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California 94710
Caribou Biosciences Berkeley 2929 Seventh Street #105
WA 98105
UWMC Molecular Microbiology Seattle St Room NW177
2809 BOSTON STREET,
Personal Genome Diagnostics MD 21224 BALTIMORE SUITE 503
Integrated Cellular And MoleculaMD 20770 Greenbelt 6305 Ivy Lane, Suite 100
NY
Enzo Biochem Inc 10022 New York 527 Madison Avenue
LaunchWorks Manufacturing La MA 01915 Beverly 123 Brimbal Ave
WI 53711, USA
5399, 2800 Woods Hollow
Promega Corporation Fitchburg Rd
Building 31
Massive Bio, Inc. NY 10006 New York 90 West St., Suite 12M
1633 Broadway
Delcath Systems Inc NY 10019 New York 22nd Floor, Suite C
17 State Street
Tyme Technologies Inc. NY 10004 New York 7th Floor
TOYOBO USA., INC. NY 10017 New York 666 Third Avenue, Suite 603
Basepair Tech NY 10017 New York 415 Madison Ave fl 4
AbbVie Inc. California 94080 South San Francis 450 East Jamie Court
AbbVie Inc. California 94080 South San Francis 601 Gateway Blvd, Suite 100
230 CityPoint
Galapagos, Inc. MA 02451 Waltham 230 Third Avenue
4625 NW Brookwood
Genentech, Inc. OR 97124 Hillsboro Parkway
500 River Ridge Drive
Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings
MA 02062 Norwood Second Floor
Ontario
Arch Biopartners M5V 1M1 Toronto 545 King Street West
Ontario
Arch Biopartners M4T 2M5 Toronto 27 St. Clair Avenue East
TGV-inhalonix NY 10016 New York 303 5th Avenue, Suite 2012
80 Guest Street
Proteostasis Therapeutics MA 02135 Boston 5th Floor
150 South Wacker Drive,
Horizon Pharma IL 60606 Chicago Suite 3200
Wilmington
AstraZeneca Delaware
AstraZeneca Maryland Gaithersburg
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AstraZeneca Massachusettes Boston
Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. NJ 07922 Berkeley Heights 200 Connell Drive #1500
Suite 195
PARION SCIENCES NC 27713 Durham 2800 Meridian Parkway
2D Genomics Inc.
3-V Biosciences, Inc. CA 94025 Menlo Park 3715 Haven Ave. Suite 220
Praetego, Inc.‚‚ NC 27617 Raleigh 8311 Brier Creek Parkway, Su
NY United States
Acorda Therapeutics 10502 Ardsley 420 Saw Mill River Road
Tempus IL 60654 Chicago 600 West Chicago Ave. Ste 510
Pittsburgh Cytogenetics LaboratoPA 15213 Pittsburgh 300 Halket St., Rm. 1225
Caris molecular intelligence Az 85040 Phoenix 4610 South 44th Place
Caris molecular intelligence TX 75039 Irving 750 West John Carpenter Fre
ACCC DC 20001 Washington 900 Seventh Street, NW Suite
DDC Clinic
Molecular Diagnostics
Laboratory OH 44062 Middlefield 14567 Madison Rd.
BC V5T 4T5
Augurex Life Sciences Canada Vancouver 887 Great Northern Way, Sui
Suite #204 Donald Rix
BC Canada Building
Contextual Genomics V6T 1Z3 Vancouver 2389 Health Sciences Mall
BC, Canada
Response Biomedical V6P 6P2 Vancouver 1781 – 75th Avenue W.
Main
Silver Lake Research California 91702 Azusa 787
26 Landsdowne Street
Beam Therapeutics MA 02139 Cambridge 2nd Floor
Celsius Therapeutics MA 02142 Cambridge 215 First Street, Suite 401S
CODA Biotherapeutics, Inc. CA 94408 South San Francis329 Oyster Point Boulevard, 3rd Floor
Pipeline Therapeutics CA 92121 San Diego 10578 Science Center Driv
One Sansome
Street
Tempest Therapeutics CA 94104 Suite 3690
SNIPR Biome - A CRISPR Company
Integrated DNA Technologies, In Illinois 60076 Skokie 8180 N. McCormick Blvd.
Ohio
Halo-Bio RNAi Therapeutics, Inc.Washington 98112 Seattle 4111 E. Madison, Box 140
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Compan California 92121 San Diego 4550 Towne Centre Court
Heron Therapeutics, Inc. CA 92121 San Diego 4242 Campus Point Court,
Heron Therapeutics, Inc. NJ 07302 Jersey City 101 Hudson Street, Suite
Savara Inc. TX, 78746 Austin 6836 Bee Cave Road, Build
A-Med Health Care CA 92647 Huntington Beach5302 Rancho Road
Nivalis Therapeutics, Inc. CO 80301 Boulder 3122 Sterling Circle, Ste 200
miRagen Therapeutics, Inc. CO 80301 Boulder 6200 Lookout Rd.
Progenity, Inc. CA 92122 San Diego 4330 La Jolla Village Drive Suite 200
Onspira Therapeutics, Inc. PA 19087 Wayne 640 Lee Road, Ste 117
ProclaRx LLC OH, 45701 Athens ProclaRx LLC, Suite 212, 3
CBS Labs Biobanking and ResearcFL 33010 Hialeah 2546 West 6th Ave
Synspira MA Boston
BioFire Diagnostics, LLC Utah 84108 Salt Lake City 515 Colorow Drive
Applied Biological Materials - a V6V 2J5 CANADA Richmond #1-3671 Viking Way
AUM BioTech PA 19104 Philadelphia 3711 Market Street, Suite 800
Locus Biosciences, Inc. NC 27713 Kit Creek Road Research Triangle Park
Excision BioTherapeutics Inc. PA 19104 Philadelphia 3624 Market Street, Office #514
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Innovative Genomics Institute 3370 Berkeley 2151 Berkeley Way
GeneCopoeia Maryland 20850 Rockville 9620 Medical Center Dr.,
Legomics NY 10152 New York City 375 Park Avenue, Suite 2607
The ODIN California 94607 Oakland 335 Henry St
720 Westview Dr SW
Gene Edit Biolab GA 30310 Atlanta Building C, Suite C257
Akonni Biosystems MD 21701 Frederick 400 Sagner Ave., Suite 30
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1-224-383-3000 https://www.horizonpharma.com/
1-415-903-1400 https://www.horizonpharma.com/
1-800-236-9933 https://www.astrazeneca-us.com/
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1-800-236-9933 https://www.astrazeneca-us.com/
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https://www.sangamo.com/
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888-838-2872 https://www.tevausa.com/
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activitiy c.suite leaders and titles1 c.suite leaders and titles2
pharmacogenetic, toxicology, and infectious diDave DeLong | Head of Finance | HMegan Callahan | General Co
Shaun D. McMeans
Vice President of Finance,
Timothy (TJ) B. Johnson Administration and Chief
a provider of instruments, reagents, and servicChief Executive Officer Financial Officer
enables precision medicine, with molecular tesDr. Bernd Montag CEO Dr. Jochen Schmitz CFO
developing a portfolio of regulated tissue-bas Dr. Samuel Angiuoli CIO Megan Bailey VP
Brad Lewis, MD
Michael Ero Dr. Lewis is the Medical
Mr. Ero is the president and CEO of Director of Machaon
clinical reference laboratory, specializing in Machaon Diagnostics Diagnostics
provide medical practitioners with the analytical tools and information needed to administer superior treatment options
BERNARD PEPERSTRAETE
FOUNDER & CHIEF
FRANCIS BARANY EXECUTIVE
develops technology which allows for highly acFOUNDER & LEAD INVENTOR President/CEO;
Harriss T. Currie
Nachum “Homi” Shamir Chief Financial Officer,
President and Chief Executive Senior Vice President,
Technologies serve a wide range of clinical applOfficer Finance and Treasurer
Barry W. Weiner
Elazar Rabbani, Ph.D. President, Chief Financial
Chairman of the Board of Directors Officer, Principal Accounting
& Chief Executive Officer Officer and Director
focused on harnessing genetic processes to de
PCR
Reagents and kits for PCR, qPCR and RT-qPCR
Genetic Identity
Complete solutions for DNA typing, from
sample prep to STR amplification
Scientific Articles
Read about the latest technologies and
product applications
Kiyotaka Fujii
President, Global Healthcare,
Konica Minolta & Chairman, AARON ELLIOTT, PH.D.
give healthcare providers the most advanced te
Ambry Genetics Chief Executive Officer
John Purpura
Toyobo is a leading manufacturer of enzymes aChairman- Ryuzo Sakamoto President - Seiji Narahara
Josh Setton
Amit Sinha, PhD Business Development
Founder
Josh is a biotech major and
Amit is a computational biologist excels at driving growth at
with a decade of expertise. Before early-stage startups. He
starting Basepair he was an leads the business
Instructor at Harvard Medical development, customer
Basepair develops SaaS to manage, analyze and
School. success and support.
CFCOC works with healthcare providers, facilities, and businesses to develop products, services, programs, and training that he
Amir Avniel
Steve Lisi President and Chief
In 2011, Advanced Inhalation Therapies (AIT) wCEO and Chairman of the Board Operating Officer
Laura J. Schumacher
Executive Vice President,
Richard A. Gonzalez External Affairs, General
Chairman of the Board and Chief Counsel and Corporate
We target specific difficult-to-cure diseases w Executive Officer Secretary
Laura J. Schumacher
Executive Vice President,
Richard A. Gonzalez External Affairs, General
Chairman of the Board and Chief Counsel and Corporate
We target specific difficult-to-cure diseases w Executive Officer Secretary
Laura J. Schumacher
Executive Vice President,
Richard A. Gonzalez External Affairs, General
Chairman of the Board and Chief Counsel and Corporate
We target specific difficult-to-cure diseases w Executive Officer Secretary
Laura J. Schumacher
Executive Vice President,
Richard A. Gonzalez External Affairs, General
Chairman of the Board and Chief Counsel and Corporate
We target specific difficult-to-cure diseases w Executive Officer Secretary
Laura J. Schumacher
Executive Vice President,
Richard A. Gonzalez External Affairs, General
Chairman of the Board and Chief Counsel and Corporate
We target specific difficult-to-cure diseases w Executive Officer Secretary
Laura J. Schumacher
Executive Vice President,
Richard A. Gonzalez External Affairs, General
Chairman of the Board and Chief Counsel and Corporate
We target specific difficult-to-cure diseases w Executive Officer Secretary
Laura J. Schumacher
Executive Vice President,
Richard A. Gonzalez External Affairs, General
Chairman of the Board and Chief Counsel and Corporate
We target specific difficult-to-cure diseases w Executive Officer Secretary
Laura J. Schumacher
Executive Vice President,
Richard A. Gonzalez External Affairs, General
Chairman of the Board and Chief Counsel and Corporate
We target specific difficult-to-cure diseases w Executive Officer Secretary
Laura J. Schumacher
Executive Vice President,
Richard A. Gonzalez External Affairs, General
Chairman of the Board and Chief Counsel and Corporate
We target specific difficult-to-cure diseases w Executive Officer Secretary
Laura J. Schumacher
Executive Vice President,
Richard A. Gonzalez External Affairs, General
Chairman of the Board and Chief Counsel and Corporate
We target specific difficult-to-cure diseases w Executive Officer Secretary
Maximilian Munte,
Managing Director
Maximilian Munte joined
Martin Schmid, Managing Director EXTEDO in February 2013 as
Martin Schmid joined EXTEDO in Managing Director. He
October 2010 as Managing shares the global
Director to head the global management responsibilities
The EXTEDOsuite supports the critical relation Marketing and Sales Department. with Martin Schmid.
