2026 Expert Speaker Faculty

Take a look at the esteemed speaker faculty for the Structure-Based Drug Design Summit – San Diego 2026. 

Xiaomin Chen

Senior Director
Amgen

Katie Digianantonio


Dietmar Weichert

Principal Scientist
Boehringer Ingelheim

Robert Englmeier

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
CryoCloud

Joao Dias

Senior Director
Eli Lilly

Yunji Davenport

Director, Head of Protein Biochemistry & Structural Biology
Foghorn Therapeutics

Weiru Wang

Executive Director
Frontier Medicines

Eric Lansdon

Executive Director - Structural Biology & Chemistry
Gilead Sciences

Amy Shih

Head of Computational Chemistry
Hyku Biosciences

Boguslaw Nocek

Consultant
Independent

Xue Fei

Associate Director, Structural Biology
Kymera Therapeutics

Yuan Gao

Senior Scientist - Structural Biology
Lyterian Therapeutics

Sandro Vivona

Director, Discovery Biologics, Protein Sciences
Merck & Co

Arvind Sharma

Associate Director, Head of Structural Biology
Moderna

Brian Sosa-Alvarado

Director, Structural Biology & Platform
MOMA Therapeutics

Andres Hernandez

Principal Scientist
Neomorph

Glen Spraggon

Executive Director
Novartis

Prakash Palde

Director - Biophysics & HTS
Pfizer

Naga Suhasini Avvaru

Associate Director
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Joseph Batchelor

Head of Structural Biology for US Biologics Research
Sanofi

Ali Punjani

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Structura Biotechnology

Xianqiang Song

Senior Director of Structural Biology
Structure Therapeutics

Nidhi Arora

Former Senior Director & Head of Computational, Structural & Protein Sciences
Takeda Pharmaceutical

Tilak Gupta

Global Manager, Product Marketing, Biologics
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Chris Gray

Director, Business Development
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Bijan Zakeri

Senior Business Development Manager
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc

Hong Zhou

Professor in the Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
UCLA Health Sciences

David Brown

Senior Director, Structural Biology & Biophysics
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
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