Full Schedule

Government Speaker: Xiaofei Wang, PhD – U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Prologue Speaker: Gurunadh Chichili, PhD – Astellas

Prologue Speaker: Zongmin Zhao, PhD – University of Illinois Chicago

Prologue Speaker: Christine M V Moore, PhD – Organon

Prologue Speaker: Hiroshi Sugimoto, PhD – Takeda

Prologue Speaker: Dennis X. Hu, PhD – Drug Hunter Inc.

Prologue Speaker: Robert F. Meyer, PhD – Merck & Co., Inc.

Prologue Speaker: Yun Liu, PhD – Spark Therapeutics

Prologue Speaker: Weirong Wang, PhD – Janssen R&D

Prologue Speaker: Rene Holm, PhD – University of Southern Denmark

Prologue Speaker: Adam M. Gilbert, PhD – Pfizer

Prologue Speaker: Chad J. Briscoe, PhD – BioAgilytix Labs

Tech Spotlight Speaker: Remco van Soest, MS – SCIEX

Partner Presentation Speaker: Rahul Baghla, M.Pharm, MBA (he/him/his) – Sciex

Moderator: Raja B. Velagapudi, PhD – Tolmar, Inc.

Hot Topic Moderator: Raja B. Velagapudi, PhD – Tolmar, Inc.

Hot Topic Speaker: Heidi J. Einolf, PhD (she/her/hers) – Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research

Hot Topic Speaker: Hannah Jones, PhD – Certara

Moderator: Robert F. Meyer, PhD – Merck & Co., Inc.

Speaker: Wyatt Roth, PhD – Eli Lilly and Company

Government Speaker: Sau Lee, PhD – US FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION

Career Center Speaker: Susan Morris, M.Ed., CPCC, ACC – Susan Morris Coaching

Career Center Speaker: Lara S. Kallander, PhD, MAPP, ACC – Thriving Though Adversity Coaching

Moderator: Dennis X. Hu, PhD – Drug Hunter Inc.

Speaker: Mikhail Lomonosov, PhD – Ovoca Bio

Speaker: Robert Papp, MSc – Repare Therapeutics

Speaker: Jeanine Ballard, M.S. – Merck & Co., Inc.

Moderator: Adam M. Gilbert, PhD – Pfizer

Speaker: Aleksej Zelezniak, Ph.D. – CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Speaker: Xiaoshu Pan, PhD – University of Florida College of Pharmacy

Speaker: Jin Wang, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine

Moderator: Catherine Vrentas, PhD – PPD, A ThermoFisher Company

Speaker: Vibha Jawa, Ph.D., FAAPS – Bristol Myers Squibb

Speaker: Yonghua Pan, PhD – Sangamo Therapeutics

Speaker: Robert Dodge, PhD – Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc.

Speaker: Kelly S. Colletti, PhD, MBA – Charles River

Moderator: Amanda Hays, Ph.D. – BioAgilytix

Government Speaker: Jinhui Zhang, PhD – US Food and Drug Administration

Speaker: Mark E. Arnold, PhD, FAAPS – Labcorp Drug Development

Speaker: Karan Agrawal, PhD – Janssen Research and Development

Speaker: Timothy J. Garrett, PhD – University of Florida, Department of Pathology

Moderator: Zongmin Zhao, PhD – University of Illinois Chicago

Speaker: Richard Klemke, PhD – UC San Diego

Speaker: Guizhi Zhu, PhD – Virginia Commonwealth University

Speaker: Qiaobing Xu, PhD – Tufts University

Speaker: Tetsu Harimoto, PhD – Harvard University

Moderator: Isabelle Vu Trieu, MA, Chemistry; MS, Chemical Engineering – Waters Corporation