Andrew Bishop
Acting Chief Financial
Officer, Director
Mr. Bishop is a Partner and
Richard Muruve Co-Founder of Bingley
CEO, Director, Co-founder Capital Inc., and brings over
Mr. Muruve co-founded Arch 20 years of experience in
Biotech Inc. with the Arch advising biotech and health
Arch Biopartners Inc. is focused on the developInflammation team in 2006. care companies
Andrew Bishop
Acting Chief Financial
Officer, Director
Mr. Bishop is a Partner and
Richard Muruve Co-Founder of Bingley
CEO, Director, Co-founder Capital Inc., and brings over
Mr. Muruve co-founded Arch 20 years of experience in
Biotech Inc. with the Arch advising biotech and health
Arch Biopartners Inc. is focused on the developInflammation team in 2006. care companies
The TGV-inhalonix is a biopharmaceutical
company that is focused on the development
of a first-in-classantibiotic to address unmet
needs in lung infectious disease in cystic
fibrosis patients in particular.
Timothy P. Walbert
Chairman, President and Chief
Executive Officer Robert F. Carey
Tim joined Horizon Pharma in June Executive Vice President,
2008 as president and chief Chief Business Officer
executive officer and has served as Bob joined Horizon Pharma
chairman of our board of directors in March 2014 as chief
build a growing pipeline and explore all potentsince 2010. business officer.
Timothy P. Walbert
Chairman, President and Chief
Executive Officer Robert F. Carey
Tim joined Horizon Pharma in June Executive Vice President,
2008 as president and chief Chief Business Officer
executive officer and has served as Bob joined Horizon Pharma
chairman of our board of directors in March 2014 as chief
build a growing pipeline and explore all potentsince 2010. business officer.
Paul McBarron
Spiro Rombotis Executive Vice President,
President and Chief Executive Finance and Chief Operating
Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: CYCC,Officer Officer and Secretary
Eric Springman
Greg Duncan Chief Scientific Officer
President and CEO Dr. Springman joined
Greg Duncan is the President and Celtaxsys in 2009 from Locus
Chief Executive Officer of Pharmaceuticals, where he
Celtaxsys, Inc. He was most held several positions of
recently Executive Vice President increasing responsibility
and President of North American including Head of Discovery
Operations for Brussels based and Technologies and Head
Celtaxsys is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical de specialty pharma UCB. of Development.
STÉPHANE BOISSEL
SANDY MACRAE, M.B., CH.B., Executive Vice President,
PH.D. Corporate Strategy
Chief Executive Officer CLOSE
CLOSE Mr. Boissel is an experienced
Sandy Macrae, M.B., Ch.B., Ph.D., biotech professional who
has served as Sangamo’s President brings over 25 years of
and Chief Executive Officer and as leadership experience across
a member of the Board of corporate finance, strategy
Accelerating toward the future of new genomicDirectors since June 2016. and business development.
At Bioverativ, a Sanofi company, we are dedicated to transforming the lives of people with hemophilia, cold agglutinin disease a
Tarek Sahmoud, MD, PhD
Kåre Schultz
President & CEO Iris Beck-Codner
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Kåre Schultz became Teva's
President and CEO on November Iris Beck-Codner
1, 2017. Mr. Schultz, 56, is a
seasoned veteran in the
healthcare industry who has Ms. Beck-Codner became
distinguished himself through his Executive Vice President,
experience leading financial and Global Brand &
restructuring initiatives at global Communications in
Teva is working every day to make quality healcompanies. November 2017.
Robert A. Bradway
Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer
Victoria H. Blatter Robert A. Bradway is
Senior Vice President, U.S. Amgen's chairman and chief
Government Affairs executive officer. Bradway
As senior vice president, U.S. became chairman in January
Government Affairs, Victoria H. 2013 and chief executive
Blatter is responsible for federal officer in May 2012.
and state legislative issues and Bradway served as the
managing relationships with U.S. company's president and
agencies, legislatures, and chief operating officer from
governmental administrations. She May 2010 to May 2012, and
is also responsible for international was appointed to the Amgen
lobbying and diplomacy in Board of Directors in
At Amgen, we believe in a “biology first” appr Washington, D.C. October 2011.
DOUGLAS M. FAMBROUGH III,
PH.D. BOB D. BROWN, PH.D.
President and Chief Executive Chief Scientific Officer,
Officer Senior Vice President
Douglas M. Fambrough, Ph.D., co- Bob Brown, Ph.D., joined
founded Dicerna in 2007 and has Dicerna as senior vice
served as the Company’s chief president, research in 2008.
executive officer since 2010. Prior Prior to joining Dicerna, he
to joining Dicerna as CEO, Doug had a long career at Genta,
specialized in financing innovative where he was vice
life science technology companies president, research and
as a general partner with Oxford technology and had more
Bioscience Partners, a Boston- than 75 issued patents and
Dicerna is working to improve the lives of peopbased venture capital firm. patent applications.
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chromosome analysis
FISH Analysis
microarray analysis
Preimplantation Genetic Screening
POSTNATAL AND ADULT TESTING
chromosome analysis
FISH Analysis
microarray analysis
PRODUCTS OF CONCEPTION TESTING
chromosome analysis
FISH analysis
microarray analysis
ONCOLOGY TESTING
Testing for Hematology Disorders
chromosome analysis
FISH analysis
microarray analysis
disease-specific testing approaches
Testing for Solid Tumors Svetlana A. Yatsenko, MD
SPECIMEN REQUIREMENT Aleksandar Rajkovic, M.D., Ph.D. Director of the Pittsburgh
CYTOGENETICS REQUISITION FORMS Medical Director of the Cytogenetics Laboratory
constitutional analysis Cytogenetics Laboratory Associate Professor of
oncology analysis Professor of OB/GYN & Pathology, OB/GYN &
RESIDENT AND FELLOW TRAINING Reproductive Sciences Reproductive Sciences
Personalize treatment options and uncover novel molecular insights through comprehensive interrogation of important DNA, R
Personalize treatment options and uncover
novel molecular insights through
comprehensive interrogation of important
DNA, RNA and Proteins. Research studies
continue to demonstrate the clinically utility
and actionability of multi-platform profiling
with Caris Molecular Intelligence. Enhance
R&D innovation and maximize commercial
value with advanced and comprehensive
molecular insights that can be customized to
your needs.
The American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) is a global scientific and medical professional organization dedicated to
Our innovative products connect and RON CHIARELLO, PHD Mike is the President and a
empower consumers, healthcare Founder and CEO Founder of Alveo
professionals and treatment providers with Technologies. Prior to Alveo,
the ability to know sooner, act faster, and Ron is the Chief Executive Officer, Mike co-founded and served
make better-informed decisions. Advanced a Founder, and a member of the as National Genetics
diagnostics clear the path to more Board of Directors of Alveo Institute's (NGI) CEO from
personalized medicine and better outcomes. Technologies. 1991 to 2012.
John Todd, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer
Maya is an entrepreneur,
founder, and healthcare
passionate. An engineer and
Susan O’Connor scientist by training, she
Our target identification screens and drug CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER strongly believes that
discovery programs represent the potential technology combined with
of identifying and developing precision Susan has dedicated her entire biological insight can
therapeutics. We are tackling multiple career to creating and shaping revolutionize how diseases
diseases through new in-depth clinically companies in the life sciences and are treated and managed. At
focused screens and advance novel targets biotechnology industries. At Celsius, she oversees
identified through single-cell RNA sequencing Celsius, Susan is focused on talent, operations, finance and
analysis to rapid drug discovery. organization and culture. strategy.
Moderna is a leader in the discovery and Stéphane Bancel As President of Moderna, Dr.
development of messenger RNA (mRNA) Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hoge leads drug
therapeutics and vaccines, an entirely new discovery, preclinical
class of medicines that directs the body’s development, and platform
cells to produce intracellular or secreted R&D, including chemistry,
proteins that can have a therapeutic or Mr. Stéphane Bancel joined biology, formulation, and
preventive benefit for both patients and Moderna in the summer of 2011 early stage technical
healthy individuals. With its breakthrough when it was a one employee development. Dr. Hoge
platform, Moderna is creating mRNA company. He has assembled a joined Moderna in 2012,
medicines for a wide range of diseases and world-class team and raised nearly and as a leader from the
conditions, in many cases by addressing $2 billion between equity earliest days of the company
currently undruggable targets or underserved financing and upfront from has had a wide range of
areas of medical need. licensing collaborations. responsibilities.
Custom Cloning
cDNA Clone Set
Custom Lentivirus
Custom shRNA
Custom Protein Service
CRISPR Cloning Service
Custom sgRNA
Antibody Development
Antibody Specificity Service
Assay Development
Lakhmir S. Chawla, MD |
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Chawla joined La Jolla as
Chief Medical Officer,
effective July 1, 2015.
