2026 SPEAKERS

Alisha Smith
Clinical Operations Director, Dimerix, Australia

Bryce Davies
Head of APAC Early Phase Oncology and Innovative Therapies Strategy, IQVIA Biotech

Dr Mohammed Alsharifi
Chief Scientific Officer, Gamma Vaccines, Australia

Hemasunder Reddy (Hem)
Director, Asia Pacific, Pfanstiehl

Micheal Schafferius
Product Specialist for Filtration Asia (ex-China), Sartorius

Paul Rolan
Chief Medical Officer, GPN Vaccines, Australia

Tam Nguyen
Director Research & Innovation, Monash Health, Australia

Xenia Sango
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, VivaZome Therapeutics, Australia

Priyanka Agarwal
Director of Research and Operations , TheiaNova, New Zealand

Shaun McColl
CSO, Carina Biotech, Australia

Glenn Pilkington
Director, Clinical Development, NeuClone

Renee Winzar
Senior Manager, Development, ACAMI, La Trobe University

Peter Tobin
VP, Head of Translational Medicine, Telix Pharmaceuticals

Michelle Ferrari Cestari
Co-Founder & Managing Director, JM Clinical

Omar Dabash
Chief Scientific Officer & Co-founder, Oncoparse, Australia

Kuldip Sidhu
Executive Director & Chief Scientific Officer, CK Cell Technologies, Australia

Andrew Venables
Chief Executive Officer, Loxegen, Australia

Deborah Rathjen
Chief Executive Officer, Carina Biotech, Australia

Gavin Currie
CEO, Biosceptre, Australia

Gisela Mautner
CEO & Managing Director, Noxopharm, Australia

Gregory Rice
Chief Scientific Officer, INOVIQ, Australia

Jolanta Airey
Chief Medical Officer, Cynata Therapeutics, Australia

Joseph Torresi
NHMRC Practitioner Fellow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Australia

Julie Monk
Director Clinical Development, RAGE Biotech, Australia

Kiran Shah
Head Scientific Officer, Magellan Stem Cells, Australia

Lana Gregory
Senior Manager, Regulatory Sciences, Moderna Australia & New Zealand

Leab Sek
Associate Director, Global Regulatory Sciences CMC, Moderna, Australia

Leslie Chong
CEO and Managing Director, Imugene, Australia

Lisa Bonadonna
Director, Cumming Global Centre for Pandemic Therapeutics, Australia

Michael Baker
CEO & MD, Arovella Therapeutics, Australia

Nicholas Bliesner
Chief Operating Officer, Magellan Stem Cells, Australia

Oksana Zdanska
Medical Director, ImmVirX, Australia

Olivier Briand
Head of mRNA Global Clinical Manufacturing, Sanofi, France

Paul McDonald
Chief Executive Office, RNA Australia

Phoebe Dunn
Chief Executive Officer, mRNA Victoria, Australia

Robert Caunce
Director, Quality, IDT Australia

Rosanne Dunn
Director & Chief Scientific Officer, HaemaLogiX, Australia

Silvio Tiziani
Chief Executive Officer, CCRM Australia, Australia

Tim Oldham
CEO and Managing Director, AdAlta, Australia

Walid Azar
Chief Scientific Officer, Cartherics, Australia

Milica Ng
Biomedical Data Science Executive, ex- CSL

Ciaran O’Keeffe
Regional Sales Director, MasterControl

Seth Cheetham
Director, National Biologics Facility

Silviu Itescu
CEO, Mesoblast, Australia

Madeline Cao
Head of Manufacturing Development, Cartherics, Australia

Rachel Yoon Chang
Facility Lead, BASE, UQ, Australia

Blaz Bakalar
Business Development Manager, BIA Management, Sartorius

Antiksha Joshi
Director of Quality, GPN Vaccines, Australia

Marc Fini
Executive Director, Strategic Projects, RNA Australia

Associate Professor Shayanti Mukherjee
Head, Translational Tissue Engineering Lab, The Ritchie Centre, Hudson Institute of Medical Research

Jan Bekker
Vice President, Business Development & Commercial Operations, BioCina
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