Transforming Incubator of Life into Innovative Treatments: allogeneic Amnion Epithelial Stem Cells to treat congenital and chronic disorders without immunosuppression
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Miguel Forte / Opening remarks
Miguel Forte, President Elect, ISCT; Entrepreneur in Residence, Adbio partners
Dr. Forte has significant experience in regenerative medicine and in the cell therapy industry, most recently as Chief Executive Officer of Zelluna Immunotherapy, a biopharma company focusing on developing transformative T cell receptors (TCR) based cellular immunotherapies for the treatment of...
Miguel Forte / Panel: Improving clinical outcomes
Miguel Forte, President Elect, ISCT; Entrepreneur in Residence, Adbio partners
Dr. Forte has significant experience in regenerative medicine and in the cell therapy industry, most recently as Chief Executive Officer of Zelluna Immunotherapy, a biopharma company focusing on developing transformative T cell receptors (TCR) based cellular immunotherapies for the treatment of...
Jaap Boelens / Panel: Improving clinical outcomes
Jaap Boelens, Chief, Stem Cell Transplantation And Cellular Therapies Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Jaap Jan Boelens is the director of the IDMS lab. Dr. Boelens, who is also the Chief of the Pediatric Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program, came to Memorial Sloan Kettering from UMC Utrecht and the Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, where he worked on developing the largest...
Bruce Levine / Panel: Improving clinical outcomes
Bruce Levine, Professor, Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Bruce Levine, Barbara and Edward Netter Professor in Cancer Gene Therapy, is the Founding Director of the Clinical Cell and Vaccine Production Facility (CVPF) in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of...
Dr. Federico Mingozzi is the chief scientific officer at Spark Therapeutics, bringing two decades of experience in gene therapy, immunology, as well as biochemistry and molecular biology in both industry and academic settings.Federico began his scientific career studying the genetic basis of...
Miguel Forte / Panel: Being realistic about the future and commercial sustainability of ATMPs
Miguel Forte, President Elect, ISCT; Entrepreneur in Residence, Adbio partners
Dr. Forte has significant experience in regenerative medicine and in the cell therapy industry, most recently as Chief Executive Officer of Zelluna Immunotherapy, a biopharma company focusing on developing transformative T cell receptors (TCR) based cellular immunotherapies for the treatment of...
Troels Jordansen / Panel: Being realistic about the future and commercial sustainability of ATMPs
Troels Jordansen started his career in healthcare at LEO Pharma. After four years with Johnson & Johnson Orthopaedics he was one of the initial Genzyme Europe hires to focus on commercializing Carticel and Epicel in 1996. Over the past 20 years Jordansen has worked for five different cell...
Peter Marks / Panel: Being realistic about the future and commercial sustainability of ATMPs
Peter Marks, Director, Center For Biologics Evaluation And Research (CBER), U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D. is the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the Food and Drug Administration. The center is responsible for assuring the safety and effectiveness of biological products, including vaccines, allergenic products, blood and blood products, and ...
Mark Sawicki / Establishing a platform strategy for cell and gene therapy supply chains
Mark Sawicki, Chief Executive Officer, Cryoport Systems
Mark Sawicki brings over 15 years of business development and sales management experience, having consistently delivered on corporate revenue and market share goals in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Sawicki was most recently the chief business officer at AAIPharma Services...
Tyler DeWitt / Roundtables
Tyler DeWitt, Executive Director, Innovation, Quality Executive Partners, Inc.
Tyler DeWitt works at the intersection of science, technology, and education. He is the Executive Director of Innovation at Quality Executive Partners (QxP) and Virtuosi VR. Tyler is the product manager for Virtuosi ATMP, a VR- and video-based educational platform for manufacturers of cell and gene ...
Ian Davies / Roundtables
Ian Davies, Business Consultant, Digital Lab Consulting
Ian is an experienced project manager and business analyst, specialising in the implementation of electronic laboratory platforms, such as ELN and LIMS, within the pharmaceutical and life science industries with a proven track record of successful delivery. Ian has extensive understanding of...
Craig Titmus / Roundtables
Craig Titmus, Partner, UK & European Patent Attorney, Mathys & Squire LLP
Craig’s practice covers diverse biotechnological subject matter, with a particular focus on vaccines, diagnostics, gene therapy, therapeutic antibodies and peptides, as well as for clients working on interdisciplinary technologies. Craig has an extensive European and international patent...
Ly Executive Director of Consulting, Americas / Roundtables
Ly Executive Director of Consulting, Americas, , Pharma Intelligence Informa
Ly has over 20 years of experience in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry and has extensive experience in market research, competitive intelligence, and strategic analysis. As Citeline’s cell and gene therapy practice lead, Ly spearheaded Citeline’s partnership with the American Society of...
Merve Mutlu / Roundtables
Merve Mutlu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Novartis
Merve is a postdoctoral researcher in Functional Genetics group in NIBR, Novartis. Since the beginning of her career, Merve specialized in CRISPR technology and genome-wide phenotypic screening to identify mechanism of action of therapeutic agents. She received her PhD degree from Bern...
Detlev Parow / Roundtables
Detlev Parow, Previous Head Pharmaceutical Department, DAK-Gesundheit
Former Head of Department of Medicines, Medical Remedies and Selective Contracts DAK – Gesundheit, Hamburg, Germany From January 2017 until October 2021 Dr. Detlev Parow was Head of the Department of Medicines, Medical Remedies and Selective Contracts at DAK-Gesundheit in Hamburg (third largest...
Margareth Jorvid / Roundtables
Margareth Jorvid, Head of Regulatory Affairs, Ilya Pharma
Margareth Jorvid has over 30 years of experience in Regulatory Affairs and has worked at the Swedish Medical Products Agency (MPA) as well as large and small pharmaceutical companies, such as Roussel Nordiska, Hoechst Marion Roussel (Stockholm and Paris, France) and Neopharma. Since...
David Peritt / Roundtables
David Peritt, Chief Scientific Officer, Lupagen
David Peritt, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder: David is a cellular immunologist by training with substantial industry experience in biologics and cell therapy. Prior to founding Lupagen, David was Chief Technology Officer at Sigilon Therapeutics (SGTX), a Flagship Pioneering...
Troels Jordansen started his career in healthcare at LEO Pharma. After four years with Johnson & Johnson Orthopaedics he was one of the initial Genzyme Europe hires to focus on commercializing Carticel and Epicel in 1996. Over the past 20 years Jordansen has worked for five different cell...
Kamar Johnson / Roundtables
Kamar Johnson, Business Development Director, Europe, TrakCel Ltd
Kamar Johnson is responsible for working with new clients across Europe to establish their exact supply chain challenges and working with the team to ensure that OCELLOS, TrakCel’s cellular orchestration solution is configured to meet these needs. Working extensively with the product development...
Miguel Forte / Roundtables
Miguel Forte, President Elect, ISCT; Entrepreneur in Residence, Adbio partners
Dr. Forte has significant experience in regenerative medicine and in the cell therapy industry, most recently as Chief Executive Officer of Zelluna Immunotherapy, a biopharma company focusing on developing transformative T cell receptors (TCR) based cellular immunotherapies for the treatment of...
Stefanos Theoharis / Chair: Stefanos Theoharis, CBO, Bone Therapeutics
Stefanos Theoharis, Chief Business Officer, Bone Therapeutics
Stefanos contributes more than 15 years of business development experience in the pharma and biotech industry to Bone Therapeutics, specifically in the cell and gene therapy space. This includes his achievements as Senior Vice-President at Cell Medica, a clinical-stage biotech company, where he...
Miguel Forte / Chair: Miguel Forte, President Elect, ISCT; Entrepreneur in Residence, AdBio Partners
Miguel Forte, President Elect, ISCT; Entrepreneur in Residence, Adbio partners
Dr. Forte has significant experience in regenerative medicine and in the cell therapy industry, most recently as Chief Executive Officer of Zelluna Immunotherapy, a biopharma company focusing on developing transformative T cell receptors (TCR) based cellular immunotherapies for the treatment of...
