Fierce Pharma Fierce Biotech Fierce Healthcare Fierce Life Sciences Events Advertise Mailing List ATTEND Show Overview Who Attends Official Event App Stay Updated FAQ COMMUNITIES Drug Development Clinical/TMF BD&L PR & Communications PROGRAM 2026 Speakers 2026 Full Agenda Drug Development Sessions Clinical/TMF Sessions BD&L Sessions PR & Communications Sessions Speaker Resources VENUE Encore Boston Harbor Hotel & Casino OUTSOURCING AWARDS Awards Overview 2026 Winners 2026 Judges Join Our Mailing List 2026 CALL FOR SPEAKERS PARTNERS 2026 Partners 2026 Partner Opportunities Partner Resources Become a Partner REGISTER ATTEND Show Overview Who Attends Official Event App Stay Updated FAQ COMMUNITIES Drug Development Clinical/TMF BD&L PR & Communications PROGRAM 2026 Speakers 2026 Full Agenda Drug Development Sessions Clinical/TMF Sessions BD&L Sessions PR & Communications Sessions Speaker Resources VENUE Encore Boston Harbor Hotel & Casino OUTSOURCING AWARDS Awards Overview 2026 Winners 2026 Judges Join Our Mailing List 2026 CALL FOR SPEAKERS PARTNERS 2026 Partners 2026 Partner Opportunities Partner Resources Become a Partner REGISTER Fierce Pharma Fierce Biotech Fierce Healthcare Fierce Life Sciences Events Advertise Mailing List Powerhouse Communities: Drug Development Home Clinical/ TMF Home BD&L Home PR & Comms Home Please check back regularly as we are adding new speakers on a daily basis. Meet the 2026 Speakers: Ingrid Abrahamsen Executive Director, Head of Clinical Operations Fulcrum Therapeutics Brian Alexander, MD, MPH CEO Valo Health Kevin Anderson Biotech AI Advisor Christopher Arendt Chief Science Officer, Head of Research Takeda Mark Arquiza Associate Director, Clinical Monitoring Oversight Apellis Pharmaceuticals Ashley Avery Senior Specialist, Quality Documents & Archival AbbVie Carla Bauer Director, Oncology Search and Evaluation, Business Development & Licensing Merck Daniel Beal Director, Clinical Program Lead Mediar Therapeutics Wendy Beeby Strategic Operations Executive Bruce Beutel CEO and Cofounder Passkey Jess Birardi Senior Influencer Marketing Strategist Syneos Health Communications Eric Blanchard Partner Cooley LLP Irene Blat Head of External Innovation, North America Servier Paul Bolno President & CEO Wave Life Sciences Gadi Bornstein Senior Director, External Innovation Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Gregory Bowyer Commercial Strategy & Marketing Evidation Ben Bradford Head of External Affairs MassBio Lauren Briggs Chief Customer Officer ProofPilot Carolyn Britten, MD VP, Clinical Development, Solid Tumors, BeOne Daniel Brog Managing Director Locust Walk Gabriel Brooks Chief Medical Officer Solid Biosciences Jared Brooslin Senior Manager, Trial Master File Intellia Therapeutics Karim Budhwani CEO-Scientist CerFlux Stephen Bychowski General Counsel, Assistant General Counsel BD&L Pharma Sanofi Ventures Scott Cenci SVP, Chief Information & Data Officer Acadia Pharmaceuticals Priya Chaturvedi VP, Head of Global Clinical Quality Eisai Kleem Chaudhary Chief Executive Officer Hyku Biosciences Hyelim Cho VP, Head of Strategy Actithera Anu Connor Vice President, Head of Oncology Search and Evaluation Ipsen Katie Conover EVP, Corporate Affairs Syneos Health Communications Helena Cowley Director, Global Alliance Management Takeda Joe Daley President Addison Whitney Anne de Schweinitz Head, Global Corporate Brand & Content Takeda Ann DeWitt Siegrid Delgadillo Director, eTMF services Premier Research Scott Dewire Corporate Senior Vice President & Head of Global Business Development Boehringer Ingelheim Elena Diez Cecilia, PhD, MBA Senior