Carl June, MD

Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy; Director, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, Perelman School of Medicine Director, Parker Institute Cancer Immunotherapy; University of Pennsylvania USA

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Nicholas Restifo, MD

Executive VP, Research, Lyell Immunopharma Inc.,USA

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Stanley Riddell, MD

Director, Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Professor, Department of Medicine at the University of Washington USA

John Anderson, PhD

GOSHCC Professor of Experimental Paediatric Oncology Honorary Consultant Oncologist UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, UK

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Ricardo Baptista, PhD

Director, Process and Analytical Development, Cellectis, France

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Adi Barzel, PhD

President of the Israeli Society for Gene and Cell Therapy (ISGCT), ICLE Conference Chair, Senior lecturer at Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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Paul Beavis, PhD

Group Leader, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia

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Michal Besser, PhD

Head of Laboratory Ella Lemelbaum Institute for Immuno Oncology Sheba Medical Center, Israel; Assistant Professor Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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Simon Briggs, PhD

Senior Product Steward, Novartis Pharma Ag. Switzerland

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Jennifer Brogdon, PhD

Executive Director, Exploratory Immuno-Oncology, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, USA

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Christian Buchholz, PhD

Head of Molecular Biotechnology and Gene Therapy Paul-Ehrlich-Institute, Germany

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Dirk Busch, MD

Director at the Institute for Med. Microbiology, Immunology and Hygene Technical University of Munich, Germany

Yaron Carmi, PhD

Senior Lecturer, Department of Pathology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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Laurence Cooper, MD, PhD

CEO, ZioPharm, USA

Susan Dunne, PhD

R&D Scientist Immunology, Avectas Ltd., Ireland

Susan Dunne is an R&D Scientist in the Immunology Group at Avectas. Susan holds a PhD in Molecular Immunology from Maynooth University and her thesis focused on immune cell signalling. She also has a MSc in Molecular Medicine from Trinity College Dublin. At Avectas, Susan’s work focuses on demonstrating functionality of Soluporated T cells. She is heavily involved in multiple partnership projects at Avectas which are based around the delivery of gene editing cargos to T cells.

Seth Ettenberg, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer, UNUM Therapeutics, USA

Jason Fontenot, PhD

Senior Vice President, Cell Therapy, Sangamo, France

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Dinorah Friedmann-Morvinski, PhD

Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Sian Harding, PhD

Board Member of the British Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, Professor of Cardiac Pharmacology Director, BHF Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine Centre Campus Director, Imperial Hammersmith and White City, NHLI, Imperial College London, UK

Sian Harding is Director of the Imperial British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine Centre. Her work has centered on the myocardium in heart failure, especially beta-adrenergic mechanisms. She was Scientific PI on the first UK Gene therapy Trial in LVAD patients, aimed at improving cardiac contractility. She is now studying the pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte, both for disease modelling and cardiac repair. Professor Harding is former President of the European Section of the International Society for Heart Research and is on the Board of the British Society of Gene and Cell Therapy.

Michael Hudecek, MD

Director, CAR-T Programme Hospital of the University of Würzburg, Germany

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Klaus Kuehlcke, PhD

CEO, BioNTech IMFS GmbH, Germany

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Dan MacLeod, PhD

Director, Cell Therapy Discovery, Precision BioSciences Inc., USA

Chris Mann, PhD

Director, Field Applications Scientist Team, Maxcyte, USA

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R. Scott McIvor, PhD

Chief Development Officer, Immusoft Corporation; Professor Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, USA

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Chris Peterson, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, University of Washington Staff Scientist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA

Chris Peterson is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and a Staff Scientist in the lab of Dr. Hans-Peter Kiem at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. His work focuses on approaches to gene-modify hematopoietic stem cells and T-cells, and evaluate their function in the nonhuman primate model. The majority of his work utilizes NHP models of HIV infection, which are designed to inform therapies for infectious as well as malignant diseases. He is a member of defeatHIV, one of three Martin Delaney HIV Cure Collaboratories funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health

Waseem Qasim, PhD

Professor of Cell and Gene Therapy, Institute of Child Health, UCL Consultant in Paediatric Immunology, Reader in Cell and Gene Therapy at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, UK

Yoram Reiter, PhD

Head Laboratory of Molecular Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy, Dean, Faculty of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Saskia Roesch, PhD

Global Product Manager, T Cell Immunology, Miltenyi Biotec, Germany

Saskia Roesch (Ph.D.) received her doctoral degree in Biology from the University of Heidelberg/DKFZ, Germany, in 2017. She continued her studies in Cancer Immunotherapy as a postdoctoral fellow at the University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany, before joining Miltenyi Biotec as a Global Product Manager for T Cell Immunology.

Claudia Rössig, MD

Director, Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Children´s Hospital Muenster, Germany

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Andrew Scharenberg, MD

Professor, Department of Pediatrics University of Washington, and Attending Physician, Seattle Children’s Hospital Seattle, WA, United States Chief Scientific Officer, Casebia Therapeutics Cambridge, MA, USA

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Andrew Sewell, PhD

Professor, Division of Infection and Immunity. Mechanisms of Immunity Theme Lead, Systems Immunity Research Institute, Cardiff University, UK

Peggy Sotiropoulou, PhD

Director, Research & Development, Celyad, Belgium

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Hans Stauss, MD, PhD

Director Institute of Immunity and Transplantation; Co-Director Division of Infection and Immunity University College London; Head Clinical Immunology Royal Free London, NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Justin Taylor, PhD

Assistant Member, Immunology and Vaccine Development, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Affiliate Assistant Professor, Departments of Immunology and Global Health, University of Washington

Wolfgang Uckert, PhD

Head of Department on Molecular Cell Biology and Gene Therapy at Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Germany

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