Eric Michael David / Chair: Eric Michael David, CEO, BioBridge Gene Therapy
Eric Michael David, Chief Executive Officer, BridgeBio-Gene Therapy
Dr. David is CEO of Aspa Therapeutics and leads BridgeBio’s other gene therapy subsidiaries. A co-founder of Organovo, he most recently served as the company’s chief strategy officer and executive vice president of preclinical development. Prior to Organovo, Dr. David was an associate partner at...
Patrick J Hanley / Chair: Patrick J. Hanley, Chief and Director, Cellular Therapy Program, Children's National Health System
Patrick J Hanley, Chief and Director, Cellular Therapy Program, Children's National Medical Center
Patrick Hanley, Ph.D., is chief and director of the Cellular Therapy Program. He is also an associate professor of pediatrics in the Center for Cancer and Immunology research at the Children’s National Research Institute and member of the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders and the Division of...
David Morrow / Chair: David Morrow, Scientific Program Manager, EATRIS
David Morrow, scientist, EATRIS
David Morrow is Programme Manager Translational Medicine & Drug Development at EATRIS.
David received a BSc (Hons) in Molecular Biology from University College Dublin in 2001 and a PhD in Vascular Biology from Dublin City University in 2006. This was followed by an American Heart Association...
Stefanos Theoharis / Chair: Stefanos Theoharis, CBO, Bone Therapeutics
Stefanos Theoharis, Chief Business Officer, Bone Therapeutics
Stefanos contributes more than 15 years of business development experience in the pharma and biotech industry to Bone Therapeutics, specifically in the cell and gene therapy space. This includes his achievements as Senior Vice-President at Cell Medica, a clinical-stage biotech company, where he...
Tom Wilton / CAR-Macrophages: a novel approach to immunotherapy
Tom Wilton, Chief Business Officer, Carisma Therapeutics
Tom joined Carisma Therapeutics in September 2019. He brings over 20 years of pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry experience, including corporate strategy, business development, R&D operations and marketing. Tom most recently served as the Chief Business Officer for LogicBio...
Ross Macdonald / Clinical development of iPSC-derived mesenchymal stem cells
Ross Macdonald, Chief Executive Officer, Cynata Therapeutics Ltd
Dr Ross Macdonald is the CEO and Managing Director of Cynata Therapeutics Limited. He has over 30 years’ experience and a track record of success in pharmaceutical and biopharma businesses. His career history includes positions as Vice President of Business Development for Sinclair Pharmaceuticals...
Federico Mingozzi / Unlocking the full potential of in vivo gene therapy
Dr. Federico Mingozzi is the chief scientific officer at Spark Therapeutics, bringing two decades of experience in gene therapy, immunology, as well as biochemistry and molecular biology in both industry and academic settings.Federico began his scientific career studying the genetic basis of...
Elsa Abranches / Cell and gene therapy standardisation
Elsa Abranches, Senior Director - Head of Cell Therapy Bioprocess Development and Manufacturing, AstraZeneca
Elsa Abranches is a Senior Director and Head of Cell Therapy Bioprocess Development and Manufacturing, within the Cell Therapy Department of BioPharmaceuticals R&D at AstraZeneca. Elsa is responsible for leading the section providing translational technology and high-quality cells for...
Ivana Barbaric / Genetic changes in human pluripotent stem cells: Implications for safety and efficacy of cell therapies
Ivana Barbaric, Professor of Stem Cell Biology, The University of Sheffield
Ivana Barbaric completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford prior to joining the Centre for Stem Cell Biology at the University of Sheffield in 2006. She has established her own group in Sheffield in 2014. Her research is focused on the basic biology of human pluripotent stem cells and their...
Daniel O'Mahony / How to attract investment into cell and gene therapy: hear how different investors decide on who and what they invest in, and why
Daniel O'Mahony, Partner, Seroba Life Sciences
Daniel O’Mahony is a Partner at Seroba and brings a wealth of experience in product development, strategic planning, licensing, corporate venturing, intellectual property management and commercialisation.Daniel was involved in corporate venture at Elan Corporation from 1996-2003. He was an advisor...
Dominic Schmidt / How to attract investment into cell and gene therapy: hear how different investors decide on who and what they invest in, and why
Dominic Schmidt, General Partner, Advent Life Sciences
Dominic is a General Partner at Advent Life Sciences and joined in April 2022. Prior to joining Advent, he spent eight years as a Partner in the investment team of Syncona, a publicly listed healthcare investment company. During his time there he was involved in the founding, funding and building...
Kerstin Papenfuss / How to attract investment into cell and gene therapy: hear how different investors decide on who and what they invest in, and why
Kerstin Papenfuss, Associate Director Pharma, Deep Science Ventures
Kerstin started her PhD at German Cancer Research Centre and then moved to a lab at Imperial College to work on novel treatment options within the field of tumour immunology. She has since spent almost ten years in leadership roles at impact-driven organisations advancing medicine and...
Emily Merrell / The Power of the Collective: how collaboration will drive growth within the CGT ecosystem
Emily Merrell, Director, Centre for Cell & Gene Therapy, Global Operations, ICON plc
Emily Merrell has worked within the Healthcare sector for 24+ years with global development experience spanning a number of industries, including Biotech, Pharma, CROs, and public sector. In addition to roles in drug development, Emily has also worked as a consultant within The National Healthcare...
Satinder Rawat / Rare diseases drug development: challenges and opportunities
Satinder Rawat, Vice President Of Alliance Management, Taysha Gene Therapies
Satinder is a Vice President at Taysha. He is a PhD with an MBA and 15+ years’ experience in Business Development. Licensing and Alliance Management. As part of the Corporate Strategy team at Taysha, he leads Business Development & Licensing, Strategic Alliances, Search and Evaluation and...
Russell Jarres / Standardization of Cell Therapy Manufacturing Using Closed Processes
Russell Jarres, Sr. Manager, Strategic Collaborations and Alliances, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Russ Jarres is a seasoned biotech professional with a diverse background in drug discovery, analytical chemistry, and diagnostic development. With a degree from the University of New Hampshire, he has spent over a decade honing his skills at the bench and then transitioned into marketing and...
Tony Ward / Starting Material Matters in Cell Therapy – Highly Innovative Approach with Curate Cell Processing System
Tony Ward, CTO, Curate Bioscience
Tony previously served as the global strategic marketing director for Becton Dickinson’s research cell analysis business as well as headed commercial operations for eBioscience from startup through sale to Affymetrix, where he served as SVP/general manager for the business unit. Tony’s background...
Greg Hopkins / Flexible approaches to analytical characterization of CAR T manufacturing using mass cytometry
Greg Hopkins, Associate Manager/Scientist, Analytical Development Group, 2seventy bio
Greg is an Associate Manager/Scientist in the Analytical Development group at 2seventy bio (an oncology-focused spin-off of bluebird bio – his previous place of employment). With a primary focus in characterizing the CAR T manufacturing process using high dimensional mass cytometry, he leads the...
Marina Tarunina / Developing optimal stem cell expansion and differentiation protocols for advanced cell therapies
Marina Tarunina, Research Director, Plasticell
Dr. Tarunina joined Plasticell Ltd as Principal Scientist in 2007 and become company’s Research Director in 2017. She has contributed to the development of the company’s CombiCult® technology platform and exemplified its broad applications in different areas of stem cell biology. Prior to joining...
Frederic Chereau / Current gene delivery systems & what does the future hold?
Fred Chereau has more than 25 years of experience guiding products from proof-of-concept and clinical trials through commercialization in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. He has served as president and chief executive officer of LogicBio since 2016. Prior to joining...
Irina Kadiyala / Particulate Strategy for Cell Gene Therapy products
Irina Kadiyala has Ph.D. in Biophysics. She has more than 22 years of industrial experience and in the current position, she heads the Heme Process Development group at Vertex Cell Gene Therapies. She is responsible for enabling process validation studies and their execution relying on her...
