BIO Investor Forum 2024 | BIO CEO | 15 October 2024 | Fairmont San Francisco, 950 Mason St, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA

Meet one-on-one with new and current investors, analysts, and partnering companies. You'll also benefit from candid panel discussions on policy, business development and R&D, and venture investment. You'll have access to the BIO One-one-Partnering™ system, which makes it easy to discover new biotech firms and schedule meetings. Qualified investors attend this Forum on a complimentary basis. If your goal is to influence and engage executive leaders in emerging and privately held biopharma, consider sponsoring this Forum. You'll reach a targeted audience of more than 800 biotech leaders and investors.

2024 Speakers

MODERATORS:

Jesse Essaff
Director, Life Science & Healthcare, Commercial Banking, HSBC Bank USA

Selina Koch, PhD
Executive Editor, Head of Intelligence & Research, BioCentury

Jason Spark
President, Biotech, Inizio Evoke

Sohila Zadran
Science Ambassador, BREX

Ray Fujii, MBA
Managing Director, L.E.K. Consulting

Aaron Royston, MD, MBA
Managing Partner, venBio

Ruchita Sinha, MBA
General Partner, AV8 Ventures

Gwendolyn Wu
Reporter, BioPharma Dive

Crystal Kuntz
Senior Vice President, Health Policy & Research, Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO)

Jakob Dupont, MD
Executive Partner, Sofinnova Investments

SPEAKERS:

Suchismita Acharya, PhD
Founder & CEO, AyuVis Research, Inc.

Raghav Aggarwal
Vice President, BGR Group

Leo JunYoung Ahn
Head of US, LOTTE Ventures

Jungjin Ahn, MBA
Executive VP/CFO, Prazer Therapeutics

Srini Akkaraju, MD, PhD
Founder and Managing General Partner, Samsara BioCapital

William Annett, MBA
CEO, Sustained Therapeutics

Paul August, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, ReviR Therapeutics

John Barchilon, MD
CEO, BIOTECH THERAPEUTICS, LLC

Faith Barnett, MD
Founder & CEO, Resolute Science, Inc.

David Bearss, PhD
CEO, Halia Therapeutics

Juliana Blum, PhD
CEO, BioAesthetics Corporation

Karen Brunke, PhD
Acting CEO, Magdalena Biosciences, Inc.

Lovick Cannon, PhD
President and CEO, NovAb, Inc.

Jasdave Chahal, PhD
Co-Founder & Lead Scientist, Tiba Biotech, LLC

Sudip (Deep) Chakrabortty, MBA
Co-Founder and CEO, BCN Biosciences

Michael Chavez, PhD
Co-Founder and CEO, Enoda Cellworks Inc.

Jennifer Cheng, PhD
Co-founder & CEO, PTM Therapeutics, Inc.

Elaine Cheung
Chief Business Officer, Moonwalk Biosciences

Sue Soheui Choe, PhD
CEO, Atheon Bio Inc.

John Choi, PhD
Head of JLABS Korea, Johnson & Johnson Innovation

Judy Chou, PhD
President and CEO, AltruBio, Inc.

Eddie Chung
CEO, Coastar Therapeutics Inc.

Tomer Cohen, CFA
CFO, KAHR Bio

David Craig, MBA
President and CEO, Sarcomatrix Therapeutics Corp

Jayson Dallas, MD, PhD
CEO, Rivus Pharma

Neil Desai, PhD
CEO, Aanastra Inc

Tony DiTonno
CEO, Dignify Therapeutics

Peter Flynn, PhD
President & CEO, Arialys Therapeutics

Matt Foehr
President and Chief Executive Officer, OmniAb

J. Gordon Foulkes
CEO, Thirona Bio, Inc.

J Michael French, MS
Chief Executive Officer, Amaro Therapeutics, Inc.

Mike Galvin
Co-Founder, LivAi

Peter Garcia
Chief Financial Officer, ALX Oncology

Paul Halpern, JD
CEO, OCMS Bio, LLC

Karen Harris
Chief Financial Officer & Head of Mission Related Investments, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation

William Haskins, PhD
CEO & Co-Founder, Owl Therapeutics

Rick Heinick
Chairman and Co-Founder, SLAM Bio, SLAM BioTherapeutics

Beth Hoffman, PhD
Founder and CEO, Origami Therapeutics, Inc.

Lori Hu
Managing Director, Vertex Ventures HC

Nick Hughes, PhD
Co-founder/CEO, Acrobat Genomics

Alan Joslyn, PhD
Chief Executive Officer, Inimmune Inc.

Rohini Kalvakuntla, MS
Chief Growth Officer and Co-founder, Helex

Vikram Kansra, PhD
Founder & CEO, Vicero

Pankaj Khanna
CEO, Novel Biotechnology Inc.

Mehran Khodadoust, PhD
President, Avexo Pharmaceuticals

Pavel Khrimian, MBA
Co-founder & CBO, Deka Biosciences Inc

YoungSoo Kim
Chief Science Officer (CSO), Amyloid Solution Inc.

