Speaker Biographies

Aleksandra Baranczak, PhD, Senior Scientist, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, AbbVie

Anne Mai Wassermann, PhD, Associate Principal Scientist, Cheminformatics, Merck

Atli Thorarensen, PhD, Research Fellow, BioTc Medicinal Chemistry, Pfizer

Barry Morgan, PhD, Professor, Center for Drug Discovery, Bayer College of Medicine

Catherine Lebrun, PhD, Medicinal Chemist, Medicinal Chemistry, EMD-SERONO

Craig W. Lindsley, PhD, Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery

Dimitrios Tzalis, PhD, CEO Taros Chemicals GmbH & Co. KG

Edward J. Hennessy, PhD, Associate Principal Scientist, Oncology iMed, AstraZeneca

Helmut Thomas, PhD, DABT, President and CEO, Cyclenium Pharma, Inc.

Jeremey Edmunds, PhD, Director, Immunology Medicinal Chemistry, AbbVie

Jesus Medina, PhD, Manager, Medicinal Chemistry, GlaxoSmithKline

John Mathias, PhD, Senior Director, Head of Inflammation & Immunology Design, Pfizer

Lijun Sun, PhD, Director, Center for Drug Discovery and Translational Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

Neil Grimster, Senior Scientist, Oncology Chemistry, AstraZeneca

Nikolai Tupitsyn, PhD, Professor, Cancer Immunology, Lab, Blokhin Cancer Research Center

Paul Trippier, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Peter Tonge, PhD, Professor, Chemistry, Stony Brook University

Samit Bhattacharya, PhD, Senior Principal Scientist, World Wide Medicinal Chemistry, Pfizer

Ying Wang, PhD, Principal Scientist, Department of Chemistry & Technology, AbbVie