George F. Tidmarsh, MD, PhD | Previously, Dr. Chawla was a
President, Chief Executive Officer Professor of Medicine at the
and Secretary George Washington
Dr. Tidmarsh has been President, University, where he had
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company is a Chief Executive Officer, Secretary dual appointments in the
biopharmaceutical company focused on the and a Director of La Jolla since Department of
discovery, development and January 2012. Dr. Tidmarsh has Anesthesiology and Critical
commercialization of innovative therapies over 25 years of experience in Care Medicine and in the
intended to significantly improve outcomes biotechnology, including the Department of Medicine,
in patients suffering from life-threatening successful clinical development of Division of Renal Diseases
diseases. three FDA-approved drugs. and Hypertension.
Specialties
Oncology, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, Transplant,
Cystic Fibrosis, Multiple Sclerosis (MS),,
Rheumatology, Nephrology, Dermatology,
Crohns, Enteral Nutrition, Fertility,
Gastroenterology, Growth Hormone,
Ophthalmology, and Urology
Laurent Pharmaceuticals is a Montréal-based Jean-Marie Houle, Ph.D.
private biopharmaceutical company. Laurent Pharm - Vice President,
has a clinical stage lead program focusing on Clinical Development
LAU-7b, a once-a-day oral therapy addressing Jean-Marie Houle, Ph.D.
the persistent unresolved inflammation, a Pharm, brings a unique
leading cause of lung tissue destruction in Radu Pislariu, M.D. - President and blend of strong
patients with Cystic Fibrosis (CF).The CEO development leadership
underlying technology was developed at the Radu Pislariu, M.D., is an together with outstanding
Research Institute of the McGill University experienced healthcare management skills exercised
Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and received an entrepreneur and investor, with in the pharma, biotech and
Orphan Drug Designation from the U.S. Food extensive medical and drug contract research sectors of
and Drug Administration. development expertise. industry.
John L. Lubniewski
President, Chief Operating
Timothy (TJ) B. Johnson Officer
Chief Executive Officer Mr. Lubniewski has served as
Mr. Johnson has served as the our President and Chief
company’s Chief Executive Officer Operating Officer since April
and as a member of our board of 2018. He previously served
directors since January 2008. He as our Chief Business Officer
also served as the company’s from April 2011 until April
President from January 2008 until 2018. Mr. Lubniewski joined
April 2018. Mr. Johnson joined us us from Ventana, a medical
from LVC Consulting, a consulting diagnostics company and
company, where he was a partner member of the Roche Group
from April 2007 to January 2008. and global headquarters of
Prior to April 2007, Mr. Johnson Roche Tissue Diagnostics, or
spent five years in leadership roles RTD, where he served in
RNA Analysis, Companion Diagnostics, at Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. leadership roles for nine
Molecular Diagnostics, Pharma Services, or Ventana, a medical diagnostics years both before and after
mRNA, miRNA, Sequencing, and Gene company, prior to its acquisition by the acquisition of Ventana
Expression Roche Holdings, Inc., or Roche. by Roche in March 2008.
HANY MASSARANY
President and Chief Executive
Officer
Mr. Massarany has served as SCOTT MENDEL
President and Chief Executive Chief Financial Officer
Multiplex Molecular Diagnostics, Medical Officer and Director since May Mr. Mendel has served as
Devices, Infectious Diseases, Syndromic 2011. Mr. Massarany has over 25 Chief Financial Officer since
Testing, Electrochemical Detection, In Vitro years of healthcare, life sciences, May 2014. Mr. Mendel has
Diagnostics, Random and Continuous Access, and diagnostics experience and over 25 years of financial
Multiplex PCR, eSensor, IVD, Patient Centered has held various global leadership leadership experience and
Care, True Sample-to-Answer Workflow, positions with Ventana, Roche has held various leadership
Patient Safety, Long Term Partner, and Data Diagnostics, Bayer Diagnostics, and positions with The Active
Management Chiron Diagnostics Network and GE Healthcare
Paul Garofolo
Co-Founder, Chief Executive
Officer, & Chairman Dave Ousterout, PhD
Paul has been a member of Co-Founder & Chief
multiple Executive Management Technology Officer
teams of both publicly traded Dr. Dave Ousterout is a co-
multi-national corporations and founder and Chief
successful startup opportunities. Technology Officer for Locus
He currently serves as the CEO of Biosciences. Dave’s expertise
Locus Biosciences, an emerging is in protein engineering and
CRISPR, Bacterial Infections, Antibiotic biotech focused on the discovery early stage applications of
Resistance, Biotechnology, Microbiome, and and development of a novel class new technologies to treat
Targeted Therapeutics of CRISPR/Cas Antimicrobials. human diseases.
Kamel Khalili, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair,
Department of
Neuroscience and Director,
Center for Neurovirology
Temple University Lewis Katz
School of Medicine
Specialties
Single Cell Transfection, Electroporation,
CRISPR/Cas9, and Cell Line Generation
Specialties
Biotech, CRISPR, and Digital Biology
Dr. Michael Maguire
Founder & Director, CEO
Dr. Maguire is President and CEO Dr. Shirley O'Dea
of Avectas, which he has led since Founder & Director, CSO
its inception in 2012. He has 20 Dr. O’Dea co-founded
years of experience in the life Avectas in 2012 and is the
sciences industry, serving as a company’s CSO. She is
founder, investor, director and charged with overseeing
business leader. Dr. Maguire scientific programs. Dr.
Specialties graduated from Trinity College, O’Dea’s basic research
Cell Engineering, Transfection, Cell Therapy, Dublin, as a biomedical engineer provides a strong pipeline of
CAR-T, Gene Editing, Gene Therapy, and and completed his PhD on local applications for Avectas
CRISPR delivery to the lung. technology.
Specialties
iPS Cells, Virus Packaging, Gene Editing
CRISPR/Cas9, and Cell Immortalization
Specialties
Cloning, Virus Packaging, Vector
Construction, BAC Recombineering,
Lentivirus, Adenovirus, Adeno-associated
virus, shRNA libraries, CRISPR, shRNA, and
Gene synthesis
E-mail: sheri.lin@apsisglobal.com
Specialties
Synthetic Biology, CRISPR, and Gene Editing
George Church, Ph.D.,
Business and Science
Advisor
George Church is Professor
of Genetics at Harvard
Medical School and Director
of PersonalGenomes.org,
which provides the world's
only open-access
information on human
Genomic, Environmental &
Josiah Zayner, Ph.D., CEO Founder, Trait data (GET). His 1984
case@the-odin.com, Harvard PhD included the
@4LovofScience first methods for direct
I started the company in 2013 working nights Dr. Josiah Zayner is a global leader genome sequencing,
and weekends to fulfill orders and working as in the BioHacker movement, molecular multiplexing &
a Synthetic Biology fellow at NASA during the constantly pushing the boundaries barcoding. These led to the
day. In late 2014 I decided to make a DIY of Science outside traditional first genome sequence
Bacterial genome engineering CRISPR environments. He started (pathogen, Helicobacter
kit(http://www.the-odin.com/diy-bacterial- BioHacking during his Ph.D. in pylori) in 1994 . His
gene-engineering-crispr-kit/) and raised Molecular Biophysics at the innovations have
~$70k through crowdfunding. In 2015 we University of Chicago, creating The contributed to nearly all
made around $200k and this year we are Chromochord in his apartment, "next generation" DNA
projected to make near $500k. We are the world’s first musical sequencing methods and
growing at 10% or more month over month instrument that uses engineered companies (CGI-BGI, Life,
since August 2016. protein nanotechnology. Illumina, Nanopore).
Specialties
IVF, Livestock Cloning, Embryo Transfer, and
CRISPR/CAS9
Tedd Elich - CSO
Tedd has worked in the ag
biotech industry for over 20
years. Prior to joining
Proprietary bioinformatic analyses AgBiome/LifeEDIT he was
demonstrate that there are thousands of the Gene Expression
novel CRISPR-Cas gene editing systems in this Technology Lead at
collection. LifeEDIT is prioritizing and Mark Moore - CEO Monsanto Co. where he led
investigating these systems in order to Mark was involved in early multidisciplinary efforts to
develop novel gene editing tools with diverse discovery projects for Herceptin develop and implement
PAM requirements, higher fidelity, novel and Avastin at Genentech. He was technology for regulating
functionality, reduced immune response risk, a Founder and CSO of Deltagen, a transgene expression in
and smaller size for easier delivery. functional genomics company. crops.
Eric Nilson
Chief Technology Officer,
Board Member & Corporate
Secretary
Specialties
Gene Editing , Gene Cloning, CRISPR, Protein
Synthesis, Expression Systems, Custom
Antibody , Custom Peptide or gene synthesis,
Antibody Phase Display , and Technology
Transfer
Hunterian Medicine LLC is a gene-editing
company working to cure genetic diseases by
correcting DNA mutations using its innovative
CRISPR delivery technology. The company’s
patented technology solves the problem of
CRISPR delivery with a “2-for-1” genetic
element that enables delivery via a single
adeno-associated virus (AAV).
Timothy Herpin, Ph.D., M.B.A. Steven Kanner, Ph.D. Chris Fuller, Ph.D.
Chief Business Officer Chief Scientific Officer Vice President of Informatics
Daniel Hoogestraat
MB(ASCP)
Stephen J. Salipante, M.D., Ph.D Dhruba J. SenGupta Ph.D Medical Laboratory Scientist
Assistant Director Senior Research Scientist Lead
or treatment options
Todd C. Bennett Charles J. Collins, PhD Nancy M. Fairchild, SPHR
Senior Vice President, Global Senior Vice President, Senior Vice President,
Sales and Customer Operations Research and Development Human Resources
James M. O'Brien
Executive Vice President, Dieter Schapfel, MD Paul C. O'Brien
Finance Chief Medical Director for Vice President of Global
Enzo Clinical Labs Human Resources
PAUL MCMULLIN
MICHAEL VISHNEVETSKY, PH.D. Head of Global Sales & DR. BRADLEY PATAY, M.D.
Head of Business Development Marketing Chief Medical Officer
Maged Shenouda James Pennington Luc Lebreton
Chief Financial Officer MD, Chief Medical Officer PhD, R&D, Programs Director
John Kaufman, MD
Gregory Gores, MD Oregon Health and Science Jonathan S. Zager, MD
Mayo Clinic Center Moffitt Cancer Center
BEN TAYLOR President, Chief GIUSEPPE DEL PRIORE, MD, JONATHAN ECKARD, PH.D.
