Conference Chairs
Bruce Bloom
President & Chief Science Officer
Cures Within Reach
Aris Persidis, Ph.D.
President
Biovista
Speaking Faculty
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Ron Alfa, MD, Ph.D.
- Vice President, Discovery and Product
- Recursion Pharmaceuticals
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Bobbie Ann Austin, Ph.D.
- Program Officer, Drug Development Partnership Programs, NCATS, Office of the Director
- National Institutes of Health
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Paul Bogdan, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
- University of Southern California
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Pieter Dylst
- Senior Manager Market Access and Value Added Medicines
- Medicines for Europe
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Rodolphe Hajj, Ph.D.
- Chief Pharmacology Officer
- PharNext SA
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Laura Kleiman, Ph.D.
- Executive Director
- Cures Within Reach for Cancer
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Daphna Laifenfeld, Ph.D.
- Senior Director, Personalized and Predictive Medicine
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
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Kevin Pan, Ph.D.
- Chief Executive Officer
- Asieris Pharmaceuticals
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Xavier Paoli
- CCO and VP of R&D Operations
- PharNext SA
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Michael Pollastri, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor & Chair
- Northeastern University, College of Science
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Lieven Lagae, MD, Ph.D.
- Professor, Paediatric Neurology
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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Vidula Sukhatme
- Founder & CEO
- Global Cures
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Berish Y. Rubin, Ph.D.
- Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
- Fordham University
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Robert Lavieri, Ph.D.
- Project Manager, Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
- Vanderbilt University Medical University
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Michael Tranfaglia, MD
- Medical Director, Chief Scientific Officer
- FRAXA Research Foundation
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Gregory Stewart, Ph.D.
- Chief Scientific Officer
- Pairnomix
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Chad Nivens, Ph.D.
- Director, Translational Science, Innovative Medicines & Early Development Biotech Unit
- AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical LP
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Clare Thibodeaux, Ph.D.
- Director of Scientific Affairs
- Cures Within Reach
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Scott Weir, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
- Frank B. Tyler Cancer Research Professor in Therapeutic Discovery, Director, Institute for Advancing Medical Innovation, Associate Director – Translational Research
- University of Kansas, University of Kansas Cancer Center
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Hermann Mucke, Ph.D.
- Principal
- H.M. Pharma Consultancy
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Maria Shkrob Ph.D.
- Professional Services Consultant
- Elsevier
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Sharlene Velichko, Ph.D.
- Director of Research Biology
- DiscoverX
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Andrew Reaume, Ph.D., MBA
- President and CEO
- Melior Discovery
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Nandu Gattu, Ph.D.
- Vice President, Pharma Analytics
- Excelra
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Ya'ara Goldschmidt, M.Sc, Ph.D.
- Manager, Machine Learning and Data Mining Group
- IBM
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Gregory Koytiger, Ph.D.
- Associate Director, Translational Research
- Immuneering Corporation