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Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, November 12, 2025
  • 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM CT
    Women in PharmSci Breakfast
  • 7:30 AM - 3:30 PM CT
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 8:00 AM - 2:30 PM CT
    Registration Hours
  • 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM CT
    Coat Check
  • 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM CT
    Free Professional Headshots
  • 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM CT
    LinkedIn Profile Critiques & Resume Reviews
  • 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM CT
    Mock Interviews
  • 8:30 AM - 1:30 PM CT
    Solution Center Hours & Poster Presentations
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Pitching a Start-Up: Ask Me Anything
    Moderator: Stacey Axler (she/her/hers) – AAPS
    Career Center Speaker: Brian Bettencourt, Ph.D. – Torque Bio
    Career Center Speaker: Sanjeev Thohan, PhD – SARx Consulting
    Career Development
  • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Symposium: Accelerating Drug Development Through Digital Innovation 1
    Moderator: Naveen Thakral, PhD – Schrodinger, Inc. USA
    Formulation and Delivery
  • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Symposium: Accelerating Drug Development Through Digital Innovation 2
    Moderator: Jaydip Vasoya, PhD (he/him/his) – Schrodinger, Inc.
    Formulation and Delivery
  • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Symposium: Advanced Basic Research as the Bedrock of Pharmaceutical Science
    Moderator: Wei Yue, PhD – University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
    Discovery and Basic Research
  • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Symposium: Novel Instrumentations in Bioanalysis
    Bioanalytics
  • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Symposium: Oligo Bioanalysis, Platforms and Methods
    Moderator: Long Yuan, PhD – Biogen Inc.
    Bioanalytics
  • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Symposium: Predictive Tools and Applications in Manufacturing and Product Quality 1
    Moderator: Kashappa Goud Desai, PhD – GSK
    Manufacturing & Analytical Characterization
  • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Symposium: Predictive Tools and Applications in Manufacturing and Product Quality 2
    Moderator: Sanjaykumar Patel (he/him/his) – Merck and Co Inc
    Manufacturing & Analytical Characterization
  • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Symposium: Translational Development of Cell and Gene Therapies
    Moderator: Rodrigo Cristofoletti, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Florida
    Preclinical, Clinical, and Translational Sciences
  • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
    Symposium: Translational Development of Diverse Drug Formulations
    Moderator: Shanghao Li, PhD – WuXi AppTec
    Preclinical, Clinical, and Translational Sciences
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    Coffee Break in the Solution Center
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CT
    Business of Bioscience – Entrepreneurial Skill Development for Trainee Scientists
    Career Center Moderator: Vivek Gupta, Ph.D. – St. John's University
    Career Center Speaker: Aliasger K. Salem, PhD – University of Iowa
    Career Center Speaker: Ariella Trotsenko (she/her/hers) – City University of New York (CUNY)
    Career Center Speaker: Loren Busby
    Career Development
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CT
    Hot Topic: Exosomes and Extracellular Vesicles: An Emerging Multifaceted System
    Hot Topic Moderator: Alekha K. Dash, PhD – Creighton University
    Discovery and Basic Research
  • 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM CT
    Dedicated Solution Center Hours
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
    Science Meets Strategy: Building Business Development Careers from Research Roots
    Career Center Moderator: Allison Elizabeth Radwick, PhD (she/her/hers) – USP
    Career Center Speaker: Joe Flynn, BS (he/him/his) – COMMEX Consulting
    Career Center Speaker: Ami Patel, MS – BOYDS
    Career Development
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Hot Topic: Identifying Gaps and Pushing Boundaries in Mechanistic Dissolution Modeling
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Keynote: Accelerating Drug Discovery and Development with Advanced Computational Modeling
    Keynote Speaker: Robert Abel, PhD (he/him/his) – Schrödinger
    Moderator: Naveen Thakral, PhD – Schrodinger, Inc. USA
    Formulation and Delivery
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Keynote: Development of Non-Invasive Wearable Physiological Sensors for Quantifying Treatment Outcomes
    Keynote Speaker: Conor Evans, PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
    Moderator: Balint Sinko, Ph.D. – Pion Inc.
    Preclinical, Clinical, and Translational Sciences
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Keynote: Digital Twin Technologies to Accelerate Development, Reduce Wet Work and Optimize Process Performance
    Keynote Speaker: Brian Rhodes – GSK
    Moderator: Parind M. Desai, PhD – GlaxoSmithKline plc
    Manufacturing & Analytical Characterization
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Keynote: Glaucoma Therapy: An Unmet Need
    Keynote Speaker: Catherine Opere, BPharm, MBA, PhD, FARVO – Creighton University
    Moderator: Somnath Singh, PhD (he/him/his) – Creighton University
    Discovery and Basic Research
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Keynote: Machine Learning for Small Molecule Drug Development and Delivery
    Keynote Speaker: Daniel Reker
    Moderator: Bowen Li, PhD – University of Toronto/Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
    Formulation and Delivery
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Keynote: New Frontiers in High Performance Mass Spectrometry for Bioanalysis of Therapeutics
    Keynote Speaker: Jennifer Brodbelt, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at Austin
    Moderator: Scott Robotham, PhD (he/him/his) – Bristol Myers Squibb Company
    Bioanalytics
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Keynote: The Evolving Bioanalytical Strategies and Considerations for Advancing Gene and Cell Therapy Drug Development
    Keynote Speaker: Yanmei Lu, PhD (she/her/hers) – Sangamo Therapeutics
    Moderator: Honglue (Holly) Shen, PhD – Merck
    Bioanalytics
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    Keynote: Unsupervised AI-based Image Analysis of Cell Therapy Products: A New Non-Invasive Characterization Approach for QC
    Keynote Speaker: Chris P. Calderon, PhD – Ursa Analytics, Inc. & U. Colorado, Boulder
    Moderator: Zack Zhiqiang Guo, PhD (he/him/his) – Merck & Co., Inc.
    Manufacturing & Analytical Characterization
  • 1:30 PM - 8:00 PM CT
    Exhibitor Move-Out
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    Hot Topic: The Role of AI/ML in Accelerating Development of Nanomedicines
    Hot Topic Moderator: Yahya Choonara, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Witwatersrand
    Formulation and Delivery
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    Rapid Fires: Accelerating Drug Development Through Digital Innovation
    Rapid Fire Moderator: Harsh Shah, PhD – J-Star Research Inc.
    Formulation and Delivery
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    Rapid Fires: How Can We Advance Basic Research as the Bedrock of Pharmaceutical Science?
    Rapid Fire Moderator: Prasanna A. Yakkala, Ph.D. – Ohio State University
    Discovery and Basic Research
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    Rapid Fires: Novel Instrumentations in Bioanalysis/Oligo Bioanalysis, Platforms and Methods
    Bioanalytics
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    Rapid Fires: Predictive Power: Modeling, AI & Regulatory Design in Drug Development
    Rapid Fire Moderator: Tian Li, Ph.D. – US Food and Drug Administration
    Manufacturing & Analytical Characterization
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    Rapid Fires: Translating Animal PK, Toxicology, and Biomarkers to Clinical Success
    Rapid Fire Moderator: Janey Ronxhi, MS (she/her/hers) – Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc.
    Preclinical, Clinical, and Translational Sciences
  • 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    Closing Plenary with Dr. Daniel G. Anderson
    Plenary Speaker: Daniel G. Anderson, Ph.D. – Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT
  • 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM CT
    Closing Reception