2025 Speaker Faculty

Adeleye Opejin

Scientist - Assay Development

Retro Biosciences

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Alex Ng

Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer

GC Therapeutics

Ali Darkazalli

Principal Scientist - Process Development

Roslin Cell Therapies Ltd. (Roslin CT)

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Ali Turhan

Chief Medical Officer

iPSirius

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Alla Amcheslavsky

Senior Scientist CMC Analytical Development

Astellas Pharma

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Annelise Bennaceur

Chief Scientific Officer

iPSirius

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Azadeh Golipour

Senior VP & Head of Technical Operations

GC Therapeutics

barbara.ressler

Barbara Ressler

Vice President - Manufacturing Process Sciences

Roslin Cell Therapies Ltd. (Roslin CT)

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Benjamin Schwarz

Associate Director

Thymmune Therapeutics

Chad Koonce

Senior Director, IPSC Platform

Fujifilm

Daniel Friedman

Principal

Broad Oak Partners

David Kuninger

Director, Research & Development

Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Eric Law

CMC Regulatory Affairs

Century Therapeutics

Evan zynda

scientist

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Frederic Cedrone

Frederic Cedrone

Vice President, Corporate Innovation

Catalent

Fumiyuki Hattori

Fumiyuki Hattori

Head of Innovative Regenerative Medicine Graduate School of Medicine

Kansai Medical University

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Howard Federoff

Chief Medical Officer

Kenai Therapeutics

Jay Sorensen

Vice President, Manufacturing

Stratus Therapeutics

Koji Tanabe

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

iPeace

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Lev Starikov

Senior Scientist Process Development

BlueRock Therapeutics

Loren Ornelas

Manager

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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Mark Exley

Chief Scientific Officer

Lift Biosciences

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Matt Buckley

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Theseus Therapies

Naoyuki Tahara

Senior Scientist

Orizuru Therapeutics, Inc.

Nidheesh Dadheech

Nidheesh Dadheech

Senior Cell Therapy & Process Development Lead

University of Alberta

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Nina Horowitz

Chief Scientific Officer

ImmuneBridge

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Rajesh Thangapazham

Director Regulatory Affairs, Specialty

GSK

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Ran Jing

Instructor

Boston Children’s Hospital

Ryan Thomas

Director of Quality

HebeCell

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Sanjeev Luther

President & Chief Executive Officer

Ernexa Therapeutics

Sherry Hikita

Project Director - Cell Therapy R&D

Novo Nordisk

Taby Ahsan

Vice President Cell & Gene Therapy Operations - Director Center for Bioinnovation & Manufacturing

City of Hope

Tal Dvir

Professor & Co-Founder

Tel Aviv University, Matricelf

Tim Guo

Principal Scientist

GentiBio

Victorial Farrel

Victoria Farrell

Senior Scientist

HebeCell

Yansheng Liu

Senior Director Quality Control

Aspen Neuroscience

Yasunori Aizawa

Yasunori Aizawa

Chief Scientific Officer

Logomix Biotechnology

Yeh-Chuin Poh

Vice President Head of Tech Ops

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