Speaker: Nina S. Cauchon, PhD – Amgen

Speaker: Horacio Pappa, PhD – US Pharmacopeia

Speaker: David J. Lavrich, PhD – Merck Sharpe and Dohme LLC

Speaker: Changquan Calvin Sun, PhD – University of Minnesota

Moderator: Yun Liu, PhD – Spark Therapeutics

Speaker: Ana Jaklenec, PhD – MIT

Speaker: Rita Vanbever, PhD – University of Louvain

Speaker: Jeremy Iwashkiw, Dr – Elarex

Speaker: Mei He, PhD – University of Florida

Moderator: Rene Holm, PhD – University of Southern Denmark

Speaker: Vivek Gupta, PhD – St. John's University

Speaker: Amin Rostami-Hodjegan, PharmD, PhD – Certara / University of Manchester

Government Speaker: Tannaz Ramezanli, PhD – US Food and Drug Administration

Speaker: Lakshmi Raghavan, PhD – Solaris Pharma Corporation

Moderator: Weiwei Tan, PhD – Pfizer Inc

Speaker: Jun Wang, PhD – Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation

Speaker: Oleg Milberg, PhD – Moderna, Inc.

Speaker: Amit Kalgutkar, PhD – Pfizer

Speaker: Aman P. Singh, M.S., PhD – Takeda Pharmaceuticals, USA

Government Speaker: Yow-Ming Wang, PhD – US Food and Drug Administration

Speaker: Aman P. Singh, M.S., PhD – Takeda Pharmaceuticals, USA

Speaker: Donald E. Mager, PharmD, PhD – University at Buffalo, SUNY/Enhanced Pharmacodynamics, LLC

Speaker: Howard Kaufman, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School/Ankyra Therapeutics

Government Speaker: Baolin Zhang, PhD – Office of Biotechnology Products (OBP), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Moderator: Gurunadh Chichili, PhD – Astellas

Speaker: Saileta Prabhu, PhD – Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Speaker: Alan Wookey – Q2 Solutions

Speaker: Manthena V. varma, PhD – Pfizer

Speaker: Alexander Goehler, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research

Tech Spotlight Speaker: Matthew Whelihan, PhD (he/him/his) – Prolytix

Spotlight Speaker: Diana S-L Chow, PhD – University of Houston

Moderator: Jaymin C. Shah, PhD – Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development

Moderator: Kate B. Herr, M.S. – Janssen R&D/ Johnson & Johnson

Spotlight Speaker: Shian-Jiun Shih, PhD – Tessa Therapeutics

Hot Topic Moderator: Sayantan Chattoraj, Ph.D. – GSK

Hot Topic Speaker: Karthik Nagapudi, PhD – Genentech

Partner Presentation Speaker: Tobias Rosenkranz, PhD – MilliporeSigma

Career Center Speaker: Nurulain T. Zaveri, PhD, FAAPS – Astraea Therapeutics, LLC

Career Center Moderator: Annette Bak, PhD, MBA, FAAPS (she/her/hers) – AstraZeneca

Career Center Speaker: Gregory Verdine, PhD (he/him/his) – Harvard University

Career Center Speaker: PRABU NAMBIAR, PhD MBA – SynerG BioPharma Group, LLC

Poster Collection Host: Otilia M. Koo, PhD – Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

Partner Presentation Speaker: Allison Labriola (she/her/hers) – JRS PHARMA LP

Partner Presentation Speaker: Christopher Worrall, PhD – University of Manchester, UK

Spotlight Speaker: William Humphreys, PhD – Aranmore Pharma Consulting

Moderator: Yasuhiro Tsume, PhD – Merck & Co., Inc.

Spotlight Speaker: Kapil Gadkar, PhD – Denali Therapeutics

Moderator: Nimita Dave, PhD – Nimbus Therapeutics

Spotlight Speaker: Stephanie Barrett, PhD – Merck & Co., Inc.

Moderator: Maria Cruanes, PhD Chemistry (she/her/hers) – Organon

Poster Collection Host: Carsten Ehrhardt, Ph.D. – Trinity College Dublin

Career Center Speaker: Russ Weiner – Takeda

Career Center Speaker: Marta Miles – M2 Consulting

Career Center Moderator: Ashley Lay-Fortenbery, PhD – Merck & Co., Inc.

