STRATEGIES & TECHNOLOGIES DRIVING DRUG DISCOVERY TO MARKET

23rd, 24th & 25th
November 2016
J.N.Tata Auditorium
Indian Institute of Science
Bengaluru, India.

ADVISORY BOARD & FACULTY



Dr. Baljinder Singh

Prof.& Dean Indian College of Nuclear Medicine PGIMER,
INDIA

Dr.Jagat R Kanwar

Prof.School of Medicine,
Centre for Molecular and Medical Research (C-MMR)
Deakin University, AUSTRALIA

Gundu H.R. Rao

Chief Scientific Officer,
Nuwill Research and Innovations,
INDIA

Dr.Jayathirtha Rao V

Chief Scientist,
CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology,
INDIA

Dr. S. Chandrasekhar

Director,
CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
INDIA

Prof Anil K. Tripathi

Director,
CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
INDIA

Dr. Anil K. Philip

Professor, Dept of Pharmaceutics,
University of Nizwa,
OMAN.

Dr. C. P. Jain

Professor, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Mohanlal Sukhadia University,
INDIA.

Dr. M J Nanjan

Director,
JSS College of Pharmacy,
INDIA.

Dr. Show-An Chen

Director, Frontier Research Center on Fundamental and Applied Sciences of Matters,
National Tsing Hua University,
TAIWAN.

Dr. Seyed Moien Moghimi

Director, Dept. of pharmaceutical Nanotechnology,
University of Copenhagen,
DENMARK.

Professor, Vanderlan da Silva Bolzani

Director of AUIN-UNESP,
Natural Products Chemistry & Medicinal Chemistry,
BRAZIL.

Dr. William A Pryor

Director Of The Pennington Biomedical Center & Biodynamics Institute
USA.

Dr. Sharad R. Wakode

Professor, Dept. Of Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
Delhi Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and Research,
INDIA.

Dr. Josef Singer

Researcher, Dept. of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research,
Medical University of Vienna,
AUSTRIA.

Dr. Madduri Srinivas

Senior Scientist, Center for Bionengineering and Regenerative Medicine,
University of Basel,
SWITZERLAND.

Dr. Neeraj Upmanyu

Professor & Head, School of Pharmacy & Research Center,
People's University,
INDIA.

Dr. Reuben Jih-Ru Hwu

Professor, Dept. of chemistry,
National TsingHua University,
TAIWAN.

Dr. Srinivas Abbina

Department of Pathology, Centre for Blood Research,
University of British Columbia,
CANADA.

Dr. Xiaodong Cheng

Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology,
Texas Therapeutics Institute,
USA.

Dr. Zhibin Sun

Professor,Dept. of Microbiology
Nanjing Agricultural University,
CHINA.

David Foley

Spectroscopy, Analytical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry
Principal Scientist at Pfizer
Groton, Connecticut.

Jonas Kind

University Darmstadt, Germany

Richard Hopkinson

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Professor Simon Duckett

University Of York,
United Kingdom

Simon A Watson

GlaxoSmithKline plc., London

Ulrich Hintermair

University of Bath, United Kingdom

Barbara Alving

MD, Director, NCRR
Maryland

Dr.Carol Mimura

Vice Chancellor, IPIRA,
University of California,
Berkeley

Dr. Freda Lewis-Hall

Chief Medical Officer, Pfizer
U.S.A

Dr. John Orloff

Global Head of R & D
Baxter BioSciences
USA

Dr. Thomas Caskey

Prof. Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,
USA

Gail Cassell

Ph.D.,
Vice President,
Eli Lilly and Company
USA

James H. Doroshow

Director Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD)
National Cancer Institute,
Maryland

Steven K Galson

MD, MPH,
VP Global Regulatory Affairs,
AmgenInc, California

Conor Barry

Analytical Group Leader,
Quality Officer
Spirogen

Keith Chadwick

Assistant Professor of Industrial & Physical Pharmacy
Purdue University

Jia Duo

Research Investigator II
Bristol-Myers Squibb

Darryl Davis

Director
Janssen

Jason Huang

Senior Research Investigator II
Bristol-Myers Squibb

Jennifer Laurence

Associate Professor,
Pharmaceutical Chemistry,University of Kansas,
CSO, Echogen Inc.

