Speakers

Faculty Biographies

Gregory Adams, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer
Elucida Oncology
Princeton, NJ

Jordi Rodon Ahnert, MD, PhD
Associate Professor Associate Medical Director Department of Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, Division of Cancer Medicine
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

Aditya Bardia, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology/Oncology Program Director, Breast Medical Oncology
Assistant Chief, Hematology Oncology Translational Research UCLA Health Director, Translational Research Integration UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Attending Physician
Director of Breast Cancer Research Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Adam Brufsky, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine Associate Chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Co-Director, Comprehensive Breast Cancer Center
Associate Director, Clinical Investigation University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Mehmet Bilen, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology Emory University School of Medicine Director, Genitourinary Medical Oncology Program
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

Ron Bose, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Washington University
St. Louis, MO

Bill Boyle, PhD
Advisor
BioAtla, Inc.

David Carbone, MD, PHD
Barbara J. Bonner Chair in Lung Cancer Research Past-President, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)
Professor of Medicine Director, James Thoracic Oncology Center
Director, Translational Therapeutics Program James Cancer Center
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

Raffaele Colombo, PhD
Principal Scientist & Group Lead, Medicinal Chemistry Zymeworks Inc. British Columbia, Canada

Jennifer Cochran, PhD
Senior Associate Vice Provost for Research, Addie and Al Macovski Professor Professor of Bioengineering Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Afshin Dowlati, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine Division of
Hematology and Oncology Associate Director for
Clinical Research Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Cleveland, OH

Ecaterina Dumbrava, MD
Assistant Professor The Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics The University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

Leif Ellisen, MD
Program Director, Breast Medical Oncology
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Clinical Director, Breast and Ovarian Cancer Genetics Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA

Charles Geyer, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Ramaswamy Govindan, MD
Professor of Medicine Anheuser Busch Chair in Medical Oncology Director, Section of Medical Oncology
Division of Oncology Washington
University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO

John Heymach, MD
Professor
Chair, Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology
David Bruton Jr Chair in Cancer Research Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology
Professor, Department of Cancer Biology Division of Cancer Medicine The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

Laura Huppert, MD
Assistant Professor School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
San Francisco, CA

Amy Johnson, PhD
Vice President, Medical Affairs
Vincerx Pharma
Greater Philadelphia

Kamaljit Kaur, PhD
Associate Professor School of Pharmacy Chapman University
Irvine, CA

Vadim Koshkin, MD
Assistant Professor
University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA

Gail Lewis, PhD
Senior Principal Scientist Genentech San Francisco, CA

Christian Marsolais, PhD
Senior Vice President and
Chief Medical Officer Theratechnologies Canada

Daniel Morgensztern, MD
Professor of Medicine
Clinical Director of Thoracic Oncology Division of Oncology Washington University School of Medicine
Saint Louis, MO

Martina McDermott, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Pamela Munster, MD
Mariam Moghadam Safinia Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Program Leader Molecular Oncology
Program Co-Leader BRCA
Center for Research
Director of Early Phase Clinical Trials' Program
Helen Diller Cancer Center
University of California, San Francisco
Founder and CEO
Alessa Therapeutics

Misako Nagasaka, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
Division of Hematology/Oncology School of Medicine
University of California
Irvine Orange, CA

Michael Needle, MD
Chief Medical Officer Cybrexa Therapeutics New Haven, CTMichael Needle, MD
Chief Medical Officer Cybrexa Therapeutics
New Haven, CT

Mark Pegram, MD
Susy Yuan-Huey Hung Professor Professor of Medicine (Oncology)
Co-Director, Stanford’s Molecular Therapeutics Program Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA

Edith Perez, MD
Chief Medical Officer Bolt Biotherapeutics
Redwood City, CA

Julia Rotow, MD
Clinical Director, Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology
Physician
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA

Charles Ryan, MD
Medical Oncologist / Cancer Researcher
Professor of Medicine Former CEO Prostate Cancer Foundation
Minneapolis, MN

Ravi Salgia, MD, PhD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research
City of Hope
Duarte, CA

Dennis Slamon, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, A/S David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Department of Medicine
Director of Clinical/Translational Research Director of the Revlon/UCLA Women's Cancer Research Program Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA

Hatem Soliman, MD
Senior Member Breast Oncology, Immunology, Tumor Biology Departments Medical Director, Clinical Trials Office Acting Medical
Director, Phase 1 Program H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center &
Research Institute
Professor Department of Oncologic Sciences College of Medicine
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

Guru Sonpavde, MD
Genitourinary Oncology & Phase I Research Director Christopher K. Glanz Chair for Bladder Cancer Research AdventHealth Cancer Institute
Professor of Medicine
University of Central Florida
Orlando FL

Colby Souders, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer BrickBio Inc. Waltham, MA

Mohit Trikha, PhD
Board Member Galvanize Therapeutics San Carlos, CA

Anish Thomas, MD
Senior investigator Developmental Therapeutics Branch National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD

L. Nathan Tumey, PhD
Associate Professor Binghamton University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Binghamton, NY

Bogang Wu, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts
General Hospital
Boston, MA