Financial Officer MPH Chief Medical Officer Chief Scientific Affairs Officer
EVP & CHIEF COMMERCIAL EVP & CHIEF FINANCIAL EVP & CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER
OFFICER OFFICER AND CORPORATE SECRETARY
William Meury Matt Walsh A. Robert D. Bailey
Bill Meury is the Chief Mr. Walsh joined Allergan in Bob Bailey is the Chief Legal
Commercial Officer, and has February 2018 as Executive Officer and Corporate
served in this role since May Vice President and Chief Secretary, and has served in
2016. Financial Officer. this role since July 2014.
ograms, and training that help them better serve the Cystic Fibrosis community and the broader population of patients with respiratory and
Sean Johnston
Senior Vice President, General
Michael Varney, Ph.D. Counsel, Chief Compliance Kimball Hall
Executive Vice President, Officer, Corporate Secretary Senior Vice President,
Genentech Research & Early and Head of Legal Affairs, Manufacturing Biologics
Development Pharma North America Drug Substance
Sean Johnston
Senior Vice President, General
Michael Varney, Ph.D. Counsel, Chief Compliance Kimball Hall
Executive Vice President, Officer, Corporate Secretary Senior Vice President,
Genentech Research & Early and Head of Legal Affairs, Manufacturing Biologics
Development Pharma North America Drug Substance
Sean Johnston
Senior Vice President, General
Michael Varney, Ph.D. Counsel, Chief Compliance Kimball Hall
Executive Vice President, Officer, Corporate Secretary Senior Vice President,
Genentech Research & Early and Head of Legal Affairs, Manufacturing Biologics
Development Pharma North America Drug Substance
Sean Johnston
Senior Vice President, General
Michael Varney, Ph.D. Counsel, Chief Compliance Kimball Hall
Executive Vice President, Officer, Corporate Secretary Senior Vice President,
Genentech Research & Early and Head of Legal Affairs, Manufacturing Biologics
Development Pharma North America Drug Substance
Barbara White, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer Robert Discordia, Ph.D.
Barbara White, M.D., joined Sean Moran, CPA, MBA Vice President,
Corbus as Chief Medical Officer Chief Financial Officer Pharmaceutical
in June 2014. Dr. White's Sean Moran, CPA, joined Development &
industry experience includes Corbus in January 2014. He Manufacturing
Phase 1-4 clinical development has more than twenty years of Robert Discordia, Ph.D.,
experience in inflammatory and senior financial experience joined Corbus as Vice
autoimmune diseases, including with emerging biotechnology, President, Pharmaceutical
rheumatology, respiratory, and drug delivery and medical Development &
dermatology diseases. device companies. Manufacturing in May 2018.
William Duke, Jr. Ted Raad Jim Roach, M.D., FACP, FCCP
Chief Financial Officer Chief Business Officer Chief Medical Officer
Adrian Haigh
Director
Adrian Haigh was recently
Senior Vice President,
Patrick Vink Commercial Operations and
Director Chief Operating Officer of Claude Allary
Dr. Vink is a well-known and Gentium GmbH, playing a Director
active member of the European pivotal role in the sale of Claude Allary is in Paris
and North American life Gentium to Jazz Pharma for $1 working as an independent
sciences community. billion in December 2013 consultant in life sciences.
Adrian Haigh
Director
Adrian Haigh was recently
Senior Vice President,
Patrick Vink Commercial Operations and
Director Chief Operating Officer of Claude Allary
Dr. Vink is a well-known and Gentium GmbH, playing a Director
active member of the European pivotal role in the sale of Claude Allary is in Paris
and North American life Gentium to Jazz Pharma for $1 working as an independent
sciences community. billion in December 2013 consultant in life sciences.
Sushant Kumar, MD, Ph.D
Jeffrey A. Gelfand, MD, Ph.D Dr Sushant is responsible for Michael Cynamon, MD, Ph.D
Dr. Jeffrey A. Gelfand, serves as the management of all Dr, Cynamon serves as a
a Chairman of the Scientific operational aspects and Member of Scientific
Advisory Board. investment. Advisory Board.
Sanjeev Ahuja
Chief Medical Officer
Sanjeev has over 30 years of
experience as a physician Angela Walsh
including over 14 years in the Vice President, Finance
pharmaceutical/biotechnology Angela Walsh joined the
industry. He has training and Celtaxsys team in March 2016
clinical practice experience in from Green Circle Bio Energy,
obstetrics-gynecology and a renewable energy company
internal medicine. based in Cottondale, Florida.
Nancy Stuart
Chief Operating Officer
Lynette Herscha Ms. Nancy Stuart has served
General Counsel as our Chief Operating
Lynette Herscha has served as Officer since October 2007
James Cassella, Ph.D. our General Counsel and and was our Senior Vice
Chief Development Officer Secretary since June 2017 and President, Corporate
Dr. James Cassella has served as was our Vice President and Strategy and Operations
our Chief Development Officer Associate General Counsel from July 2006 to October
since February 2015. from July 2014 to June 2017. 2007.
Mary Frances Harmon |
Mark E. Boulding | Executive Senior Vice President,
Vice President and Chief Legal Corporate Relations Mark J. Pykett, VMD, PhD |
Officer Mary Frances Harmon Chief Innovation Officer
Mark E. Boulding Ms. Harmon joined PTC in Mark J. Pykett, VMD, PhD
Mark Boulding has served as May 2015 with 30 years of Dr. Pykett joined PTC in
PTC's Executive Vice President experience in the August 2018 as Chief
and Chief Legal Officer since pharmaceutical industry Innovation Officer.
March 2012, and previously across a variety of functional Previously, he was the
served as Senior Vice President areas including sales, President and Chief
and General Counsel from April marketing, operations and Executive Officer of Agilis
2002 to February 2012. medical affairs Biotherapeutics.
Astrid Berthe
Vice President Regulatory
Charles Hagemeier, B.S. Affairs and Quality Assurance
Vice President Product Ramgopal Rao
Development Chairman of the Board
lia, cold agglutinin disease and other rare blood disorders. As an independent biopharmaceutical company spun out of Biogen’s hemophilia
CAMERON DURRANT MD, MBA
Dr. Cameron Durrant is the
Chairman and Chief Executive TIMOTHY MORRIS
Officer of Humanigen, since Timothy Morris currently
March 1, 2016. He was elevated serves as the chief financial
to that position after serving on RONALD BARLIANT officer of Iovance
the board of directors starting Ronald Barliant is of counsel Biotherapeutics, Inc. He
January 7, 2016. with the Chicago law firm brings over 30 years of
Goldberg Kohn, where he had professional finance and
Dr. Durrant’s expertise and been a principal in the accounting experience, of
business career has revolved Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights which 19 have been as a
around transformations, Group after joining in chief financial officer. He has
whether for brands, business September 2002. He has raised over $980 million in
units, or small companies. He represented debtors and equity and convertible
has particular therapeutic creditors in complex securities for six companies.
experience in infectious bankruptcy cases, and He has extensive deal
diseases, pediatrics and counseled major financial experience with over 65
oncology – coupled with institutions, business firms transactions with a
experience as a practicing and boards of directors in combined value of more
physician. connection with workouts. than $2 billion.
DR. TONY HO
Head of Research and JIM KASINGER
Development General Counsel and DR. LAWRENCE KLEIN
Secretary to the Board of Head of Business
Dr. Tony Ho is a highly Directors Development and Strategy
accomplished R&D leader with
experience across all phases of Jim Kasinger has nearly 20 Dr. Lawrence Klein combines
R&D, including: discovery, early years of experience advising significant experience in
and late-stage clinical and counseling private and biotech corporate strategy
development, and regulatory, public companies in the and business development
throughout his nearly 20 year biotechnology and technology with an advanced technical
career. sectors. background.
Richard Daniell
Executive Vice President,
European Commercial
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al organization dedicated to clinical laboratory science and its application to healthcare. Our leadership in education, advocacy and collabor
David Bick, MD
Founder | Chief Medical
Officer
Angela Carter
Angela Carter
Director, Customer and
Megan Eastwood, BSc(Hons) Business Development
Director of Operations Angela Carter has over 15
Megan Eastwood has over 20 years experience in in vitro
years of experience working in diagnostics primarily in the
a variety of manufacturing areas of new Product
environments in Research and Development, Clinical and
Development, Technical Technical Support and Sales
Transfer, Quality and Operations and Marketing.
John Evans
Feng Zhang, Ph.D. Chief Executive Officer and Giuseppe Ciaramella, Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Board Member Board Member Chief Scientific Officer
Feng Zhang is a core institute John Evans joined Beam in Dr. Giuseppe Ciaramella is
member of the Broad Institute 2017 as CEO, bringing the Chief Scientific Officer of
of MIT and Harvard, an significant experience as a Beam Therapeutics. Dr.
investigator at the McGovern company builder, dealmaker, Ciaramella has more than 20
Institute for Brain Research at and drug developer in the years of drug discovery
MIT, and the James and Patricia biotechnology industry. Mr. experience at Moderna,
Poitras Professor in Evans is also a Venture Partner AstraZeneca, Boehringer
Neuroscience at MIT. with ARCH Venture Partners. Ingelheim, Pfizer and Merck.
Alexis Borisy
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF THE
BOARD ason Coloma, Ph.D. Christoph Lengauer, Ph.D.
CHIEF BUSINESS OFFICER PRESIDENT
Alexis is a successful
biotechnology entrepreneur Jason is an Entrepreneur-in- Christoph is a Venture
with more than 20 years of Residence at Third Rock Partner at Third Rock
experience building and Ventures where he focuses on Ventures, where he helps
operating innovative science- new company formation and discover, launch and build
based organizations. He has a business development across companies that boldly merge
passion for groundbreaking the portfolio. Jason’s role at science, strategy, business
science and utilizing functional Celsius is driving business and medicine. At Celsius, he
genomics to drive drug development, investor leads the company and
discovery. relations and value creation. mentors its members.
Stephanie Fagan
SAMUEL COLELLA
JEREL DAVIS, PHD Sam Colella is a Managing
Jerel-DavisJerel Davis is a Director who has been a
Managing Director based in venture capital investor since
Vancouver. Since joining Versant 1984. Recognized for his
in 2011, he has played a critical leadership in life science WILLIAM LINK, PHD
role in launching and investing investing, Sam co-founded Bill Link is a Managing
in a number of Versant’s Versant Ventures with six Director specializing in early-
portfolio companies including partners in 1999. Prior to stage investing in medical
Quanticel Pharmaceuticals, founding Versant, he launched devices at Versant. Prior to
Crispr Therapeutics, Blueline one of the first life science co-founding Versant
Bioscience, Northern Biologics venture groups as a General Ventures, Bill was a general
and several of the Inception Partner at Institutional partner at Brentwood
Sciences discovery start-ups. Venture Partners. Venture Capital.
