

Matt Friedersdorf

Associate Director, Translational Medicine

Ribometrix

Paul August

Chief Scientific Officer

ReviR Therapeutics

Perla Breccia

Senior Director, Chemistry

AstraZeneca

Peter Connolly

Vice President - Structural Biology & Biophysics

Expansion Therapeutics

Raymond Kelleher

Managing Director

Cormorant Asset Management

Rhona Cox

Director of Medicinal Chemistry

AstraZeneca

Shunnichi Kashida

Co-Founder, Representative Director, President & Chief Executive Officer

xFOREST Therapeutics

Sichong Peng

Bioinformatics Scientist

Eclipsebio

Steve Lianoglou

Director of Translational Genomics

ReviR Therapeutics

Tom Chappie

Research Fellow

Pfizer

Vipender Singh

Senior Principal Scientist & Project Team Leader

Novartis - Biomedical Research

Yan Song

Senior Principal Scientist

Amgen

Yang Zheng

Head of Business Development

Base4 Biotechnology

Yann Foricher

Head of Small Molecules Medicinal Chemistry

Sanofi