Director, External Innovation, DPDS Janssen R&D Valentina Dilda Clinical Innovation Executive Eric Dimise Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Capital Markets New York Stock Exchange Susan Edelstein SVP, Clinical Research Ardelyx Wendy Erler Senior Vice President Patient Affairs Sarepta Therapeutics Debbie Etchison Executive Director, Head of Corporate Affairs Alkeus Pharmaceuticals Mike Exton CEO and Board Director Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Stephanie Fagan Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Definium Therapeutics Melina Fan Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer Addgene Liz Farrell Sr. Director, Compliance and TMF Oversight Agios Pharmaceuticals Adam Feire Head of Business Development and New Ventures Biogen Rosalie Filling Vice President & Senior Global Head of R&D Strategy, Innovation & Operations Keenova Therapeutics Tori Fort SVP, Corporate Strategy and Corporate Affairs Ovid Therapeutics Kristen Fortney, PhD Co-Founder & CEO BioAge Labs Diana Gallagher, MD SVP, Head of Clinical Development for MS, Immunology and Alzheimer's Biogen Sarah Ganley Associate Director of Standards & Processes Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Chris Ganter Associate Director, Global Quality Compliance Vertex Pharmaceuticals Harry Georgiades Managing Director IPM Alice Gilman Founder & COO R3 Bio Kelly Gold CFO CAMP4 Therapeutics Sherry Goldberg U.S. Chief Executive Officer and Global Chief Operating Officer GCI Health Rob Goldstein-Mahon Executive Director, Patient Advocacy Ionis Pharmaceuticals Colleen Graham SVP, Clinical Operations Mediar Therapeutics Abigail Gregor Partner, Life Sciences Licensing & Collaborations Ropes & Gray Joseph Grieco VP of Clinical Development Tris Pharma Rahul Gupta President GATC Health John Gustofson Head Chugai Venture Fund Daniel Haders II, PhD Co-Founder & CEO Model Medicines Sue Hager Advisory Partner Andreessen Horowitz Eason Hahm Director, BioPharma William Blair Rebecca Halbur Associate Director, TMF Records Mangement, Cinical Trial Systems & Operations Moderna Catherine Hall Head of GXP Quality Assurance Egnyte Wael Harb Head of R&D and Scientific Strategy, Early Phase Oncology Syneos Health Nick Hargaden Sr. Director, TMF Merus B.V. Jamie Harrop Vice President Clinical Operations Beam Therapeutics Roger Heerman Chief Business/Operating Officer / Co-founder Kinaset Therapeutics Sheela Hegde Managing Partner & Global Head Health Advances Karin Hellsvik Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Investor Relations and Operations Foghorn Therapeutics Echo Hindle-Yang Founder and Chief Executive Officer MSQ Ventures Mary Jane Hinrichs Senior Vice President, Early Development, Ipsen Narimon Honarpour, MD, PhD Senior Vice President, Global Development Amgen Christelle Huguet Executive Vice President, Head of R&D Ipsen Darren Incorvaia Staff Writer Fierce Biotech Allison Intondi VP, Clinical Operations Coherus Oncology Cynthia Isaac Group Managing Director, Corporate Affairs Syneos Health Communications Christiana Iyasere MD, MBA, Senior Director Technology Business Development and Accelerator Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Anthony Jarkowski Senior Vice President, Primary Focus Lead, Head of Immuno-Oncology Astellas Pharma Padmini Jayaraman, Ph.D. Business Development Executive Alphanumeric Systems Canwen Jiang Chief Development Officer & Chief Medical Officer AskBio Michael Jones Search & Evaluation Lead, GI & Inflammation, Takeda Nathan Jorgensen Growth Partner Flagship Pioneering CJ Joshi Associate Director, Clinical Documentation and