Career Center Moderator: Vivek Gupta, PhD – St. John's University

Partner Presentation Speaker: Michael Clifton – Certara

Partner Presentation Speaker: Christopher Mehl, M.S – Certara

Government Speaker: Joseph P. Menetski, PhD (he/him/his) – Foundation for the NIH

Moderator: Mohamed Hassanein, PhD – Pfizer

Keynote Speaker: Karl Booksh

Moderator: Isabelle Vu Trieu, MA, Chemistry; MS, Chemical Engineering – Waters Corporation

Keynote Speaker: Kevin Bateman, PhD – Merck & Co., Inc.

Moderator: Amanda Hays, Ph.D. – BioAgilytix

Keynote Speaker: Samir Mitragotri, Professor – Harvard University

Moderator: Richard A. Gemeinhart, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Illinois Chicago

Keynote Speaker: Allan S. Myerson, PhD – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Moderator: Robert F. Meyer, PhD – Merck & Co., Inc.

Keynote Speaker: Ryan Potts, PhD – Amgen

Moderator: Adam M. Gilbert, PhD – Pfizer

Government Speaker: Lawrence Yu – FDA

Moderator: Maya Lipert, PhD – AbbVie

Keynote Speaker: Tal Burt, MD – Phase-0/Microdosing Network

Moderator: Naveen Thakral, PhD – Schrodinger, Inc. USA

Keynote Speaker: Manish Gupta, PhD – GSK

Moderator: Jaymin C. Shah, PhD – Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development

Moderator: William Hallet, PhD (he/him/his) – Janssen R&D / J&J

Keynote Speaker: Kate B. Herr, M.S. – Janssen R&D/ Johnson & Johnson

Rapid Fire Moderator: Tuo Meng, PhD – Merck

Rapid Fire Speaker: Enaksha Wickremsinhe, PhD – Eli Lilly and Company

Rapid Fire Speaker: Olga Kavetska, PhD – Clinical Pharmacology, Global Product Development, Pfizer Inc

Rapid Fire Speaker: Katelyn Crizer, PhD – BioData Solutions LLC

Rapid Fire Speaker: ISHWOR POUDEL, M.S. – Auburn University

Rapid Fire Moderator: Punit Marathe, PhD – Agios Pharmaceuticals

Rapid Fire Speaker: Carolina Owen, PhD – Pfizer

Rapid Fire Speaker: Yan G. Ni, PhD – Passage Bio

Rapid Fire Speaker: Junghwa Park, Pharm.D. – College of Pharmacy, University of Houston

Hot Topic Moderator: Shriram M. Pathak, PhD – Quotient Sciences, UK

Hot Topic Moderator: James E. Polli, Ph.D., FAAPS – University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

Hot Topic Speaker: Jack Cook, PhD – Pfizer Inc.

Hot Topic Speaker: James M. Butler, Dr. – GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

Hot Topic Moderator: Shriram M. Pathak, PhD – Quotient Sciences, UK

Hot Topic Moderator: James E. Polli, Ph.D., FAAPS – University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

Hot Topic Speaker: Jack Cook, PhD – Pfizer Inc.

Hot Topic Moderator: Faye Vazvaei, M.S. – Merck & Co. Inc.

Hot Topic Speaker: Yuexia Liang – Merck

Hot Topic Speaker: Ryan Vargo, Ph.D – Merck & Co., Inc.

Hot Topic Speaker: Wenkui Li, Ph.D – Novartis

Hot Topic Moderator: Faye Vazvaei, M.S. – Merck & Co. Inc.

Government Speaker: Brian Booth, PhD – FDA

Government Speaker: Xinning Yang, PhD – Food and Drug Administration

Rapid Fire Moderator: Ran Ye

Rapid Fire Speaker: Ryan C. Haley, PhD – Frontage Laboratories

Rapid Fire Speaker: Jennifer A. Getz, PhD – Genentech

Rapid Fire Speaker: Cynthia M. Chavez-Eng, PhD – Merck & Co., Inc.

