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The speakers

We are now assembling the speaker panel for the R&D Leaders' Forum 2009 and Oncology Leaders' Forum 2009. Amongst the high profile speakers who have already confirmed their participation are:

R&D Leaders' Forum

Mikael Dolsten, MD, PhD, President, BioTherapeutics Research & Development, Pfizer Inc

Dr Jean-Pierre Lehner, Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, Sanofi-Aventis

Dr John Fallon, Senior Vice President, Chief Physician Executive, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Dr Eve E. Slater, former US Assistant Secretary for Health; Associate Clinical Professor, Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons

Professor Jackie Hunter, Senior Vice President, Science Environment Development, GlaxoSmithKline

Steven D. Harr, MD, Managing Director & Analyst, Morgan Stanley

Dr Paul Trennery, Senior Vice President & Head of Externalisation, Preclinical Development, GlaxoSmithKline

John V. W. Reynders, PhD, Head of Integrative Neurosciences & Biomarkers & Head of the Informatics Center of Excellence, Johnson & Johnson

John Watson, President, Strategic Partnering & Integrated Drug Development, Covance Inc

Dr Richard J. Heaslip, Vice President, Project & Portfolio Management, Wyeth Research

Dr Ginger L. Gregory, Global Head of Human Resources, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

Dr Tomasz Sablinski, Head of Development, Celtic Therapeutics Management LLLP

Dr Jeffrey Chodakewitz, Vice-President, Early Development Group Leader, Merck & Co

Dr Eric de La Fortelle, Global Head, External Research & Technologies, Roche

Dr Markus Thunecke, Senior Partner, Catenion GmbH

George M. Botsakos, Associate Partner - Strategy & Change, IBM Global Business Services

Dr J. Carmel Egan, Vice President, Project Management, Lilly Research Labs, Eli Lilly and Company

Jerald S. Schindler, DrPH, Vice President, Biostatistics & Research Decision Sciences - Late Development Statistics, Merck Research Laboratories

Valerie S. Kitchen, MD, FRCP, Vice President, Clinical Pharmacology Modelling & Simulation, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Donald R. Johns MD, Vice President, Deputy Global Head of Translational Medicine, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

Frank Misselwitz, MD, PhD, Vice President & Head, Therapeutic Area Cardiovascular & Coagulation, Bayer HealthCare AG

Iain Cockburn, Professor of Finance & Economics, Boston University School of Management

Yannis Jemiai, PhD, Associate Director of Biostatistics, Cytel Inc

Aaron Schacht, Executive Director, Global External R&D, Eli Lilly and Company

Dr Greg Wiederrecht, Vice President & Head, External Scientific Affairs, Merck & Co

Dr Theodore Reiss, Corporate Vice President, Global Clinical Integrated Drug Development, Covance, Inc

William C. Bertrand, Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Compliance Officer, MedImmune, Inc

Dr Jeffrey Elton, Biotech Investor & Advisor & formerly Senior Vice President of Strategy & Chief Operating Officer, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

Dr Michael Hale, Head of Global Medical Sciences Biostatistics Group, Amgen, Inc

Dr Peter Halle, Vice President, Early Stage Licensing, Merck Serono

Tom Swanekamp, Executive Director, Saftey & Risk Management, Pfizer Inc

Gary M. Phillips, MD, MBA, Global Head of Portfolio Management, Merck Serono International SA

Wayne A. Rosenkrans, Jr, PhD, Distinguished Fellow, MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation; Program in Ethics and Systems Medicine, Georgetown University; Chairman & President, Personalized Medicine Coalition; Vice President Strategic Consulting, Fuld and Co; Chief Applications Officer, SciTech Strategies

Rekha Hemrajani, Vice President, Business Development, Exelixis, Inc

Dr Richard Peck, Global Head of Clinical Pharmacology, Roche Products Ltd

Louise M. Perkins, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation

Dr Blaine McKee, Senior Vice President of Business Development, Oncology, Genzyme Corporation