Oren Levy

Instructor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School,
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Kelly Loyet

Scientist,
Biochemical and Cellular Pharmacology
Genentech

Haripada Maity

Research Advisor,
Formulation Development,
CMC Development
Eli Lilly and Company

John Marino

Leader,
Biomolecular Structure & Function Group
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Sara Buhrlage

Research Scientist
Dana Farber

Alexander M. Búko

Vice President,
Business and Product Development
Human Metabolome Technologies-America

Larry Burgess

Executive Director,
Drug Discovery
Array BioPharma

Paul Galatsis

Neuroscience Chemistry
Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development

Felix Gonzalez-Lopez de Turiso

Principal Scientist,
Medicinal Chemistry
Amgen

Lee M. Graves

Professor of Pharmacology
The University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill

Jacob Haling

Investigator II,
Oncology Pharmacology
Novartis (GNF)

Meenhard Herlyn

Caspar Wistar Professor for Melanoma Research Director,
Melanoma Research Center
The Wistar Institute

Yina H. Huang

Assistant Professor,
Departments of Pathology and Microbiology and Immunology
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Yong Jia

Sr. Research Investigator
Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation

Joost Oppenheim

Chief,
Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation
National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health

Eleonore Beurel

Assistant Professor,
Psychiatry University of Miami

Raymond Birge

Professor,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Rutgers University

Michael Bradshaw

Associate Director
Principia Biopharma

Jay Bream

Associate Professor,
Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Dmitry Gabrilovich

Professor & Program Leader,
Translational Tumor Immunology
Wistar Institute

Grant Gallagher

Senior Team Leader,
Institute for Biomarker Research
Genesis Biotechnology Group

Glenn Gerhard

Professor & Chair,
Medical Genetics & Molecular Biochemistry
Temple University School of Medicine

Andrew Hu

Associate Professor,
Translational Tumor Immunology Program
Wistar Institute

David Huss

Scientist II, Immunology Research
Biogen Idec

Amy S. Rosenberg

Director, Division of Therapeutic Proteins
FDA

Ross Cagan

Professor, Developmental & Regenerative Biology;
Associate Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences;
Director, Center for Personalized Cancer Therapeutics
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Thomas Kleen

Executive VP Immune Monitoring
Epiontis GmbH

Laura Mandik-Nayak

Associate Professor
The Lankenau Institute for Medical Research

Sergei Kotenko

Professor,
Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
Rutgers University

Kevin Otipoby

Senior Scientist
Biogen Idec

Melanie Ruzek

Principal Research Scientist
AbbVie

Seng-Lai "Thomas" Tan

Senior Director, Immunology
FORMA Therapeutics

Stephanie Watowich

Associate Professor,
Immunology MD Anderson Cancer Center

Pawel Kalinski

Professor,
Surgery Director,
Immunotransplantation Center University of Pittsburgh

Debra Meyer

Senior Principle Scientist
Pfizer

Czeslaw Radziejewski

Associate Director, Protein Analytics
AbbVie

Dean Ripple

Leader,
Bioprocess Measurements Group
National Institute of Science and Technology

Inigo Rodriguez-Mendieta

Manager Biophysical Group
SGS Life Science Services

Tina Roecklein

Consumer Safety Officer
FDA

Gennady Verkhivker

Professor,
Computational Biology School of Computational Sciences,
Crean School of Health and Life Sciences Chapman University

Chao Zhang

Assistant Professor,
Departments of Chemistry and Biological Sciences
University of Southern California

Glen Barber

Chairman & Professor,
Cell Biology, Eugenia J. Dodson Chair, Cancer Research,
Associate Director, Basic Research,
UM/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Hugo Lavoie

Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Montreal - IRIC

Shawn Li

Professor,
Departments of Biochemistry and Oncology
Western University

David Litchfield

Professor & Chair,
Department of Biochemistry
University of Western Ontario

Jeffrey R. Peterson

Associate Professor
Fox Chase Cancer Center

Poulikos Poulikakos

Assistant Professor,
Oncological Sciences and Dermatology The Tisch Cancer Institute,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Karsten Sauer

Associate Professor,
Department of Immunology and Microbial Science,
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)

Todd I. Strochlic

Assistant Professor,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Department College of Medicine,
Drexel University

Nicholas Tonks

Professor and Deputy-Director NCI-Cancer Center
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Christina Vessely

Senior Consultant,
Analytical and Formulation Development,
CMC/RAC Biologics Consulting Group, Inc.

April Xu

Senior Principle Scientist
Pfizer

Baolin Zhang

Senior Investigator & Drug Quality Reviewer
FDA

Andrew Tsourkas

Associate Professor of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Higgins

Researcher
University of Vermont's Tobacco Centre of Regulatory Science
FDA

Dr. Krishnan-Sarin

Researcher
Yale University Tobacco Centre of Regulatory Science
FDA

Dr. Blount

Researcher
Yale University Tobacco Centre of Regulatory Science
FDA

Dr. Wewers

Researcher
Yale University Tobacco Centre of Regulatory Science
FDA

Dr. Lerman

Researcher
Yale University Tobacco Centre of Regulatory Science
FDA

Dr. Donny's

Researcher
Yale University Tobacco Centre of Regulatory Science
FDA

Dr. Ribisl

Researcher
Yale University Tobacco Centre of Regulatory Science
FDA

Dr. Abnet's

Researcher
Yale University Tobacco Centre of Regulatory Science
FDA

Dr. Sterling

Researcher
Yale University Tobacco Centre of Regulatory Science
FDA

Dr. Hyland

Researcher
Yale University Tobacco Centre of Regulatory Science
FDA

Alex Berezhnoy

Research Assistant Professor
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