Roger Horton / Cryopreservation of HPC (A)/PBSCs and DLI/PBMCs – what have we learnt from Covid?
Roger Horton, Cell and Gene Therapies Clinical Delivery Lead, Anthony Nolan
Roger Horton is the FACT Director of the Anthony Nolan Cord Blood Bank and Cell and Gene Therapy Clinical Delivery Lead at the Anthony Nolan Cell therapy Centre in Nottingham, UK. He also acts as the designated individual for the Human tissue Authority, which is the UK regulator. He has been a...
Roger Horton / Cryopreservation of HPC (A)/PBSCs and DLI/PBMCs – What have we learnt from Covid?
Roger Horton, Cell and Gene Therapies Clinical Delivery Lead, Anthony Nolan
Roger Horton is the FACT Director of the Anthony Nolan Cord Blood Bank and Cell and Gene Therapy Clinical Delivery Lead at the Anthony Nolan Cell therapy Centre in Nottingham, UK. He also acts as the designated individual for the Human tissue Authority, which is the UK regulator. He has been a...
Randolph Corteling / New stem cell-derived exosome drug delivery system
Randolph Corteling, CSO, ReNeuron
Dr Randolph Corteling has over 25 years’ experience in medical research and drug discovery, spanning academia, biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry. He gained his PhD in Medical and Surgical Sciences at Nottingham University, followed by three years as a Heart and Stroke Foundation...
Peter Marks / Panel: Tackling large scale regulatory challenges
Peter Marks, Director, Center For Biologics Evaluation And Research (CBER), U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D. is the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the Food and Drug Administration. The center is responsible for assuring the safety and effectiveness of biological products, including vaccines, allergenic products, blood and blood products, and ...
Snehal Naik / Panel: Tackling large scale regulatory challenges
Snehal Naik, Head of Regulatory Policy; Strategy Leader (Ocular), Spark Therapeutics
Snehal brings a confluence of early discovery, innovation and scientific expertise to her hybrid role as Spark?s Regulatory Policy Leader and Regulatory Strategy Leader for ocular programs. In this capacity she is establishing the regulatory policy function at Spark and supporting global...
Jaap Boelens / Panel: New frontiers to improve post-transplant immune reconstitution
Jaap Boelens, Chief, Stem Cell Transplantation And Cellular Therapies Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Jaap Jan Boelens is the director of the IDMS lab. Dr. Boelens, who is also the Chief of the Pediatric Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program, came to Memorial Sloan Kettering from UMC Utrecht and the Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, where he worked on developing the largest...
Ian Davies / The benefits of digital transformation within cell and gene therapy companies
Ian Davies, Business Consultant, Digital Lab Consulting
Ian is an experienced project manager and business analyst, specialising in the implementation of electronic laboratory platforms, such as ELN and LIMS, within the pharmaceutical and life science industries with a proven track record of successful delivery. Ian has extensive understanding of...
Uta Griesenbach, Professor, Molecular Medicine, National Heart And Lung Institute; President, British Society For Gene And Cell Therapy;, Imperiai College London
Uta Griesenbach is a Professor in Molecular Medicine at Imperial College London, former President of the British Society for Gene and Cell Therapy (www.bsgct.org/) and Director (non-excecutive) of the Celll and Gene Therapy Catapult. Uta has over 25 years experience in developing advanced...
Ali Bahari / Key Considerations in Design of a Cell and Gene Therapy Processing Facility
Ali Bahari, Bioprocess Consultant, Scitech Engineering Ltd
Dr. Ali Bahari is a Bioprocess Design Consultant with experience in supporting facility and process design projects within life science and industrial biotech sector. Ali is a chartered process engineer and is holding a PhD, MSc. and BSc. in Chemical Engineering. His experience spans over 20 years...
Bastiaan Bijl, Business Development Director, Single Cell Discoveries
Bastiaan is responsible for Business Development at Single Cell Discoveries. He obtained his BSc in Biomedical Sciences and his MSc in Science & Business management. After starting his career as a consultant, Bastiaan returned to the Life Sciences sector. He loves to talk to (potential)...
Satinder Rawat / Biotech financing: where are we going in 2023?
Satinder Rawat, Vice President Of Alliance Management, Taysha Gene Therapies
Satinder is a Vice President at Taysha. He is a PhD with an MBA and 15+ years’ experience in Business Development. Licensing and Alliance Management. As part of the Corporate Strategy team at Taysha, he leads Business Development & Licensing, Strategic Alliances, Search and Evaluation and...
Joseph Stavas / Logistical implications of global cell-based therapies for diabetic kidney disease: early phase III lessons learned diabetic kidney disease
Joseph Stavas, Senior Vice President of Clinical Development, ProKidney
Dr. Stavas leads the strategic advancement of clinical trials and scientific discovery and development at ProKidney. He has over 30 years of experience in medical practice, academics and research endeavors and been affiliated with ProKidney since 2012. He serves as liaison between...
Tara Sadeghi brings with her over 25 years experience in clinical research and drug development, regulatory and quality management, and executive leadership. Prior to joining Cellenkos, Inc., Ms. Sadeghi served as Director of Clinical Operations at Bio-Path Holdings, Inc., Assistant Director of...
Nick Lench / Delivering the promise of nucleic acid therapeutics
Nick Lench, Executive Director, Nucleic Acid Therapy Accelerator (NATA)
Nick is Executive Director of the of the newly established MRC/UKRI Nucleic Acid Therapy Accelerator (NATA) based at the Harwell Research Campus. Funded through a £30M award from the Strategic Priorities Fund, NATA’s mission is to advance the discovery, validation and development of new nucleic...
Alistair Michel / Don’t forget the quality of your raw materials in gene therapy products
Alistair is an immunologist and has a BSc (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc from Imperial College London. He is a member of the British Society of Immunologists. He has 20 years’ experience developing immunoassays, over ten of which have been spent developing and...
Eleni Papanikolaou / Automation of hematopoietic stem cell transduction: Results of a head-to-head comparison between a manual and an automated procedure
Eleni Papanikolaou, Manager of Hemopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy and Graft Engineering at the R&D Department, Miltenyi Biotec
Eleni Papanikolaou is Manager of Hemopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy and Graft Engineering at the R&D Department of Miltenyi Biotec, in Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany and a Lecturer of Gene Therapy at the Medical School of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), in...
Daniel Smith / Viral vector process design - Striking the right balance of speed and development
Daniel Smith, Executive Director, Global Cell & Gene Therapy Portfolio, Charles River Laboratories
Following the acquisition of Cobra Biologics/Cognate BioServices by Charles River Laboratories (CRL) in April 2021, Professor Smith was appointed Executive Director, Global Cell & Gene Therapy Portfolio within the CRL Corporate Development & Strategy function. Prior to...
Julian Riba / An automated workflow for highly efficient cloning of iPSCs in cell therapy manufacturing
Julian Riba, Chief Executive Officer, Cytena GmbH
CYTENA is a pioneer in automated single-cell cloning, and the single-cell dispensing technology developed by the company is used by most of the top 20 pharma companies for stable cell line development. As CEO of CYTENA, Julian focuses on Cooperate Strategy, Business Development and Product...
Detlev Parow / Panel: Finding the right framework for reimbursement and market access
Detlev Parow, Previous Head Pharmaceutical Department, DAK-Gesundheit
Former Head of Department of Medicines, Medical Remedies and Selective Contracts DAK – Gesundheit, Hamburg, Germany From January 2017 until October 2021 Dr. Detlev Parow was Head of the Department of Medicines, Medical Remedies and Selective Contracts at DAK-Gesundheit in Hamburg (third largest...
Dilip Patel / Panel: Finding the right framework for reimbursement and market access
Dilip Patel, VP Market Access, Autolus
Dilip Patel, Global Pricing and Market Access expert, with experience spanning 20+ years in Pharma and small Biotech, he has over 10+ years expertise’s in the early commercialisation of ATMP’s and Cell therapy in Oncology and orphan diseases. Started his career with Pfizer and has held a number of...
