Speakers & Chairs

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Blake Aftab, PhD

Adicet Bio, Inc.

USA

James Ankrum, BSE, MPhil, PhD

University of Iowa

USA

Julie Annis, MLS(ASCP)CM 

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

USA

J. Wade Atkins, MS, MT(ASCP) SBB, CQA (ASQ)

NIH Clinical Center Department of Transfusion Medicine (DTM)

USA

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Lou Bartolo, DNP, MSN, RN

NMDP

USA

Lakeia Bailey, PhD

Sickle Cell Consortium

 USA

Larry Bellot, PhD

Charles River Laboratories

USA

Nathalie Belmonte, PhD

Quell Therapeutics

UK

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Jason Bock, PhD

CTMC

USA

Jaap Jan Boelens, MD, PhD

Transplantation and Cellular Therapies, MSKCC

USA

Kevin Bosse, PhD, RAC-US, CABP(H)

Nationwide Children’s Hospital 

USA

Lorena Braid, PhD

Simon Fraser University & Aurora BioSolutions

Canada

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Lee Buckler, JD

Blood Centers of America

USA

Rachel Burga, PhD

Obsidian Therapeutics

USA

Kathryn Bushnell, MSHS, MLS(ASCP), CABP(AABB)

Children's National

USA

Raghavan Chinnadurai, PhD

Mercer School of Medicine

USA

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Bruna Corradetti, PhD

Baylor College of Medicine

USA

Samuel Campanelli Freitas Couto, PhD

Fundação Pró-Sangue Hemocentro de São Paulo & Children's National, USA

Brazil & USA

Charles Cox, MD

University of Texas McGovern Medical School

USA

Cheryl Cox, MT(ASCP), CSSMBB

Moffitt Cancer Center

USA

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Kevin Curran, MD

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

USA

Anushree Anil Datar, MSc

Children's National Hospital

USA

Margaret DiGuardo, MD

Mayo Clinic

USA

Allyson Flower, MD

New York Medical College

USA

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Jacques Galipeau, MD FRCP(C)

 University of Wisconsin in Madison

USA

Gary S. Gilkeson, MD

Medical University of South Carolina

USA

Olesia Gololobova, MEng, PhD

John Hopkins University

USA

Bambi Grilley, RPh, RAC, CIP, CCRC, CCRP

Baylor College of Medicine    

USA

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Hope Guidry-Groves, BSc 

Network Partners at NMDP   

USA

Patrick Hanley, PhD

Children's National Hospital  

USA

Matthew Hewitt, PhD

Charles River Laboratories
USA

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Jelena Holovati, PhD

Canadian Blood Services, University of Alberta
Canada

Emily Hopewell, PhD
Indiana Univeristy
USA

Kinga Hosszu, PhD
Immune Discovery & Modeling Service, MSKCC

USA

Ashley Hume
Emerging Therapy Solutions  
USA

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Madan Jagasia, MD, MS
Obsidian Therapeutics
USA

Scott Jones, PhD
BioBridge Global
USA

Michael Keller, MD
Children's National  
USA

Killian Kelly, PhD
Cynata Therapeutics
USA

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Ashley Krull, PhD
The Ohio State University
USA

Giacomo Lanzoni, PhD
University of Miami
USA

David Lebwohl, MD
Intellia Therapeutics, Inc.
USA

Hang Lin, PhD   
University of Pittsburgh
USA

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Troy Lund, MD, PhD   
University of Minnesota Medical School
USA

Elena Maryamchik, MD, MBA
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
USA

Wesley McKinney, BSc
Baylor College of Medicine
USA

Lauren McVoy, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
USA

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Stephanie Mgebroff, MSc
Seattle Children's Therapeutics
USA

Karen Moniz, MHA
ICCBBA
USA

Charles Mooney, MBA, MS, MT(ASCP)SBB
Oklahoma Blood Institute and BioSharing Network 
USA

Regina Myers, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia,
USA

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Honami Naora, PhD
MD Anderson
USA

Sarah Nikiforow, MD, PhD

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
USA

Melba Marie Page, PhD

Moffitt Cancer Center
USA

Yara Park, MD

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UNC School of Medicine
USA

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Simrit Parmer, MD

MD Anderson Cancer Center, Cellenkos

USA

Rupa Pike, PhD

Catalent Pharma Solutions

USA

Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD

Stanford School of Medicine

USA

Marco Punta, PhD

San Raffaele Scientific Institute

USA

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Elliot Reno, BSE

 Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.

 USA

Qasim Rizvi, MB ChB, MBA

KSQ Therapeutics, Inc.

USA

Katy Rezvani, MD, PhD

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

USA

Prakash Satwani, MD

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

USA

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Andromachi Scaradavou, MD

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

USA

Kimberly Schultz, PhD

FDA

USA

Joseph Schwartz, MD, MPH, QIA(ASCP)CM, CABP(AABB)CM

Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

USA

Brigitte Senechal, PharmD, CP, PhD

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

USA

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Nirali Shah, MD, MHSc

Pediatric Oncology Branch, NIH

USA

Nirav Shah, MD

Medical College of Wisconsin

USA

Akshay Sharma, MBBS    

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

USA

Don Siegel, MD, PhD   

University of Pennsylvania

USA

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Shabi Soheili, PhD 

SmartImmune

France

Sandeep Soni, MD

CRISPR (USA)

USA

Olive J Sturtevant, MHP, MT(ASCP)SBB,SLS, CQA(ASQ)

Dana Farber Cancer Institute

USA

Shalu Suri, PhD

 NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Cell Manufacturing Technologies

USA

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Anthony Ting, PhD

BRL C&GT Consulting, LLC

USA

Alexandre Troullioud Lucas, MD, MSc

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

USA

Shengdar Tsai, PhD

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

USA

Yongping Wang, MD PhD

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

USA

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Daniel J. Weiss, MD PhD

University of Vermont 

USA

Elani Wiest, PhD

Center for Regnerative Biotherapeutics

USA

Tim Wiltshire, PhD

Mayo Clinic Rochester

USA

Sing Wan Wong, PhD

Colorado State University

USA

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Spyridoula (Roula) Vasileiou, PhD

Baylor College of Medicine

USA

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