Innovative solutions to the greatest challenges in pharmaceutical, biologics and device development

The 2023 Summit covers small molecules and biologics, new technologies, innovations and combination products/medical device concepts and case studies in areas such as:

  • Enabling Bioperformance Prediction Through Data Analytics
  • Engineering Prodrug Therapies for Infectious Disease and Cancer Therapy
  • Predictive high-throughput screening of oligonucleotide lipid nanoparticle for gene silencing
  • Targeted delivery of pharmacological agents in the vascular system
  • The evolving paradigm of post-market safety reporting for combination products
  • The Port Delivery System with Ranibizumab: A New Paradigm for Long-Acting Retinal Drug Delivery
  • Current Challenges and Opportunities in Developing Combination Products Biologics Delivery and Medical Devices
  • Development of high-volume wearable drug delivery systems

Speakers 2023

Dr. Reza Abedian

Gerresheimer

Senior Medical Affairs Manager

Simone Alidori

GSK

Scientific Leader, Associate Fellow

Sahab Babaee

Merck

Associate Principal Scientist, Merck Research Labs – Program Lead & Device Innovation

Alexandra Benbadis

Sanofi

Usability Leader

Alfred Berchielli

Pfizer

Associate Research Fellow, Drug Product Design

Cesar Calero

Sanofi

Senior Scientist Biologics Drug Product Development & Manufacturing

Zhi Chen

Bristol Myers Squibb

Associate Scientific Director

Twinkle Christian

Amgen

Principal Scientist

Anthony F. Coston

Biogen

Technical Lead Device Design and Process Development

Varsha Dhamankar

Ribon Therapeutics

Director, Head of Formulation Development

Nick DiFranco

Lubrizol Life Science – Health

Global Market Manager, Oral Drug Delivery

James DiNunzio

Merck

Director

Nélio Drumond

Takeda

Associate Director, Lead Process Scientist, Global Manufacturing Sciences, Drug Product

Conference Chairperson Room 3

Ajit D'Souza

Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals

Senior Director, Combination Product Development & Manufacturing

Keith Faucher

Aura Biosciences

Senior Director Device Development and Innovation

Pavan Handa

Amneal Pharmaceuticals

Senior Vice President, Specialty Portfolio Management

Yan  He

Sanofi

Head of Early Formulation Development

Mark Howansky

Viridian Therapeutics

Vice-President, Device Development and Commercialization

Sheng Hu

WuXi STA

Director, CMC Project Management

Shwetha Iyer

Novartis

Principal Scientist

Alie Jahangir

Pfizer

Director, SaMD and Medical Devices

Huw Jones

Quotient Sciences

Executive Director, Patient Centric Medicines, Pediatric Services Drug Development Consulting

Nitin Joshi

Harvard Medical School

Assistant Professor

Filippos Kesisoglou

Merck

Distinguished Scientist, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Clinical Supply

Conference Chairperson Room 1

Michael P. Kienzle

W.L. Gore & Associates

Global Product Specialist and New Business Development Associate

Brett Kopina

Pfizer

Principal Scientist

Christian Kuzniewski

MilliporeSigma

Senior Manager Process Development

Sergie Letser

Nanoform

Deputy CCO, Senior VP Business Development

Dennis  Leung

Genentech

Director and Manager of the Discovery Pharmaceutics and Preformulation

Rosario LoBrutto

Radius Health

Head of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Global Expansion

Conference Chairperson

Xiaofeng Lu

AbbVie

Principal Research Scientist

Suman Luthra

Merck

Director Discovery Pharmaceutical Sciences

Conference Chairperson Room 2

Chen Mao

Genentech

Distinguished Scientist, Small Molecule Pharmaceutical Sciences

Katherine McQuillan

Nautilus Biosciences, a division of Croda Canada

Research Scientist

Ryan Memmer

Singota Solutions

Manager, Quality Control and Development

Sreejit Menon

Croda Pharma

Research and Technology Manager

Kausik Nanda

Merck

Principal Scientist

Ian Parrag

Ripple Therapeutics

Vice President of R&D

Jignesh Patel

Precision NanoSystems

Field Application Scientist

Dimitrios Pelekoudas

Sanofi

Scientist

Curtis (Cheuk-Yui) Leung, Ph.D

Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Associate Director, CMC Formulations

Deep Bhattacharya Ph.D

Pfizer

Senior Scientist, Drug Product Design and Development

Huyen Tran, Ph.D.

Eli Lilly and Company

Director in Formulation and Delivery

Tim Phillips

Cambridge Consultants

Principal Human Factors Engineer

Amanda Pluntze

Lonza

Scientist III, Research & Development

Hitesh S. Purohit

AbbVie

Principal Research Scientist

Tom Quinci

Celanese

External Partnerships Leader

Kannan Rangaramanujam

Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Arnall Patz Distiniguished Professor of Ophthalmology/Co-director, Center for Nanomedicine

Prof. Michael Sailor

University of California, San Diego

Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Manuel Sanchez-Felix

Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research

Associate Director

Dave Seghers

Ardena

Head of Sales

Jaymin Shah

Pfizer

Senior Research Fellow

Márcio Temtem

Hovione

Senior Director, Strategic Business Management Products

Anthony Tomlinson

Genentech

Technical Development Principal Scientist

Siva Vaka

Amneal Pharmaceuticals

Director, Formulation R&D

Sathya Venkataramani

AbbVie

Director Biological Research

Sudhakar Voruganti

Pfanstiehl

Director, Business Development

Nathan Westcott

Beam Therapeutics

Director, Delivery Platform

Tina Xiong

Merck

Associate Principal Scientist

Shawn Yin

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Scientific Director

Feng Zhang

University of Texas, Austin

Associate Professor at the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery at College of Pharmacy

Wei Zhang

Genentech

Principal Scientist, Small Molecule Pharmaceutics