Marcus Guardian / Panel: Finding the right framework for reimbursement and market access
Marcus Guardian, Chief Operating Officer, EUnetHTA
Based on an educational background in international law (Technische Universität Dresden), business administration (Qingdao University), and diplomatic studies (University of Leicester), Marcus has forged a career in network development, strategic guidance, and policy management. In 2016, he...
John Maher / CAR T-cell immunotherapy of solid tumours: moving through the generations
John Maher, CSO, Leucid Bio
Dr John Maher is a clinically active consultant immunologist at Eastbourne Hospital and King’s Health Partners. While a visiting fellow in the laboratory of Michel Sadelain, he was the first to engineer and test second generation CAR-T technology in human T cells, building on the pioneering work of ...
Paul Gissen / Safety, on-target and off target
Paul Gissen, Professor of Metabolic Medicine, Head of Genetics and Genomic Medicine Department, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Dr Paul Gissen has been an honorary Consultant in Paediatric Metabolic Diseases at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Sciences at the UCL Institute of Child Health since March 2011.
Dr Gissen qualified from the University of Glasgow Medical School in...
Marco Thomann / Extended Characterization of AAV Capsids by Mass Spectrometry to Determine Critical Quality Attributes
Marco Thomann, Scientist, Roche Diagnostics GmbH
Marco Thomann joined Roche in 2004 after his studies of biotechnology. Since then, he had held different roles in the analytical department with regard to extended characterization of monoclonal antibodies with a strong focus on late stage activities such as process development and process design...
Roberto Gramignoli / Transforming Incubator of Life into Innovative Treatments: allogeneic Amnion Epithelial Stem Cells to treat congenital and chronic disorders without immunosuppression
Roberto Gramignoli, Sr Researcher, Karolinska institutet
Roberto and his Mentor (Dr Strom) has always been on the front line for the treatment of acute and congenital liver disorders by cell-based therapies, with hepatocyte transplant as a bridge or an alternative to orthotopic liver transplantation. Working together, they became the first facility to be ...
Troels Jordansen / Off-the-shelf clinical options – new data
Troels Jordansen started his career in healthcare at LEO Pharma. After four years with Johnson & Johnson Orthopaedics he was one of the initial Genzyme Europe hires to focus on commercializing Carticel and Epicel in 1996. Over the past 20 years Jordansen has worked for five different cell...
Johannes De Munter / An autologous ATMP to treat traumatic spinal Cord injuries, from concept to clinical testing
Johannes De Munter, Chief Executive Officer, Neuroplast
Johannes P.J.M. de Munter is a trained physician and a registered scenario-epidemiologist with more than 35 years of experience in medical health care. He started as emergency health care physician, general practitioner and specialist infectious diseases, and worked for 15 years as deputy director...
Linda Randall / How Innovation and Collaborations are Accelerating Gene Therapy Development
Linda Randall, Associate VP, Biologics Development, Manufacturing & Control,, Pharmaron
Linda is Associate Vice President, Biologics Development, Manufacturing and Control for Pharmaron Gene Therapy in Liverpool, UK. Linda and her team support their clients with the development and manufacture of gene therapy products. Linda established and grew the gene therapy capabilities at the...
Ali Abdul-Gader / Enhancing Cell Therapy Development Through Advanced Protein Production and Antibody Development Platforms
Ali Abdul-Gader, Technical Specialist, Sino Biological GmbH
Dr. Ali Abdul-Gader is the UK technical specialist at Sino Biological. He provides technical support for recombinant protein and antibody products, and for CRO services in recombinant protein production and antibody development. He obtained his Ph.D. in membrane protein structural biology, and...
David Morrow / From Rare diseases to Cancer. How can EATRIS support the ATMP developer?
David Morrow, scientist, EATRIS
David Morrow is Programme Manager Translational Medicine & Drug Development at EATRIS.
David received a BSc (Hons) in Molecular Biology from University College Dublin in 2001 and a PhD in Vascular Biology from Dublin City University in 2006. This was followed by an American Heart Association...
Raphael Ognar / Targeting of HLA-G positive tumors with cytotoxic immune cells engineered with a Chimeric ILT-Receptor
Raphael Ognar, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, NKILT Therapeutics Inc.
Pharma/Biotech executive with over 24 years of commercial, drug development, product lifecycle and strategy expertise, building extensive expertise in Oncology/Hematology and leadership skills through multiple country and global roles. For the last decade, he increased his focus on...
David Peritt / Extracorporeal gene delivery for the in vivo engineering of therapeutic cells
David Peritt, Chief Scientific Officer, Lupagen
David Peritt, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder: David is a cellular immunologist by training with substantial industry experience in biologics and cell therapy. Prior to founding Lupagen, David was Chief Technology Officer at Sigilon Therapeutics (SGTX), a Flagship Pioneering...
Lazaros Fotopoulos / Developing high-content imaging assays for precision medicine and stem cell disease modelling
Lazaros Fotopoulos, Director, Cellular Phenotyping Centre, KCL
Lazaros is directing the cellular phenotyping centre “The Stem Cell Hotel” within the “Centre for Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine” at King’s College London. The main areas of his work are developing cellular phenotyping applications for academia and industry, using high throughput and high...
Angela Columbano / Clinical trial update
Angela Columbano, Head Of Business Development And Partnership, genethon
Angela Columbano has over 20 year experience in the pharmaceutical and Biomedical industry. Prior to Genethon, Angela was Principal at Sanofi Sunrise an early investment and partnering vehicle. Angela has also held various positions with Sanofi in Marketing and Business Development and Licensing...
Victor Dillard / Pioneering macrophage cell therapy for advanced liver disease
Victor Dillard, VP, Corporate Development, Resolution Therapeutics
Victor is a deep tech entrepreneur and venture builder, with over 10 years of commercial and operational experience at the intersection of cell therapy, genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. In his current role as VP of Corporate Development at Resolution Therapeutics, Victor leads the...
David Schaffer / Directed Evolution of AAV Gene Delivery Systems for Clinical Gene Therapy
David Schaffer, Professor, Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering, University Of California, Berkeley And Co-Founder, 4DMT
David Schaffer is the Hubbard Howe Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Bioengineering, and Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and he also serves as the Executive Director of QB3 and the Director of the Bakar Bioenginuity Hub and Bakar Labs. He...
Helene Roelofs / Academic multi-tasking
Helene Roelofs, Clin. Transl. Researcher, L.U.M.C.
Helene Roelofs, PhDHR was trained as a chemist, with a focus on biochemistry, and developed an interest for (mal)functioning processes in living cells. She obtained her PhD at the university of Leiden (Netherlands) and worked as a fundamental researcher in various cancer-related areas in the USA...
Fausto Artico / Little, useful secrets on how to create and execute an effective quantum computing strategy Fausto Artico, Global R&D Tech Head and Director of Innovation and Data Science, GSK (confirmed)
Fausto Artico, Global R&D Tech Head of Innovation & Data Science, GSK
Fausto has a double PhD (Information Technology and Computer Science), earning his second master’s and PhD at the University of California, Irvine. Fausto also holds multiple certifications from MIT, Columbia University, London School of Economics and Political Science and soon also from Kellogg...
Martin Williams / The DNA & RNA revolution
Martin Williams, Chief Executive Officer, SYTE.bio
Biotechnologist, Bio-Enterpreneur, trained in Genetic Engineering and Synthetic Biology applied to Vaccine, Gene and Cell Therapy Development. Finishing PhD in Synthetic Biology at UNQ University. Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Postgraduate Degree. Certified in Bioinformatics. Certified in...
Stefanos Theoharis / Panel: New frontiers in cell therapy, moving from auto to allo to in-vivo
Stefanos Theoharis, Chief Business Officer, Bone Therapeutics
Stefanos contributes more than 15 years of business development experience in the pharma and biotech industry to Bone Therapeutics, specifically in the cell and gene therapy space. This includes his achievements as Senior Vice-President at Cell Medica, a clinical-stage biotech company, where he...
