Welcome to 2022 Stanford Drug Discovery Symposium. This symposium provides a valuable and important platform for inspiring interdisciplinary exchange at the forefront of drug research and will support a fantastic networking experience. It provides a great resource for researchers, pharmaceutical companies, investment groups, and those in the wider biomedical community interested in discovering new drugs and improving patient care. We look forward to an exciting two days of talks and discussion.
— Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD | Director, Cardiovascular Institute
Lifetime Achievement Awardee
Katalin Karikó, PhD
Senior VP, BioNTech
Participants
Karen Akinsanya, PhD
President of R&D, Therapeutics
Schrödinger
James (Jay) Bradner, MD
President
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Hogene L. Choi, JD
Partner
Morrison & Foerster, LLP
Myrtle Davis, DVM, PhD
Scientific Vice President, Discovery Toxicology
Bristol Myers Squibb
Kathy Giacomini, PhD
Prof of Bioengineering & Co-Dir UCSF-Stanford Center of Excellence in Regulatory Sciences and Innovation, UCSF
David Goel
Founder & Managing General Partner, Matrix Capital Management
Karin Immergluck, PhD
Executive Director
Stanford Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
Daphne Koller, PhD
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Insitro
Mathai Mammen, MD, PhD
Executive Vice President, Pharmaceuticals, R&D
Johnson & Johnson
Maria Millan, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer, CIRM
Merdad Parsey, MD, PhD
Chief Medical Officer, Gilead
Madhuri Roy, PhD, JD
Partner, Patent Counseling & Prosecution
Cooley
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, PhD
President and Bing Presidential Professor
Stanford University
Steve Artandi, MD, PhD
Laurie Kraus Lacob Director (SCI); Jerome and Daisy Low Gilbert Professor (Med and Biochem), StanfordÂ
Amy L. Chang
Board of Directors at The Walt Disney Co, Procter & Gamble, Marqeta, and Pragma PlatformÂ
Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay, JD, MD
Principal Deputy Center Director
FDA, CDER
Ray Deshaies, PhD
Senior Vice President, Global Research
Amgen
Gary Gibbons, MD
Director, NHLBI
Aida Habtezion, MD
Chief Medical Officer and Head of Worldwide Medical & Safety
Pfizer
Joe Jimenez, MBA
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Aditum Bio
Dean Li, MD, PhD
Executive Vice President and President of Merck Research Laboratories
Peter Marks, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Lloyd Minor, MD
Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Professorship for the Dean, Stanford School of Medicine
Andrew Plump, MD, PhD
President, Research & Development
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
Alfred Sandrock, MD, PhD
CEOVoyager Therapeutics
James Zou, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of CS and of EE
Stanford University
Claude Bertrand, PhD
Executive Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer, R&D
Servier
Margarita Chavez, JD
Managing Director
AbbVie Ventures
Lisa Coussens, PhD
Associate Director for Basic Research, Knight Cancer Institute, OHSU; and President, AACR
Carlos O. Garner, PhD
Vice President, Global Regulatory Affairs
Eli Lilly and Company
Christopher Gibson, PhD
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer of Recursion
Sandra J. Horning, MD
Board of Directors: Gilead, Moderna, & Olema Pharma.
Co-founder & Advisor, EQRx
Peter S. Kim, PhD
Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Biochemistry
Stanford University
Jonathan MacQuitty, PhD
Sector Head for Life Sciences
Lightspeed Ventures
Michelle McMurry-Heath, MD, PhD
President & CEO, Biotechnology Innovation Organization
Vern Norviel, JD
Partner, Patents and Innovations
Wilson Sonsini
Aviv Regev, PhD
Executive Vice President, Research and Early Development
Genentech
Randy Schekman, PhD
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley; 2013 Nobel Laureate
Organizers
Amanda Chase, PhD
Associate Director of Strategic Research Development
Stanford Cardiovascular Institute
Kuldev Singh, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Sanjay Malhotra, PhD
Professor, Cell, Developmental & Cancer Biology; Director, Center for Experimental Therapeutics
OHSU
Joseph Wu, MD, PhD
Director, Stanford CVI
Simon H. Stertzer, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine and Radiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Mark Mercola, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Media Sponsors
listed alphabetically
For additional information, please contact Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD, or Francesca Tongco.