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SDDS 2025: Stanford Drug Discovery Symposium

Welcome to the 2025 Stanford Drug Discovery Symposium. This event has become a cornerstone in the drug discovery community for networking and collaboration. SDDS 2025 offers a unique opportunity for all members of the drug discovery community – including researchers, pharmaceutical companies, investment groups, academia, and the broader biomedical community – to share ideas and innovations. We anticipate two days of exciting talks and discussions, including the return of our poster session. We look forward to welcoming you to Stanford for SDDS 2025.

— Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD | Director, Cardiovascular Institute
 

New Venue!

We are excited to announce a new venue for SDDS 2025, located at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center at Stanford. This new space offers an enhanced attendee experience, with more room for networking, an expanded poster session, and convenient parking. We look forward to a dynamic environment for collaboration and innovation. 

Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Jens Holst, MD, DMSc

Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen

Participants

Srini Akkaraju, MD, PhD

Founder & Managing Partner, Samsara BioCapital.

Jay Bradner, MD

Executive Vice President, R&D, and CSO, Amgen

Patrizia Cavazzoni, MD

Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Resarch Food and Drug Administration

Jane Grogan, PhD

Executive Vice President and Head of Research, Biogen

Stephen Hoge, MD

President,
Moderna

Samarth Kulkarni, PhD

CEO and Chairman of the Board, CRISPR Therapeutics

Lloyd Minor, MD

Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Professorship for the Dean, Stanford School of Medicine

John Reed, MD, PhD

Executive Vice President, Innovation Medicine, R&D, Johnson & Johnson

Marc Tessier-Lavigne, PhD

CEO, Xaira Therapeutics

Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD

Nobel Laureate 2022
Baker Family Director of Stanford ChEM-H

Robert Bradway, MBA

Chairman and CEO, Amgen

Navin Chaddha, MS

Managing Partner, Mayfield

Aida Habtezion, MD

Chief Medical Officer and Head of Worldwide Medical and Security, Pfizer

Thomas Hudson, MD

Versant Ventures

Ashley Magargee, MBA

CEO, Genentech

Andrew Plump, MD, PhD

President of Research and Development, Takeda

Randy Schekman, PhD

Nobel Laureate, 2013; Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley

George Yancopoulos, MD, PhD

President and Chief Scientific Officer, Regeneron

Robert Blum, MBA

President and CEO,
Cytokinetics

Rob Califf, MD

Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Levi Garraway, MD, PhD

Executive Vice President, Head of Global Product Dev, and CMO, Roche / Genentech

Alexander Hardy, MBA

President and CEO, BioMarin

Karen Knudsen, MBA, PhD

CEO, American Cancer Society & American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network

Peter Marks, MD, PhD

Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration

Stephen Quake, D.Phil

Head of Science, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Thomas Südhof, MD

Nobel Laureate 2013; Avram Goldstein Professor and Prof of Neurosurgery, Stanford University

Lifetime Achievement Awardees

TBD

Agenda

TBD

Event Program & Poster

TBD

FAQs

Foundation Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Media Partners

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
 

Francesca Mae G. Tongco, MS-HCA

Project Coordinator
Stanford Cardiovascular Institute


For additional information, please contact Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD, or Francesca Tongco.