Case Studies in Translational Research

Jake Brenner, MD-PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine Associate
Associate Director, Penn Health-Tech
Associate Director, University of Pennsylvania's Center for Targeted Therapeutics & Translational Nanomedicine
Stanford University School of Medicine, MSTP Class of 2010

Christina Coughlin, MD-PhD
Chief Executive Officer, Avacta
Former Chief Executive Officer, CytoImmune Therapeutics
Former Chief Medical Officer, Rubius Therapeutics
University of Pennsylvania, MSTP Class of 1999

Kathy High, MD
Former President, Therapeutics, AskBio
Former President, Head of Research and Development, Spark Therapeutics
Former Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Former Faculty, University of Pennsylvania
Former Medical Staff, Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania
Former President, American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy

Carl June, MD
Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy
Director, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies
Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Therapy

Peter Lebowitz, MD, PhD
SVP - Global Oncology Therapeutic Area Head, Janssen
Former Vice President and Head of Signal Transduction Drug Discovery/Development, GlaxoSmithKline

Ali Naji, MD-PhD
Jonathan E. Rhoads Professor of Surgical Science II
Associate Director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism

Sneha Narasimhan, MD, PhD
Clinical Research Director, Sanofi
Former Associate Medical Director - US Medical Affairs, Genomics
Associate Medical Director - Global Medical Affairs, Eisai US, MD-PhD Graduate - Class of 2020, University of Pennsylvania

Paul A. Offit, MD
Director of the Vaccine Education Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Maurice R. Hilleman Chair of Vaccinology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Drew Weissman, MD, PhD
Receptient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research
Director of Vaccine Research, Infectious Diseases Division
Director, Institute for RNA Innovation, University of Pennsylvania

Tal Zaks, MD, PhD
Partner, OrbiMed
Executive Chairman, Averna Therapeutics
Non-Executive Director, Minervax ApS
Non-Executive Director, Convergent Therapeutics, Inc.
Non-Executive Director, PIC Therapeutics
Non-Executive Director, iECURE, Inc.
Non‑Executive Director, Teva Pharmaceuticals
Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Former Non-Executive Director, Adaptimmune US
Former Chief Medical Officer, Moderna Therapeutics
Fomer Head of Oncology, Sanofi