SAMUEL COLELLA
JEREL DAVIS, PHD Sam Colella is a Managing
Jerel-DavisJerel Davis is a Director who has been a
Managing Director based in venture capital investor since
Vancouver. Since joining Versant 1984. Recognized for his
in 2011, he has played a critical leadership in life science WILLIAM LINK, PHD
role in launching and investing investing, Sam co-founded Bill Link is a Managing
in a number of Versant’s Versant Ventures with six Director specializing in early-
portfolio companies including partners in 1999. Prior to stage investing in medical
Quanticel Pharmaceuticals, founding Versant, he launched devices at Versant. Prior to
Crispr Therapeutics, Blueline one of the first life science co-founding Versant
Bioscience, Northern Biologics venture groups as a General Ventures, Bill was a general
and several of the Inception Partner at Institutional partner at Brentwood
Sciences discovery start-ups. Venture Partners. Venture Capital.
SAMUEL COLELLA
JEREL DAVIS, PHD Sam Colella is a Managing
Jerel-DavisJerel Davis is a Director who has been a
Managing Director based in venture capital investor since
Vancouver. Since joining Versant 1984. Recognized for his
in 2011, he has played a critical leadership in life science WILLIAM LINK, PHD
role in launching and investing investing, Sam co-founded Bill Link is a Managing
in a number of Versant’s Versant Ventures with six Director specializing in early-
portfolio companies including partners in 1999. Prior to stage investing in medical
Quanticel Pharmaceuticals, founding Versant, he launched devices at Versant. Prior to
Crispr Therapeutics, Blueline one of the first life science co-founding Versant
Bioscience, Northern Biologics venture groups as a General Ventures, Bill was a general
and several of the Inception Partner at Institutional partner at Brentwood
Sciences discovery start-ups. Venture Partners. Venture Capital.
SAMUEL COLELLA
JEREL DAVIS, PHD Sam Colella is a Managing
Jerel-DavisJerel Davis is a Director who has been a
Managing Director based in venture capital investor since
Vancouver. Since joining Versant 1984. Recognized for his
in 2011, he has played a critical leadership in life science WILLIAM LINK, PHD
role in launching and investing investing, Sam co-founded Bill Link is a Managing
in a number of Versant’s Versant Ventures with six Director specializing in early-
portfolio companies including partners in 1999. Prior to stage investing in medical
Quanticel Pharmaceuticals, founding Versant, he launched devices at Versant. Prior to
Crispr Therapeutics, Blueline one of the first life science co-founding Versant
Bioscience, Northern Biologics venture groups as a General Ventures, Bill was a general
and several of the Inception Partner at Institutional partner at Brentwood
Sciences discovery start-ups. Venture Partners. Venture Capital.
Chan Whiting
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT,
RESEARCH AND
Alicia Levey DEVELOPMENT
CHIEF BUSINESS OFFICER
Chan C. Whiting, Ph.D. is the Jennifer McDevitt
Alicia Levey, PhD serves the role Senior Vice President of SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT,
of Chief Business Officer at Research and Development at CLINICAL SCIENCE AND
Tempest. Tempest CLINICAL OPERATIONS
James Dermody, Ph.D.
Laboratory Director
Dr. James Dermody is the
Laboratory Director at Admera
Health. Dr. Dermody also Min Wei, Ph.D.
serves as the CLIA Lab Head of Clinical Services
Director at the Institute of Dr. Min Wei leads the Clinical
Genomic Medicine at Rutgers Services team at Admera
Medical School, the Specialty Health and serves as the
Allen Osofsky Lab Director at the New Jersey General Supervisor of
Corporate Controller Board of Medical Examiners, Admera’s CLIA-licensed,
Mr. Osofsky leads the Finance an Assistant Professor at the CAP-accredited molecular
Team at Admera Health. Prior University of Medicine and diagnostics laboratory.
to joining Admera Health. Mr. Dentistry of New Jersey, and a Previously, Dr. Wei led the
Osofsky gained over 20 years of member of the New Jersey Translational Genomics
experience in finance and Medical School Institutional Bioinformatics team at
accounting. Review Board. GENEWIZ, Inc.
Aimee Hoyt Senior Vice
President & Chief People
Officer
Marc Stapley Executive Vice Aimee Hoyt is Senior Vice
President, Strategy & President and Chief People
Corporate Development Officer at Illumina, where
Marc Stapley joined Illumina she is responsible for all
in 2012 and holds the role of aspects of the company’s HR
Omead Ostadan Executive Vice Executive Vice President, strategies. Hoyt has a
President, Products & Strategy and Corporate successful track record for
Operations Development, responsible for leading workforce
Omead Ostadan is Executive corporate strategy, corporate transformation, driving
Vice President of Products and & business development and business growth and creating
Operations for Illumina. global infrastructure. high-impact teams.
Jed Dean
VP of Operations and Aaron Kimball Tom Stephenson
Engineering Chief Technical Officer Chief Commercial Officer
YVONNE GREENSTREET,
MBChB, MBA PUSHKAL GARG, MD
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER LAURIE KEATING, JD
Dr. Yvonne Greenstreet Dr. Pushkal Garg joined SVP, GENERAL COUNSEL,
possesses 25 years of global Alnylam in 2014 with 15 years AND SECRETARY
experience in the of experience in clinical drug Laurie Bartlett Keating joined
pharmaceutical industry, where development. He oversees Alnylam in 2014 with more
she has been in senior roles in clinical research & operations, than 25 years of executive
research and development, biometrics & data experience at high
strategy, and portfolio management, and medical technology and
management. writing groups. biotechnology companies.
Zhen Li, Ph.D.
Peter B. Leone, MBA Senior Vice President,
Vice President, Strategic Chemistry and Non-Clinical Ken Myszkowski, MBA, CPA
Business Initiatives Development Chief Financial Officer
DAN CHEVALLARD
Dan Chevallard
Dan Chevallard joined Regulus
in December 2012 as Vice
President, Accounting and
Financial Reporting, became CHRISTOPHER AKER, J.D.
our Vice President, Finance and Chris Aker
Accounting in May 2013 and Mr. Aker joined Regulus in
was appointed to the role of February 2011 and currently
Chief Financial Officer in May serves as Vice President, Legal
2017. Affairs.
JONATHAN ARNOLD ARIS GENNADIOS, PHD
PRESIDENT, ORAL DRUG PRESIDENT, SOFTGEL PAUL HEGWOOD, JR.
DELIVERY TECHNOLOGIES PRESIDENT, CLINICAL SUPPLY
Jonathan Arnold was named Aris Gennadios has served as SERVICES
President of our Oral Drug our President, Softgel Paul Hegwood, Jr. was
Delivery business in October Technologies since September named President, Clinical
2017. 2013 Supply Services in May 2018.
Kim Seth
EVP, Head of Business & Michael Zinda
Corporate Development EVP, Head of R&D
Anne
Anne K. Vallerga, MA,PhD
-Director of Oncology Drug
r/amp Device Development
Extensive expertise in
physiology, tumor biology,
oncology, including
pharmaceutical chemistry
applications, drug, diagnostic
and device product
development.
PAUL RUBIN, M.D.
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
ADAM LEVY OF RESEARCH AND
CHIEF BUSINESS OFFICER DEVELOPMENT
Terry Kougoulos
Director of Pharmaceutical
Development
John C. Oakley Terry Kougoulos leads the
Chief Financial Officer pharmaceutical development
Mr. Oakley joined Cleaver- program for Vast
Brooks in 2013 as Chief Therapeutics. Dr. Kougoulos Kyle Kimble
Financial Officer. Throughout has 15 years experience in the Director of Intellectual
his career, Mr. Oakley has pharmaceutical industry Property
served in senior financial specializing in the Kyle W. Kimble, JD PhD, is an
positions for both publicly development of both small attorney focused on
traded and privately held molecules and pharmaceutical and
companies. macromolecules. intellectual property law.
Carol Holland, PhD, MT
Thomas Monroe, PhD, Senior (ASCP), Laboratory Director, Lisa McDaniel, PhD, FACMG,
Laboratory Director Director of Quality Assurance Laboratory Director
Chad Testa, Director of
Chemistry
Dr. Testa joins Curza after
12+ years at Echelon
Dustin Williams, PhD – Vice Biosciences where his
President of Microbiology & industrial career began.
Ryan E. Looper, PhD – Vice New Technologies Most recently, Dr. Testa
President of Discovery Dr. Williams is an Assistant served as Vice President of
Dr. Looper was born in Banbury, Professor in the Department Research & Development
England. After spending his of Orthopaedics at the after assuming positions of
formative years overseas, he University of Utah and Vice increasing responsibility
returned to the United States to President of Microbiology & from an initial role as
attend school. New Technologies at Curza. Research Scientist.
Eric Yuen, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Chairman
proprietary software technology based on magnetic resonance imaging data to risk-stratify multiple sclerosis patients. These tes
René M. Lemieux, PhD, Head
of Chemistry and Drug
Design
René Lemieux is an
experienced and successful
drug hunter with nearly 20
years of experience in large
pharma and biotech bringing
first-in-class small molecule
ohn Trzupek, MBA, PhD, Chief drug candidates from
Financial Officer (interim) & discovery to clinical trials.
Head of Corporate Kimya Harris, PhD, Head of Prior to joining KSQ
Development Intellectual Property Therapeutics, René served as
Director of Medicinal
John Trzupek is an Kimya Harris is a skilled Chemistry at Agios
accomplished leader in the intellectual property Pharmaceuticals where he
biotech and pharmaceutical professional with significant was responsible for leading
industries with key oncology patent experience the discovery efforts for a
contributions spanning drug both within the number of programs in the
discovery, strategy, operations, biopharmaceutical industry area of cancer metabolism
and entrepreneurship. and in private practice. and rare genetic diseases.
RUSS B. ALTMAN, M.D., PH.D.
Presidents’ Advisory Group
Russ Biagio Altman is the JONATHAN WEISSMAN,
Kenneth Fong Professor of JENNIFER DOUDNA, PH.D. PH.D.
