Friday, September 8
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Location: 335 AB
Chair
  • Jaap Jan Boelens MD, PhD, Pediatric-Oncologist, Chief, Transplantation and Cellular Therapies, MSKCC
Speaker
  • Michael Keller, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy & Immunology, Center for Cancer and Immunology Research, Director, Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic and Research Center, For Primary Immunodeficiencies, Children's National Hospital
  • Troy Lund, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School
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08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Location: 337 AB
Moderator
  • Elena Maryamchik MD, MBA, Director of Cell Therapy Laboratory and Assistant Attending in Transfusion Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Panelist
  • Margaret DiGuardo MD, Consultant, Mayo Clinic
  • Jelena Holovati PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Studies, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Canadian Blood Services, University of Alberta
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09:15 AM - 10:15 PM
Location: 335 AB
Chair and Speaker
  • Joseph Schwartz MD, MPH, QIA(ASCP)CM, CABP(AABB)CM, Senior Member, Department of Pathology/Hematopathology and Laboratory Medicine, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Speaker
  • Cheryl Cox MHA, MT(ASCP), CSSMBB, Director, Cell Therapy Operations, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
  • Jelena Holovati PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Studies, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Canadian Blood Services, University of Alberta
09:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Location: 337 AB
Moderator
  • Patrick Hanley PhD, Chief and Director, Cellular Therapy Program; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Children's National Hospital
Moderator & Panelist
  • Michael Keller, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy & Immunology, Center for Cancer and Immunology Research, Director, Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic and Research Center, For Primary Immunodeficiencies, Children's National Hospital
Panelist
  • Kevin Curran MD, Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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09:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Location: Grand Ballroom L
Chair
  • Jason Bock PhD, CEO, CTMC
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom J-K
Chair and Speaker
  • Katy Rezvani MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Speaker
  • Blake Aftab PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Adicet Bio, Inc.
  • Spyridoula (Roula) Vasileiou, Instructor, Baylor College of Medicine
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom L
Chair
  • Tim Maguire PhD, Director, BD, Resilience
Speaker
  • Jason Bock PhD, CEO, CTMC
  • Patrick Starremans PhD, Sr. Director Analytical Development, Resilience
01:45 PM - 02:45 PM
Location: 335 AB
Chair
  • Joseph Schwartz MD, MPH, QIA(ASCP)CM, CABP(AABB)CM, Senior Member, Department of Pathology/Hematopathology and Laboratory Medicine, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Speaker
  • Lee Buckler, Senior VP of Advanced Therapies, Blood Centers of America
  • Hope Guidry-Groves BSc, Senior Director, Network Partners, NMDP/Be The Match
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01:45 PM - 02:45 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom L
Chair and Speaker
  • Kevin Curran MD, Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Speaker
  • Regina Myers MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  • Sarah Nikiforow MD, PhD, Asst Professor, Stem Cell Transplantation Program, Asst. Medical Director, Cell Manipulation Core Facility, Technical Director, Immune Effector Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
01:45 PM - 02:45 PM
Location: 337 AB
Moderator
  • James Atkins, QA Specialist, NIH Clinical Center Department of Transfusion Medicine (DTM)
Panelist
  • Kevin Bosse PhD, RAC-US, CABP(H), Director, Office of Research Regulatory Affairs, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  • Patrick Hanley PhD, Chief and Director, Cellular Therapy Program; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Children's National Hospital
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03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom J-K
Chair
  • Sandeep Soni MD, Executive Director, Clinical Development and Assoc. Prof of Pediatrics. UCSF, CRISPR (USA)
Speaker
  • David Lebwohl MD, Chief Medical Officer, Intellia Therapeutics, Inc.
