
Speakers
Symposium Co-Directors

Carl H June, MD
Richard W Vague Professor in Immunotherapy
Director, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies
Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania / Penn Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Stephan A Grupp, MD, PhD
Director of the Cancer Immunotherapy Program and Section Chief of Cell Therapy and Transplant at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Professor of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania/ Penn Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Bruce L Levine, PhD
Barbara and Edward Netter Professor in Cancer Gene Therapy Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Deputy Director of Technology Innovation and Assessment, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies; Founding Director of Clinical Cell and Vaccine Production Facility, Perelman School
of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania / Penn Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

David L Porter, MD
Jodi Fisher Horowitz Professor of Leukemia Care Excellence
Director of Cell Therapy and Transplantation, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania / Penn Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Keynote Speaker

Steven A Rosenberg, MD, PhD
Chief of Surgery
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD, USA
Penn Medicine / The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Faculty

Diane Baniewicz, RN, MSN, CRNP
Advanced Practice Nurse
Division of Oncology; Cellular Therapy and Transplant Section
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, USA

David M Barrett, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania / Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA USA

Madeline Bell
President and Chief Executive Officer of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA USA

Nancy J Bunin, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Medical Director, Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania/Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Colleen Callahan, RN, MSN, CRNP
Advanced Practice Nurse
Division of Oncology; Cellular Therapy and Transplant Section
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Anne Chew, PhD
Deputy Director, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies
Penn Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Heather Difilippo, CRNP
Advanced Practice Nurse
Penn Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Amanda DiNofia, MD, MSCE
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania/CHOP
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Ezekiel J Emanuel, MD, PhD
Vice Provost of Global Initiatives
Chair, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor of Ethics
Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Noelle V Frey, MD, MSCE
Assistant Professor, Medicine (Hematology Oncology)
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania / Penn Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Amy Gutmann
President of the University of Pennsylvania
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science,
School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Communication
in the Annenberg School for Communication
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA

J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD
Executive Vice President, University of Pennsylvania for the Health System
Dean, Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Janet L Kwiatkowski, MD, MSCE
Professor of Pediatrics
Director of the Thalassemia Center
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania/Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Megan S Lim, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director of Hematopathology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania / Penn Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Kevin B Mahoney, MBA
Executive Vice Dean, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Executive Vice President, University of Pennsylvania Health System
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Michael C Milone, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Associate Director of Toxicology Laboratory
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania / Penn Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Shannon L Maude, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Cancer Immunotherapy Fellowship
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA USA

Patricia Mangan, MSN, CRNP
Nurse Practitioner, Medicine (Hematology/Oncology)
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania / Penn Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Timothy S Olson, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Director of Research, Comprehensive Bone Marrow Failure Center
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania / Penn Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Linda M Perry, PA-C
Physician Assistant
Penn Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Marco Ruella, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology Oncology)
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania / Penn Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Stephen J Schuster, MD
Robert and Margarita Louis-Dreyfus Professor in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Lymphoma Clinical Care and Research
Director of Lymphoma Program
Director of Lymphoma Translational Research
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania / Penn Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Laura Smith, MSN, CRNP
Advanced Practice Nurse
Division of Oncology; Cellular Therapy and Transplant Section
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Kimberly L Venella, MSN, CRNP
Advanced Practice Nurse
Division of Oncology; Cellular Therapy and Transplant Section
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Yongping Wang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and
Director of the Cell and Gene Therapy Laboratory
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania/Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Elizabeth A Weber, RN, BSN
Cellular Therapy Coordinator
Penn Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Anne Wohlschlaeger, RN, MSN, CRNP
Advanced Practice Nurse
Division of Oncology; Cellular Therapy and Transplant Section
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Elizabeth A Worster, MSN, RN
Advanced Practice Nurse
Division of Oncology; Cellular Therapy and Transplant Section
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Guest Speakers