Tom Wilton / Panel: New frontiers in cell therapy, moving from auto to allo to in-vivo
Tom Wilton, Chief Business Officer, Carisma Therapeutics
Tom joined Carisma Therapeutics in September 2019. He brings over 20 years of pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry experience, including corporate strategy, business development, R&D operations and marketing. Tom most recently served as the Chief Business Officer for LogicBio...
David Peritt / Panel: New frontiers in cell therapy, moving from auto to allo to in-vivo
David Peritt, Chief Scientific Officer, Lupagen
David Peritt, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder: David is a cellular immunologist by training with substantial industry experience in biologics and cell therapy. Prior to founding Lupagen, David was Chief Technology Officer at Sigilon Therapeutics (SGTX), a Flagship Pioneering...
Miguel Forte / Panel: The pros and cons of alternative allogeneic approaches
Miguel Forte, President Elect, ISCT; Entrepreneur in Residence, Adbio partners
Dr. Forte has significant experience in regenerative medicine and in the cell therapy industry, most recently as Chief Executive Officer of Zelluna Immunotherapy, a biopharma company focusing on developing transformative T cell receptors (TCR) based cellular immunotherapies for the treatment of...
Ross Macdonald / Panel: The pros and cons of alternative allogeneic approaches
Ross Macdonald, Chief Executive Officer, Cynata Therapeutics Ltd
Dr Ross Macdonald is the CEO and Managing Director of Cynata Therapeutics Limited. He has over 30 years’ experience and a track record of success in pharmaceutical and biopharma businesses. His career history includes positions as Vice President of Business Development for Sinclair Pharmaceuticals...
Raphael Ognar / Panel: The pros and cons of alternative allogeneic approaches
Raphael Ognar, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, NKILT Therapeutics Inc.
Pharma/Biotech executive with over 24 years of commercial, drug development, product lifecycle and strategy expertise, building extensive expertise in Oncology/Hematology and leadership skills through multiple country and global roles. For the last decade, he increased his focus on...
David Schaffer / Panel: The Brain: Gene Therapy’s Next Frontier
David Schaffer, Professor, Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering, University Of California, Berkeley And Co-Founder, 4DMT
David Schaffer is the Hubbard Howe Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Bioengineering, and Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and he also serves as the Executive Director of QB3 and the Director of the Bakar Bioenginuity Hub and Bakar Labs. He...
Essra Ridha / Panel: The Brain: Gene Therapy’s Next Frontier
Essra Ridha, Chief Medical Officer, AVROBIO
Essra is a global medical leader with extensive experience in clinical research and development, translational medicine, and clinical medicine with specialist training in cardiology and internal medicine.Essra’s experience includes strategically and scientifically advancing the ex vivo lentiviral...
David Morrow / Panel discussion: Addressing the skill shortage in Advanced Therapies
David Morrow, scientist, EATRIS
David Morrow is Programme Manager Translational Medicine & Drug Development at EATRIS.
David received a BSc (Hons) in Molecular Biology from University College Dublin in 2001 and a PhD in Vascular Biology from Dublin City University in 2006. This was followed by an American Heart Association...
Geoff Hamilton / Panel discussion: Addressing the skill shortage in Advanced Therapies
Geoff Hamilton, Co Founder And Chief Executive Officer, Stemson Therapeutics
Geoff Hamilton is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Stemson Therapeutics. He has spent two decades in product commercialization and business leadership roles in the biotech industry. Prior to founding Stemson, Geoff spent five years at Illumina, the world leader in DNA sequencing...
Uta Griesenbach / Panel discussion: Addressing the skill shortage in Advanced Therapies
Uta Griesenbach, Professor, Molecular Medicine, National Heart And Lung Institute; President, British Society For Gene And Cell Therapy;, Imperiai College London
Uta Griesenbach is a Professor in Molecular Medicine at Imperial College London, former President of the British Society for Gene and Cell Therapy (www.bsgct.org/) and Director (non-excecutive) of the Celll and Gene Therapy Catapult. Uta has over 25 years experience in developing advanced...
Paolo Morgese / Introudction from chair
Paolo Morgese, EU Director Market Access & Member Relations, Alliance for Regenerative Medicine
Paolo is a healthcare investment and market access professional with more than 15 years of experience in both assessing and supporting access to innovative healthcare technologies. Since 2017, Paolo is EU Director Market Access and Members Relations at the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM)...
Bruce Levine / Keynote presentation: Translating innovation from academia to industry
Bruce Levine, Professor, Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Bruce Levine, Barbara and Edward Netter Professor in Cancer Gene Therapy, is the Founding Director of the Clinical Cell and Vaccine Production Facility (CVPF) in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of...
Miguel Forte / Keynote panel: Revision of ATMP legislation
Miguel Forte, President Elect, ISCT; Entrepreneur in Residence, Adbio partners
Dr. Forte has significant experience in regenerative medicine and in the cell therapy industry, most recently as Chief Executive Officer of Zelluna Immunotherapy, a biopharma company focusing on developing transformative T cell receptors (TCR) based cellular immunotherapies for the treatment of...
Paolo Morgese / Keynote panel: Revision of ATMP legislation
Paolo Morgese, EU Director Market Access & Member Relations, Alliance for Regenerative Medicine
Paolo is a healthcare investment and market access professional with more than 15 years of experience in both assessing and supporting access to innovative healthcare technologies. Since 2017, Paolo is EU Director Market Access and Members Relations at the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM)...
Peter Marks / Keynote panel: Revision of ATMP legislation
Peter Marks, Director, Center For Biologics Evaluation And Research (CBER), U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D. is the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the Food and Drug Administration. The center is responsible for assuring the safety and effectiveness of biological products, including vaccines, allergenic products, blood and blood products, and ...
Snehal Naik / Chair: Snehal Naik, Head of Regulatory Policy; Strategy Leader (Ocular), Spark Therapeutics
Snehal Naik, Head of Regulatory Policy; Strategy Leader (Ocular), Spark Therapeutics
Snehal brings a confluence of early discovery, innovation and scientific expertise to her hybrid role as Spark?s Regulatory Policy Leader and Regulatory Strategy Leader for ocular programs. In this capacity she is establishing the regulatory policy function at Spark and supporting global...
Francesco Dazzi / Chair: Francesco Dazzi, Senior Medical Director, AstraZeneca
Francesco Dazzi, Medical Director of Cell Therapies, AstraZeneca
Professor Francesco Dazzi has been working on the biology and clinical applications of cellular therapies in haemopoietic stem cell transplantation for the last 20 years. He obtained an MD and a PhD at Padua University Medical School (Italy) and subsequently trained as a Haematologist at Verona...
Sakis Mantalaris / Chair: Sakis Mantalaris, Professor, Trinity College Dublin
Sakis Mantalaris, Professor, Biomedical Systems Engineering Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology
Athanasios (Sakis) Mantalaris is Professor in the W.H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech & Emory since August 2018. Prior to his move to Atlanta, he was Professor of BioSystems Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. He...
Jaap Boelens / Chair: Jaap Boelens
Jaap Boelens, Chief, Stem Cell Transplantation And Cellular Therapies Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Jaap Jan Boelens is the director of the IDMS lab. Dr. Boelens, who is also the Chief of the Pediatric Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program, came to Memorial Sloan Kettering from UMC Utrecht and the Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, where he worked on developing the largest...
Tal Shamia / Choosing the right GMP partner for your CRISPR-enabled cell and gene therapy
Tal Shamia, Clinical Sales Consultant, Europe, Synthego
Tal Shamia studied at the Weizmann Institute of Science and has eight years of research experience in virology and molecular genetics. In his role at Synthego, he supports clinical CRISPR projects across Europe.
