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Bioinformatics and IT

Name: Bioinformatics Strategy Meeting Boston
Start: 2023-11-14T08:00
End: 2023-11-14T17:50
Location: Le Méridien Boston Cambridge

Strategy Meeting East Coast USA 2023

The premier meeting for all East Coast USA Bioinformatics professionals

Le Meridien Cambridge Boston

A MEETING EXPERIENCE UNLIKE ANY OTHER

Fresh Bioinformatics Insights

Tired of the same conference experience? Real discussions and genuine networking are often promised, but not always delivered. Proventa International’s R&D Strategy Meetings are designed to avoid the pitfalls of a typical conference, by providing the right environment to make those important connections through interactive roundtable discussions, exclusive networking and keynote panel debates. Join Bioinformatics professionals from across the East Coast, in Boston MA, to discover new insights and take your company’s mission to the next level.

What makes our strategy meetings unique?

Roundtable Discussions

Intimate discussions led by renowned industry experts. Have your voice heard and debate alongside like-minded life science executives.

Unrivalled Networking

With senior delegation from big pharma and innovative biotech from across the West Coast, you can network with peers from different locations, all in one place.

Personalised Agenda

Choose the topics that matter to you. Reserve your place at the roundtable discussions and ensure your whole day delivers the insights you need to hear.

Solutions to your Problems

We’ve partnered with the best solution providers to solve your biggest challenges. Engage in pre-arranged, private meetings to address your specific needs and find a tangible solution.

Industry Researched Topics

We guarantee our agenda is up-to-date and mission critical because its designed by you. We speak to our extended network of senior decision makers to ensure the most important topics are discussed.

Senior Decision Makers

The entire strategy meeting is specifically tailored to the needs and challenges of senior life science professionals. Discover how your peers are dealing with the same challenges as you.

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Meet Our 2023 Facilitators

Our panel of facilitators play a key role in shaping the agenda for the day. See who will be bringing their expertise to the table at our Bioinformatics strategy meeting.

Benjamin Li

Head, IT Research & TMCP USA, Information Technology Boehringer Ingelheim

Deepak Rajpal

Global Head, Pre-Clinical and Translational Sciences Takeda

Deepak has recently been appointed Head of Translational Sciences US in Sanofi’s Research Platform. Prior to joining Sanofi in 2019 as Head of Bioinformatics for Translational Sciences US, Deepak was a Senior Scientific Director at GSK heading a US Computational Biology team that had a multi-therapy area engagement role for supporting and progressing the pipeline.  During his 16-year career at GSK, he was responsible for leading strategic computational partnerships in multiple therapy areas, internal, and also external to GSK, across the globe.  As a senior member of the global computational biology team, he had responsibilities of creating vision, and setting the strategic direction for the team in a scientifically innovative and fiscally responsible manner.  In addition to his experience in Computational Biology, he also co-led drug discovery programs and has broad experience in developing indication-expansion and biomarker strategies.  He has co-authored over 45 publications, with several in high-impact journals.  He has represented his organization at many consortia and has given numerous presentations across the globe.  In addition to serving on several scientific advisory boards, including an NIH panel, he also served as a Bioinformatics scientific advisory board member of PhRMA foundation, that granted many fellowships to graduate, post-graduate, and tenure track scientists.  Currently, he serves on the strategic advisory board of North Carolina State University’s Computer Science department and has been a member of many outreach activities to serve the communities that he has been part of.

Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu

Vice President, Bioinformatics Excelra

Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu comes with extensive experience in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology specializing in cancer genomics. Before joining Excelra, Chandra was associated with Sanofi Inc., identifying novel drug targets in Oncology (Molecular and Immuno-oncology). Prior to Sanofi, he was at Dr. Meyerson Lab, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and a visiting scientist at The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. During his6-year tenure at Harvard, he led microbial analysis, pathogen discovery projects in cancer and other diseases. He has contributed substantially to over a dozen projects under the auspices of the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA).
Chandra holds a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering (area of research : Global Optimization) from School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has co-authored over 85 manuscripts, published in highly reputed journals including Nature, Nature Genetics, Science, Cell, PNAS, etc., and has been inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB).

Floyd Christofferson

Vice President, Product Marketing Hammerspace

Govinda Bhisetti

Vice President and Head of Computational Chemistry Cellarity

Hongyue Dai

Vice President, Translational Bioinformatics LifeMine Therapeutics

Hongyue Dai joined Cygnal Therapeutics in 2019. He formerly served as chief scientific officer (CSO) and chief bioinformatics officer (CBIO) at M2Gen, where he helped build the ORIEN, a cancer center network, to connect cancer hospitals with pharma companies for cancer research and drug development. While at M2Gen, Hongyue filed more than 10 patents on cancer prognosis models covering various cancer types.
Hongyue also served as Executive Director of Informatics & Analysis in Discovery & Preclinical Sciences at Merck Research Labs. He managed genomics and genetics projects to support all therapeutic franchises for target identification, biomarker discovery, compound prioritization, and translating biomarkers in clinical trials.
Prior to Merck, Hongyue was Research Associate Professor in the Physics Department at the University of Utah, where he analyzed and defended the highest energy cosmic ray particle, also known as the Oh-My-God or OMG particle. He then took on the role of Senior Data Analyst at Rosetta, where he co-developed the first microarray data error model to characterize the data uncertainty. He made significant contributions to the first FDA-approved multi-gene test kit for breast cancer prognosis, the MammaPrint. He also collaborated with Celera to develop the 14-gene test kit for ER-positive breast cancer patients.
Hongyue received his undergraduate degree in nuclear physics from Peking University and his Ph.D. in astrophysics from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Science.

