2011 Speakers

Speaking Faculty


Kristin Ardlie, Director, Biological Samples Program, Broad Institute

Lori Ball , Senior Vice President, Global Operations, Biostorage Technologies

  Karina Bienfait, Clinical Pharmacogenomics Operations Lead, Merck & Company

John Bloom, President, Bloom Consulting Services LLC

Andrew Brooks,Associate Professor,  Environmental Medicine & Genetics, Rutgers Environmental Health Sciences

Lynn Bry, Director, Biorepository, Partners Healthcare

  L. Scott Clark, Chief Scientific Officer, Gentris

Shoibal Datta, Head of Translational Informatics Group in R&D IT, Biogen Idec

Sascha Ellers, Senior Manager, Development Sciences, Genentech Inc

Stephen Furlong, Safety Science Lead, Astrazeneca

Lisa Gilbert, Director of Global Marketing, Biostorage Technologies Inc

  Robert James Gordon, Global Technical Director - Cryoscience Unit, Taylor-Wharton

Eric Halvorsen, Director, Business and Technology Development, TIDO, Children's Hospital Boston

Anne Janssen, Senior Principal Scientist, Pfizer Inc

Dale  Larson, Director, Biomedical Engineering, Draper Laboratory

Liis Leitsalu, Specialist, Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu

Ashi Malekafzali, Manager, Sample Collaborations, Genentech Inc

Cathy Michael, Global Head, Sample Management Operations, Biostorage Technologies

Lisa Miranda, President, Biobusiness Consulting Inc

Helen Moore, Biospecimen Research Network Prgm Mgr, Office of the Director, National Cancer Institute

  Suzanne O'Shea, Legal Counsel, Baker & Daniels LLP

Marie-Claire Peakman, Executive Director, Research Centers of Emphasis, Pfizer Inc

Michael  Roehrl, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University

  Steve Sweeney, Director ofClinical Operations, Infinity Pharmaceuticals

Cheryl Tow-Keogh, Scientist, Pfizer

Renu Vora, Senior Associate Scientist, Centocor

Amelia Wall Warner, Head Clinical Pharmacogenomics, Merck & Company

Monte Wetzel, Head of Licensing, Roche Molecular Systems

Kenneth Wilke, Clinical Pharmacogenomics and Specimen Management, Merck

Wendy Wolf Director, Biorepository, Children's Hospital Boston