5th Assay and Drug Discovery Technologies

Michael R. Jackson, Ph.D. - Keynote Speaker
Vice President, Drug Discovery and Development
Burnham Medical Research Institute

Stephen Turner, Ph.D. - Keynote Speaker
Founder and Chief Technical Officer
Pacific Biosciences

Yasmina Abdiche
Senior Principal Scientist
Pfizer

Michelle Arkin
Associate Director, SMDC
University of California, San Francisco

Pedro Aza-Blanc, Ph.D.
Director, Functional Genomics Resources
Sanford|Burnham Medical Research Institute

Robert Bostwick, Ph.D.
Director, CNSP HTS Center
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals

Robert Damoiseaux, Ph.D.
Scientific Director, Molecular Shared Screening Resources
California Nano Systems Institute
UCLA

Ruchira Dasgupta
Associate Director
Adnexus, a Brtisol-Myers Squibb Company

Laura DeForge
Senior Scientist
Genentech

Chris Dimitri, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Archemix

Yoshifumi Fukunishi, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Brett Hall, Ph.D.
Global Lead: Ex vivo & 3D Modeling
Janssen Pharmaceutica, a division of Johnson & Johnson

Hanjo Henneman
CEO and CSO
Nexigen GmbH

Cristian Ionescu-Zanetti
Chief Technology Officer
Fluxion Biosciences

Bruce Koch
Director, Discovery Technologies
Roche

Nancy Liu-Sullivan, Ph.D.
Scientist
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Gloria Meng, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Technology
Genentech

Kartik Narayan
Sr. Research Biochemist
Merck

Jianyu Rao, M.D.
Professor of Pathology & Epidemiology
UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

Richard Rickles, Ph.D.
Director, Oncology, Therapeutic Area Research
CombinatoRx

Eric Sandberg
Senior BioApplications Scientist
SRU Biosystems

Daniel Sipes
Director of Advanced Automation Technologies
Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation

Irena Steele
Senior Research Scientist
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Andrea Watson
Senior Research Investigator
Bristol-Myers Squibb

Victoria Yatsula
Product Manager
IntelliCyt

Xiangdong Zhu
Professor, Department of Physics
UC Davis