2017-2018 Events
Mark Powers
Senior Director of R&D, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Development of Tools and Technologies for Cell Systems Research: A Workflow-Based Approach, 09/27/2017
Nicole Moore
Northwestern University
Director, Office for Research Development
Alternative Career Paths for PhD Scientists: Government and Research Development, 10/25/2017
Dana Andersen
Vice President, Technical Development Project & Portfolio Management, Genentech
Perspectives on a Career in Therapeutic Biologics Process Development – Where We’ve Been and Challenges & Opportunities for the Future, 11/29/2017
Amar Sawhney
Executive Chairman, Ocular Therapeutix
A Tale of Two Companies, 01/24/2018
Tejal Desai
Professor and Chair of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
Modulating the Therapeutic Microenvironment using Nanostructured Biomaterials, 02/15/2018
Ahmad Khalil
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Associate Director, Biological Design Center
Biotechnology in the Age of Synthetic Biology, 04/04/2018
Amy Herr
Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Designing Next-Generation Precision Cytometry Tools, 04/11/2018
Marc Horner
Technical Lead, Healthcare, ANSYS, Inc.
Computational Modeling in the Biopharmaceutical Industry: A Digital Journey from Drug Manufacturing to Drug Delivery, 04/18/2018
Christi McDowell-Patterson
Upstream Process Development Lead, Spark Therapeutics
Recent Advances and Challenges: 1st U.S. Approval of a Gene Therapy for an Inherited Disease, 04/25/2018
Kristala Jones Prather
Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT
At the intersection of Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology, 05/02/2018
Luis A. N. Amaral
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University
A Survey of Computational Approaches in Biology, 05/09/2018
David Peritt
Chief Technology Officer, Sigilon, Inc.
Cell Therapy Manufacturing, 05/16/2018
Allison Berke
Academic Research Advisor, The Good Food Institute
Biomedical Methods for Scalable Clean Meat Production, 05/23/2018
Larissa Wenning
Senior Principal Scientist, Quantitative Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, Merck
Application of quantitative pharmacology and pharmacometrics to development of drugs to treat infectious disease, 05/30/2018
Chetan Goudar
Executive Director of Process Development, Amgen
The Evolution of Biomanufacturing and its Impact on Process Development and Product Delivery to Patients, 06/06/2018
Alex Zanghellini
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder, Arzeda
From de novo Enzymes to Synthetic Metabolic Pathways: Synthetic Biology for Industrial Biotechnology, 07/13/2018
Alex Patist
VP Process Development, Bolt Threads
Silk and Leather: Practical Biological Production of Biomaterials, 08/15/2018