Speakers

Meet Our Esteemed Speakers

Explore the key opinion leaders and renowned academic experts who bring unparalleled knowledge and thought leadership to our annual events.

Biomarkers Speakers

10 - 11 June 2024 | Boston, MA, USA

Spatial Biology East Coast 2024

Kristine Glunde
Professor of Radiology, Oncology & Biological Chemistry; Director of Applied Imaging Mass Spectrometry,
Johns Hopkins Transgenic Mouse Core
Laura Dillon
Vice President,
Incendia Therapeutics
Qing Li
Director of Pathology, Clinical Development & Oncology,
Moderna Therapeutics
Stephen Wong
Chair Professor,
Houston Methodist Hospital and Weill Cornell Medicine
Sunish Mohanan
Senior Director,
Gilead Sciences

All Speakers

Ahmet Coskun
Professor,
Georgia Tech
Alice Wan
Senior Scientist,
Abbvie
Alina Ainbinder
Principal Scientist,
Takeda
Andrew Fisher
Principal Scientist,
BMS
Anna Lyubetskaya
Senior Principal Scientist,
Bristol Myers Squibb
Annette Schwartz Sterman
Senior Director,
AbbVie
Arvind Rao
Associate Professor of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics,
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Chandra Saravanan
Pathologist,
Novartis
Courtney Easley-Neal
Director,
Eisai
Danya Dean
Senior Scientist,
Merck & Co. Inc.
Fang Xie
Associate Director,
GSK
Haiqi Chen
Assistant Professor,
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Hongkai Ji
Professor,
Johns Hopkins University
Jianrong Wang
Associate Professor,
Michigan State University
Joao Costa
Principal Scientist,
Takeda
Kevin Wei
Assistant Professor,
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Kieran Campbell
Scientist,
University of Toronto & Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Kimberly Smythe
Staff Scientist,
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Lana Garmire
Associate Professor,
University of Michigan
Lance Liotta
University Professor,
George Mason University
Manisha Rao
Senior Scientist,
AstraZeneca
Manoj Bhasin
Director,
Emory School of Medicine
Marina Bleck
Principal Scientist,
Boehringer Ingelheim RCV GmbH & Co KG
Matthew Bernstein
Principal Scientist,
Immunitas Therapeutics
Min Xu
Principal Investigator & Assistant Professor,
Carnegie Mellon University
Miranda Orr
Associate Professor,
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Peng Yin
Principal Investigator,
Wyss Institute at Harvard University
Robert Schwartz
Associate Professor,
Weill Cornell Medical College
Ruben Dries
Assistant Professor,
Boston University School of Medicine
Sandra Rost
Senior Scientific Manager,
Genentech
Sheila Cummings
Senior Principal Pathologist,
AbbVie
Shou-Ching Jaminet
Founder,
Angiex
Si Qin
Senior Scientist,
AstraZeneca
Sizun Jiang
Assistant Professor,
Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Terry Melim
Senior Scientist,
AbbVie
Tri-Hung Nguyen
Senior Director of Translational Sciences,
Shasqi Inc.
Wesley Tansey
Assistant Professor,
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Yan Tang
Principal Investigator,
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Yoshiko Hashikawa
Senior Scientist,
AbbVie
Yu Tian
Director,
AbbVie
Yuying Xie
Associate Professor,
Michigan State University
Zhandong Liu
Director in Bioinformatics Core,
Baylor College of Medicine
Zhengqing Ouyang
Associate Professor,
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Zoltan Maliga
Co-Director in Tissue Imaging Platform,
Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

30 September - 01 October 2024 | Basel, Switzerland

Spatial Biology Europe 2024

Felix Segerer
Associate Director, Image Analysis,
AstraZeneca
Francesca Buffa
Professor,
Università Bocconi
Ivan Costa
Group Leader,
RWTH Aachen University
Jacques Colinge
Professor,
University of Montpellier, France
Rosalba Giugno
Professor,
University of Verona

All Speakers

Asad Jan
Assistant Professor,
Aarhus University
Carolina Oses
Researcher and Lab Manager,
Scilifelab- Spartial Proteomic Unit
Carsten Hopf
Head of CeMOS,
Mannheim University of Applied Sciences
Cesar Nombela-Arrieta
Associate Professor,
University of Zurich
Christian Münch
Professor for Molecular Systems Medicine,
IG Farben Haus
Denis Schapiro
Group Leader,
Heidelberg University Hospital
Federica Eduati
Assistant Professor,
Eindhoven University of Technology
Georg Borner
Group Leader,
MPI Biochemistry
Giampaolo Bianchini
Head of clinical translational and immunotherapy research,
San Raffaele Hospital
Hannah Williams
Staff Scientist & Junior Group Leader,
University of Bern
Johan Swinnen
Professor,
KU Leuven
Katy Vandereyken
Research Manager,
KU Leuven
Lasse Kristensen
Associate Professor,
Aarhus University
Léo Guignard
Group Leader,
University of Marseille
Merrick Strotton
Principal Scientist,
UCB
Nicole Strittmatter
Professor for Analytical Chemistry,
TUM
Oliver Biehlmaier
Imaging Core Facility Head,
Biozentrum, University of Basel
Raphael Gottardo
Professor & Director, Biomedical Data Science Center,
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
Semiramis Popova
Senior Scientist,
AstraZeneca
Stéphanie Tissot
head of lab,
CHUV
Thibault Courtellemont
Senior Scientist,
EPFL
Vijay Tiwari
Professor and Head of Research,
Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM)
Zhongyi Wang
Senior Expert Data Science,
Novartis