Bioengineering, Genetics, Presidents’ Advisory Group Presidents’ Advisory Group
Medicine, and Biomedical Data Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D. is a Jonathan Weissman received
Science (and of Computer professor of Molecular and his undergraduate physics
Science, by courtesy) at Cell Biology and Chemistry at degree from Harvard
Stanford University, and the University of California, College. After obtaining a
previously chaired its Berkeley, where she holds the Ph.D. in physics from the
Department of Bioengineering. Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair Massachusetts Institute of
His primary research interest is in Biomedical and Health Technology, he was a
the application of computing Sciences, and is a Howard postdoctoral fellow at Yale
and informatics technologies to Hughes Medical Institute University School of
clinical medicine. investigator. Medicine.
Steve Lo
George Church, Ph.D. Matthew Rabinowitz, Ph.D. Business development
Scientific advisory board Advisory board advisor
Professor, Harvard CEO, Natera, Inc. CCO, Puma Biotechnology
RAMEECH MCCORMACK,
M.S.
JESSICA M. SIDO, PH.D. R&D Engineer
JAMES HEMPHILL, PH.D. Research Scientist Rameech McCormack, M.S.
Research Scientist Jessica M. Sido, Ph.D. master’s graduate from the
James Hemphill, Ph.D. is a graduated from the University Mechanical Engineering
genetic engineer focused on of South Carolina School of Department at MIT. He is
building new functionality into Medicine where she worked also a co-inventor of the high
human cells for therapeutic on T cell driven inflammatory throughput Flowfect™
application. responses. technology.
Curt Becker
Gerald Yakatan, Ph.D
As a founder of Applied
Biosystems Inc., Curt Becker Gerald J. Yakatan, Ph.D. is a
was in the forefront of NIcolas Dean,Ph.D serial entrepreneur who has
developing, commercializing been a founder of multiple
and supporting many of the companies in the
enabling technologies of the Dr. Nicolas M. Dean joined the pharmaceutical R&D arena
biotech industry including TriPhos Therapeutics Scientific and currently serves as
automated DNA synthesis, DNA Advisory Board in March of Chairman & CEO of IriSys,
sequencing and QPCR. 2013. Inc.
on Davis
Vice President of Operations Christopher Cooney, PhD
Mr. Davis joined Akonni Director of Engineering
Darrell Chandler, PhD Biosystems April 2007 and As Director of Engineering at
Chief Science Officer currently manages all aspects Akonni Biosystems, Dr.
Dr. Chandler, a founding of Akonni’s day-to-day Cooney leads an innovative
scientist, joined Akonni operations, to include quality multi-disciplinary team of
Biosystems after 15 years of control, human resources, engineers and scientists in
service at Pacific Northwest and information technologies, the pursuit of affordable,
Argonne National Laboratories, IP/legal, facilities, highly-informative
where he led and managed procurement, security and diagnostics. Dr. Cooney
multidisciplinary teams of ES&H. Mr. Davis has over 20 draws upon more than 15
biologists, analytical chemists, years of general management years of multi-disciplinary
engineers, statisticians and experience with expertise in bioengineering experience
computer scientists in the design, construction, and from both academia and
development of integrated maintenance of research industry – four years in post-
nucleic acid-based biodetection laboratories to include BSL-2, graduate academia and
systems for environmental and chemical, optical and class more than ten years in
clinical applications. 10,000 clean room facilities. industry.
BOB SKURLA
As one of the company co-
founders, Bob Skurla has been
with BioServe from day one
back in 1989. Today, Bob
serves as the Director of RNA
MIKE SEDDON Services, as well as plays an
important role with special
Mike Seddon joined BioServe in and custom project requests
1992 and is responsible for our by our customers. Prior to
lab operations. In this capacity, joining BioServe, Bob worked
he oversees the for 7 years at the National
implementation of SOPs, Institutes of Health, both at
equipment maintenance, and the National Cancer Institute
scheduling of the projects. Mike and National Institute of
is also responsible for Allergy and Infectious
converting a large number of Diseases. He graduated from
BioServe’s extraction and East Carolina University in
genotyping processes to high 1982 with a B.S. in
throughput formats. biochemistry.
John Tabone, Ph.D.
Vice President, Chemistry
25+ years in a startup
environment developing
innovative technologies in the Melud Nabavi
areas of nucleoside chemistry, Vice President, Molecular
molecular diagnostics, genomic Engineering
measurement, and high 20+ years of experience in Danielle Jones
throughput automation of biotechnology developing CFO
oligonucleotide and gene innovative genomics 15+ years of experience in
synthesis. technologies. accounting and finance.
c.suite leaders and titles6 c.suite leaders and titles7 c.suite leaders and titles8
Mr. James Lewis SVP Dr. Abigail McElhinny SVP Mr. Antony Newton SVP
Kara Cannon
Global Head of Sales and
Marketing
Martin Krusin Dinesh Srinivasan
Mathieu Schué Vice President for Finance PhD, Vice President for
PhD, Head of Laboratory and Business Development Translational Research
Vu L. Truong, Ph.D.
Founder, Chief Executive
Officer and Director
Mitchell H Rosner, Ph.D. Jeffrey J. Fessler, J.D.
Vice President of Quality Acting General Counsel
Rod Rootsaert
Rod is an experienced legal
and corporate secretary with
over ten years’ experience in
providing corporate, legal
and administrative services to
start-up companies. He Jasmine Kway
David Vanston previously served as Jasmine has a proven track
David has 20 years of corporate secretary for record in achieving positive
financial management several junior mining business results by
experience. Prior to Volition companies in the United developing strategic
and Octo Telematics, David Kingdom. Rod received a business alliances,
held positions as Vice Bachelor of Laws degree identifying new markets,
President of Excorp Medical, from the University of and developing business
Inc. Western Australia. processes.
Yuman Fong, MD
Riccardo Lencioni, MD, PhD Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Pisa University Hospital Cancer Center
Aayush is a computer
science student at Cornell
University, with interest in
machine learning, artificial
intelligence and software
engineering
Nancy Vitale
Senior Vice President of
Human Resources,
Genentech and Regional
Human Resources Head,
North America
Nancy Vitale
Senior Vice President of
Human Resources,
Genentech and Regional
Human Resources Head,
North America
Nancy Vitale
Senior Vice President of
Human Resources,
Genentech and Regional
Human Resources Head,
North America
Nancy Vitale
Senior Vice President of
Human Resources,
Genentech and Regional
Human Resources Head,
North America
Ross Lobell
Vice President, Regulatory
Affairs
Ross Lobell joined Corbus as
Vice President, Regulatory
Affairs in April 2018.
NATHALIE DUBOIS-
STRINGFELLOW, PH.D.
Vice President, Product
R. ANDREW RAMELMEIER, Development and
PH.D. Management
Chief Manufacturing & CLOSE
Quality Officer Nathalie Dubois-
CLOSE Stringfellow, Ph.D., has
R. Andrew “Andy” served as Vice President,
Ramelmeier, PhD, currently Product Development and
serves as Senior Vice HEATHER TURNER, J.D. Management since January
President and Chief Senior Vice President, 2015 and oversees the
Manufacturing & Quality General Counsel development and execution
Officer and is responsible for CLOSE of project team strategy for
Technical Operations at Heather Turner, JD, has Sangamo’s ZFP therapeutic
Sangamo, including served as Senior Vice programs in hemophilia,
manufacturing, quality President and General lysosomal storage disorders,
supply chain, and process Counsel since joining hemoglobinopathies, HIV
and analytical development. Sangamo in February 2018. and Huntington’s disease.
cal company spun out of Biogen’s hemophilia business, we bring a strong legacy of innovation, world-class science, and commitment to the
RAINER BOEHM, MD, MBA
Boehm brings more than
three decades of
biopharmaceutical
leadership experience to
Humanigen’s board. At
Novartis for 29 years, he
held roles of increasing
responsibility culminating
with his position as Chief
Commercial and Medical
Affairs Officer and as ad
interim CEO of Novartis’
pharmaceuticals division.
inically utility and actionability of multi-platform profiling with Caris Molecular Intelligence. Enhance R&D innovation and maximize comme
adership in education, advocacy and collaboration helps lab professionals adapt to change and do what they do best: provide vital insight a
Nick Leschly
Philip D. Gregory,
D. Phil. chief bluebird
Susanna High
Chief Scientific Officer Nick Leschly has served as
Chief Operating Officer our chief bluebird since
Philip D. Gregory, D. Phil., September 2010. Formerly,
has served as our chief Susanna High has served as Nick was a partner and
scientific officer since June chief operating officer since founding member of Third
2015. 2016. Rock Ventures in 2007.
Lori Henderson, J.D.
General Counsel and
Corporate Secretary Lorence Kim, M.D. John Mendlein, Ph.D.
