Speakers

Roger Adami, PhD

Senior Director, Pharm. Sci

Nitto BioPharma, Inc.

J.O Adams

Head of Research

Ribo Biologics Co. Ltd.

Heather Agnew, PhD

Vice President R&D Operations

Indi Molecular

Fernando Albericio, PhD

Department of Organic Chemistry

University of Barcelona

Yusuf Ali, PhD

CEO

Ribomic USA

Charles Allerson

Vice President Chemistry

Stoke Therapeutics

Örn Almarsson, PhD

Head of Formulations

Moderna Therapeutics

Mahmoud Ameri, PhD

Vice President, Research and Development

Zosano Pharma

Shalini Andersson, PhD

Senior Director and Head of New Therapeutic Modalities

AstraZeneca

Ben Andrews, Ph.D.

Scientific Investigator

GlaxoSmithKline

Mimoun Ayoub, PhD

Director and Head of North American and Emerging Markets

CordenPharma International

Phil Baran, PhD

Professor

Scripps Research Institute

Mark Behlke, M.D., Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer

Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc.

Michael Berger

Director, Quality Control

Bachem AG

Andrew Bett

Senior Principal Scientist

Merck Research Laboratories

David Blakey, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer

MiNA Therapeutics

Christina Boville, PhD

Resnick Prize Postdoctoral Scholar

Caltech

Sarah Boyce

President

Akcea Therapeutics

Simon Breitler, PhD

Process Chemist

Roche

Doug Brooks, PhD

Consultant

Matapalo Pharma Consulting Services

Bob Brown, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer, Senior Vice President, Research

Dicerna Pharmaceuticals

Sebastien Burel, PhD

Executive Director, Nonclinical Development

Ionis Pharmaceuticals

Scott Burkholz

Bioinformatics Data Scientist

FlowPharma

Di Bush, PhD

Formulations Director

Avanti Polar Lipids Inc

Stacy Capehart, PhD

Scientist II

Editas Medicine

Brian Carothers

Vice President and General Manager

Agilent Technologies Inc

Klaus Charisse, PhD

Director, Analytical R&D

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Christopher Cheng, PhD

Associate Director Formulation Technology Development

Casebia Therapeutics

Pad Chivukula, Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer and COO

Arcturus Therapeutics

Stefania Colarusso

Senior Research Scientist

IRBM Science Park SPA

Marc Constant, PharmD

Senior Director, CMC

NoNO Inc.

David Craik, PhD

Professor of Biomolecular Structure, Institute for Molecular Bioscience

University of Queensland

Stanley Crooke, M.D, PhD

Chief Executive Officer

Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Suzanne D'Addio, PhD

Associate Principal Scientist

Merck & Co., Inc

James Dahlman, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory Medical School

Waleed Danho, PhD

Consultant

Danho & Associates

Weston Daniel , PhD

Senior Director of Program Management

Exicure, Inc.

Annie De Groot, MD

Founder, CEO and CSO

EpiVax, Inc.

Lisa DeCardenas

Regulatory Program Manager

Genentech

Daniel DeOliveira, PhD

Director of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Manufacturing

Genocea Biosciences

Ratmir Derda, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry

University of Alberta

Frank DeRosa, PhD

SVP, Research and Process Development

Translate Bio

Li Di

Associate Research Fellow

Pfizer

Christine Dieterich Johansson, Ph.D.

Senior Project Manager CMC and Pre-clinical

InDex Pharmaceuticals

Jesse Dong, PhD

Vice President, Peptide Chemistry

Neon Therapeutics

Steven Dowdy, PhD

Professor

UCSD School of Medicine

Penggao Duan, PhD

Principal Scientist

Moderna Therapeutics

Robert Duff, PhD

Principal Scientist, Attribute Sciences

Amgen

Ralf Eisenhuth, PhD

Process Manager Technology Transfer and Chromatography

Bachem AG

Alex Fassler, PhD

COO

Bachem Holdings AG

Cecilia Fernández, PhD

Director, Platform Development

Editas Medicine

Kevin Fitzgerald, Ph.D

Senior Vice President and Head of Research

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Jeffrey Foy, PhD

Senior Director, Toxicology

Dicerna Pharmaceuticals

Jennifer Franklin

Director, CMC Regulatory Affairs

Ionis Pharmaceuticals

Brendan Frey, PhD

Founder and CEO

Deep Genomics

Hans Gaus, Ph.D.