Jeron Chen

Director and Head of Data Science Voyager Therapeutics, Inc.

Jim Martin

SVP BD Via Scientific, Inc

Joel Nichols

Kenneth Matta

Vice President, Head of IT and Informatics bluebird bio

Lihua Yu

Chief Data Officer FogPharma

As FogPharma’s chief data officer, Lihua Yu is responsible for the development and implementation of data science strategy across all R&D functions and research programs, as well as establishing digital and machine learning platform to power the design-make-test-predict cycle of the company’s proprietary Helicon™ discovery platform. Lihua brings more than 20 years of experience and leadership in data science across computational biology, cancer genomics, research informatics, clinical genomics, real world data and evidence.
Prior to joining FogPharma, Lihua was the president and chief data science officer at H3 Biomedicine and served in multiple roles during her tenure of nearly a decade. She established H3 as a bioinformatics powerhouse studying splicing regulation in cancer, and is recognized with AACR 2020 Team Science Awards for their contribution to Pan-Cancer Atlas. At H3, she held overall responsibilities for the company’s R&D and was responsible for driving the expanded use of data and technology and leading the creation of a data science/cancer genomics/information-sharing engine supporting all phases of drug discovery and early clinical development. Lihua led H3 during its transition from a drug discovery company to an early phase drug development company. Prior to H3, she was the cancer bioinformatics leader at AstraZeneca and held roles of increasing responsibility from 2000 to 2011.
Lihua holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Boston University working under Dr. Temple Smith, and her M.S. and B.S. in biomedical engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

Lalit Verma

Head, Artificial Intelligence CoE Indiana University Health

Lalit Verma is an executive leader with 25+ years of progressive experience in the design, development, delivery, and management of digital technology solutions across global life-science corporations, including genomics, human & animal health, and agro-chemical industries. An advocate of human & animal health, Lalit is passionate about advancing healthy living through applied information technology, data science, and machine learning products and services.
Lalit holds postgraduate degrees in Physics and Computer Science. From 1990 to 1999, he taught Electronics Honors undergraduate students at Delhi University and served as the department chair. Since 2002, he has served the life science industry as a bioinformatician and technical leader.
At present, he is leading a global team of engineers, scientists, and project managers as Global Head of the Pre-clinical Sciences & Translational Safety Data Science at Janssen, the pharmaceutical division of Johnson & Johnson. He leads from the front in providing cutting-edge AI/ML/Deep Learning-based pre-clinical safety-related scientific workflow automation and data-driven decision-making, ensuring speedy regulatory submissions, first in human recommendations, and overall R&D pipeline cycle time reduction. He has authored bioinformatics and clinical algorithms, regulatory documents, and articles published in peer-reviewed journals.

Nathan McBride

Senior Vice President, IT Xilio Therapeutics, Inc.

Parul Doshi

Chief Data Officer Cellarity

Raj Bandaru

Global Head, Analytics, Health Economics and Outcomes Research AstraZeneca

Sandeep Kumar

Distinguished Fellow (Executive Director), Head of Computational Protein Design and Modeling Moderna

Shah Nawaz

Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Digital Technology & Engineering Regeneron

Shrividya Iyer

Executive Director, Oncology Worldwide Real World Evidence (RWE) & US HEOR Eisai US

Sonia Timberlake

Former Senior Vice President, Research Finch Therapeutics

Vikas Patel

Former Global Head, R&D Digital and Data Platforms Sanofi

Vikas Patel is an accomplished global leader in life sciences R&D, bringing over 25 years of expertise in digital transformation, data analytics, and artificial intelligence within the healthcare sector. Most recently, Vikas was the Global Head of R&D Data, AI, and Analytics Products at Sanofi, where he drove innovative strategies that enhance decision-making and optimize processes across the R&D value chain. Previously, Vikas spent 15 years at Merck Pharmaceuticals, where he led the Agile transformation of a large digital R&D team and managed IT solutions across research domains. His notable achievements include the Real World Data Exchange Platform and implementing cutting-edge lab technologies that revolutionized scientific workflows. Vikas began his career in management consulting at Capgemini, where he led large-scale digital technology programs across several industry verticals. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.