Rapid Fire Speaker: Mark Ma, MD (he/him/his) – Biotech

Rapid Fire Speaker: Guanghao Wu – n/a

Rapid Fire Speaker: Nina Erwin – University of Florida

Rapid Fire Speaker: Suyash M. Patil – St. John's University

Rapid Fire Speaker: Shurong Zhou, MS (she/her/hers) – Virginia Commonwealth University

Rapid Fire Moderator: Kaizhu Guo, PhD – Merck

Rapid Fire Speaker: Nazende Guenday-Tuereli, PhD – MyBiotech GmbH

Rapid Fire Speaker: Tong (Jenny) Liu, PhD – United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)

Rapid Fire Speaker: Brian Domanski – Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc.

Rapid Fire Moderator: Xiaolong Zhu, PhD – Merck Co & Inc

Rapid Fire Speaker: Xiaolong Zhu, PhD – Merck Co & Inc

Rapid Fire Speaker: Stephan D. Parent, Consultant – Improved Pharma

Rapid Fire Speaker: Zhao Liu, PhD – Merck & Co., Inc.

Rapid Fire Speaker: Yanqia (Cha) Wang, PhD – Agilent Technologies, Inc.

Rapid Fire Moderator: Xin Oliver Tong, PhD – Merck & Co., Inc.

Rapid Fire Speaker: Nkiruka A. Ibeanu – University College London

Rapid Fire Speaker: Walter Thompson, PhD – Eastman Chemical

Rapid Fire Speaker: Manish Rane, PhD – Evonik Inc.

Rapid Fire Speaker: Vivek Gupta, PhD – St. John's University

Rapid Fire Moderator: Ashish Punia, PhD – Merck & Co., Inc.

Rapid Fire Speaker: Jiaying Liu, PhD – Merck & Co., Inc.

Rapid Fire Speaker: Claire M. Patterson, MPharm (Hons) PhD – Seda Pharmaceutical Development Services

Rapid Fire Speaker: Matthias Rischer, PhD – Losan Pharma GmbH

Rapid Fire Speaker: Wenzhan Yang, PhD – AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals

Rapid Fire Moderator: Suman A. Luthra, PhD – Merck & Co., Inc.

Rapid Fire Speaker: Ryan Polli, PhD – Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research

Rapid Fire Speaker: Aladin Siddig, Ph.D. – University of Charleston School of Pharmacy

Rapid Fire Speaker: Aakash Nathani, MS (he/him/his) – Florida A&M University

Rapid Fire Speaker: Nagendra V. Chemuturi, GDMPK – Takeda

Rapid Fire Moderator: Daniel Bow, PhD – AbbVie

Rapid Fire Speaker: Alessandra Mattei, PhD – AbbVie

Rapid Fire Speaker: Ellen M. Knapp, PhD (she/her/hers) – Pfizer

Rapid Fire Speaker: Di Wu, PhD – Merck&Co., Inc.

Rapid Fire Speaker: Jennifer Chu, PhD – FreeThink Technologies, Inc.

Rapid Fire Moderator: Mark E. Arnold, PhD, FAAPS – Labcorp Drug Development

Rapid Fire Speaker: Xiaoshu Pan, PhD – University of Florida College of Pharmacy

Rapid Fire Speaker: Tamer E. Fandy, PhD, BCGP, FCP – University of Charleston

Rapid Fire Speaker: Patrick T. Ronaldson, PhD – University of Arizona College of Medicine

Rapid Fire Speaker: Zachary Greenberg, MS – University of Florida

Rapid Fire Moderator: Hardik Mody, PhD – Johnson and Johnson

Rapid Fire Speaker: Sandhya Mandlekar, PhD – Genentech

Rapid Fire Speaker: Jessica Basso – Insmed

Rapid Fire Speaker: Sebastian Polak, PhD – Certara UK

Rapid Fire Speaker: Amin Rostami-Hodjegan, PharmD, PhD – Certara / University of Manchester

Plenary Speaker: Udit Batra, Ph.D. – Waters Corporation