Speakers

Take a look at the esteemed speaker faculty for the 15th World Clinical Biomarkers & CDx Summit.

CB & CDx Ambassadors
Payers, Notified Bodies, & Patient Advocates
Pharmaceutical Leaders
Innovative Biotech
Research & Healthcare Institutes
Diagnostic & Solution Providers

CB & CDx Ambassadors

Mark Gustavson

Senior Director & Head of Computational Pathology Strategic Partnerships
AstraZeneca

Geoff Oxnard

Chief Medical Officer
BlossomHill Therapeutics

Sarah Hersey

Vice President - Precision Medicine
Bristol Myers Squibb

Katia Bassett

Senior Director & Head of CDx Development, Translational Medicine
Genentech

Ben Withey

Director, Commercial Diagnostics, CDx Lead
Pfizer

Brian Lockhart

Global Head of Companion Diagnostics
Servier

Payers, Notified Bodies, & Patient Advocates

Sally Werner

Chief Executive Officer
Cancer Support Community

Gabriel Bien-Willner

Chief Medical Officer
Palmetto GBA

Anthony Kanavage

IVD Product Assessment Team Manager
TÜV SÜD

Kevin Liang

Vice President, Optum Evidence Engine
UnitedHealth Group

Pharmaceutical Leaders

Banu Sankaran

Head of Diagnostics Strategy & Development
Alexion Pharmaceuticals

Dishant Kalra

Head of Precision Medicine
Astellas Pharma

Cedric Dos Santos

Global Product Leader
AstraZeneca

Vasiliki Pelekanou

Senior Director - Digital Pathology, Oncology Precision Medicine Leader
Bayer

Kazuishi Kubota

Functional Excellence & Clinical Biomarker Oncology Department Head
Daiichi Sankyo

Andrea Renninger

Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs & Companion Diagnostics
Daiichi Sankyo

Ying Wu

Director & Head of Human Genetics
Eisai Co., Ltd.

Susanne Rhoades

Associate Vice President, Diagnostic Development
Eli Lilly

Dun Liang

Global Regulatory Affairs, Diagnostics
Eli Lilly & Co.

Zheng Feng

Director / Head of Clinical Genomics
EMD Serono, An affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Anupam Talapatra

Global Regulatory Director, Precision Medicine & Companion Diagnostics
Gilead Sciences

Tom Battersby

Executive Director, Biomarker-Research
Gilead Sciences

Andrea Belanger

Associate Director, Precision Medicine External Innovation
GlaxoSmithKline

Gabriele Allegri

Vice President, Global Commercial Precision Medicine
Johnson & Johnson

David Weingeist

Scientific Director, Oncology Precision Medicine & Diagnostics
Johnson & Johnson

Renee Yura

Executive Director, Clinical Biomarkers
Moderna

Irina Leaf

Director & Lead - Therapeutic Area Biomarker , Disease Area & Global Health
Novartis AG

Shelley Ann des Etages-Wong

Senior Director, Diagnostics PMO Lead
Pfizer

Jennifer Hamilton

Vice President & Head, Precision Medicine
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Brian Baker

Executive Director, Regulatory Affairs & In Vitro Diagnostics
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Gerard Sanderink

Vice President, Global Head Laboratory Sciences
Sanofi

Cheng Yang

Digital Diagnostics Lead
Takeda Pharmaceutical

Silva Krause

Executive Director & Head of Biomarkers
Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Innovative Biotech

June Lu

Chief Scientific Officer
BeyondSpring Pharmaceuticals Inc.

John Rossi

Vice President - Translational Medicine
Capstan Therapeutics

Mike Kagey

Vice President, Translational Medicine
Leap Therapeutics

Jorge DiMartino

Chief Medical Officer
Plexium Inc.

Simon Beaulah

Senior Vice President, Healthcare & Head of US Operations
PrecisionLife Ltd.

Brenton Mar

Senior Vice President & Head of Clinical Development
Relay Therapeutics

Research & Healthcare Institutes

Sylvan Baca

Assistant Professor & Medical Oncologist
Dana-Farber / Harvard Cancer Center

Mark Stewart

Vice President, Science Policy
Friends of Cancer Research

Pedram Razavi MD, PhD

Director, Liquid Biopsy and Cancer Genomics, MSK Biomarker Development Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Viktor Adalsteinsson

Director, Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics
The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

Diagnostic & Solution Providers

Verena Aumiller

Vice President - Scientific Programs
Aignostics

Katarina Wikstrom

Global Vice President of Product Development
Almac

Lydia Tsai

Director - Business Development & Companion Diagnostics
Bio-Techne Corporation

Colin McDowell

Senior Manager - Business Development
Biodesix

Yiming Livelo

Translational Scientist
Burning Rock Biotech

Gulfem Guler

Vice President, Translational Research
Clear Note Health

Gary Potikyan

Chief Science Officer & Founder
EntroGen - Inc

Ali Kuraishy

Head & Clinical Business Development
Illumina, Inc.

Siraj Ali

Global Vice President, Translation Medicine
Lunit

J Carl Barrett

Chief Scientific Officer
Precede Biosciences

Leila Luheshi

Vice President - Pharma Partnering
Sysmex Precision Medicine

David Chi

Senior Manager - Product
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc
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