Boston Society Gene and Cell Therapy Conference 

March 19 - 20, 2026

Bristol Myers Squibb, 250 Water Street, Cambridge, MA 02141

  

Confirmed Speakers 2026

We're continuing to build the 2026 program - check back soon for more speakers and updates.

 

 PLENARY LECTURE

Omar Abudayyeh, PhD

Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital / MGB Gene and Cell Therapy Institute

Programmable Technologies for Engineering Biology

 

PLENARY LECTURE

Palani Palaniappan, PhD

Chief Technical Operations & Quality Officer @ Flagship Pioneering

CMC for GCT - talk title TBA 

       
 

 PLENARY LECTURE

Panteli Theocharous, FIBMS, M.S., PhD, FRCPath

CEO @ VectorGen

Talk title - TBA

 

 Prof. Mimoun Azzouz, PhD

School of Medicine & Population Health, Chair of Translational Neuroscience, Director of GTIMC @ University of Sheffield, UK

ARDAT work streams and objectives - talk title TBA

 

 

Eva Andres-Mateos, PhD

Associated VP Preclinical Development Gene Therapy @ Eli Lilly

Translational sciences for GT/clinical data - talk title TBA

 

Shashis Ramaiah, PhD

President, Founder, and CEO @ SPECCRO, Inc.

Derisking Gene Therapy (AAV): Translational Strategies and Emerging Tools to Navigate Safety Risks

 

 

       

Brian Furmanski, PhD

Chief Regulatory Officer @ Kriya Therapeutics

The Path to First-in-Human: Regulatory and Strategic Considerations for CGT IND Submissions 

 

Jim MacKrell, PhD

Lilly Ventures - VP & Global Head of Science Team @ Eli Lill

       

Amy Rosenberg, PhD

Senior Director Regulatory Affairs @ Regeneron

Success of CAR-T Cells in Treatment of Autoimmunity: Broader Application to Disease Treatment & Prevention Including Immunogenicity of Therapeutic Proteins

 

Matt Silva, PhD

CEO @ EMIT Imaging

Cryo-Fluorescence Tomography: Transformative 3D Imaging for Gene & Cell Therapy 

       

Aman Singh, PhD

Group Director - Clinical Pharmacology & Pharmacometrics @ Johnson & Johnson

SLE CAR-T modeling - talk title TAB

 

Stephen Wang, PhD

Associate Director @ Novartis Gene Therapies

preclinical and clinical regulatory aspects of the autologous hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) delivery of DFT383 for nephropathic cystinosis - Title TBA

       

Joleen White, PhD

Senior Consultant @ BioData Solutions

Evaluating Immunogenicity in Cell and Gene Therapies

 

Mandy Xie, PhD

Executive Director, Head of Analytical Development & Attribute Science @ Bristol Myers Squibb

insight into operational efficiencies around CART manufacturing - Title TBA

       

 2026 Proposed Sessions

Preclinical Approaches to GCT

Preclinical Discovery & Development

Safety Tox. Assessments (in vitro//in vivo tools/models)

IND Submission Processes

Regulatory Perspectives

Industry Landscape

Clinical Approaches to GCT

Clinical Pharmacology

Modeling & Simulation/QSP

Manufacturing/CMC

Commercialization/Post Manufacturing Commitments

Patient Perspective

 

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Sessions

Session I: Current State-of-the-Art Gene Delivery

Session II: Translational PK/PD and Clinical Pharmacology Aspects

Session III: Biomarkers and Clinical Translation Aspects of Gene Therapy

Registration

Click here to register for the Gene and Cell Therapy conference online.

The conference will take place March 19-20, 2026 at:

BMS, Cambridge Crossing, Cambridge, MA

 

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