Speaker Faculty

Plenary Keynotes:

Peter G. Schultz, Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute and Director

Gregory L. Verdine, Ph.D., Harvard University

Distinguished Faculty:

Andrew Andrews, Fox Chase Cancer Center

Paola Arimondo, CNRS

C. Glenn Begley, TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals

Ashok Bhandari, Protagonist Therapeutics

Jark Böttcher, Boehringer Ingelheim RCV GmbH & Co KG

Michael Bradshaw, Principia Biopharma

Stacie Bulfer, University of California, San Francisco

Chris Burns, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

Eric Campeau, Zenith Epigenetics

Philip Chamberlain, Celgene

Huifen Chen, Genentech

Alessio Ciulli, University of Dundee

Derek Cole, Takeda

Philip Collier, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

John Comer, Sirius Analytical

Stuart Conway, University of Oxford

Chitta Das, Purdue University

Tom Davies, Astex Pharmaceuticals

Ben Davis, Vernalis Research

Iwan de Esch, VU University & Griffin Discoveries BV

Jerome Deval, Alios BioPharma (J&J)

Paola Di Lello, Genentech

George Doherty, Abbvie

Alexander Dömling, University of Groningen

Donald Durden, SignalRx Pharmaceuticals

Matthew Eddy, University of Southern California

William Elmquist, University of Minnesota

Istvan Enyedy, Biogen

Daniel Erlanson, Carmot Therapeutics

Evelyne Fontaine, Sanofi

Robert Foster, Ciclofilin Pharmaceuticals

Robert Fraczkiewicz, Simulations Plus

Matthias Frech, EMD Serono

Matthew Fuchter, Imperial College London

Robert Gish, Robert G. Gish Consultants

Eric Goedken, AbbVie

Val Goodfellow, Califia Bio

Mary Harner, Bristol Myers Squibb

Michael Hewitt, Constellation Pharmaceuticals

Robert Hughes, Boehringer-Ingelheim

Alexander (Sandy) Hurd, Lycera

Radhakrishnan Iyer, Spring Bank Pharmaceuticals

Matthew Jacobson, University of California, San Francisco

Yutao Jiang, Genentech

Ramon Jimenez-Moreno, ASINEX

Ted Johnson, Pfizer Oncology

Tim Kaminski, AstraZeneca

Jan Kihlberg Uppsala University

Thomas Kodadek, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida

Roman Kombarov, ASINEX

Alexandr Kornev, University of California, San Diego

Irina Kufareva, Univeristy of California, San Diego

Ravi Kurumbail, Pfizer 

Shenping Liu, Pfizer Global R&D

Paul Lockman, West Virginia University Health Science Center

Scott Lokey, University of California, Santa Cruz

Kevin Lumb, Janssen R&D

Doug Marcotte, Biogen

Jose Marquez, (EMBL) Grenoble Outstation

Eric Marsault, University of Sherbrooke

Elisabeth Martinez, University Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Andreas Marzinzik, Novartis Institute BioMedical Research

Alan Mathiowetz, Pfizer Worldwide Medicinal Chemistry

Larry Mattheakis, Protagonist Therapeutics

Matthew McClure, Alios BioPharma (J&J)

Essam Metwally, Chemical Computing Group

Lorna Mitchell, Epizyme

Christian Montalbetti, Inventiva

Gerhard Mueller, MercaChem BV

Songqing Na, Eli Lilly and Company

James Naismith, St. Andrews University

Radek Nowak, University of Oxford

Daniel Obrecht, Polyphor

Feroz Papa, University of California, San Francisco

William Pardridge, ArmaGen

Jighar Patel, Roche NimbleGen

Samarjit Patnaik, NIH

Dehua Pei, The Ohio State University

Juan Jesus Perez, Technical University of Catalonia

Kevin Peters, Aerpio Therapeutics

Mark Peterson, Cyclenium Pharma

Christopher Phelps, GSK

Jason Pickens, Takeda

William Pomerantz, University of Minnesota

John Quinn, Genentech

Nir Qvit, Stanford University School of Medicine

Shahrooz Rabizadeh, NantBioScience

Murali Ramachandra, Aurigene Discovery Technology

Adam Renslo, University of California, San Francisco

Michael Reutershan, Merck Research Labs

Martin Scanlon, Monash Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences

Joerg Scheuermann, ETH Zurich

Mark Schnute, Pfizer Global R&D

Eric Schwartz, Celgene Avilomics Research

Phillip Schwartz, Takeda California

Qiang Shi, National Center for Toxicology Research, FDA

Laura Silvian, Biogen

Dan Sindhikara, Schrödinger

Dhanalakshmi Sivanandhan, Jubilant Biosys

Chris Smith, COI Pharmaceuticals

Michael Sofia, Arbutus Biopharma

Oliver Sperandio, Inserm

Terry Stouch, Science for Solutions

Yongchao Su, Merck Research Laboratories

John Sullivan-Bólyai, ContraVir Pharmaceuticals

Takayoshi Suzuki, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine

Ramzi Sweis, AbbVie

Seng-Lai “Thomas” Tan, FORMA Therapeutics

Leticia Toledo-Sherman, CHDI Foundation

Maricel Torrent, AbbVie

Andrew Vaillant, Replicor

Michael Vazquez, Pfizer

Sandrine Vendeville, Janssen Infectious Diseases (J&J)

Hari Venkatesan, Janssen R&D

Florence Wagner, The Broad Institute

Jakob Wallner, University of Vienna

Xiaolun Wang, Takeda San Diego

Patrick Woster, Medical University of South Carolina

Huixian Wu, The Broad Institute

Ryan Wurz, Amgen

David Wustrow, Cleave Biosciences

Wendy Young, Genentech

Christoph Zapf, Pfizer Research Labs

Rumin Zhang, Merck Research Laboratories

Xiaolin Zhang, AstraZeneca