Invited Speakers

Adam PlattVice President

Adam Platt is VP, Head of Translational Science & Experimental Medicine,
BioPharmaceuticals R&D, Research and Early Development, Respiratory & Immunology at AstraZeneca, Sweden

Arantxa González MiqueoProfessor

Arantxa González Miqueo is the Director of the Program of Cardiovascular Diseases at Centre for Applied Medical Research and Associate Professor of the School of Medicine at Universidad de Navarra, Spain.

David GordonVice President of Cardiovascular and Fibrosis Discovery Biology Ph.D.

David Gordon earned his Ph.D. in pharmacology from SUNY Stony Brook. He serves as vice president of Cardiovascular and Fibrosis Discovery Biology at Bristol Myers Squibb, New Jersey, USA.

Detlef SchuppanMD, Professor

Detlef Schuppan is Director of the Institute of Translational Immunology and Director of the Clinical Center for Celiac, Small Intestinal, Metabolic and Autoimmune Diseases at Mainz University Medical Center.

Eric S. WhiteSenior Clinical Program Lead

Eric White is Senior Clinical Program Lead – Interstitial Lung Diseases at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Ridgefield, CT. USA

Florian RiederProfessor

Florian Rieder is Vice Chair, Co-Director of the IBD section, Director of IBD research and Director of the Advanced IBis Vice-Chair, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA.

Georg SchettProfessor

Georg Schett is professor of Internal Medicine and since 2006, head of the Department of Medicine 3 - Rheumatology and Immunology – of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany.

Janine ErlerProfessor

Janine Erler is Group Leader at Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC), University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Jeffrey MinerProfessor

Jeffrey Miner is the Eduardo and Judith Slatopolsky Endowed Professor of Medicine and Director of Basic Research in the Division of Nephrology at Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.

Mina J BissellDistinguished Scientist

Mina J. Bissell is Distinguished Scientist, the highest rank bestowed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), University of California, USA.

Morten KarsdalProfessor

Morten Karsdal serves as Adjunct Professor, Molecular Medicine at the Southern University of Denmark and is CEO of Nordic Bioscience, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Philipp E. Scherer Phd, Professor

Philipp Scherer is Professor and Director at the Touchstone Diabetes Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.

Raghu KalluriProfessor

Raghu Kalluri is Professor and Chairman at Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.

Richard HynesProfessor

Richard Hynes is Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research at Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.

Rik LoriesProfessor

Rik Lories is Full Professor at KU Leuven. He is the Head of the Division of Rheumatology at the University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium.

Stephan BakkerProfessor

Stephan Bakker is Professor of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands.

Sylvie Ricard-BlumProfessor

Sylvie Ricard-Blum is Professor of Biochemistry, Head of Extracellular and Pericellular Supramolecular Assemblies, at the University of Lyon, France.

Toby MaherProfessor

Toby Maher is Professor of Medicine and Director of Interstitial Lung Disease at Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Valerie WeaverProfessor & Director

Valerie M. Weaver is the Director of the Center for Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration in the Department of Surgery, UCSF School of Medicine, USA.