04 - 05 December 2024 | San Diego, CA, USA

Spatial Biology West Coast 2024

Anoja Perera
Director, Sequencing and Discovery Genomics,
Stowers Institute
Michael Surace
Director,
AstraZeneca
Premi Haynes
Principal Scientist,
Bristol Myers Squibb
Silas Maniatis
Associate Director, Technology Innovation,
New York Genome Centre

All Speakers

Danielle Tan
Senior Scientist,
BioMarin Pharmaceutical
Edward Moler
Vice President of Data Science,
Juvena Therapeutics
Ioannis Vlachos
Director of Spatial Technologies,
BIDMC / Harvard Medical School
Joao Costa
Principal Scientist,
Takeda
Koichi Hashikawa
Senior Scientist, Computational Biology,
Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine
Leonardo Collado Torres
Investigator,
Lieber Institute for Brain Development
Ryan Logan
Professor,
Boston University (Computer Science Department)
Sripad Ram
Digital Pathology and Image Analysis Lead,
Pfizer Inc
Stephen Byers
Professor,
Georgetown University

23 - 25 October 2024 | London, UK

NextGen Omics 2024

Bozena Kaminska
Professor,
Nencki Institute
Luigi Aloia
Associate Director,
AstraZeneca
Michael Oellerich
Distinguished Research Professor of Clinical Chemistry,
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Naveed Ishaque
Research Group Leader,
Berlin Institute of Health at Charité University Hospital
Pedro Cutillas
Professor of Cell Signalling & Proteomics,
Queen Mary University of London
Sophia Tsoka
Reader in Bioinformatics,
King's College London
Tootie Bueser
Director of Nursing & Midwifery,
South East Genomic Medicine Service Alliance

All Speakers

Ahmad Khodr
Head of the Microbiology Innovation Lab.,
L'Oréal Research and Innovation
Aidan Nickerson
Discovery Data Scientist,
Eli Lilly
Andrew Beggs
Professor,
University of Birmingham
Bernhard Schmierer
Head of the CRISPR Functional Genomics Unit,
Karolinska Institute
Clive D'Santos
Head of Proteomics,
Cambridge University
Dianne Baunbaek
Diagnostics Lead,
Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
Dmitrii Degtev
Senior Scientist,
AstraZeneca
Fiona Byrne
Principal Laboratory Research Scientist,
Francis Crick Institute
Gary Saunders
Director of Digital Transformation,
EATRIS, The European Infrastructure for Translational Medicine
Graham Ball
Director of the Medical Technology Research Centre,
Anglia Ruskin University
Hannah Stark
Operations Lead,
NIHR
Hywel Williams
Senior lecturer,
Cardiff University
Isabelle Bergiers
Senior Scientist,
Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
Jan Lukas Robertus
Consultant Histopathologist and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer,
Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
Jan-Philipp Mallm
Principal Investigator,
Dkfz-Heidelberg
John Parrington
Associate Professor,
University of Oxford
Jon Teague
Director of COSMIC,
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Kedar Natarajan
Associate Professor & Group Leader,
Technical University of Denmark
Kulbhushan Sharma
Principal Investigator, Leader of Stem Cell Facility,
Akershus University Hospital
Laura Rosenberg
Director, Discovery of Target Validation (Functional Genomics),
AstraZeneca
Martin Thomsen
PI,
Institute for Biomedicine, Aarhus University
Massimo Delledonne
Professor of Genetics,
University of Verona
Maté Ongenaert
Senior scientist computational biology,
Johnson & Johnson
Michael Ziller
Professor in Functional Genomics, Psychiatry,
University of Münster
Michael Cook
Executive Director of Science,
Our Future Health
Mohamed Abouelhoda
Chairman, Computational Sciences Department, Center for Genomic Medicine,
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
Nicola McCarthy
Head of Research,
Milner Therapeutics Institute
Nicolas Kuperwasser
Director - Gene Editing and Targeting Platform,
Institute Necker Enfants Malades (INEM)
Patrick Descombes
Group Leader genomics,
Société des Produits Nestlé SA Nestlé Research Switzerland
Raffaele Calogero
Professor,
University of Torino
Robert Brucker
Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder,
DermBiont
Shameer Khader
Executive Director,
Sanofi
Simon Haas
Group Leader,
MDC BERLIN
Simona Giunta
Associate Professor,
Sapienza University of Rome
Stefano Indraccolo
Group Leader,
IRCCS
Stephanie Craig
Lecturer in Precision Medicine,
Queen's University Belfast
Stephen Hart
Professor,
University College London
Sterenn Davis
Senior Principal Scientist,
Adaptimmune
Suresh Poovathingal
Head of Single Cell & Microfluidics Expertise Unit,
VIB KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research
Xavier Duportet
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer,
Eligo Bioscience
Yasser Riazalhosseini
Associate Professor,
McGill University

March 2025 | London, UK

Spatial Biology UK 2025

Speakers for Spatial Biology UK 2025 will be revealed here in the coming weeks

March 2025 | Boston, MA, USA

NextGen Omics US 2025

Speakers for NextGen Omics US 2025 will be revealed here in the coming weeks