TMF Olema Oncology Jose Juves Chief Corporate & Patient Affairs Officer Dyne Therapeutics Nandini Kashyap Conference Director, Fierce Life Sciences Ariel Katz CEO and Co-founder H1 Abbas Kazimi Chief Executive Officer Nimbus Therapeutics Adam Keeney Executive Vice President and Head of Corporate Development Biogen Jared Kelly CEO Oncolytics Biotech Ryan Kelly Chief Communications Officer Recursion Matthew Kennedy AVP, Neuroscience and Neuroimmunology Lead Merck Prarthana Khanna PhD Vice President, Head of Corporate Business Development and Strategy Vico Therapeutics Peter Kilford, PhD Associate Vice President, Global Sales Simulations Plus Joseph Kim Chief Strategy Officer ProofPilot Jessica Kirshner Vice President of Oncology and Immuno-Oncology Regeneron James Kirwin COO & SVP Clinical Development SFA Therapeutics Hirut Kollech Senior Data Scientist Gilead Sciences John Lacey Lead, Corporate R&D and Science Communications Takeda Andrew Lam Managing Director, Head of Biotech Private Equity Ally Bridge Group Rita Lemming Director, Clinical Operations Fulcrum Therapeutics Lizabeth Leveille Vice President, BD&L and Head, Boston Innovation Hub & Discovery Transactions Merck Michael Levey Director, Global Media Relations & Financial Communications Merck Stacy Lindborg, PhD President, Chief Executive Officer & Board Director IMUNON, Inc. Alex Loboda Director, Clinical Quality Korro Bio Hobson Lopes Associate Director, Records and Archive Management Regeneron Carlos Lopez-Espina SVP, Research and Development Prenosis Maria Maccecchini CEO Annovis Andrew Mackinnon Executive General Manager, Customer Value Medable Katya Maganova Managing Director, Consulting Syneos John Maraganore, PhD Founding and Co-CEO, Corsera Health, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals; CEO and Principal, JMM Innovations Peter Marschel Chief Business Officer Decoy Therapeutics Megan Mason Implementation Manager, Global Process Development Lonza Jennifer McCafferty, PhD, Senior Vice President, Head of CMC-Regulatory and MRL Quality Assurance, Merck Theresa McNeely Chief Communications Officer Lifordi Immunotherapeutics, Inc. Sharon Medendorp Product Development and Biometrics Executive Harbor Clinical Rachel Mercado Principal, AI Consulting, Clinical AI & Technology Innovation IQVIA Jennifer Michaelson, Ph.D. Chief Scientific Officer Cullinan Therapeutics Liza Micioni Sr. Director, Head of Clinical Operations Tris Pharma, Inc. Brian Miglionico Vice President, Business Development Agios Pharmaceuticals Mayank Misra Vice President, Global Commercial Strategy, Analytics, & Ops Soleno Therapeutics, Inc Emilijia Mitrikeska Associate Director, Business Development University of Michigan Medical School | Rogel Cancer Center Amber Monaghan Director IPM Ahmed Mousa Chief Executive Officer Vicore Pharma Curran Murphy Senior Director Clinical Operations / Head of Clinical Business Operations Blueprint Medicines John Murray VP Global Business Development & Country Head UK SanaClis Nikhil Mutyal Head of Search and Evaluation - Respiratory & Immunology AstraZeneca Miki Nakamori Executive Director, Head of Scouting & Transaction, PFGR/BR, Business Development Astellas Pharma Inc. Tatiana Novobrantseva, PhD Chief Scientific Officer NextPoint Therapeutics Kate O'Malley Vice President, Corporate Affairs Moderna Emily Oldshue Partner Ropes & Gray Eric Olson Chief Business Officer & Executive Vice President Ultragenyx Kendra Orjada Sr. Director, Clinical Research Policy Merck Jacob Petersen Senior Vice President, Global Research in Research and Development Novo Nordisk Alexander Pickett Managing Director