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Investors & Partnering Leaders

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Asthika Goonwardane

Managing Director, Equity Research Biotech

Truist Securities

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Christopher Tan

Executive Director, Search & Evaluation, Business Development & Licensing

Merck

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Deanna Mele

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 & Evaluation

Johnson & Johnson

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Polly Brown

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

AstraZeneca

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Founders & C-Level Leaders

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Adrian Bot

Chief Scientific Officer

Capstan Therapeutics

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Anna Truppel-Hartmann

Chief Medical Officer

KSQ Therapeutics

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Birgit Schultes

Executive Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer

Intellia Therapeutics

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Cécile Bauche

Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder

Alaya.bio

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Daniel Shelly

Chief Business Officer

PolTREG

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David Sourdive

Co-founder, Executive Vice President CMC

Cellectis

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Deborah Rathjen

Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director

Carina Biotech

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Dora Hammerl

Vice President Research & Development, Co-Founder

Pan Cancer T

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Felix Lorenz

Chief Executive Officer/ Chief Scientific Officer

Captain T Cel

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Jason Damiano

Chief Scientific Officer

Appia Bio

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Jennifer Buell

President & Chief Executive Officer

MiNK Therapeutics

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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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Raphael Ognar

Chief Executive Officer

NKILT Therapeutics

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Robert Hofmeister

Chief Scientific Officer

Myeloid therapeutics

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Ryan Crisman

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Umoja Biopharma

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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

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Ulf Grawunder

Chief Executive Officer

T-CURX

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Ulrik Cordes

Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Cbio

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Warner Biddle

Chief Executive Officer

Kyverna Therapeutics

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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, Technical Process Engineering, CAR-T MS&T

Bristol Myers Squibb

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Harita Babbar

AS&T, Director Regulatory Affairs, CMC

BioNTech

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Manoj Chiney

Director, Clinical Pharmacology

Gilead Sciences

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Marcella Goodnight

Senior Director, MS&T

BioNTech

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Mark Cobbold

Senior Vice President, Cell Therapy & Immuno-oncology, Discovery, Oncology R&D

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

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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

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Yan Wang

Director & Head of Cellular Process Development

Regeneron

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Yana Wang

Senior Director, Cell Therapy Oncology

Takeda

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Biotech Industry Leaders

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Aaron Cooper

Vice President, Early Discovery

Arsenal Bio

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Ben Oshrine

Senior Medical Director, Early Clinical Development

Legend Biotech

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Breanna DiAndreth

Principal Scientist

A2 Biotherapeutics

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Brent Chesson

Associate Director, Process Development

Immatics

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Brian Garrison

Vice President, Research

Sentio Bio

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Bryan Zimdahl

Senior Director, Clinical Science & Regulatory Affairs

Eureka Therapeutics

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Cagan Gurer

Senior Vice President, Discovery & Preclinical Development

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 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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Ian Gaudet

Head of US Technical Operations, Vice President

Galapagos

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Jason Awe

Head, Corporate Communications & IR

Atara Bio

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Jodie Wehling

Vice President, Market Access

Mesoblast

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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 Chemistry & Controls

Autolus

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Kingyin Lee

Head of Clinical Trials

MHRA

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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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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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Poonam Sharma

Associate Director, Process Development

GentiBio

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Raymond Luke

Senior Director, MS&T & Head of CMC

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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Shon Green

Vice President, Nonclinical Development

Adicet Bio

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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 Giavridis

Head of Preclinical Research & Development

OverT Bio

Therese Choquette

Head Of Analytical & Translational Sciences

Tigen Pharma

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Thomas Condamine

Vice President, Discovery & Translational Sciences

Carisma Therapeutics

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Tishwant Kanwarjit

Executive Director, Head of Quality

Autolus

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Tuhin Bhowmik

Associate Director, Process Engineering & MST

Arcellx

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Yan Li

Senior Director, Process Development

Cabaletta Bio

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Zhiyuan Yang

Director, Analytics

Eureka Therapeutics

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World-Leading Academics

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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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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

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Xiuyan Wang

Director, Cell Therapy Engineering

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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