Usman "Oz" Azam, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer
Tmunity Therapeutics Inc.
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Renier J Brentjens, MD, PhD
Junior Faculty Development of Medical Oncology
Associate Chair, Department of Medicine
Director of Cellular Therapeutics
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center|
New York, NY, USA

Christine Brown, PhD
Heritage Provider Network Professor in Immunotherapy
Research Professor of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Immuno-Oncology
Associate Director of T Cell Therapeutics Research Laboratory
City of Hope Duarte, CA, USA

David Chang, MD, PhD
President, CEO and Co-Founder
Allogene Therapeutics, Inc.
South San Francisco, CA, USA

Christina Coughlin
Chief Medical Officer
Tmunity Therapeutics
Exton, PA, USA

David Gilham, PhD
Vice President Research and Development
Celyad
Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium

Kristen Harrington-Smith
Vice President and Head of US CAR-T
Novartis Oncology
East Hanover, NJ, USA

Michael D Keller, MD
Assistant Professor
Center for Cancer and Immunology Research
Children's National Health System
Washington, CD, USA

Darrell J Irvine, PhD
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Biological Engineering
MIT Biological Engineering
Cambridge, MA, USA

Michael Klichinsky, PharmD, PhD
Co-Founder & VP, Discovery Research
Carisma Therapeutics
Philadelphia, PA, USA

James N Kochenderfer, MD
Investigator, Experimental Transplantation and Immunology
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD, USA

Roger J Kurlander, MD
Medical Officer
Office of Tissues and Advanced Therapies
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
U. S. Food and Drug Administration
Silver Spring, MD, USA

John E Levine, MD, MS
Professor of Hematology and Oncology and Pediatrics
Director of BMT Clinical Research
The Tisch Cancer Institute at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY, USA

Megan Levings, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Investigator and Lead, Childhood Diseases Research Theme
University of British Columbia/ BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
Vancouver, BC

Raymond Luke
Principal Scientist, Cell MS&T
Adaptimmune LLC
Philadelphia, PA, USA

David G Maloney, MD, PhD
Leonard and Norma Klorfine Endowed Chair for Clinical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Professor of Medicine, Division of Oncology
Medical Director of Cellular Immunotherapy
Service Medical Director, Cellular Immunotherapy, Bezos Family Immunotherapy Clinic,
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
University of Washington School of Medicine/ Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA, USA

Alexander Marson, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Scientific Director of Biomedicine, Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI)
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA

Richard T. Maziarz, MD
Professor of Medicine
Knight Cancer Institute
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR, USA

Bruce McCreedy, PhD
Senior Vice President, Immuno-Oncology
Precision Biosciences
Durham, NC, USA

Viera Muzithras
Executive Director, Regulatory Affairs
Celgene Corporation
Summit, NJ, USA

Sattva S Neelapu, MD
Professor of Lymphoma/Myeloma
Deputy Department Chair ad interim, Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma, Division of Cancer Medicine
Director of Laboratory and Translational Research, Lymphoma/Myeloma
Director of Lymphoma Tissue Bank
The University of Texas Health /MD Anderson
Cancer Center
Houston, TX, USA

Martin Pule, MB BCh, MRCP
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Clinical Senior Lecturer Honorary Consultant in Haematology
Research Department of Haematology
Cancer Institute
University College London/ Institutional Research Information Service
Gower Street, London, UK

David J Rawlings, MD
Professor of Pediatrics; Director of Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies, Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Chief, Immunology Division and Adjunct Professor of Immunology, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Seattle, WA, USA

Katy Rezvani, MD, PhD
Professor of Stem Cell Transplantation
Director of Translational Research, Stem Cell Transplantation
The University of Texas/ MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX, USA

Greg Russotti
Vice President of Cell Therapy Technical Development
Celgene Corporation
Warren, NJ, USA

Travis S Young, PhD
Vice President of Biologics
Calibr at Scripps Research
La Jolla, CA, USA