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09:00 – 10:00

Roundtable Tracks

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Holistic Approach to Digital Transformation: Crafting an Integrated Strategy for Success

-Kenneth Matta
Vice President, Head of IT and Informatics
bluebird bio

DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS
Development of High-Throughput Screening Data Analysis Technologies and Their Establishment in Industry

-Joel Nichols

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & MACHINE LEARNING
How to Leverage AI and Clinical Data to Better Predict Toxicology

-Jeron Chen
Director and Head of Data Science
Voyager Therapeutics, Inc.

DATA MANAGEMENT / BIG DATA
Integrated Bioinformatics for Drug Safety and Data Management

-Lalit Verma
Head, Artificial Intelligence CoE
Indiana University Health

CLINICAL RESEARCH & TRANSLATIONAL INFORMATICS
Tackling Integrative Multi-Omics Analysis in Clinical Research and Translational Informatics

-Hongyue Dai
Vice President, Translational Bioinformatics
LifeMine Therapeutics

DATA INTEGRATION / DATA MINING
Big Data and AI: Integration and Harnessing the Full Potential of Massive Data Sets to Use in Small Molecule Drug Discovery

-Govinda Bhisetti
Vice President and Head of Computational Chemistry
Cellarity

11:30 – 12:30

Roundtable Tracks

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Digital Transformation New Modalities: Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, & Biopharma

-Joel Nichols

DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & MACHINE LEARNING
Faster Time to Science

DATA MANAGEMENT / BIG DATA
Modern Data Architectures for Large, Distributed Data Workloads

-Floyd Christofferson
Vice President, Product Marketing
Hammerspace

CLINICAL RESEARCH & TRANSLATIONAL INFORMATICS

DATA INTEGRATION / DATA MINING
Data Usage in Bio-Pharma Research Programs

-Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu
Vice President, Bioinformatics
Excelra

14:00 – 15:00

Roundtable Tracks

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Bringing Digital Tools for Implementation: The Impact of Digital Transformation

-Nathan McBride
Senior Vice President, IT
Xilio Therapeutics, Inc.

DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS
Data Visualization: Current Methods and Challenges in Bioinformatics for Research Communications

-Raj Bandaru
Global Head, Analytics, Health Economics and Outcomes Research
AstraZeneca

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & MACHINE LEARNING
AI/ML and Drug Discovery

-Sandeep Kumar
Distinguished Fellow (Executive Director), Head of Computational Protein Design and Modeling
Moderna

DATA MANAGEMENT / BIG DATA
Cloud-Based Approach for Bioinformatics Data Storage and Data Analysis

-Shrividya Iyer
Executive Director, Oncology Worldwide Real World Evidence (RWE) & US HEOR
Eisai US

CLINICAL RESEARCH & TRANSLATIONAL INFORMATICS
Enhancing Pre-Clinical and Translational Sciences with Bioinformatics: A Roadmap to Accelerate Biomedical Discoveries

-Deepak Rajpal
Global Head, Pre-Clinical and Translational Sciences
Takeda

DATA INTEGRATION / DATA MINING
Strategies and the Current Efforts of Data Integration and Mining in Bioinformatics

-Sonia Timberlake
Former Senior Vice President, Research
Finch Therapeutics

15:30 – 16:30

Roundtable Tracks

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Digital Solution Implementation for Biotech Companies: Data Search, Access, and Drug Development

-Parul Doshi
Chief Data Officer
Cellarity

DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS
Challenges in Data Visualization from Cutting-Edge Experimental Techniques in Bioinformatics

-Vikas Patel
Former Global Head, R&D Digital and Data Platforms
Sanofi

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & MACHINE LEARNING
Leveraging AI for Drug Discovery and Drug Design Through Different Modalities

-Govinda Bhisetti
Vice President and Head of Computational Chemistry
Cellarity

DATA MANAGEMENT / BIG DATA
Challenges and Strategies of Big Data Management and Handling in Research and Development

-Benjamin Li
Head, IT Research & TMCP USA, Information Technology
Boehringer Ingelheim

CLINICAL RESEARCH & TRANSLATIONAL INFORMATICS
Examining Artificial Intelligence Techniques’ Uses in Clinical and Translational Bioinformatics

-Lihua Yu
Chief Data Officer
FogPharma

DATA INTEGRATION / DATA MINING
Developing Data Mining Tools for Drug Targets

-Hongyue Dai
Vice President, Translational Bioinformatics
LifeMine Therapeutics

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What makes our strategy meetings unique?

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Meet Our 2023 Facilitators

Benjamin Li

Deepak Rajpal

Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu

Floyd Christofferson

Govinda Bhisetti

Hongyue Dai

Jeron Chen

Jim Martin

Joel Nichols

Kenneth Matta

Lihua Yu

Lalit Verma

Nathan McBride

Parul Doshi

Raj Bandaru

Sandeep Kumar

Shah Nawaz

Shrividya Iyer

Sonia Timberlake

Vikas Patel

Reasons To Attend Our Strategy Meetings

Fully Interactive Format

Senior Decision Makers

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