  • Matthew Porteus MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine
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04:45 PM - 05:45 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom L
Chair and Speaker
  • Bambi Grilley RPh, RAC, CIP, CCRC, CCRP, Director, Clinical Research and Early Product Development, Baylor College of Medicine
Speaker
  • Ashley Hume, Senior Vice President, Strategic Growth & Client Engagement, Emerging Therapy Solutions
  • Akshay Sharma MBBS, Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
04:45 PM - 05:45 PM
Location: 335 AB
Chair
  • Elena Maryamchik MD, MBA, Director of Cell Therapy Laboratory and Assistant Attending in Transfusion Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Speaker
  • Emily Hopewell PhD, BSc, BA, Director of Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing, Assistant Professor, Indiana University
  • Karen Moniz MHA, Technical Director, ICCBBA
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06:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom J-K
06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Location: Exhibit and Poster Hall
Saturday, September 9
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Location: Grand Ballroom J-K
Chair
  • Jaap Jan Boelens MD, PhD, Pediatric-Oncologist, Chief, Transplantation and Cellular Therapies, MSKCC
Speaker
  • Andromachi Scaradavou MD, Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Shabi Soheili PhD, R&D Director, Smart Immune
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08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Location: 335 AB
Chair
  • Ashley Krull PhD, Associate Director, Cell Therapy Manufacturing and Engineering, The Ohio State University
Speaker
  • Scott Jones PhD, Senior Vice President & CSO, BioBridge Global
  • Melba Marie Page PhD, Analytical Laboratory (QC) Manager, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
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08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Location: Grand Ballroom L
Chair and Speaker
  • Shalu Suri, Co-Director of CMaT ERC Engineering Workforce Development, Georgia Institute of Technology
Panelist
  • Kevin Bosse PhD, RAC-US, CABP(H), Director, Office of Research Regulatory Affairs, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  • Patrick Hanley PhD, Chief and Director, Cellular Therapy Program; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Children's National Hospital
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09:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Location: Grand Ballroom J-K
Chair
  • Jacques Galipeau MD FRCP(C), Don and Marilyn Anderson Professor in Oncology, Associate Dean for Therapeutics Development, University of Wisconsin in Madison
  • Sarah Nikiforow MD, PhD, Asst Professor, Stem Cell Transplantation Program, Asst. Medical Director, Cell Manipulation Core Facility, Technical Director, Immune Effector Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Speaker
  • Kimberly Schultz PhD, Chief, Gene Therapy Branch, FDA
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: 335 AB
Chair
  • Nirupama Pike PhD, Sr. Director, Global Head of Strategic Alliances and Field Scientists, Cell Therapy, Catalent Pharma Solutions
Speaker
  • Larry Bellot PhD, Scientific Advisor, Charles River Laboratories
  • Anushree Anil Datar MSc, Cell Therapy Lab Team Lead, Children's National Hospital
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: 337 AB
Chair
  • Josh Ludwig , Global Director, Commercial Operations, ScaleReady
Panelist
  • Austin Bigley, Vice President, Research & Development, Indapta Therapeutics
  • Ignacio Nunez, CEO/ Founder, Bioxcl
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12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom L
Speakers
  • Mary Kay Bates MSc, Senior global applications scientist, Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • Wilfredo Marin, M.S., Sr. Product Application Specialist, Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • Kindra Whitlatch MSc, Product Applications Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific
01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom J-K
Chair
  • Jaap Jan Boelens MD, PhD, Pediatric-Oncologist, Chief, Transplantation and Cellular Therapies, MSKCC
  • Patrick Hanley PhD, Chief and Director, Cellular Therapy Program; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Children's National Hospital
Speaker
  • Kinga Hosszu PhD, Co-Director, Immune Discovery & Modeling Service, MSKCC
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03:15 PM - 04:15 PM
Location: 335 AB
Chair
  • Olive J Sturtevant MHP, MT(ASCP)SBB,SLS, CQA(ASQ), Senior Administrative Director of Connell & O'Reilly Families, Cell Manipulation Core Facility, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Speaker
