Meet the Speakers | 10th CAR-TCR Summit Thought Leaders

Expert Speaker Faculty

Investors & Partnering Leaders

Founders & C-Level Leaders

Pharma Industry
Leaders

Biotech Industry
Leaders

World-Leading
Academics

Investors & Partnering Leaders

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Asthika Goonwardane

Managing Director, Equity Research Biotech

Truist Securities

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Christopher Tan

Executive Director - Business Development, Infectious Diseases, Vaccines, Oncology & Licensing

Merck

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Deanna Mele, PhD

Senior Director - Business Development Search & Evaluation

AstraZeneca

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Gadi Bornstein

Senior Director - External Innovation, Discovery, Product Development & Supply

Johnson & Johnson

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Hong Xin

Senior Director, Search and Evaluation

Johnson & Johnson

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Polly Brown

Vice President & Head of Business Development, Oncology, Research & Development

AstraZeneca

Founders & C-Level Leaders

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Anna Truppel-Hartmann

Chief Medical Officer

KSQ Therapeutics

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Ben Oshrine

Senior Medical Director

Legend Biotech

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Birgit Schultes

Executive Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer

Intellia Therapeutics

Blake Aftab

Chief Scientific Officer

Adicet Bio

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Cécile Bauche

Founder & Chief Scientific Officer

Alaya.bio

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Daniel Shelly

Chief Business Officer

PolTREG

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Deborah Rathjen

Chief Executive Officer

Carina Biotech

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Dora Hammerl

Vice President - Research & Development

Pan Cancer T

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Felix Lorenz

Chief Executive Officer/ Chief Scientific Officer

Captain T Cel

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Haig Aghajanian

Scientific Co-Founder & Head of Research

Capstan Therapeutics

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Jennifer Buell

President & Chief Executive Officer

MiNK Therapeutics

Luke Pase - CAR-TCR Summit

Luke Pase

Chief Technical Officer

Anocca

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Maurits Geerlings

Chief Executive Officer

Nanocell Therapeutics

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Micah Benson

Chief Scientific Officer

KSQ Therapeutics

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Mythili Koneru

Chief Medical Officer

Legend Biotech

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Naji Gehchan

Chief Medical & Development Officer

Kyverna Therapeutics

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Nan Zhang

Chief, Cell Therapy Manufacturing Section

NIH

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Peggy Sotirolpoulou

Chief Scientific Officer

T-knife Therapeutics

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Philippe Paronev

Chief Scientific Officer

Esobiotech

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Preet Chaudhary

Director of Cell Therapy & BMT, University of Southern California, Founder

Angeles Therapeutics

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Raphaël G. Ognar, MSc MBA

President, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

NKILT Therapeutics

Reagan Jarvis - CAR-TCR Summit

Reagan Jarvis

Chief Executive Officer

Anocca

Renaud Vaillant

Renaud Vaillant

Chief Executive Officer

Alaya.bio

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Robert Hofmeister

Chief Scientific Officer

Myeloid therapeutics

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Sareina Wu

Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Scientific Officer

GenomeFrontier

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Stefanos Theoharis

Chief Executive Officer

Onechain Immunotherapeutics

Susan D’Costa

Chief Technical & Commercial Officer

Genezen

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Ulf Grawunder

Chief Executive Officer

T-CURX

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Ulrik Cordes

Chief Executive Officer

Cbio

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Warner Biddle

Chief Executive Officer

Kyverna Therapeutics

Pharma Industry Leaders

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Alexis Melton

Director, Early Clinical Development Hematology & Cell Therapy

Bristol Myers Squibb

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Bassem Gayed

Senior Director - Cell Therapy & Technical Operation

Bristol Myers Squibb

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Mark Cobbold

Senior Vice President & Head Of Oncology Discovery Cell Therapy, Oncology Research & Development