Dr Jennifer Cermak, Director, Portfolio Management, Sirtris, a GSK Company

Oncology Leaders' Forum

Dr Lee M. Nadler, Dean of Clinical & Translational Research; Director, Harvard Catalyst; Virginia & D.K. Ludwig Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Senior Vice President, Experimental Medicine; Director, Center for Clinical & Translational Research; Pan Mass Challenge Senior Investigator, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dr John Fallon, Senior Vice President, Chief Physician Executive, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Steven D. Harr, MD, Managing Director & Analyst, Morgan Stanley

Dr Nancy Simonian, CMO, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, the Takeda Oncology Company

Jeremy N. Rich, MD, Chair, Department of Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Cleveland Clinic; Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University; Co-Director, Center for Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine, National Center for Regenerative Medicine

Roy Baynes, MD, PhD, Vice President, Global Clinical Development & Therapeutic Area Head Hematology/Oncology, Amgen, Inc

Stuart T. Henderson, Americas Life Sciences Pharma R&D Leader, IBM Global Business Services

Wayne A. Rosenkrans, Jr, PhD, Distinguished Fellow, MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation; Program in Ethics and Systems Medicine, Georgetown University; Chairman & President, Personalized Medicine Coalition; Vice President Strategic Consulting, Fuld and Co; Chief Applications Officer, SciTech Strategies

Michael O'Neal, MD, CMO, RadPharm, Inc

Darren J. Carroll, Vice President - New Ventures, Eli Lilly and Company

Leif W. Ellisen, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dr Cheryl Marks, Associate Director, Division of Cancer Biology, & Director, Mouse Models of Human Cancers Consortium (MMHCC), National Cancer Institute

Dr Jean-Pierre Bizzari, Senior Vice President, Clinical Oncology/Hematology, Celgene Corporation

Dr Clare Wareing, Founder & CEO, Nexus Oncology Ltd

Dr Geert Kolvenbag, Global Product Vice President, Oncology, AstraZeneca

Peter Duncan, Director - Business Development, Definiens

Dr Jeffrey Hanke, Vice President, Cancer Research, R&D Boston, AstraZeneca

Jian Wang, PhD, CEO, BioFortis

Dr William J. Slichenmyer, MD, ScM, CMO, AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc

Dr Peter Halle, Vice President, Early Stage Licensing, Merck Serono

Dr Blaine McKee, Senior Vice President of Business Development, Oncology, Genzyme Corporation

Dr Duncan McHale, Vice President of Translational Science, AstraZeneca

Christopher A. Slapak, MD, Distinguished Lilly Scholar (Executive Director), Eli Lilly and Company

Dr Robert E. Martell, Leader of the Program in Experimental Therapeutics, Tufts Medical Center Cancer Center

Dr Walter H. Koch, Vice President & Head of Research, Roche Molecular Systems, Inc

Dr Thomas C. Reynolds, Chief Medical Officer, Seattle Genetics

Dr Chris Holloway, Group Director of Regulatory Affairs & CSO, ERA Consulting Group

Dr Kevin Webster, Executive Director, Cancer BioScience, AstraZeneca

Dr Michael Shi, Senior Director, Biomarker Project Leader, Oncology Translational Medicine, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation

Dr Francis Kalush, Diagnostics & Personalized Medicine Network Leader, Office Center Director, CDRH/FDA

Dr David Urdal, Chief Scientific Officer, Dendreon Corporation

David Apelian MD, PhD, MBA, Senior Vice President of R&D & Chief Medical Officer, GlobeImmune, Inc

Eric S. Perlman, MD, Vice President, Molecular Imaging, RadPharm, Inc

Louise M. Perkins, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation

Gary L. Yingling, Partner, K&L Gates LLP

Jared A. Gollob, MD, Senior Director, Clinical Research, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Dr Philip Breitfeld, Senior Medical Director, Global Clinical Development Unit - Oncology, EMD Serono, Inc

Dr Thomas W. Davis, Associate Director of Oncology, PTC Therapeutics

Dr Piyush Gupta, Researcher, Broad Institute

Dr Howard Higley, Director, Scientific Affairs, CCS Associates, Inc

Dr Laura K. Richman, Director, Pathology, Translational Sciences - Research, MedImmune,


Visit this page again soon to see who else you will be able to hear from – and meet – in Boston this coming November.


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