List of Attending Speakers | 2024

  • Jeremy Caldwell, Parner, Red Tree Venture Capital
  • Mira Chaurushiya, Managing Director, Westlake Village BioPartners
  • John Connolly, Chief Scientific Officer, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunology; Iterim CEO, 3T Biosciences
  • Neel Desai, Business Development & Licensing, Biogen
  • Karen Deschaine, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
  • Richard DiMarchi, Professor, Indiana University
  • Dalton Einhorn, Global Head of Pharmaceutical Corporate Venture Capital, Asahi Kasei Pharma
  • Dan Estes, General Partner, Frazier Life Sciences
  • Simone Fishburn, Vice President and Editor in Chief, BioCentury Inc.
  • William Haddad, Partner, Venable LLP
  • Richard Heyman, Venture Partner, Arch Ventures
  • Andrea Houghton, VP Global Head of Biology, Neuroscience at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
  • Albert Hwang, Managing Director, Head of US Healthcare Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley
  • Kim Kamdar, Partner, Medical Excellence Capital
  • Rachna Khosla, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Amgen
  • Jim Krenn, Partner, Morrison & Foerster
  • Jennifer Leeds, Executive Director, Head BD&L Search and Evaluation, West Coast and Canada, Translational Medicine, and Oncology at Novartis
  • John Lepore, CEO, ProFound Therapeutics; CEO-Partner, Flagship Pioneering
  • Nan Li, Founder and Managing Partner, Dimension
  • Jay Lichter, Managing Partner, Avalon Ventures
  • Stuart Mackey, Global Head of Business Development, Daiichi Sankyo
  • Mathai Mammen, CEO, President and Chairman, FogPharma
  • Konstantina Manjoros Katcheves, Senior Vice President Business Development, Bristol Myers Squibb
  • Peter Meinke, Sanders Director, Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute, Inc’
  • Detlev Mennerich, Corporate SVP, Global Head of Business Development & Licensing, Boehringer Ingelheim
  • Mitchell Mutz, Entrepenuer Partner, Vivo Capital
  • Imran Nasrullah, Vice President & Head, Collaborate to Cure Hub US, Business Development & Licensing at Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Bayer
  • Carolyn Ng, Partner and Managing Director, TPG Life Sciences Innovations
  • Carole Nuechterlein, Head, Roche Venture Fund
  • Daniel Parisotto, Managing Director, Healthcare Banking, Oppenheimer
  • Emma Parmee, Global Head Therapeutics Discovery, The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson
  • Sunil Patel, Head of Corporate Development and Business Development & Licensing, Merck
  • Danjuma Quarless, Associate Director, AbbVie Ventures
  • Jeremy Quirk, VP BD&L Commercial Portfolio, GSK
  • Visali Ramanathan, Senior Director, Business Development, Genentech
  • Brad Robling, Vice President, Lilly Ventures, Eli Lilly & Company
  • Christalyn Rhodes, Associate Vice President, Genetic Medicine, External Partnerships and Collaborations, Eli Lilli and Company
  • Camille Samuels, Partner, Venrock
  • Peter Schultz, Scripps Family Chair Professor, President and CEO, Department of Chemistry, Scripps Research
  • Andy Schwab, Founder & Managing Partner, 5AM Ventures
  • Ben Sklaroff, CTo, Co-Founder, Genesis Therapeutics
  • Marshall Smith, Global Head of the Healthcare Group, Investment Banking Division, Goldman Sachs
  • Uwe Schoenbeck, Venture Partner, Cannan
  • Jay Stamatis, Vice President, Head of Business Development and Acquisitions, AbbVie
  • Tari Suprapto, Director, Search & Evaluation (West), Novo Nordisk
  • Philip Tagari, CSO, Insitro
  • Nancy Thornberry, Founding CEO and Chair, R&D, Kallyope
  • Daniel Tumas, VP, Search and Evaluation, Corporate Development, Gilead Sciences
  • Court Turner, Partner, LYZZ Capital Advisors
  • D.A. Wallach, General Partner, Co-Founder, Time BioVentures
  • Michael Weingarten, Director of the Small Business Innovation Research Development Center, NCI SBIR Development Center
  • Charity Williams, Partner, Cooley
  • Asish Xavier, J&J Innovation, JJDC Vice President, Venture Investments, Johnson & Johnson