2021 Speakers

GLOBAL LEADERS FROM PHARMA & BIOTECH

Gregory Friberg

Vice President Global Development & Oncology Therapeutic Area Head

Amgen

Susan Yang

Adagrasib Medical Lead

Mirati Therapeutics

Mollie Leoni

Vice President, Clinical Development

Kura Oncology

Marco Hofmann

Scientific Director & Group Leader

Boehringer Ingelheim

Steve Kelsey

President R&D

Revolution Medicines

Weiru Wang

Senior Principal Scientist, Structural Biology

Genentech

Amotz Shemi

Chief Executive Officer

Silenseed

Dehua Pei

Kimberly Professor

The Ohio State University

Iris Alroy

Vice President R&D

Anima Biotech

Armon Sharei

Chief Executive Officer

SQZ Biotechnologies

Karin Jooss

Head of R&D

Gritston

Nicole Boo

Associate Principal Scientist

Merck Sharp & Dohme

Jonathan Pachter

Chief Scientific Officer

Verastem Oncology

Maha Maglinao

Life Sciences and Healthcare Management Consultant

Moderna

Benedict Cross

Chief Technology Officer

PhoreMost Ltd

Charly Chahwan

Chief Scientific Officer

SyntheX

Rachel Bond

Research Scientist

SyntheX

Martin Treder

Chief Scientific Officer

Arjuna Therapeutics

Partha Das

Medical Director & US Medical Affairs Lead, Oncology

Amgen

Andrei Golosov

Senior Expert II Data Science

Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

Namratha Sastry

Manager Medical Affairs

Biodesix

Jan Smith

Senior Vice President, Head of Biology

Revolution Medicines

Lauren Monovich

Director

Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

Shuhui Lim

Associate Principle Scientist

MSD

Sandra Wiley

Senior Medical Scientist

MEI Pharma, Inc

Raffaele Baffa

Chief Medical Officer

Ziopharm Oncology

Lusong Luo

Senior Vice President, External Innovation

BeiGene

Bob Nichols

Project Team Lead, RMC-6291

Revolution Medicines

Darryl McConnell

Senior Vice President & Head Research Site Austria

Boehringer Ingelheim RCV

Matt Robers

Senior Research Scientist

Promega

Mori Mohseni

Associate Director

Bristol Myers Squibb

Andrea Wang-Gillam

Chief Medical Officer

Jacobio Pharma

Tauseef Butt

Chief Executive Officer

Progenra

Rajwanth Veluswamy

Assistant Professor, Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Andrew Koustenis

Global Program Leader

Verastem Oncology

Atli Thorarensen

Research Fellow

Pfizer

Juswinder Singh

Founder & Chief Scientific Officer

Ankaa Therapeutics

Jurgen Moll

Head of Molecular Oncology

Sanofi

Mike Burgess

Head of Research & Development

SpringWorks Therapeutics

Bhavin Patel

Senior Staff Scientist

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Jonathan Gast

Application Scientist

Nanome Inc.

Christian Dillon

Vice President Biology

PhoreMost

Steven Fruchtman

President & CEO

Onconova Therapeutics

Ashish Chougule

Field Applications Scientist

PerkinElmer

PIONEERING ACADEMICS

Frank McCormick

Professor, Leader NCI Ras Initiative

University of California, San Francisco and Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research/Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.

Jessie Yanxiang Guo

Associate Professor

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Mariano Barbacid

AXA-CNIO Professor of Molecular Oncologym

Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO)

Terri Conneran

Founder & Advocate

KRASKickers.org

Andrea Gross

Assistant Research Physician

Pediatric Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute

Michael Kim

Assistant Professor

UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Ryan Corcoran

Associate Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Silve Vicent

Associate Professor

Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA-University of Navarra)

Ken Westover

Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Radiation Oncology

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Nir London

Senior Scientist & Assistant Professor

The Weizmann Institute of Science

Petros Grivas

Associate Professor

, University of Washington, Fred Hutch, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Vamsidhar Velcheti

Associate Professor

Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Alessio Lodola

Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Dept. of Food & Drug

University of Parma

Eric Haura

Associate Center Director for Clinical Science

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center

Shohei Koide

Professor

Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Tetsuya Mitsudomi

Professor & Senior Staff

Kindai University Faculty of Medicine

Dhirendra Simanshu

Team Lead

RAS Initiative Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research

James DeGregori

Professor, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics; Deputy Director

University of Colorado Cancer Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center

Marielle Yohe

Tenure Track Investigator

National Cancer Institute

Rene Bernards

Professor of Molecular Carcinogenesis

Netherlands Cancer Institute

Julian Downward

Senior Group Leader and Associate Research Director

Francis Crick Institute

Stefano Forli

Associate Professor

Scripps Research

Terry Rabbitts

Professor of Molecular Immunology

Institute of Cancer Research London

Wenshe Ray Liu

Gradipore Chair and Professor in Chemistry

Texas A&M University

Bob Li

Medical Oncologist, Co-Director

Thoracic Liquid Biopsy Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Kathryn C. Arbour

MD, Medical Oncologist

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Matthew Bogyo

Professor

Stanford University

Wouter Van Geffen

Consultant Respiratory Physician

Medical Center Leeuwarden

Dehua Pei

Kimberly Professor

The Ohio State University

Mary Redman

Professor, Clinical Research Division

Fred Hutch

Ronen Gabizon

Staff Scientist

Weizmann Institute of Science

Sandra Misale

Research Associate

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center