Director of Structural Biology

Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Andrew Geall, PhD

Vice President of Formulations, Analytics and Chemistry

Avidity Biosciences

Marian Gindy, PhD

Executive Director, Pharmaceutical Sciences

Merck Research Laboratories

Robert Gronke, PhD

Senior Principal Scientist, Technical Development

Biogen, Inc

David Guay, PhD

Research Director

Feldan Therapeutics

Joe Guiles, PhD

Head of Development

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

Shuling Guo, PhD

Vice President, Antisense Drug Discovery

Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Heinrich Haas, PhD

Vice President, RNA Formulation & Drug Delivery

BioNTech AG

Annekathrin Haberland, PhD

Director, Regulatory Affairs

Berlin Cures GmbH

Rami Hannoush, PhD

Principal Scientist & Group Leader

Genentech

Marjie Hard, PhD

Executive Director of Clinical Pharmacology & DMPK

Moderna Therapeutics

Daniel Harris, PhD

Director of Drug Manufacturing

Lumicell

James Heyes, PhD

SVP, Technology Development

Genevant Sciences

Syed Husain, PhD

Research Chemist, Division of Cellular/Gene Therapies, Office of Tissues and Advanced Therapies

CBER, FDA

Tanja Huth, PhD

Group Leader QA/RA Project Management

Bachem AG

Hideaki Inada

Senior Research Associate

Toray Industries Inc

Robert Jabulowsky, PhD

Deputy Head of Project Management

BioNTech AG

Aimee Jackson, PhD

Vice President of Research

miRagen Therapeutics

Marc Jacob, Ph.D.

Business Development Manager, Purification Technologies - North America

Phenomenex

Mario Jauker, PhD

Head of Process Characterization

BioSpring

Stephen Johnston, PhD

Chief Executive Officer, Calviri Professor

Arizona State University

Kyeong Eun Jung, PhD

Senior Vice President Head of Oligo and R&D Division

ST Pharm

Masanori Kataoka, Ph.D.

Chief Technical Officer

Shikoku Nucleic Acid Chemistry (S-NAC)

Nora Khaldi, PhD

Founder and Chief Scientific Officer

Nuritas Ltd.

Mia Kiistala

Associate Director Regulatory Affairs

Biogen

Michael Kopach, Ph.D.

Senior Research Advisor

Eli Lilly and Company

Matthias Kretschmer, PhD

Senior Director Analytical Sciences

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Andreas Kuhn, PhD

Vice President, RNA Biochemistry & Manufacturing

BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals GmbH

Arthur Levin, PhD

Executive Vice President, R&D

Avidity Biosciences LLC

Fa Liu, PhD

Director of Discovery Chemistry

Novo Nordisk Research Center Seattle

Jennifer Lockridge, PhD

Senior Vice President, Program Development

Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Pallavi Lonkar, PhD

Principal Scientist

WAVE Life Sciences

Olivier Ludemann-Hombourger, PhD

Global Director Innovation and Strategy

PolyPeptide Group

Geoffrey Lynn, M.D, PhD

CEO

Avidea Technologies

Jurgen Machielse

Business Development Director Spherical Gels

Zeochem AG

Markus Mandler, PhD

CSO

Accanis Biotech

Paul Manley

President and Principal Consultant

Orvieto Consulting

Muthiah (Mano) Manoharan, PhD

Senior Vice President of Drug Discovery

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Eugenio Marco, PhD

Senior Scientist, Computational Biology

Editas Medicine

Peter Mariner, PhD

Director of Wound Healing

Mosaic Biosciences

Najib Maslouh, PhD

Vice President of Manufacturing, Technical Operati

Apellis Pharmaceuticals

Carolyn Mazzitelli, PhD

Associate Director

Ionis Pharmaceuticals

Anton McCaffrey, PhD

Senior Director of Research and Development, Biology

TriLink BioTechnologies, Inc.

Steven McIntyre

Peptide Process Development Department Manager

Almac Group

Eric McKinney, Ph.D.

Director, Stability and Specifications

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Stuart Milstein, PhD

Associate Director

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Bruce Morimoto, PhD

Vice President, Drug Development Operations

Alkahest

Juergen Mueller, PhD

Commercial and Strategic Development Director

LGC Axolabs Biosearch

Gary Musso, PhD

President

Musso and Associates LLC

Jayaprakash Nair, PhD

Associate Director, Research

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Timothy O'Mara

Sales Manager

Itochu Chemicals America, Inc.

Steffen Panzner

CEO

Lipocalyx GmbH

Norbert Pardi, PhD

Research Assistant Professor of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Rubina Parmar, PhD

Director, Chemistry

Intellia Therapeutics

Zach Parsons, PhD

Research Scientist II

Nitto Denko Avecia, Inc.

Anthony Partridge, PhD

Principal Scientist, Early Discovery Pharmacology

Merck, Sharp & Dohme

Michael Pennington, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer

AmbioPharm Inc.