Juvenescence Daniele Piergentili Chairman and CEO Fabbrica Italiana Sintetici S.p.A. (F.I.S) Thomas Potgieter Senior Vice President, Cell Therapy Development and Operations Bristol Myers Squibb Raviv Pryluk CEO & Co Founder PhaseV Suguna Rachakonda Vice President, Business Development and Licensing (US) Insilico Medicine Venkat Ramanan Chief Financial Officer Immatics Chandra Ramanathan Executive Chair Nucleate Bhaskar Rege, PhD Senior Vice President, Pharmaceutical and Early-Stage Development Alkermes Michael Reilly Chief Strategy Officer Varda Space Industries Gene Rhie Head of Rheumatology UCB Kristen Riemenschneider Head of US Life Sciences Freshfields Courtney Ronaldo Associate Vice President, Global and U.S. Human Health and Manufacturing Communications Merck Kendra Rose Senior Vice President, BD&L Bayer Shana Ross Senior Manager, TMF Quality Oversight Moderna Martine Rothblatt Founder, Chairperson, and CEO United Therapeutics Mark Rutter VP, Regulatory Affairs Formation Bio Anup Sabharwal Vice President, Head of R&D and Scientific Strategy in Cardiovascular, Renal, and Metabolic Medicine Syneos Health Dennis Salotti Executive Director & Head, Clinical Outsourcing & Site Operations Jazz Pharmaceuticals Amber Salzman, Ph.D. Chief Executive Officer Epicrispr Biotechnologies Frédéric Scaerou Head of Global Business Development Servier Marc Schwabish Chief Business Officer Tectonic Therapeutic Evan Seigerman Managing Director, Head of Healthcare Research BioPharma & Biotechnology BMO Capital Markets Joel Selzer CEO ArcheMedX David Setboun CEO PharmatrophiX Madeleine Shin Executive Director, Global Head of External Communications and Media Biogen Kelly Simpliciano Sr. Director, Audit & Inspection Management BioNTech US Sandra Sinclair Executive Director, Clinical Operations Lantern Pharma Chris Slavinsky Former General Counsel and Head of Compliance Corstasis Therapeutics David Soergel, MD Chief Medical Officer Madrigal Erik Sokolowski Sr. Director, Clinical Operations Zevra Therapeutics Tracy Sorrentino Vice President, Corporate Affairs Sarepta Therapeutics Aleksandra Stankovic Founding Director of the Center for Space Medicine Research Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Rob Staszewski Associate Director, Clinical Oversight & Systems United Therapeutics Dietrich Stephan Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board, and Co-Founder Seyltx Patricia Stewart VP Growth and Partnerships TrialWire Uli Stilz Senior Advisor Flagship Pioneering Sriram Subramanian Chief Executive Officer Ferma Joseph Szustakowski Vice President of Clinical Development Data Science and AI Genmab Claris Tsang Munksgaard Director, Global Business Development and Licensing EMD Serono, Inc Peter Tummino President of Research & Development Nimbus Therapeutics Markus Vallaster, MD, PhD Global Medical Head, Oncology Early Development & Hemato-Oncology, Astellas Pharma Steph Viscomi Director, Clinical Documentation & TMF Apellis Pharmaceuticals Thomas Von Erlach Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer Vivtex James Waldron Senior Editor Fierce Biotech Kate Walsh Managing Director, Life Science & Healthcare HSBC Bank USA, National Association Neil Warma President & CEO ProMIS Neurosciences John Wehrli Shareholder Greenberg Traurig John Wichelt VP of Operations and Site Director Kindeva Bridgeton Jane Williams Vice President, Medical Management Syneos Health Juliet Williams, PhD Head of Research Kymera Vanessa Wolfeler CEO SERB Pharma Sandeep Yadav, Ph.D. VP, Technical Development Sangamo Therapeutics Don Yeung Sr. Director, Head of Global Clinical Drug Supply Genmab