2023 Speakers

Abraham Scaria

Chief Scientific Officer

Beacon Therapeutics

Adam Turpcu

Vice President - Clinical Development & Access Strategy

Adverum Biotechnologies

Adnan Dibas

Principal Scientist

Nanoscope Technologies

Alexander Anetakis

Physician Advisor

UPMC Enterprises

Alicia Kemble

Venture Analyst

RD Fund

Arun Upadhyay

Chief Scientific Officer

Ocugen

Ash Jayagopal

Chief Scientific Officer

Opus Genetics

Ben Sajdak

Director - Emerging Animal Models

Fauna Bio

Campbell Murray

Partner

Agent Capital

Catherine Tsilfidis

Senior Scientist

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Christine Kay

Clinical Ophthalmology Advisor

Atsena Therapeutics

Cliff Aquino

Senior Manager, Technical Sales

Forge Biologics

Constance Cepko

Professor

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Dan Gallagher

Vice President Business Development 

Vial

Daniel Chao

Senior Director and Clinical Lead, Retinal Diseases

Janssen

Daniel Chung

Chief Medical Officer

SparingVision

Eric Buckland

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Translational Imaging Innovations

Eva Andres-Mateos

Vice President of Translational Research

Atsena Therapeutics

Gaurav Sahay

Professor

Oregon State University

Gerard Caelles

Chief Business Officer

Splice Bio

Glenn Yiu

Professor of Ophthalmology

University of Calfornia Davis

Jed Chatterton

Ocular Research Leader

Spark Therapeutics

Laura Moreno Leon

Senior research scientist

Iveric Bio

Melissa Calton

Senior Director, Head of Early Development

4D Molecular Therapeutics

Samuel Barone

Chief Medical Officer

Nanoscope Therapeutics

Sarah Tuller

Chief Regulatory Officer

Opus Genetics

Sheila Nirenberg

Professor & Founder

Bionic Sight

Simon Petersen-Jones

Professor

Michigan State University

Snehal Naik

Head of Regulatory Policy, Intelligence, Ophthalmology & Regulatory Strategy Leader

Spark Therapeutics

Stephane Boissel

President & Chief Executive Officer

SparingVision

Tassos Georgiadis

Vice President - Preclinical Development

MeiraGTx

Todd Durham

Senior Vice President - Clinical and Outcomes Research

Foundation Fighting Blindness

Valeria Chichagova

Associate Director of iPSC Technology & Head of Retina

Newcells Biotech

Viral Kansara

Vice President - Preclinical Development

Clearside Biomedical