2018 Speaker Lineup

• Sarah Cheal, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Mark L. Chiu, PhD, Associate Director, Process Analytical Sciences, Janssen R&D
• Eva Dahlén, PhD, Senior Director, Business Development, Alligator Bioscience
• Rakesh Dixit, Vice President, Global Head, MedImmune, Inc.
• Stephen J. Demarest, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Protein and Antibody Engineering, Lilly Research Labs
• Tariq Ghayur, PhD, Distinguished Research Fellow, Immunology Discovery, AbbVie
• John Haurum, CEO, F-star Biotechnology Ltd.
• Rick Hibbert, MBA, PhD, Assistant Director, Protein Production & Chemistry, Genmab B.V.
• Syd Johnson, PhD, Vice President, Antibody Engineering, MacroGenics, Inc.
• Teemu Junttila, PhD, Senior Scientist, Translational Oncology, Genentech
• Roland E. Kontermann, PhD, Professor, Institute of Cell Biology and Immunology, Stuttgart Research Center Systems Biology, University of Stuttgart
• Ho-Young Lee, PhD, Technical Development Scientist, Biological Technologies,Genentech
• Yuxing Li, PhD, Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
• Bin Liu, PhD, Professor, Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco
• Lawrence Lum, MD, DSc, Director, Cellular Therapy, University of Virginia School of Medicine
• Robert Mabry, PhD, Vice President, Protein Science, Cogen Therapeutics, Inc.
• Paul A. Moore, PhD, Vice President, Cell Biology & Immunology, MacroGenics, Inc.
• Meric Ovacik, PhD, Scientist, Preclinical Translational Pharmacokinetics, Development Sciences, Genentech
• Kin Man Au, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Elisabeth K. Nyakatura, PhD, Senior Scientist, Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Peter Pavlik, PhD, Principle Scientist, Aptevo Therapeutics
• Robert Pejchal, PhD, Associate Director, Antibody Discovery, Adimab LLC
• Janice M. Reichert, PhD, Executive Director, The Antibody Society
• Marjorie A. Shapiro, PhD, Supervisory Biologist, Office of Biotechnology Products/CDER/FDA
• Deborah Schmiel, PhD, Microbiologist, Biologics CMC, Product Development, and Vaccinology, FDA
• Junichiro Sonoda, PhD, Senior Scientist, Cancer Immunology, Genentech, Inc.
• Mark Throsby, PhD, CSO, Merus NV
• Mireya Paulina Velasquez, MD, Assistant Member, Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
• Nina Weisser, PhD, Principle Scientist, Therapeutics Research, Zymeworks
• Zhi-yong Yang, PhD, Director, North America Breakthrough Laboratory, Sanofi US