AstraZeneca

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Masoud Golshadi

Senior Scientist

Takeda

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Nelly Viseaux

Vice President, Cell Therapies Development, Manufacturing Supply & Quality

Regeneron

Niraj Ramachandran

Niraj Ramachandran

Senior Director, Technical Regulatory Cell & Gene Therapies

Genentech

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Peter Gergely

Global Head of Immunology, Translational Medicine

Novartis

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Rocio Montes de Oca

Scientific Director, Oncology Translational Research, Cell Therapy

Johnson & Johnson

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Sapna Chhagan

Executive Director, Clinical Sciences, Cell Therapy, Early Clinical Development

Bristol Myers Squibb

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Stella Khiew

Senior Scientist

Merck

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Stephan Krause

Executive Director, Analytical Quality, Cell Therapies

Bristol Myers Squibb

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Vaishali Shukla

Vice President CGT & API Global Expansion

Eli Lilly

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Vicki Plaks

Senior Director, Head of Oncology Translational Research

Johnson & Johnson

Yan Wang

Director & Head of Cellular Process Development

Regeneron

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Yana Wang

Sr. Director, Cell Therapy Discovery

Takeda

Biotech Industry Leaders

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Aaron Cooper

Vice President - Early Discovery

Arsenal Bio

Alva Gonzalez - CAR-TCR Summit

Alba Gonzalez

Associate Director In Vivo Translational Pharmacology

Arsenal Bio

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Breanna DiAndreth

Principal Scientist

A2 Biotherapeutics

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Brian Garrison

Vice President, Research

Sentio Bio

Bryan Rizzo

Senior Vice President, Head of Quality

ElevateBio

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Bryan Zimdahl

Senior Director, Clinical Science & Regulatory Affairs

Eureka Therapeutics

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Cagan Gurer

Senior Vice President, Discovery

TScan Therapeutics

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Elisaveta Todorova

Associate Director, Process Development & Technology Innovation

TScan Therapeutics

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Enrique Zudaire

Senior Vice President of Translational Sciences & Therapeutics Discovery

Caribou Biosciences

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Gerardo Santiago Toledo

Director, Cell Process Development

Autolus

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Gwen Binder

President, Science & Technology

Cabaletta Bio

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Haixia Wang

Director, Analytical Development

Arsenal Bio

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Howard Cheng

Director, Clinical Development

GenomeFrontier

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Jodie Wehling

Vice President, Market Access

Mesoblast

Joseph Parrella - CAR-TCR Summit

Joe Parrella

Vice President, CMC

Kernal Bio

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John Rossi

Vice President, Head of Translational Medicine

Capstan Therapeutics

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Junxia Wang

Executive Member

Women in Bio; The Association for Women in Science

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Justin Skoble

Vice President, Technical Operations

Caribou Biosciences

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Ketki Vispute

Associate Director, Cell Manufacturing and CMC

Autolus

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Kingyin Lee

Head of Clinical Trials

MHRA

Laura Pierce - CAR-TCR Summit

Laura Pierce

Biomedical Engineer

National Institute of Standards & Technology

Lavakumar Karyampudi

Lavakumar Karyampudi

Senior Director & Site Head

Moffitt Cell Therapy & Gene Engineering Facility

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Lavanya Peddada

Senior Director, Process Development

Vittoria Biotherapeutics

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Mamta Kalra

Vice President, Process & Analytical Development

Immatics

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Mark Dudley

Independant Consultant

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Matthew Li

Senior Director

Aurion Biotech

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Melissa DeFrancesco

Director, Process Development

Lyell Immunopharma

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Michael McLaughlin

Senior Scientist

Abeona Therapeutics

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Nina Moeker

Vice President, Development Lead Preclinical Portfolio

Immatics

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Patrick Halvey

Director, Clinical Biomarker Development

Affini-T Therapeutics

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Raymond Luke

Senior Director & Head of Manufacturing Science, Technology, Chemistry, Manufacturing, & Controls

Verismo Therapeutics

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Rich Getto

Senior Vice President, Product Operations

BrainChild Bio

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Ruth Berry

Senior Director, Analytical Strategy

GentiBio

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Shobha Potluri

Vice President, Translational Sciences & Bioinformatics

Lyell Immunopharma

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Simona Costanzo

Vice President, Program Leadership & Management

Adicet Bio

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Stephen Santoro

Product Team Lead

Arsenal Bio

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Tamar Thompson

Head Corporate Affairs

Alexion Pharmaceuticals

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Theodore Giaviridis

Head of Preclinical Research & Development

OverT Bio

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Therese Choquette

Head Of Analytical & Translational Sciences

Tigen Pharma

Tom Kowski

Vice President, Analytical Development, Haematology

Umoja Biopharma

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Tuhin Bhowmik

Director, Msat & Manufacturing

Arcellx

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Yan Li

Senior Director - Process Development, Manufacturing Science & Technology

Cabaletta Bio

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Zhiyuan Yang

Director, Analytics

Eureka Therapeutics

World-Leading Academics

Adam Clark

Director of Foundation Operations

Emily Whitehead Foundation

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Bruce Levine

Barbara & Edward Netter Professor in Cancer Gene Therapy

University of Pennsylvania

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David Porter

Executive Director, Center for Cell Therapy & Transplant

University of Pennsylvania

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Dr. Xiuyan Wang

Director, BioTherapeutics Core Facility

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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Krishna Komanduri

Professor & Chief, Division of Hematology & Oncology

UCSF Health

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Marcela Maus

Director Cellular Immunotherapy, Program Paula O’Keefe Endowed Chair

Massachussets General Hospital Cancer Center

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Steven Feldman

Director & Head of Site Scientific

Stanford University, Laboratory for Cell & Gene Medicine