Durhane Wong-Riefer

President & CEO

Canadian Organization for Rare Diseases

Tom Defay

Director, Data Sciences, Genomics, and Bioinformatics

Chief Commercial Officer

Christina Hartman

Senior Director, Advocacy & Policy

EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases

Anne Young PhD

Technical Service Specialist - Bioactives

BASF

Dr. Jean-Paul Pirnay

Head of the Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology

Queen Astrid Military Hospital

Michel de Baar

Executive Director, BD&L Europe

MSD

Lorenzo Corsini MD

Managing Director

BioNTech, R&D Austria

Dr. Bob Blasdel

Research Director

Vesale Pharma

I work as the Research Director for Vésale Bioscience where I contribute my ten years’ experience in the phage therapy field as well as my expertise in the biology of phages on a microbiological, molecular, structural, multi‘-omics’, and regulatory level. We work on progressing the personalized model of phage therapy, developing and manufacturing phages as APIs for magistral preparations according to the European model of phage therapy.

I spend a lot of time thinking about what I'm going to eat next, why cows tend to orient themselves on a north/south axis, whether viruses are alive or non-living (or undead!), what it could have really been like to have lived under the laws of Solon, structure/function arguments in biology, and the value that I like to pretend the Oxford comma has for ameliorating run-on sentences.

Dr. Krystyna Dabrowska

Phage Biologist

Bacteriophage Laboratory, Polish Academy of Sciences