Suzanne Farid / Identifying cost-effective manufacturing strategies for ATMPs
Suzanne Farid, Professor of Bioprocess Systems Engineering & Co-Director Future Targeted Healthcare Manufacturing Hub, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Suzanne Farid is Professor of Bioprocess Systems Engineering in the UCL Department of Biochemical Engineering and Deputy Head of Department (Education). She is a Fellow of Institution of Chemical Engineers (FIChemE). She sits on the UK BioIndustry Association Manufacturing Advisory Committee and...
Cédric Ghevaert / Bringing manufactured blood cell therapies to the clinic
Cédric Ghevaert, Senior Lecturer Transfusion Medicine, University of Cambridge
Professor Ghevaert is a Professor in Transfusion Medicine at the University of Cambridge and Consultant Haematologist for the NHS Blood and Transplant. He obtained his MD in 1998 from the University Libre de Bruxelles. After qualifying as a Consultant Haematologist, he did his PhD in Cambridge to...
Dominic Schmidt / Investor Panel
Dominic Schmidt, General Partner, Advent Life Sciences
Dominic is a General Partner at Advent Life Sciences and joined in April 2022. Prior to joining Advent, he spent eight years as a Partner in the investment team of Syncona, a publicly listed healthcare investment company. During his time there he was involved in the founding, funding and building...
Snehal Naik / Panel: Tackling large scale regulatory challenges
Snehal Naik, Head of Regulatory Policy; Strategy Leader (Ocular), Spark Therapeutics
Snehal brings a confluence of early discovery, innovation and scientific expertise to her hybrid role as Spark?s Regulatory Policy Leader and Regulatory Strategy Leader for ocular programs. In this capacity she is establishing the regulatory policy function at Spark and supporting global...
Peter Marks / Panel: Tackling large scale regulatory challenges
Peter Marks, Director, Center For Biologics Evaluation And Research (CBER), U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D. is the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the Food and Drug Administration. The center is responsible for assuring the safety and effectiveness of biological products, including vaccines, allergenic products, blood and blood products, and ...
cornelia kasper / Strategies for dynamic expansion of stem cell mimicking physiological microenvironment
cornelia kasper, professor, boku
Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Cornelia Kasper, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Department of Biotechnology, Institute for Cell and Tissue Culture TechnologiesCornelia Kasper studied Chemistry at the Leibniz University Hannover She performed her dissertation at the Institute...
Laura Herbst / Automating autologous and allogeneic cell therapy manufacturing
Laura Herbst, Research Fellow, Fraunhofer-Institute for Production Technology
Masters Degree in Molecular and Applied Biotechnology (2014 – 2020),
RWTH Aachen University
Research associate and project leader at Fraunhofer Institute for Production
Technology IPT since 2020, department of production metrology, group Automation in Life Science
Asael Herman / EMD-101, an autologous, allele-specific gene-edited hematopoietic stem cell therapy, for treating ELANE related severe congenital neutropenia
Dr. Asael Herman is Emendo’s Chief Operating Officer, having joined Emendo in 2017 with nearly two decades of experience in academia and the biotech industry. Asael is responsible for Emendo’s preclinical and clinical development, while in his previous role as Emendo’s CTO he managed Emendo’s...
Holger A Russ / Generation of stem cell derived functional thymic cells for research and cell therapy
Holger A Russ, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Florida
The emphasis of Dr.Russ`s research is on understanding the underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms resulting in autoimmune type 1 diabetes (T1D) in humans, with a focus on the insulin-producing beta cells. During his career, Dr. Russ successfully worked on different aspects of T1D, which led...
Amy Gray / Strategy to Accelerate Research in Rare Disease
Amy Gray, Chief Executive Officer, Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association
Amy Gray is the Chief Executive Officer of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association (CMTA), a patient advocacy organization driving CMT research. In her role as CEO, she has worked closely with the CMTA’s scientific, therapeutic, and clinical expert boards to drive the CMTA’s Strategy to Accelerate...
Mark Roache / Setting the right path – Early considerations for optimizing value and risk in CMC
Mark Roache, VP, Cell and Gene Therapies, Quality Executive Partners, Inc.
Mark has spent his entire career working in GXP with more than 30 years of industry experience, from development, through technical operations and quality management. He held the position of Chief Quality Officer for AveXis (now Novartis Gene Therapies) at the time of Zolgensma launch. He was...
Holger Laux / Development of a perfusion process for continuous lentivirus production using stable suspension producer cell lines
Holger Laux, Director of Viral Vector Process Development, CSL Behring
Dr. Laux is leading the viral vector process development platform at Biopharmaceutical Product Development, CSL Behring Innovation GmbH Marburg. Throughout his career at CSL Behring he was building up of a world-class Viral Vector process development group including CLD, USP, DSP and bioanalytics...
Jaap Boelens / Towards the optimal ‘Package’ therapy
Jaap Boelens, Chief, Stem Cell Transplantation And Cellular Therapies Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Jaap Jan Boelens is the director of the IDMS lab. Dr. Boelens, who is also the Chief of the Pediatric Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program, came to Memorial Sloan Kettering from UMC Utrecht and the Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, where he worked on developing the largest...
Satinder Rawat / Panel: Biotech financing: where are we going in 2023?
Satinder Rawat, Vice President Of Alliance Management, Taysha Gene Therapies
Satinder is a Vice President at Taysha. He is a PhD with an MBA and 15+ years’ experience in Business Development. Licensing and Alliance Management. As part of the Corporate Strategy team at Taysha, he leads Business Development & Licensing, Strategic Alliances, Search and Evaluation and...
Jaap Boelens / Panel: Measurable residual disease and novel transplant techniques to optimize outcomes in AML
Jaap Boelens, Chief, Stem Cell Transplantation And Cellular Therapies Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Jaap Jan Boelens is the director of the IDMS lab. Dr. Boelens, who is also the Chief of the Pediatric Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program, came to Memorial Sloan Kettering from UMC Utrecht and the Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, where he worked on developing the largest...
Robert Wynn / Panel: Measurable residual disease and novel transplant techniques to optimize outcomes in AML
Robert Wynn, Consultant Paed Haematologist, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Rob Wynn is a consultant paediatric haematologist at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and Director of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Programme there.Rob was born in Sudan and grew up in Liverpool. He was educated at St Edward’s College, Liverpool and did undergraduate medicine training in...
Mick Fellows / Regenerative cardiac cell therapy: an opportunity for curing heart failure – focus on safety
Mick Fellows, Director CVRM Cell Therapy Safety Clinical Pharmacology and Safety Sciences, AstraZeneca
Dr Mick Fellows is the Director of CVRM Cell Therapy Safety at AstraZeneca in Cambridge UK. He earned his Ph.D in Pharmacology and Toxicology investigating topoisomerase II inhibition at Liverpool University. In the mid 1980’s Mick joined Covance, where he developed and study directed a range of...
Nicola Redfern / Panel: What challenges and opportunities are facing companies and other organisations as they introduce gene therapies to the UK market
Nicola Redfern, Director, NJ Redfern Ltd.
With 5 years experience working in the gene therapy arena with a focus on reimbursement and commercialisation, Nicola is now exploring what next following her departure from bluebird bio in Europe. With a consistent focus over recent decades on rare disease/ oncology/ haematology and areas of unmet ...
Anne Black / Panel: What challenges and opportunities are facing companies and other organisations as they introduce gene therapies to the UK market
Anne Black, QA Specialist Pharmacist, NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service
Anne is a member of the NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service. Her role is Regional QA Specialist Pharmacist for the North East and North Cumbria. She developed an interest and expertise in clinical trials and, in particular, advanced therapy medicinal products, as she became involved with Newcastle...
Owen Marks / Panel: What challenges and opportunities are facing companies and other organisations as they introduce gene therapies to the UK market
Owen Marks, Head of Rare Diseases and Diversity and Inclusion Co Chair, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
Owen is Head of Rare Diseases for Pfizer in the UK, covering a portfolio including Gene Therapies and Treatments for rare disorders. He is also Co-chair of the Pfizer UK DE+I Group, Chair of the BITC South East Board and HRH Ambassador and Chair of the ABPI working group for ATMPs (Advanced...
