CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Speakers
Matt Davis
Matt Davis
Director, Molecular Biology & Sequencing,
Gritstone Oncology, Inc.

Matt Davis PhD joined Gritstone Oncology (NASDAQ: GRTS) in 2015 and is currently the Director of Molecular Biology and Sequencing responsible for various neo-antigen discovery and translational genomics efforts.  Prior to Gritstone, Dr. Davis conducted post-doctoral research at Warp Drive Bio in the discovery biology group.  He holds a PhD in Genetics from Yale with thesis research under the supervision of Dr. Joseph Schlessinger and previous to his graduate work he conducted cancer genomics research at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute.  


Dr. Harsha Doddihal
Dr. Harsha Doddihal
Clinical researcher, Oncologist,
Fortis Hospital


Dana E. Connors
Dana E. Connors
Senior Scientific Project Manager,
Cancer Foundation for the National Institutes of Health


Emmanouil Karteris
Emmanouil Karteris
Reader in Biomedical Sciences,
Brunel University

Emmanouil Karteris

Dr Emmanouil Karteris is a Reader at Brunel University London, Head of Cancer Biomarkers and Cellular Endocrinology Lab (www.cbcel.org), and Departmental Director International for Life Sciences. He gained his BSc degree in Medical Biochemistry (University of Surrey, UK, 1995), MSc in Medical Genetics with Immunology (Brunel University, UK 1996) and his PhD (Warwick University, UK 2000). Dr Karteris has published 96 research manuscripts (h-index 33, i10-index:67) and presented over 100 abstracts in leading international conferences. He also has expertise IP law and in setting up clinical studies. His lab -in collaboration with oncologists nationwide- primarily works on the clinical utility of liquid biopsies, namely characterization and enumeration of circulating tumour cells, measurements of cfDNA and ctDNA, as well as RNA-sequencing analyses.


Youhe Gao
Youhe Gao
Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Beijing Normal University


John Yahya Elshimali
John Yahya Elshimali
Associate Professor of Pathology,
Charles Drew University and UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine


Azeet Narayan
Azeet Narayan
Principal Scientist,
Sema4 Holdings Corps, USA