Bradley Pentelute, PhD

Professor, Chemistry

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Christian Plank, PhD

Chief Technology Officer

Ethris GmbH

Steven Prestrelski, Ph.D., MBA

Chief Scientific Officer

Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Hari Pujar, PhD

Head, Technical Development

Moderna Therapeutics

Henrik Sune Ramírez-Andersen

Scientific Director

Novo Nordisk A/S

Anuja Rane, PhD

Associate Scientist

Teva Pharmaceuticals

Jon Holbech Rasmussen, Ph.D.

Director Global Development

PolyPeptide Group

Laxma Reddy, PhD

Fellow, Formulation and Product Development

Drug Delivery Eexperts

Chantal Reed, PhD

Vice President

Brain Hz Consulting, Inc.

Theresa Reineke, PhD

Distinguished McKnight University Professor

University of Minnesota

El Djouhar Rekaï, PhD

Head of Development & Manufacturing Process

PolyPeptide Group

Claus Rentel, PhD

Executive Director, Analytical Development/QC

Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Christopher Rhodes, PhD

President and CEO

Drug Delivery Experts

Frank Rigo, PhD

Executive Director, Neuroscience Drug Discovery

Ionis Pharmaceuticals

Ingo Roehl, PhD

Director, Analytical Chemistry

LGC Axolabs

Susann Rosmus, PhD

Head of Quality Management

BioSpring GmbH

David Rozema, PhD

Head of Therapeutic Chemistry

Empirico Therapeutics

Punit Seth, PhD

Vice President, Medicinal Chemistry

Ionis Pharmaceuticals

Trishul Shah, MS

Director Business Development

PolyPeptide Group

Daniel Siegwart, PhD

Associate Professor

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Manmohan Singh, PhD

VP, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Delivery Technology

Beam Therapeutics

Katelyn Smith, PhD

Sr. Scientist

Merck & Co., Inc.

Mark Smythe, PhD

Founder and Vice President

Protagonist Therapeutics

Zhanna Sobol, PhD

Genetic Toxicology Head

Pfizer, Inc.

Maria Soloveychik, PhD

CEO

SyntheX, Inc.

Stephen Spagnol, PhD

Senior Scientist, Sterile Formulation Sciences

Johnson & Johnson

Kathrin Spielberger, PhD

Head of Laboratory Product & Process Development

Sanofi

Ved Srivastava, PhD

Vice President of Peptide Chemistry

Intarcia Therapeutics, Inc.

G. Susan Srivatsa, PhD

President

ElixinPharma

Arthur Suckow, PhD

CEO and CSO

DTx Pharma

Zhijie Sui, PhD

Senior Scientist

Biogen

Daisuke Takahashi, PhD

Senior Principal Researcher, Bio-functional, Research Institute for Bioscience Products and Fine Chemicals

Ajinomoto Co. Inc.

Ying Tam, Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer

Acuitas Therapeutics, Inc.

Yuki Tanaka

Researcher

Sumitomo Chemical Co Ltd

David Tew

Senior Fellow

Glaxosmithkline Medical Reseach Centre

James Thompson, PhD

Head of CMC Project Management

Moderna Therapeutics, Inc.

René Thürmer, PhD

Deputy Head, Unit Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

BfArM Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices

Robert Topping, PhD

Distinguished Scientist, Development Synthetic Chemistry

Corden Pharma Colorado

Brian Trammell, PhD

Principal Scientist

Nitto Denko Avecia, Inc.

Chandra Vargeese, Ph.D

SVP, Head of Drug Discovery

WAVE Life Sciences

Hans-Peter Vornlocher, PhD

Managing Director Research

LGC Axolabs

Andreas Wagner

Head of Liposome Technology

Polymun Scientific GmbH

Ernst Wagner, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology,

Ludwig Maximilans University

John Walker II, PhD

Director of Chemistry Research

Synthego

Nathaniel Wang, PhD

Head of R&D, RNA Medicines

Synthetic Genomics Inc.

Anna Watson

Senior Scientist & Process Engineer

AstraZeneca, UK

Robert Waymouth, PhD

Robert Eckles Swain Professor of Chemistry

Stanford University

Dieter Willbold, Ph.D.

Director, ICS-6 Structural Biochemistry

Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

Fran Wincott, PhD

President

Wincott & Associates, LLC

Gary Woodward, PhD

Senior Research Fellow

Solvay Solutions UK Ltd

Duu-Gong Wu, PhD

Senior Director, Regulatory Consulting, PPD

PPD

Kui Yang, PhD

Chemist

CDER, US FDA

Michelle Young, PhD

Senior Scientist

Intellia Therapeutics

Timothy Yu, M.D., Ph.D.

Attending Physician, Division of Genetics and Genomics

Boston Children's Hospital

Dong Yu, PhD

Director & Function Head, Antigen Identification

GSK Vaccines

Anthony Zidell

Analytical Chemist

Corden Pharma