PEGS Virtual Summit Speaker Lineup
Confirmed Speakers as of May 1, 2020
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Imre Berger, PhD, Director, Max Planck Centre for Minimal Biology, the University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Adrian Bot, PhD, Vice President, Translational Medicine, Kite Pharma, a Gilead Company
Daniel Chen, MD, PhD, CMO, IGM Biosciences
Ivan Correia, MBA, PhD, Head, Global Protein Sciences, AbbVie
Zhimei Du, PhD, Director, Process Development, Merck and Co., Inc.
Stefan Dübel, PhD, Professor & Chair, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institute of Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
Jacob Glanville, PhD, Co-Founder & CEO & President, Distributed Bio Inc.
Mitchell Ho, PhD, Chief, Antibody Therapy Section, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, NIH
Jonathan Kingsbury, PhD, Senior Director, Developability & Preformulation Science, Sanofi
David Lowe, PhD, Senior Director, R&D, Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, AstraZeneca
Christian Klein, PhD, Cancer Immunotherapy Discovery, Roche Pharma Research & Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Zurich
Jan Joseph (Jos) Melenhorst, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Raymond J. Owens, PhD, Professor, Research Complex at Hartwell & Rosalind Franklin Institute, University of Oxford
Paul Parren, PhD, Executive Vice President, Head, R&D, Lava Therapeutics B.V., The Netherlands
Rana Sidhu, PhD, Protein Expression Lead, Early Solutions, UCB, Inc.
Peter Tessier, PhD, Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan
Distinguished Faculty
Adam Adler, Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut Health School of Medicine
Eric S. Alonzo, PhD, Scientist, Process and Analytical Development, bluebird bio
Paolo Arosio, PhD, Professor, Biochemical Engineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Alain Beck, PhD, Senior Director, Biologics CMC and Developability, Pierre Fabre Laboratories, France
George Bou-Assaf, PhD, Scientist, Analytical Development – Product & Technology Development, Biogen
Andrew R.M. Bradbury, MB BS, PhD, CSO, Specifica, Inc.
Iain D. G. Campuzano, Principal Scientist, Discovery Attribute Sciences, Amgen
Abhishek Chatterjee, PhD, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Boston College
Win Cheung, PhD, Associate Director, Analytical Development, REGENXBIO
Jennifer R. Cochran, PhD, Shriram Chair of Bioengineering; Professor of Bioengineering, and (by courtesy) Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Matthew Coleman, PhD, Senior Scientist & Group Leader, Biosciences and Biotechnology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
James E. Crowe, Jr., MD, Ann Scott Carell Chair & Professor & Director, Vanderbilt University
Dimiter Stanchev Dimitrov, PhD, Infectious Diseases, Director, Center for Antibody Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh; EVP and CSO, Abound Bio
Rakesh Dixit, PhD, DABT, President & CEO, Bionavigen
Stefan Dübel, PhD, Professor & Chair, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institute of Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Germany
Laurence Fayadat- Dilman, PhD, Senior Director, Merck
Nicolas Fischer, PhD, CEO, Light Chain Bioscience, Novimmune SA, Switzerland
Alex Franzusoff, PhD, CEO, PACT Pharma
William Gillette, PhD, Principal Scientist, Protein Expression Laboratory, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
Sean Hunter, Researcher, Bioengineering Stanford University
Christos Kyratsous, PhD, VP, Research, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Jonathan R. Lai, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
David Lowe, PhD, Senior Director, R&D, Antibody Discovery and Protein Engineering, AstraZeneca
Ahuva Nissim, PhD, Professor, Antibody and Therapeutic Engineering, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Saleha Patel, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Protein Science, Discovery Biology, AstraZeneca
Christoph Rader, PhD, Professor, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Florida Campus, Scripps Research
G. Jonah Rainey, PhD, Vice President, Antibody Therapeutics, Gritstone Oncology, Inc.
Jesse Rinehart, PhD, Associate Professor, Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Systems Biology Institute, Yale University School of Medicine
Marco Ruella, MD, Clinical Instructor, Associate Director, Dr. June’s Laboratory, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Stefan R. Schmidt, PhD, MBA, COO, Head, Operations, BioAtrium AG
Susan Sharfstein, PhD, Professor, Nanobioscience, Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Mohammad Tabrizi, PhD, Senior Director, Pharmacology, Ascendis Pharma A/S
Alem Truneh, PhD, Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer, ImCheck Therapeutics
Bjørn Voldborg, MSc, Director, CHO Cell Line Development, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Laura Walker, PhD, Director, Antibody Sciences, Adimab, LLC