2025 Expert Speaker Faculty ‘Lola Fashoyin-Aje Director, Office of Clinical Evaluation- cell, tissue, gene therapies FDA Amanda Placone Senior Director External Innovation and Early Commercial Strategy Eli Lilly Amanda Rohrig (Virtual) Director, Patient Advocacy BridgeBio Gene Therapy Amber freed CEO & Founder SLC6A1 Connect Anjulika Chawla Vice President, Medical Affairs, Clinical Lead bluebird bio Atsushi Nishikawa Principal Reviewer PMDA Brian Kevany Senior Vice President, Chief Technical & Scientific Officer Abeona Therapeutics Costanza Gorini Senior Researcher, Beacon Research Operations Beacon Craig Malzahn Senior Vice President, Technical Operations REGENXBIO Craig Malzahn Sr. Vice President, Technical Operations Beam Therapeutics Daniel Chung Chief Medical Officer SparingVision Delphine Agathon Senior Director - Category Clinician Pfizer Elizabeth Leshen Head Of Safety, Efficiency, Gene Therapy & Rare Disease Novartis Francesca Cook Vice President, Global Pricing & Market Access REGENXBIO Gail Ryan Director, Pharmaceutical Transformation Point32Health Howard Wu Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer Full Circles Therapeutics Jean-Phillippe Combal Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer Vivet Therapeutics Jie Li Director Vertex Pharmaceuticals Kathleen Kirby Chief Operating Officer Merlin Therapeutics Kumar Dhanasekharan Senior Vice President & Head of Technical Operations Voyager Therapeutics Lucia Faccio Partner Sofinnova Partners Mara Inniss Director, Regulated Gene Editing & Gene Therapy Discover Obsidian Therapeutics Mark Trusheim Director - Strategic Tufts Medical Center Marriane Lopez Senior Research Director Duke University Maryl Lambros Bioinformatics Scientist Avista Therapeutics Melissa Penn Director, Patient Engagement, Research & Development Bayer Michael Rak Principal scientist Carbon Biosciences Mike Lehmicke Senior Vice President for Science & Industry Affairs Alliance for Regenerative Medicine Morten Sogaard President, Research & TechOps Astellas Innovation Management Niccolo Bacchi Chief Executive Officer Borea Therapeutics Olivier Danos Chief Scientific Officer REGENXBIO Peter Marks Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research FDA Rajeev Boregowda Associate Director Sanofi Ravi Iyer Chief Scientific Officer Script Biosciences Samir Koirala Head of Genetic, Neurodevelopmental & Epilepsy Disorders Biogen Sebastian Aguirre Kozlouski VP Platform Development Carbon Biosciences Sitra Tauscher-Wisniewski Vice President - Clinical Research Novartis Terry Cothran Senior Pharmacy Director Oklahoma Health Care Authority Tynan Patrick Manager, Gene Therapy Purification Operations Pfizer Uditha DeAlwis Vice President, Analytical Sciences Sarepta Van Hoang SVP, Head of Analytical & Quality Control Spark Therapeutics Vesselin Mitaksov Associate Research Fellow Pfizer FULL EVENT GUIDE REGISTER PARTNER