Chief Financial Officer President, Corporate and
Product Strategy
KIRK NIELSEN
Kirk Nielsen joined Versant ROBIN PRAEGER – CFO THOMAS WOIWODE, PHD
in 2006 from Medtronic, Robin Praeger is Versant’s Tom Woiwode is a
where he worked in sales & Chief Financial Officer and a Managing Director who has
marketing in the company’s Managing Director. Prior to been with Versant Ventures
Cardiac Rhythm joining Versant in 2000, Robin since 2002. Most recently,
Management division. was a tax partner with Arthur Tom served as the Chief
Previously, he spent time at Andersen where he Operating Officer of Okairos,
Fluidigm (a Versant portfolio developed extensive a biopharmaceutical
company) and he also experience in partnership tax company developing genetic
served as a consultant at planning and structuring. At vaccines for major infectious
Bain & Company, where he Anderson, his client base diseases. Tom led the
advised clients in healthcare, included large real estate process that culminated in
private equity, and other partnerships and the sale of Okairos to GSK
industries. corporations. for $325M
KIRK NIELSEN
Kirk Nielsen joined Versant OBIN PRAEGER – CFO THOMAS WOIWODE, PHD
in 2006 from Medtronic, Robin Praeger is Versant’s Tom Woiwode is a
where he worked in sales & Chief Financial Officer and a Managing Director who has
marketing in the company’s Managing Director. Prior to been with Versant Ventures
Cardiac Rhythm joining Versant in 2000, Robin since 2002. Most recently,
Management division. was a tax partner with Arthur Tom served as the Chief
Previously, he spent time at Andersen where he Operating Officer of Okairos,
Fluidigm (a Versant portfolio developed extensive a biopharmaceutical
company) and he also experience in partnership tax company developing genetic
served as a consultant at planning and structuring. At vaccines for major infectious
Bain & Company, where he Anderson, his client base diseases. Tom led the
advised clients in healthcare, included large real estate process that culminated in
private equity, and other partnerships and the sale of Okairos to GSK
industries. corporations. for $325M
KIRK NIELSEN
Kirk Nielsen joined Versant OBIN PRAEGER – CFO THOMAS WOIWODE, PHD
in 2006 from Medtronic, Robin Praeger is Versant’s Tom Woiwode is a
where he worked in sales & Chief Financial Officer and a Managing Director who has
marketing in the company’s Managing Director. Prior to been with Versant Ventures
Cardiac Rhythm joining Versant in 2000, Robin since 2002. Most recently,
Management division. was a tax partner with Arthur Tom served as the Chief
Previously, he spent time at Andersen where he Operating Officer of Okairos,
Fluidigm (a Versant portfolio developed extensive a biopharmaceutical
company) and he also experience in partnership tax company developing genetic
served as a consultant at planning and structuring. At vaccines for major infectious
Bain & Company, where he Anderson, his client base diseases. Tom led the
advised clients in healthcare, included large real estate process that culminated in
private equity, and other partnerships and the sale of Okairos to GSK
industries. corporations. for $325M
KIRK NIELSEN
Kirk Nielsen joined Versant OBIN PRAEGER – CFO THOMAS WOIWODE, PHD
in 2006 from Medtronic, Robin Praeger is Versant’s Tom Woiwode is a
where he worked in sales & Chief Financial Officer and a Managing Director who has
marketing in the company’s Managing Director. Prior to been with Versant Ventures
Cardiac Rhythm joining Versant in 2000, Robin since 2002. Most recently,
Management division. was a tax partner with Arthur Tom served as the Chief
Previously, he spent time at Andersen where he Operating Officer of Okairos,
Fluidigm (a Versant portfolio developed extensive a biopharmaceutical
company) and he also experience in partnership tax company developing genetic
served as a consultant at planning and structuring. At vaccines for major infectious
Bain & Company, where he Anderson, his client base diseases. Tom led the
advised clients in healthcare, included large real estate process that culminated in
private equity, and other partnerships and the sale of Okairos to GSK
industries. corporations. for $325M
Dan was the VP of Biology at
Inception Sciences - a
Versant Ventures discovery
engine - where he led all
aspects of biology and non-
clinical pharmacology,
including the acquisition of
the remyelination company
Inception 5 by Roche
pharmaceuticals. Prior to
joining Inception,
Melissa McLaughlin
Chief People Officer
Ms. McLaughlin joined Agios
in January 2015 as vice
president, human resources.
She brings more than 15 Min Wang, J.D., Ph.D.
years of human resources SVP General Counsel
experience, with a focus on Dr. Wang joined Agios in
leading business and HR February 2010 and has nearly Clive Patience, Ph.D.
transformations, building 15 years of intellectual SVP Technical Operations
organizational capabilities, property and transactional Dr. Patience joined Agios as
and shaping high legal experience in the SVP of technical operations
performance cultures. biopharmaceutical industry. in June 2017.
Judy Gilbert
Chief People Officer Enakshi Singh
VP of Finance
Judy leads our efforts to Richard Pieters
build a culture that supports President, Products Prior to joining Zymergen,
collaboration, learning, and Ena was focused on
innovation, allowing us to At Zymergen, Richard is semiconductor investments
attract, develop, and responsible for our overall at Mubadala, Abu Dhabi’s
challenge amazing people products business. sovereign wealth fund.
Jennifer Marasco
Vice President, Human
Resources
Jennifer joined Molecular
Devices in March 2017.
Jennifer began her career
with Danaher at Beckman
Dominik Arnold Coulter Diagnostics in 2014 Dean Ding
VP/GM, Biologics Business as the Sr. Manager, Human Vice President, Global
Unit Resources and was promoted Operations
Dominik was appointed Vice to Director, Human Resources Dean joined Molecular
President and General in 2015, where she Devices in June 2010 and
Manager for the Biologics supported a number of was appointed Vice
Business Unit of Molecular global functional groups in President of Global
Devices in April 2018. her two roles Operations in Apr.2017.
JOHN MARAGANORE, PhD
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Since 2002, Dr. John
Maraganore has served as SARASWATHY V. NOCHUR, MANMEET S. SONI
the CEO and a Director of PhD CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Alnylam. SVP, CHIEF REGULATORY Manmeet Soni joined
OFFICER Alnylam in May 2017. He
Prior to Alnylam, Dr. Dr. Saraswathy (Sara) Nochur provides strategic leadership
Maraganore served as an joined Alnylam in 2006 as the over all financial
officer and a member of the Vice President of Regulatory management company-
management team for Affairs, and also held roles as wide, including the global
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Program Leader for 2 late- finance, investor relations,
Inc. stage programs. and communications teams.
Patrick O’Brien, J.D., PharmD
General Counsel
WILL DOWNIE
BARRY LITTLEJOHNS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, STEVEN FASMAN
PRESIDENT, BIOLOGICS & GLOBAL SALES AND SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT &
SPECIALTY DRUG DELIVERY MARKETING GENERAL COUNSEL
Barry Littlejohns was named Will Downie has served as Steven Fasman was named
President, Biologics & Senior Vice President, Global Senior Vice President and
Specialty Drug Delivery in Sales & Marketing since June General Counsel in October
October 2017. 2010. 2014.
Mark J. Guinan
Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
John B. Haydon
Mark J. Guinan is Executive Vice President, Global
Vice President and Chief Markets
Financial Officer for Quest
Diagnostics. John Haydon is Vice
Lidia Fonseca President, Global Markets
Senior Vice President and From 2010 until joining Quest for Quest Diagnostics.
Chief Information Officer Diagnostics in 2013 as Senior Previously, Mr. Haydon was
Vice President and Chief Vice President of Joint
Lidia Fonseca is Senior Vice Financial Officer, Mr. Guinan Venture Partnerships and
President and Chief served as Chief Financial previous to that, he was
Information Officer (CIO) for Officer for Hill-Rom Holdings Senior Vice President,
Quest Diagnostics. Inc. Operations.
Ross Lobell
Vice President, Regulatory
Affairs
Ross Lobell joined Corbus as
Vice President, Regulatory
Affairs in April 2018. Mr.
Lobell is an expert in
regulatory affairs with an
extensive biopharmaceutical
background in leading
preclinical, clinical and
nonclinical regulatory
strategies and operations to
support the drug
development process.
Brenda J. Sousa
Senior Vice President of
Human Resources and
Operations
Brenda Sousa is
Constellation
Pharmaceuticals’ senior vice
president of human Karen H. Valentine
resources and operations. Chief Legal Officer and
Prior to joining Constellation Patrick Trojer, PhD General Counsel
in 2010, Brenda was the vice Senior Vice President, EZH2 Karen H. Valentine joined
president of human Franchise and Head of Constellation
resources and operations at Translational Sciences Pharmaceuticals as chief
EPIX Pharmaceuticals, where Dr. Patrick Trojer joined legal officer and general
she served as a member of Constellation counsel in July 2018.
the global executive Pharmaceuticals as a Previously, she served as the
management team and founding scientist in 2008 chief legal officer and
focused on the development and currently serves as senior general counsel of Agenus
and implementation of vice president, EZH2 Inc., a publicly traded
business strategy, franchise and head of immuno-oncology company,
operations, and translational sciences. Patrick from September 2015 to
organizational development has held multiple positions of July 2018 and served as vice
for U.S. companies with increasing responsibility at president and general
international offices. Constellation. counsel of Agenus Inc.
Geoffrey S. Gilmartin, M.D.,
M.M.Sc.
Chief Development Officer
atify multiple sclerosis patients. These tests provide objective measures for the first time enabling physicians to personalize and
Andrew Wylie, PhD, Head of
Discovery Biology
Robin A. Walker
Vice President, Head of Legal
Nick Conley, PhD
Principal Scientist
eter Potgieter, MD, PhD Dr. Nick Conley is Principal
Vice President, Clinical Scientist for Locus Aeron Hammack, PhD
Development & Medical Biosciences. Before joining Principal Scientist
Affairs Locus in 2018, Nick was co- Dr. Aeron Tynes Hammack is
Peter Potgieter, PhD trained founder of EpiBiome, a South a Principal Scientist for
in anesthesiology, critical San Francisco-based Locus Biosciences. Before
care and pulmonary precision microbiome joining Locus in 2018, Aeron
medicine and has worked in engineering company that was co-founder of
academic positions including built the world’s first fully EpiBiome, a South San
being Head of Respiratory automated high-throughput Francisco-based precision
and Medical ICUs at the phage discovery, microbiome engineering
University of Cape Town and characterization, and company that built the
Groote Schuur Hospital, and genomics platform, where he world’s first fully automated
subsequently Chairman of served in various roles, high-throughput phage
Critical Care at the National including CEO and Chief discovery, characterization,
Guard Hospital in Riyadh. Science Officer. and genomics platform.
Patricia Williams, Ph.D.
Director of Regulatory and
Clinical Affairs
Patrick Rush, D.P.M.
Head of Project Management
Dr. Williams is a
pharmaceutical executive
with over 35 years of Dr. Rush joined Excision in
experience in drug discovery June 2018 as Head of Clinical
and development in the Operations. He is an
pharmaceutical, accomplished
biotechnology and contract pharmaceutical leader and
service industries. Dr. scientist with more than 20
Williams is currently the years of clinical research
President & CEO of IND experience in Phase I-IV
Directions, LLC, a drug clinical development. Dr.
development consulting and Rush has held positions of
service company located in increasing responsibilities
Northern Virginia. Dr. within Clinical Development,
Williams was the founder, Project Management and
co-owner and Chief Regional Monitoring. Over his
Operating Officer of Summit career he has worked at
Drug Development Services, GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol
LLC, a drug development Myers-Squibb, Idenix,
service company in Rockville, CanFite BioPharma and the
Maryland for five years University of Pennsylvania.
Veterans Administration
David A. Largaespada, PhD Walter Low, PhD Medical Centers.