David Blakey

Chief Scientist
AstraZeneca

John Burnett

Assistant Research Professor, Molecular & Cellular Biology
City of Hope

Vittorio de Franciscis

Research Director
National Research Council of Italy

Paloma Giangrande

Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
University of Iowa

David Gorenstein

Chairman and Professor,
NanoMedicine & Biomedical Engineering,
University of Texas Health Sciences Center
Founder & CSO, AM Biotechnologies

Tamar Grossman

Associate Director,
Antisense Drug Discovery
Isis Pharmaceuticals

Nagy Habib

Professor,
Surgery & Cancer
Imperial College London

Ryszard Kole

Distinguished Scientist
Sarepta Therapeutics

Marcin Kortylewski

Assistant Professor,
Cancer Immunotherapeutics & Tumor Immunology,
Beckman Research Institute City of Hope National Medical Center

Prabodhika Mallikaratchy

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Lehman College, CUNY

Mary Ann Pelleymounter

Scientific Project Manager
Office of Translational Research,
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/ National Institute of Health

Garrett Rettig

Senior Research Scientist,
Molecular Genetics Integrated DNA Technologies

Axel Vater

Vice President, Drug Discovery & Preclinical Research
Noxxon Pharma AG

Marco Weinberg

Assistant Professor
The Scripps Research Institute

Frank Slack

Professor,
Pathology Harvard Medical University

Larry Gold

Chairman & Founder
SomaLogic

Simon Bateman

Executive Director BD&L, Cell & Gene Therapy Unit
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation

Vivian Berlin

Director of Business Development, Life Sciences
Harvard University

Wesley D. Blakeslee

CEO
Blakeslee LLL, Consulting and Legal
Formerly Executive Director
Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer

Benjamin Dibling

Senior Associate Director of Licensing
Office of Intellectual Property & Industry Sponsored Research
UCLA

Howard Fingert

Senior Medical Director
Millennium: The Takeda
Oncology Company

Dana Hammill

Director,
Business Development & Alliances,
Center for Cellular Immunotherapies University of Pennsylvania

Karin Immergluck

Director,
Technology Management UCSF

Kenneth S. Kilgore

Director,
Partnered Pharmacology
Janssen Pharmaceutical

Thong Le

CEO
Accelerator Corporation

Keith Marmer

Chief Business Officer
University of Pennsylvania

Brian McVeigh

Vice President,
WWBD Transactions and Investment Management
Glaxo Smith Kline

Glenn Prestwich

Presidential Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Director, Entrepreneurial Faculty Scholars Program Chair,
Internal Commercialization Coordination Council The University of Utah

Barbara Sosnowski

Vice President, External R&D Innovation
Pfizer

Jason McCarthy

Equity Research Analyst
Maxim Group

Michael Naso

Scientific Director
Janssen R&D

Neil Palmer

President & Principal Consultant
PDCI Market Access

Harald Petry

Chief Scientific Officer
uniQure B.V.

Ian Phillips

Director, Center for Rare Disease Therapies
Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences

Hansell Stedman

Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Pennsylvania

Trent Spencer

Director of Gene Therapy,
Pediatrics Emory University School of Medicine

John Tisdale

Senior Investigator,
Molecular Clinical & Hematology Branch,
National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute National Institutes of Health

Katherine Tsokas

Senior Director,
Global Regulatory Affairs Janssen R&D

Charles R. Bridges

Vice President
Johnson and Johnson Medical Devices
Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Theresa Chen

Pharmacology/Toxicology Reviewer
Office of Cellular Tissue & Gene Therapies
Center for Biologics Evaluation & Research
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Stephen Chang

Vice President, Research & Development
NY Stem Cell Foundation

Seng Cheng

Head of Research and Early Development,
Rare Diseases Division Genzyme

Tim Cote

Principal & Chief Executive Officer
Cote Orphan Consulting

Brian Kaspar

Principal Investigator
The Center for Gene Therapy
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Associate Professor
Ohio State University College of Medicine

Erin A. Kimbrel

Director, Translational Research
Ocata Therapeutics

Bill Lundberg

CSO
CRISPR Therapeutics

Hanspeter Rottensteiner

Director Gene Therapy,
Research & Innovation Baxalta

Marcus Carr

Vice President,
Clinical Hematology Rare Disease Research Unit
Pfizer

Jim Barsoum

Chief Scientific Officer
RaNA Therapeutics Inc

MadsAaboe Jensen

Drug Discovery & Alliance,
RNA Therapeutics Research Roche Innovation Center Copenhagen A/S

Prof. Augustinus Bader

Director, Applied Stem Cell Biology and Cell Technology,
Biomedical and Biotechnological Center (BBZ),
Leipzig, Germany.

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