Sakis Mantalaris / TBC
Sakis Mantalaris, Professor, Biomedical Systems Engineering Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology
Athanasios (Sakis) Mantalaris is Professor in the W.H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech & Emory since August 2018. Prior to his move to Atlanta, he was Professor of BioSystems Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. He...
Emmanuelle Cameau / Viral Gene Therapy – How Can the Industry Drive Down the Cost of Goods to Better Serve the Patients?
Emmanuelle has more than 14 years of experience in Biotechnology Process Development and GMP production. Highly skilled in the field of cell culture applications, Emmanuelle joined Pall Corporation nearly 11 years ago as Bioprocess Specialist (BPS). After four years in that role, she then...
Chris Min / Lomecel-B: an MSC therapy with potential for treatment of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Aging-related Frailty and Alzheimer’s Disease
Chris Min, Chief Executive Officer, Longeveron
Chris Min joined Longeveron in April 2022. He is a board certified neurologist and has over 20 years of experience in research in neuroscience, biochemistry and structural biology. He has had clinical development experience in both big pharma, having spent 8 years in early clinical development, as...
Sakis Mantalaris / Panel discussion: CGT bioprocessing and digitalisation
Sakis Mantalaris, Professor, Biomedical Systems Engineering Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology
Athanasios (Sakis) Mantalaris is Professor in the W.H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech & Emory since August 2018. Prior to his move to Atlanta, he was Professor of BioSystems Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. He...
Ioannis Papantoniou / Panel discussion: CGT bioprocessing and digitalisation
Ioannis Papantoniou, Assoc. Professor of Tissue Engineering and Biomanufacturing, Prometheus division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering, KU Leuven
Ioannis is an ATMP Bioprocess Research Coordinator at Prometheus, KU Leuven, Belgium. He has graduated in Chemical Engineering, from the University of Patras, Greece and obtained a Doctoral degree (MPhil and PhD) from the Department of Biochemical Engineering, University College London (UCL), UK -...
Ben Weil / Panel discussion: CGT bioprocessing and digitalisation
Ben Weil, Head of GMP Process Engineering, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Head of GMP Bioprocess Engineering at the Centre for Cell, Gene and Tissue Therapeutics (CCGTT). Established and leading the GMP Clinical Engineering Team to drive development of cost-effective Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMP) provision through increased scale, automation, and “closing”...
Laura Herbst / Panel discussion: CGT bioprocessing and digitalisation
Laura Herbst, Research Fellow, Fraunhofer-Institute for Production Technology
Masters Degree in Molecular and Applied Biotechnology (2014 – 2020),
RWTH Aachen University
Research associate and project leader at Fraunhofer Institute for Production
Technology IPT since 2020, department of production metrology, group Automation in Life Science
Jaap Boelens / Panel: Clinical operations
Jaap Boelens, Chief, Stem Cell Transplantation And Cellular Therapies Pediatrics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Jaap Jan Boelens is the director of the IDMS lab. Dr. Boelens, who is also the Chief of the Pediatric Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program, came to Memorial Sloan Kettering from UMC Utrecht and the Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, where he worked on developing the largest...
Cédric Ghevaert / Panel: Clinical operations
Cédric Ghevaert, Senior Lecturer Transfusion Medicine, University of Cambridge
Professor Ghevaert is a Professor in Transfusion Medicine at the University of Cambridge and Consultant Haematologist for the NHS Blood and Transplant. He obtained his MD in 1998 from the University Libre de Bruxelles. After qualifying as a Consultant Haematologist, he did his PhD in Cambridge to...
Benedikt Berninger / Engineering neurogenesis via lineage reprogramming
Benedikt Berninger, Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London
Dr Benedikt Berninger is Professor of Developmental Neurobiology at King’s College London and Satellite group leader at The Francis Crick Institute. Benedikt received his doctoral degree in 1996 at the University of Munich for work on activity-dependent neuronal gene expression. After a postdoc at...
Joshua Bagley / Challenge accepted! Moving toward end-to-end human phenotypic drug discovery
Joshua Bagley, CSO, a:head bio AG
Josh Bagley is the CSO at a:head bio AG and leads the scientific team. He is a trained neuroscientist, receiving his PhD from UCSF in California followed by postdoctoral training in the lab of Juergen Knoblich at IMBA in Vienna. His previous achievements include an organoid fusion method to...
Thomas Prod'homme / Next Generation Immunotherapies for Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases
Thomas Prod'homme, Vice President, Translational Research, Myeloid Therapeutics
Dr. Prod’homme is the Vice President of Translational Research at Myeloid Therapeutics. He brings over 15 years of experience in pharmacology, IND preparation, and early clinical development. Prior to joining Myeloid Therapeutics, Dr. Prod’homme served as Senior Director in Translational Medicine...
Kikuo Yasui / Purification technologies to advance next-generation iPSC-derived therapies into the clinical stage
Kikuo Yasui, Chief Operating Officer, Director of the Board, Heartseed Inc.
Kikuo joined Heartseed in 2019 as Chief Operating Officer and manages strategic planning, business development and operations. He led the Series B financing and global license agreement of the lead pipeline HS-001, allogeneic iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes spheroids with Novo Nordisk. He is also...
George Walker / Skip the cleanroom queue: Off-Site modular construction
George Walker, Business Development Director, Germfree
George Walker, BD Director at Germfree Europe, is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer. He has over 22 years’ experience in the design, delivery, and procurement of high-performance workspace environments. George works extensively in the pharma, biopharma, microelectronics, MedTech, and healthcare...
George Walker / Skip the cleanroom queue: Off-Site modular construction
George Walker, Business Development Director, Germfree
George Walker, BD Director at Germfree Europe, is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer. He has over 22 years’ experience in the design, delivery, and procurement of high-performance workspace environments. George works extensively in the pharma, biopharma, microelectronics, MedTech, and healthcare...
Snehal Naik / Chair: Snehal Naik, Head of Regulatory Policy; Strategy Leader (Ocular), Spark Therapeutics
Snehal Naik, Head of Regulatory Policy; Strategy Leader (Ocular), Spark Therapeutics
Snehal brings a confluence of early discovery, innovation and scientific expertise to her hybrid role as Spark?s Regulatory Policy Leader and Regulatory Strategy Leader for ocular programs. In this capacity she is establishing the regulatory policy function at Spark and supporting global...
Sakis Mantalaris / Chair: Sakis Mantalaris, Professor, Trinity College Dublin
Sakis Mantalaris, Professor, Biomedical Systems Engineering Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology
Athanasios (Sakis) Mantalaris is Professor in the W.H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech & Emory since August 2018. Prior to his move to Atlanta, he was Professor of BioSystems Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. He...
Victoria English / Regulatory session for academic and early-stage companies
Victoria English, Co-Founder And Editor, Evernow Publications
Victoria English, the editor, is a former financial journalist for Dow Jones and Reuters having worked in New York, Amsterdam, Brussels and London. In 1997 she began writing about healthcare at Reuters, and later joined Scrip to cover the pharmaceutical industry. From Scrip, she became editor of...
Margareth Jorvid / Regulatory session for academic and early-stage companies
Margareth Jorvid, Head of Regulatory Affairs, Ilya Pharma
Margareth Jorvid has over 30 years of experience in Regulatory Affairs and has worked at the Swedish Medical Products Agency (MPA) as well as large and small pharmaceutical companies, such as Roussel Nordiska, Hoechst Marion Roussel (Stockholm and Paris, France) and Neopharma. Since...
Nneka Onwudiwe / Regulatory session for academic and early-stage companies
Nneka Onwudiwe, Former PRO/PE Regulatory Review Officer, Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Nneka C. Onwudiwe, PhD, PharmD, MBA received her doctorate in Pharmacy (PharmD) from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, PhD in Health Services Research with a specialization in Pharmacoeconomics from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, and an MBA (Honors) from the University...
