2026 Expert Speaker Faculty

Take a look at the esteemed speaker faculty for the 9th TPD & Induced Proximity Summit.

Founders & C-Level Leaders
Biopharma Industry Leaders
Trailblazing Academic Leaders
Expert Solution Providers

Founders & C-Level Leaders

Randy Teel

President & Chief Executive Officer
Arvinas, Inc.

Katharine Yen

Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Auron Therapeutics

Stacy Blain

Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Concarlo Holdings LLC

Chunhai Charlie Hao

Chairman & Co-Founder / Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer
Degrome Therapeutics / HB Therapeutics

Daohong Zhou

Board Member & Scientific Co-Founder
Dialectic Therapeutics

Shyra Gardai

Chief Scientific Officer
EpiBiologics

Adrian Gottschalk

President & Chief Executive Officer
Foghorn Therapeutics

Leo Fu

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
GluBio

Ian Churcher

CEO & Founder
Janus Drug Discovery Consulting Ltd

Catherine Sabatos-Peyton

Chief Executive Officer
Larkspur Biosciences

Zach Hill

Chief Technology Officer
Montara Therapeutics

Jason Kantor

Chief Business Officer
Nurix Therapeutics, Inc.

Arthur Sands

Chief Executive Officer
Nurix Therapeutics, Inc.

Gwenn Hansen

Chief Scientific Officer
Nurix Therapeutics, Inc.

Beth Hoffman

Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer
Origami Therapeutics, Inc.

Nan Ji

Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer
PAQ Therapeutics

Hyunsun Jo

Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Pin Therapeutics

Eran Seger

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Protai

Kirill Pevzner

Chief Technology Officer
Protai

Jase Brouwer

CSO and Co-founder
Proxima Bio

Chiara Conti

Chief Scientific Officer
Proxygen GmbH

Lan Huang

Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Seed Therapeutics

Maxwell Sherman

Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer
Serinus Biosciences

Giovanni Spagnolli

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Sibylla Biotech

Eddine Saiah

Chief Executive Officer
Stablix

Justin Wolfe

Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer
Transcera Inc.

Nicki Thompson

Chief Executive Officer
Trimtech Therapeutics

Kara Carter

Chief Executive Officer
Viraccio Therapeutics

Biopharma Industry Leaders

Ryan Potts

Vice President
Amgen Inc.

Bo Zhou

Scientific Associate Director, Discovery Proteomics
Amgen Inc.

Miklos Bekes

Director
Arvinas, Inc.

Adam Hendricson

Associate Director of Neuroscience
Arvinas, Inc.

Takashi Sugane

Head, Candidate Delivery, Engineered Small Molecules
Astellas Pharma

Itsuro Nagase

Senior Vice President, Head of Primary Focus Lead - Targeted Protein Degradation
Astellas Pharma
Alyn Davies, speaker at 9th TPD & Induced Proximity Summit

Alyn Davies

Associate Director, Medicinal Chemistry
AstraZeneca

Meizhong Jin

Senior Director, Oncology Chemistry
AstraZeneca

Changhoon Ji

Executive Director
AUTOTAC Bio

Laura silvian

Sr. Director
Biogen

Aparajita Chourasia

Senior VP, Drug Development & Biology
BioTheryx

Lynda Groocock

Director
Bristol Myers Squibb

Mat Sowa

Vice President, Lead Discovery
C4 Therapeutics Inc

Jonathan Gilbert

Senior Director - Ecosystem Growth & Contributor Partnerships
Eli Lilly & Co.
Adam Gilbert, speaker at 9th TPD & Induced Proximity Summit

Adam Gilbert

Science Partner
Flagship Pioneering

Marina Nelen

Vice President & Head of Drug Discovery
Foghorn Therapeutics

Jessica Sims

Senior Principal Scientist
Genentech

Peter Ung

Principal Scientist
Genentech

Karanbir Pahil

Senior Principal Scientist
GlaxoSmithKline

Melinda Hanes

Senior Director - Biology
GlycoEra, Inc.

Ryan Camire

Scientist II
Kymera Therapeutics

Zhonghua Pei

Senior Vice President, Drug Discovery
Lyterian Therapeutics

Douglas Beshore

Senior Director, Medicinal Chemistry
Magnet Biomedicine

Carla Bauer

Director, Oncology Search & Evaluation, Business Development & Licensing
Merck & Co

Debora Bonenfant

Vice President & Head of Proteomics
Monte Rosa Therapeutics

Mary Matyskiela

Senior Vice President, Molecular Sciences
Neomorph

Allison Claas

Associate Director
Novartis AG

Venkatesan Raghavan

Executive Director Search and Evaluation - Oncology
Novartis AG

Paul Novick

Senior Director, Machine Learning & Cheminformatics
Nurix Therapeutics, Inc.

Riccardo Sabatini

Chief Data Scientist
Orionis Biosciences LLC

Maysoun Shomali

Executive Director
Orum Therapeutics, Inc.

Nathan Shapiro

Vice President, Head of Medicinal Chemistry
Pallando Therapeutics

Joel Courter

Senior Principal Scientist
Pfizer

Kevin FREEMAN-COOK

Senior Vice President & Head of Chemistry
Plexium Inc.
Andrew Buesking, speaker at 9th TPD & Induced Proximity Summit

Andrew Buesking

Sr. Director
Prelude Therapeutics​

Artavazd Arumov

Principal
Qiming Venture Partners

Rick Ewing

Vice President & Head of Chemistry
Rapafusyn

Wolf Ruprecht Wiedemeyer

Senior Director, Discovery Biology
Revolution Medicines

Elham Behshad

Senior Director - Biochemistry & Biophysics
SK Life Science Labs

Eugene Chekler

Senior Director
Takeda Pharmaceutical

Amanda Ouchida

Senior scientist
Takeda Pharmaceutical

Trailblazing Academic Leaders

Evris Gavathiotis

Professor
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Jeffrey Skolnick

Regents’ Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology

Stuart Schreiber

Professor
Harvard Medical School

Zoran Rankovic

Professor of Chemical Biology & Director of the Centre for Protein Degradation
Institute of Cancer Research

Gisele NIshiguchi

Targeted Protein Degradation Center Leader
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Mikolaj Slabicki

Affiliate Faculty Member
The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

Lauren Albrecht

Assistant Professor
University of California, Irvine

Santha Santhakumar

Senior Staff Scientist & Project Manager
University of Toronto

Alexander Chamessian

Assistant Professor
University of Washington

Davis Chase

Researcher, Crews Lab
Yale Univerisity

Skye Montoya

postdoc
Yale Univerisity

Expert Solution Providers

Tomohiro Watanabe

Scientist
Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services

Colin McDowell

Senior Manager, Business Development
Biodesix

Tina Mueller

Scientific Advisor, ADMET
BioIVT

Andreas Weiss

SVP
Evotec

Hongbo Zhang

Chief Scientific Officer & Head of Drug Discovery Service
HitChem

TJ Bing

Senior Vice President, Head of Biology
ICE Bioscience

Jan Schnatwinkel

Product Manager
NanoTemper Technologies

Henrik Daub

Chief Scientific Officer
NEOsphere Biotechnologies GmbH

Michael Dabrowski

Chief Executive Officer
Pelago Bioscience

Elizabeth Caine

Senior Research Scientist
Promega Corporation

Joel Austin

Senior Director, Business Development & Marketing
SAI Life Sciences Ltd

Antony Sheehan

Director Of Immunoassays
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