  • Sarah Nikiforow MD, PhD, Asst Professor, Stem Cell Transplantation Program, Asst. Medical Director, Cell Manipulation Core Facility, Technical Director, Immune Effector Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • Don Siegel MD, PhD, Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
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03:15 PM - 04:15 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom L
Chair and Speaker
  • Elani Wiest PhD, Associate Staff Scientist - Process Development, Mayo Clinic
Speaker
  • Bruna Corradetti PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
  • Olesia Gololobova MEng, PhD, Research Associate, Johns Hopkins University SOM
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04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom L
Chair
  • Jason Bock PhD, CEO, CTMC
Speaker
  • Lou Bartolo DNP, MSN, RN, Senior Regulatory Affairs Associate, NMDP
  • Charles Mooney MBA, MS, MT(ASCP)SBB, Vice-President, Research & BioDevelopment, Oklahoma Blood Institute and BioSharing Network
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04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Location: 337 AB
Moderator
  • Margaret DiGuardo MD, Consultant, Mayo Clinic
Panelist
  • Julie Annis MLS(ASCP)CM, TCT Laboratory Manager, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
  • Kathryn Bushnell MSHS, MLS(ASCP), CABP(AABB), Manager, Cellular Therapy Laboratory, Children's National Hospital
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04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Location: 335 AB
Chair
  • Jaap Jan Boelens MD, PhD, Pediatric-Oncologist, Chief, Transplantation and Cellular Therapies, MSKCC
05:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Location: Exhibit and Poster Hall
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Location: Cryoport’s Global Supply Chain Center is 9220 Kirby Drive, Houston, TX 77054
Sunday, September 10
08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Location: Grand Ballroom J-K
Chair
  • James Ankrum BSE, MPhil, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa
Speaker
  • Lorena Braid PhD, Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in MSC Biology / Founder, CSO, Simon Fraser University / Aurora BioSolutions Inc.
  • Giacomo Lanzoni PhD, Assistant Professor, Diabetes Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami
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08:00 AM - 09:00 AM
Location: Grand Ballroom L
Chair and Speaker
  • Prakash Satwani MBBS, MD, Director of Pediatric Cellular Therapy Program, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Speaker
  • Jaap Jan Boelens MD, PhD, Pediatric-Oncologist, Chief, Transplantation and Cellular Therapies, MSKCC
  • Samuel Campanelli Freitas Couto PhD, Coordinator of the Cell Therapy Laboratory, Postdoctoral Researcher, Fundação Pró-Sangue Hemocentro de São Paulo, Brazil, Children's National, USA
09:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Location: Grand Ballroom J-K
Chair
  • Bambi Grilley RPh, RAC, CIP, CCRC, CCRP, Director, Clinical Research and Early Product Development, Baylor College of Medicine
Speaker
  • Matthew Hewitt PhD, Vice President, Technical Officer CGT & Biologics, Charles River Laboratories
  • Hajime Hiraragi, Vice President, Pathology & Nonclinical Development, Lyell Immunopharma
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09:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Location: 337 AB
Moderator
  • Daniel Weiss, Professor of Medicine, University of Vermont
Panelist
  • Raghavan Chinnadurai PhD, Assistant Professor, Mercer School of Medicine
  • Charles Cox MD, George and Cynthia Mitchell Distinguished Chair in Neurosciences; Clare A. Glassell Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Surgery; Director of the Pediatric Trauma Program at Children’s Memorial Hermann H, University of Texas McGovern Medical School
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09:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Location: Grand Ballroom L
Chair
  • Rachel Burga PhD, Principal Scientist, Obsidian Therapeutics
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Grand Ballroom J-K
Chair
  • Anthony Ting PhD, Principal, BRL C> Consulting, LLC
Speaker
  • Nathalie Belmonte PhD, VP Research & Product Development, Quell Therapeutics
  • Gary S. Gilkeson, Distinguished University Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development, Medical University of South Carolina
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10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Grand Ballroom L
Chair
  • Jason Bock PhD, CEO, CTMC
Speaker
  • Madan Jagasia MD, Chief Executive Officer, Obsidian Therapeutics
  • Elliot Reno BSc, Senior Director, Field Medical Affairs, Iovance Biotherapeutics
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