Didier Caizergues / Regulatory session for academic and early-stage companies
Didier Caizergues, Head of regulatory affairs department, genethon
Didier is a pharmacist specialized in Regulatory Affairs as well as in product development. He has been working at GENETHON since 2001 where he has successfully obtained Orphan Drugs designations and Clinical Trial Authorizations for gene therapy products in the field of NMDs and primary immune...
Francesco Dazzi / Title TBC
Francesco Dazzi, Medical Director of Cell Therapies, AstraZeneca
Professor Francesco Dazzi has been working on the biology and clinical applications of cellular therapies in haemopoietic stem cell transplantation for the last 20 years. He obtained an MD and a PhD at Padua University Medical School (Italy) and subsequently trained as a Haematologist at Verona...
Roberto Nitsch / The next level of CRISPR safety: tackling Cas9 immunogenicity
Roberto Nitsch, Director, AstraZeneca
Roberto Nitsch graduated in Medical Biotechnology from the University of Naples (Italy) where he also obtained his PhD in Molecular Genetics. He later moved to Vienna where he focused on mouse genetics and cancer biology, and lately recessive genetics. He then shifted his research topic to genome...
Ioannis Papantoniou / Fully automated platform for organoid production and tissue manufacture
Ioannis Papantoniou, Assoc. Professor of Tissue Engineering and Biomanufacturing, Prometheus division of Skeletal Tissue Engineering, KU Leuven
Ioannis is an ATMP Bioprocess Research Coordinator at Prometheus, KU Leuven, Belgium. He has graduated in Chemical Engineering, from the University of Patras, Greece and obtained a Doctoral degree (MPhil and PhD) from the Department of Biochemical Engineering, University College London (UCL), UK -...
Eliezer Katz / Xenotransplantation – From Bench to Patient
Eliezer Katz, Chief Medical Officer, eGenesis
Dr. Katz is an experienced transplant surgeon and a leader in clinical development in the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining eGenessis, Dr. Katz was Vice President and clinical development lead at Viela Bio and Horizon Therapeutics where he had the responsibility for developing novel...
Stephen Sullivan / Targeting cancer with a new comprehensive stem cell-based immunotherapy, IPVAC
Stephen Sullivan, COO, Ipsirius
Stephen Sullivan, PhD, MBA, FRSM, is the Chief Operating Officer of iPSirius, a company that generates allogeneic cancer vaccines from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. He obtained his PhD from the Roslin Institute (Edinburgh) where he studied human embryonic stem cells. He further gained...
Sean Palecek / Multi-omic profiling of iPSC differentiation to cardiomyocytes identifies critical quality attributes that predict batch outcomes
Sean Palecek, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sean Palecek is the Milton J. and Maude Shoemaker Professor and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin ? Madison. Sean?s lab studies how human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) sense and respond to...
Ander Izeta / Bringing novel advanced therapies to patients from a public University Hospital setting
Ander Izeta, Bioengineering Area, Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Instituto Biodonostia
Ander Izeta obtained his BSc in Biology from the University of Navarra (1994) and a Ph.D. degree at the National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC, 2000). In 2006-2009, he served as Qualified Person of a GMP facility for cell therapy that was instrumental in the treatment of epidermolysis bullosa...
Pervinder Sagoo / The transformative potential of HSC gene therapy as a genetic medicine
Pervinder Sagoo, Director, Gene And Cell Therapy, Orchard Therapeutics
Piv Sagoo is Director of Research & Discovery at Orchard Therapeutics, a commercial Gene & Cell therapy biotech company that develops haematopoietic stem cell-based gene therapies to treat patients with rare genetic disorders. She leads a team focused on basic and preclinical research into...
Jenny Stjernberg / Enabling rapid cell therapy accessibility for patients through simplified, standardized, and consistent manufacturing
Jenny Stjernberg, Commercial Director EMEA, ScaleReady
Jenny Stjernberg leads Commercial Operations as EMEA Director for ScaleReady as part of the Global Leadership Team, and is based in Europe. In her role she collaborates closely with the US Commercial Team and together, they set the tone globally enabling ScaleReady to challenge the way cell and...
Pascale Charbonnel / Autologous Cell Therapy – The Journey from Tech Transfer to Clinical Manufacturing
Pascale Charbonnel, Head of BD, SCTbio
Pascale Charbonnel holds a PhD in Molecular Microbiology Sciences from the Université de Paris XI – Orsay, France. She has been working in the Health Industry for 19 years both in animal and human health. From 2007 to 2012 she led animal vaccines development projects in R&D at Boehringer...
James Bonham / Early detection and screening for genetic diseases and genetic risk factors
James Bonham, President, International Society for Neonatal Screening
Jim Bonham is currently the National Laboratory Lead for the Newborn Screening Blood Spot Programme in the UK. He is also President of the International Society for Neonatal Screening with more than 500 members in 80 countries.In 2012 he led a study to introduce additional inherited metabolic...
Davide Danovi / Phenotyping human cells
Davide Danovi, Director, Hipsci Cell Phenotyping Programme, King's College London
Davide Danovi is Senior lecturer at King's College London at the Centre for Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine. Davide has several years of experience developing phenotyping platforms to characterise stem cell behaviour in both university and biotechnology companies. He holds an MD from...
David Hay / Development of liver tissue implants to treat critically failing liver function in humans
David Hay, Chief Executive Officer, Stimuliver
Dave is the Professor of Tissue Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He gained his PhD from the University of St Andrews in 2000. Following this, he undertook post-doctoral projects at Roslin Institute and the University of Edinburgh, before starting his group at the Centre for Regenerative...
Jennifer Altomonte / Oncolytic viruses - a revolutionary approach in immune oncology
Jennifer Altomonte, Founder & CSO, Fusix Biotech
Jennifer Altomonte is a co-founder of Fusix Biotech, which was founded in March 2022 as a university spin-out from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany. Jennifer is a molecular biologist and virologist with over 20 years of experience in viral engineering and the development of...
Geoff Hamilton / iPSC-derived cell therapy to bioengineer de novo hair follicles for the treatment of Alopecia and hair loss
Geoff Hamilton, Co Founder And Chief Executive Officer, Stemson Therapeutics
Geoff Hamilton is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Stemson Therapeutics. He has spent two decades in product commercialization and business leadership roles in the biotech industry. Prior to founding Stemson, Geoff spent five years at Illumina, the world leader in DNA sequencing...
Sean Armour / Engineering advanced gene therapy platforms
Sean Armour, Head of Discovery, Spark Therapeutics
Dr. Sean Armour is responsible for the strategic advancement of the adeno-associated viral (AAV) platform, development of novel gene delivery modalities, and implementation of innovative technologies to deliver on the promise of genetic medicine in his role as Head of Discovery at Spark...
Ben Weil / Streamlining Clinical Success: Bioprocessing for Multinational Cell Therapy Trials
Ben Weil, Head of GMP Process Engineering, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Head of GMP Bioprocess Engineering at the Centre for Cell, Gene and Tissue Therapeutics (CCGTT). Established and leading the GMP Clinical Engineering Team to drive development of cost-effective Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMP) provision through increased scale, automation, and “closing”...
David Kuntin / Mesenchymal stem cell line-derived extracellular vesicles: Consistent therapeutics for use in musculoskeletal disease
David Kuntin, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Mesenbio
David has a background in biomedical sciences and completed his PhD in Biology at the University of York. His strengths are in the translation of medicines and he is determined to facilitate translation of academic innovations.
Omar Aljitawi, Professor, University of Rochester Medical Center
Dr. Aljitawi has broad background knowledge in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, with specific expertise in umbilical cord blood transplantation. His research is focused on the development of translational research approaches to improve umbilical cord blood stem cell engraftment. He has...
Mathias Svahn / Allogeneic UC-MSC drug product for treatment of type 1 diabetes
Mathias Svahn is CEO and co-founder of NextCell Pharma AB, a phase II cell therapy company. The lead drug candidate is ProTrans, an allogeneic mesenchymal stromal cell product with cells selected by the patent pending selection algorithm. In addition to diabetes, ProTrans is evaluated in two...