SPEAKERS
Anurag Agarwal
Principal, Osage University Partners
Dario C. Altieri, M.D.
President and CEO, Director of the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center, and Robert and Penny Fox Distinguished Professor, The Wistar Institute
Ian Anderson
Senior Director of Research, CBRE
Melina Blees, PhD
Site Director
BioLabs Philadelphia
Tracy Brala
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Partnerships, University City Science Center
Neil Brazitis
Senior Managing Director Company: Newmark Real Estate (Newmark)
Clifford Brechner
Vice President, Colliers Life Sciences Practice Group
Sharon R. Clinton, SHRM-CP
Co-Founder & COO
HelaPlex
Joe Corcoran
Executive Vice President of The Discovery Labs, Senior Vice President for MLP Ventures
Alan W. Flake, MD
Professor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Director, Children’s Center for Fetal Research
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Lauren Gilchrist
Managing Director – Research
Longfellow Real Estate Partners
John Grady
NE Region Executive & Senior Vice President
Wexford Science + Technology
Anthony Green, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern PA
Claire Marrazzo Greenwood
Senior Vice President, Economic Competitiveness
Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia
Stephan A. Grupp, MD, PhD
Section Chief, Cellular Therapy and Transplant, Division of Oncology; Director, Susan P. and Stephen S. Kelly Center for Cancer Immunotherapy
Karen Griffith Gryga
Chief Operating Officer, Biomeme, Inc.
Eric Hacher, PhD
Vice President, Head of Manufacturing, Spark Therapeutics
Louis P. Kassa III
President
Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center
Nancy J Kelley
Founding Member, Builds BIO+ and President & CEO, Nancy J Kelley + Associates
Todd Kilbaugh
Endowed Chair of Translational Science and Innovation, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Medical Director, EMCO Center at CHOP
Jessica Lee
Clinical Science and Operations, Spirovant
Tia Lyles-Williams
Founder & CEO
LucasPye BIO
Anthony Maher
Partner/ President at University Place Associates
Kevin Mahoney
CEO
University of Pennsylvania Hospital System
Jennifer Manning, MPA
Senior Vice President of Global Strategic Partnerships, The Center for Breakthrough Medicines
Travis McCready
Head of Life Sciences, Industries Americas, JLL
Dean E. Miller
President & CEO, PACT
Alan Moore
Chief Strategy Officer, Center for Breakthrough Medicines
Stephen G. Nappi
Associate Vice President, Technology Commercialization and Business Development,
Temple University
Scott Nissenbaum
President and CEO, Ben Franklin Technology Partners
Rosaleen Morris Oskanian
General Counsel & Secretary Vitara Biomedical, Inc.
Matt Plevelich
Principal
NewSpring
Jamie Rash
Regional Director
Keystone
Katie Reuther
Executive Director, Penn Health-Tech University of Pennsylvania
Aleister J. Saunders, PhD
Executive Vice Provost for Research & Innovation and Professor, Drexel University
Mitchel W. Simpler
Founding Member, Builds BIO+ and Managing Partner Emeritus, JB&B
George Skillin
Senior Vice President and Head of Engineering, EHS, Spark Therapeutics
Tony Sorrentino
Associate Vice President, Office of the Executive Vice President
University of Pennsylvania
Sam Woods Thomas
Philadelphia Department of Commerce
Senior Director of Business Development
Nelson Way
Director, Leasing and Development, Ensemble Real Estate Investments
Steve Wray
Senior Vice President and Principal
Econsult Solutions, Inc.
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