Chief Scientific Officer of Chief Scientific Officer of
Surrogen Regenevida
Dr. Largaespada is a leading Dr. Walter Low is a leader in Tad Sonstegard, PhD
authority on mouse neuroscientific research and Chief Scientific Officer of
genetics, gene modification, bioengineering. He’s a Acceligen
cancer genes and disease professor and Director of the Dr. Tad Sonstegard is an
models. His expertise guides Research Laboratories in the internationally recognized
the science behind Department of Neurosurgery leader in livestock genetics
Recombinetics’ biomedical at the University of with more than 20 years of
subsidiary, Surrogen. Minnesota. experience in the field.
Brian Staskawicz, Ph.D.
Alex Marson, M.D., Ph.D. Scientific Director, Agriculture
Scientific Director, Brian Staskawicz is the
Biomedicine Maxine J. Elliot Professor of
Alex Marson is an Associate Plant and Microbial Biology
Professor in the Department at The University of usan Jenkins, Ph.D.
of Microbiology and California, Berkeley. The Managing Director
Immunology at the Staskawicz lab studies the Susan Jenkins leads
University of California, San molecular basis of plant- institute-wide
Francisco. The Marson lab pathogen interactions and administration and also
uses genome editing to applies their discoveries to manages education and
study how different DNA engineer resistance in crop outreach, communications,
sequences control human T species. READ MORE external collaborations, and
cell function intellectual property.
Christof Fellman Ph.D. ×
Dr. Fellmann is a leader in the Stephen Elledge
development of RNA Dr. Elledge is the Gregor
interference as an Mendel Professor of
cott W. Lowe, PhD experimental tool for basic Genetics in the Department
Dr. Lowe is a member of the and biomedical research. He of Genetics at Harvard
Cancer Biology and Genetics pioneered the establishment Medical School and in the
Program and the Geoffrey of a functional “Sensor Division of Genetics at
Beene Chair in Cancer assay” that enables the Brigham Women’s Hospital
Biology at the Memorial biological identification of and is an investigator with
Sloan-Kettering Cancer effective shRNAs at large the Howard Hughes Medical
Center. scale. Institute.
Stephanie Marrus
Operation advisor
Director, Entrepreneurship
center at UCSF
Sandra Foster, PhD
Director of Quality Rebecca Holmberg, PhD,
Assurance PMP
Dr. Foster joined Akonni in Director of Application
September of 2015 as Development Michael Reinemann, MPH
Director of Quality Dr. Holmberg joined Akonni Director of Business
Assurance, and brings a Biosystems in 2008 and Development
unique blend of scientific currently leads the Mr. Reinemann has an
knowledge and Quality commercialization effort for exceptional track record of
experience. She began her Akonni’s sample preparation developing and
scientific career as a Medical product line including the implementing strategic,
Technologist (MT, ASCP) TruTip Automated data-driven marketing and
working in hospital Workstation, on track to be a sales initiatives for
laboratories. From the FDA Class I device, and diagnostic products,
clinical lab she transitioned Purification Kits covering a resulting in strong double-
to research before going to wide range of clinical digit growth and increased
graduate school. applications. market share.
c.suite leaders and titles9 c.suite leaders and titles10 c.suite leaders and titles11
Dr. Mary Padilla VP Dr. Mark Sausen VP Mr. William Stevens CFO
Ali Ardakani
Senior VP Device & Business Wulff-Erik Von Borcke
Development President, Pharmacyclics
Karen Hale
Vice President, Chief Ethics Wulff-Erik Von Borcke
and Compliance Officer President, Pharmacyclics
Karen Hale
Vice President, Chief Ethics Wulff-Erik Von Borcke
and Compliance Officer President, Pharmacyclics
Karen Hale
Vice President, Chief Ethics Wulff-Erik Von Borcke
and Compliance Officer President, Pharmacyclics
Karen Hale
Vice President, Chief Ethics Wulff-Erik Von Borcke
and Compliance Officer President, Pharmacyclics
Karen Hale
Vice President, Chief Ethics Wulff-Erik Von Borcke
and Compliance Officer President, Pharmacyclics
Karen Hale
Vice President, Chief Ethics Wulff-Erik Von Borcke
and Compliance Officer President, Pharmacyclics
Karen Hale
Vice President, Chief Ethics Wulff-Erik Von Borcke
and Compliance Officer President, Pharmacyclics
Karen Hale
Vice President, Chief Ethics Wulff-Erik Von Borcke
and Compliance Officer President, Pharmacyclics
Karen Hale
Vice President, Chief Ethics Wulff-Erik Von Borcke
and Compliance Officer President, Pharmacyclics
Karen Hale
Vice President, Chief Ethics Wulff-Erik Von Borcke
and Compliance Officer President, Pharmacyclics
David G. Kelly
Executive Vice President, Geoffrey M. Curtis
Vikram Karnani Company Secretary and Executive Vice President,
Executive Vice President, Managing Director, Ireland Corporate Affairs and Chief
Chief Commercial Officer David joined Horizon Pharma Communications Officer
Vikram joined Horizon in September 2014 as Geoff joined Horizon Pharma
Pharma in July 2014 and executive vice president, in 2015 and has more than
has been in his current managing director, Ireland two decades of global
position since February and was appointed company healthcare communications
2018. secretary in November 2014. experience.
David G. Kelly
Executive Vice President, Geoffrey M. Curtis
Vikram Karnani Company Secretary and Executive Vice President,
Executive Vice President, Managing Director, Ireland Corporate Affairs and Chief
Chief Commercial Officer David joined Horizon Pharma Communications Officer
Vikram joined Horizon in September 2014 as Geoff joined Horizon Pharma
Pharma in July 2014 and executive vice president, in 2015 and has more than
has been in his current managing director, Ireland two decades of global
position since February and was appointed company healthcare communications
2018. secretary in November 2014. experience.
David G. Kelly
Executive Vice President, Geoffrey M. Curtis
Vikram Karnani Company Secretary and Executive Vice President,
Executive Vice President, Managing Director, Ireland Corporate Affairs and Chief
Chief Commercial Officer David joined Horizon Pharma Communications Officer
Vikram joined Horizon in September 2014 as Geoff joined Horizon Pharma
Pharma in July 2014 and executive vice president, in 2015 and has more than
has been in his current managing director, Ireland two decades of global
position since February and was appointed company healthcare communications
2018. secretary in November 2014. experience.
ation, world-class science, and commitment to the rare blood disorders community. We are united by a singular purpose: to create progres
Raymond C. Jordan
Senior Vice President,
Corporate Affairs
Raymond C. Jordan joined
Amgen as senior vice
president, Corporate Affairs, in
Anthony C. Hooper Lori Johnston October 2012. In this role,
Executive Vice President Senior Vice President, Human Jordan is responsible for
Anthony C. Hooper joined Resources strategic communications
Amgen in October 2011 as Lori Johnston is senior vice across Amgen, including
executive vice president of president, Human Resources, internal and external
Global Commercial responsible for overseeing communications, issues
Operations, a role he held Amgen’s global Human management, and
until August 2018. Resources function. philanthropy.
Jane Wasman, J.D.
President, International &
General Counsel
DAVID AGUS, MD ARUL CHINNAIYAN, MD, PHD
DR. ANDREA CALIFANO
Scientific Adviser Scientific Adviser
Scientific Adviser
Dr. David Agus is Chairman Dr. Arul M. Chinnaiyan serves
of the Scientific Advisory Dr. Andrea Califano, serves as as Scientific Adviser at
Board at Tempus. Scientific Adviser at Tempus. Tempus.
e. Enhance R&D innovation and maximize commercial value with advanced and comprehensive molecular insights that can be customized
e and do what they do best: provide vital insight and guidance so patients get the care they need.
Lawrence (Larry) D. Mandt
Celia Economides Vice President, Quality &
Vice President, Corporate & Regulatory Affairs
Public Affairs Bradley J. Dickerson
Lawrence (Larry) D. Mandt General Manager, Americas &
Celia Economides Larry has been with Aurinia Global Commercial Lead
Celia has over 15 years of since its inception in 2012 and
experience in the life brings 30+ years’ experience Bradley J. Dickerson
sciences and biotech in global regulatory affairs, in Brad has more than 15 years
industries, spanning large and small companies, of experience in the
communications, investor across a variety of therapeutic healthcare industry with a
relations, finance, patient areas. During his career, he focus on pharmaceutical
advocacy, marketing and has operated at the executive market access, distribution
clinical development. level for 10+ years. and patient services.
SHAD PIERSON
Senior Hardware Engineer /
Technology Architect
RIXUN FANG, PH.D.
KYLE MONTGOMERY Shad is the Senior Hardware Director of Assay
Director of Engineering Engineer / Technology Development
Architect at Alveo
Kyle is the Engineering Technologies. Shad Rixun brings over 20 years of
Director at Alveo conceptualizes technical experience in IVD
Technologies, guiding solutions to bring visionary development to his role as
products from early stage ideas to the benchtop for Alveo's Director of Assay
R&D to manufacturing. testing Development
Mark Fishman, M.D. Robert Nelsen
Board Member Board Member
Mark C. Fishman, M.D., is Robert Nelsen is a co-founder
Professor in the Harvard and a Managing Director of
Department of Stem Cell Stephen Knight, M.D. ARCH Venture Partners.
and Regenerative Biology Board Member
and Chief of the Pathways Stephen Knight joined F-Prime He joined ARCH at its
Clinical Service service at Capital, where he serves as founding and played a
the MGH for patients with President and Managing significant role in the early
complex medical disorders. Partner, in 2003. He has sourcing, financing, and
His current research focus is worked in the pharmaceutical development of more than 30
on the genes that guide and biotechnology industries companies, including 19
social behavior, using for over 25 years and invests which have reached
genetics of the zebrafish. broadly across healthcare. valuations exceeding $1 billion
Colleen DeSimone
Interim Head of Finance
Colleen DeSimone is an
independent financial
consultant working with
Casma Therapeutics, Inc.
Most recently, she served as
VP of finance and controller
at Syros Pharmaceuticals.
Alexandra Glucksmann, Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive
Officer
Colleen DeSimone Sandra Glucksmann is a
Interim Head of Finance veteran biopharma executive
Colleen DeSimone most and experienced scientist who
recently served as vice most recently served as
president of finance and founder and chief operating
controller at Syros officer of the gene editing
Pharmaceuticals. company Editas Medicine, Inc.
Andrew Obenshain
Duane Valz
VP & General Counsel
Ymkje Cuperus, MS
Senior Genetic Counselor