2023 Expert Speaker Faculty

BIOPHARMA & ACADEMIC THOUGHT LEADERS

Hui Zhi

Senior Scientist

Beam Therapeutics

Shefal Parikh

Director - mRNA Process Development

Beam Therapeutics

Andreas Kuhn

Senior Vice President - Ribonucleic Acid Biochemistry & Chemistry, Manufacturing, Controls Management

BioNTech SE

Simon Unthan

Senior Director RNA Manufacturing Technology Development & Automation

BioNTech SE

Anna Ernst

Associate Director DNA Process Development

BioNTech SE

Lili Belcastro

Senior Principal Scientist

Bristol Myers Squibb

Andrew Geall

Chief Development Officer

Replicate Bioscience

Andrew Schmudlach

Principal Scientist - Analytical Development, mRNA Centre of Excellence

Sanofi

Elvan Cavac

Director

Nutcracker Therapeutics

Joseph Parrella

VP - CMC

Kernal Bio

Catherine Shi

Scientist

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical

Nii Odoi Oddoye

Senior Manager – MS&T

Pfizer

John Li

Director – mRNA Drug Substance

Capstan Therapeutics

Ramin Sabet-Azad

CMC Lead

CEPI

Monica Dommel

Associate Director - Regulatory Affairs CMC

CureVac SE

John Zuris

Director - Editing Technologies

Editas Medicine

Nicole Ruggiero

CEO

EpiVax Therapeutics

Xinyue Zhang

Manager

GeneLeap Biotech

Derek O’hagan

Senior Advisor – R&D Vaccines

GlaxoSmithKlineline

Danny Crawford

Director Nucleic Acid Process Sciences

Intellia Therapeutics

Prakash Koodathingal

Director, RNA Therapeutic Development

Immunomic Therapeutics

Hang Yuan

CTO

Innovac Therapeutics

Burak Yilmaz

Co-Founder & President

Kernal Bio

Harris Makatsoris

Professor – Manufacturing Systems

King’s College London

Richard Braatz

Professor

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Antonio Grilo

Technology Transfer Expert

Medicines Patent Pool

Michael Homsy

Scientist

Merck & Co

Joshua McNeely

Senior Scientist – Vaccines Process Development

Merck & Co

Dipendra Gyawali

Senior Scientist; Team Lead – Process Development

Moderna

Joseph Schariter

Director – Process Development

Moderna

Sung-Hye Grieco

Vice President, Head of Messenger Ribonucleic Acid PD, Manufacturing, Science & Technology , & Program Management Offices

Nutcracker Therapeutics

Harshal Zope

Director - Manufacturing Science & Technology

Orna Therapeutics

Bill Grier

Associate Director - Drug Substance Process Development

Omega Therapeutics

Aravindan Rajendran

Senior Principal Scientist Group Leader

Pfizer

Mohamed ElSayed

EVP & CTO

RVAC Medicines

Yimin Hua

Head of Biochemistry – Analytical Development, mRNA Centre of Excellence

Sanofi

Sujit Jain

Director – External Manufacturing

SalioGen Therapeutics

Craig Martin

Professor – Chemistry

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Zoltan Kis

Assistant Professor

University of Sheffield

Jin Zhou

Executive Director, Technical Development, mRNA & Protein Biologics

Ultragenyx Pharmaceuticals

Vu Thai

Director, Purification Process Development

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical

Vivian Chang

Associate Director - Upstream Process Development

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical

Rajesh Beri

Owner & Principal Consultant

Vial 2 Vial Bio Solutions

Gautam Sanyal

Principal Consultant

Vaccine Analytics

Christopher Cheng

VP Process Development & RNA Technology

Verve Therapeutics

Patrick Arbuthnot

Personal Professor & Director

University of the Witwatersrand

LEADING SOLUTION PARTNERS

Darwin Asa

Marketing Manager

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Grishma Patel

External Collaboration Manager

Sartorius

Jessica Sayers

MSAT Lead

CPI

Eike Joest

Principal Scientist - mRNA Innovation

MilliporeSigma

Julen Oyarzabal

CSO & Founder

Syngoi Technologies

Linda Villa

Director - GMP Operations and Process Transfer

TriLink BioTechnologies

Lloyd Jeffs

Senior Director - Biopharma Services

Precision NanoSystems

Jing Zhu

VP - Nucleic Acid & Viral Vector Technology

ReciBioPharm

Mark McElligott

Owner and Principal Process Engineer

bioX

May Guo

Chief Commercial Officer

Areterna

Oladimeji Fashola

Chief Technology Officer

Quantoom Biosciences

Sirat Sikka

Staff Scientist, Field Applications

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Yasser Kehail

Product Manager

Aldevron

Aleš Štrancar

Executive Managing Director

BIA Separations

Scott Alderucci

Director - mRNA Process Development & GMP

Curia Global

Sudhakar Voruganti

Director

Pfanstiehl

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