Suhong Daniel Kim
Associate Director, Business Development Department, TICAROS

Mei Yee Koh, PhD
CEO, Kuda Therapeutics, Inc.

Neal Koller
CEO, Alphyn

Igor Kouzin
Co-founder & Executive Chairman, ImBiome Inc.

Caitlyn Krebs
CEO, Nalu Bio

Pablo Lapuerta, MD
CEO and Founder, 4M Therapeutics Inc.

Reiner Laus, MD
Co-Founder and CEO, TRIO Pharmaceuticals

Wheeseong Lee, PhD
CEO, Lmito Therapeutics Inc.

Russ Lehrman
CEO, BioSuperior Technology, Inc.

Judith Li, MBA
Partner, Lilly Asia Ventures (LAV)

Bob Linke, MBA
President & CEO, Osmol Therapeutics, Inc.

Lydia Liu
CEO, Lunar Biosciences

Michelle Longmire, MD
CEO & Co-founder, Medable

David Longo, MS
CEO, Ordaos

Lori Lyons-Williams, MBA
President & CEO, Abdera Therapeutics

Glenn Markov, PhD
COO, Rejuvenation Technologies

Eileen McCullough
CEO, Tiller Therapeutics, Inc.

Shreefal Mehta
Co-Founder Chief Business Officer, Repoxegen Therapeutics Inc

Jim Meyers
Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group

Rebecca Miao, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, AKSO Biopharmaceutical, Inc.

Ivana Muncie-Vasic, PhD
CEO, Vitra Labs

Karthik Musunuri
CEO & Co-Founder, Avstera Therapeutics Corp.

Carolyn Ng, PhD
Partner and Managing Director, TPG Life Sciences Innovations

Jonathan Norris
Managing Director, HSBC Innovation

Greg Notte, PhD
Executive Director, Medicinal Chemistry, Gilead Sciences

Hanne Noyen
Scientific Liaison Manager, Ziphius

Peter Noymer, PhD
CEO, 153 Therapeutics

Sesselja Omarsdottir
CSO and Co-Founder, ABYOLO

Melissa Paoloni
EVP and COO, OncoNano Medicine, Inc.

Joong Gon Park
BIOTECH, CNCure Co., Ltd.

Emily Park, MD
Principal, DCVC Bio

June Park, PhD
CEO, Cenos / siRNAgen

Robert Paul, MD
CEO, Nine Square Therapeutics

Olaf Piepenburg
Managing Director, PartitionBio

Steven Potts, PhD
CEO, SLAM BioTherapeutics

Craig Ramirez, PhD
Founder and CEO, Tezcat Biosciences

Kasper Roet, PhD
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, QurAlis Corporation

Steven Rosen, MD
Executive Vice President, Director Emeritus Beckman Research Institute City of Hope, City of Hope

Andrew Rudd, PhD
Co-Founder and CEO, Palm Therapeutics

William Rust, PhD
Co-Founder and CEO, Seraxis, Inc.

Anthony Saleh, PhD
CEO/Founder, miRecule Inc.

Tohrun Satoh
President & CEO, Founder, SONIRE Therapeutics Inc.

Christian Schleuning
CEO, NUP-CTx Inc.

Eric Schuur, PhD
Chief Executive Officer, Hepatx Corporation

Mehrdad Shamloo, PhD
CEO, Longieva Therapeutics

Massa Shoura, PhD
CEO and CSO, Phinomics, Inc.

Thijs Spoor
CEO, Perspective Therapeutics

Bharath Takulapalli
Founder & CEO, SPOC Proteomics Inc

Scott Thacher
CEO, Orphagen Pharmaceuticals

Peter Trepp
CEO, InnoPath Therapeutics, Inc.

Lauren Tyra
CEO, Gregor Diagnostics

Regis Vilchez
Chief Medical Officer, Micurx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Sue Wallace
Chief Executive Officer, Voximetry

Hannah Wastyk
Co-Founder and CEO, Interface Biosciences

Dana Watt
Partner, Breakout Ventures

Michael Weickert
CEO, Pacylex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Stephanie Wisner
Chief Business Officer, Centivax

David Wurtman
Chief Business Officer, Geneos Therapeutics

Asish Xavier
Vice President, Venture Investments, Johnson & Johnson Innovation

Xiao Yang
CEO, El Capitan Biosciences

Renee Yao
Ecosystem Business Development, Healthcare Life Sciences, Nvidia

Ashley Zehnder
Founder and CEO, Fauna Bio

Weian Zhao
CEO, Aureka Biotechnologies, Inc.

Lihua Zheng
Co-Founder and CEO, Z-Star Therapeutics Inc.

Shoutian Zhu
Co-founder & CEO, PhenoTarget Biosciences, Inc.

2024 Sponsors

DOUBLE HELIX SPONSOR:
• Avantor

HELIX SPONSOR:
• Johnson&Johnson

PREMIER SPONSOR:
• Chubb

CONFERENCE SPONSORS
• The Money Channel
• Nucleus Network
• Only Orphans Cote
• Scendea
• Share Vault
• Southern Star Research