2026 Speakers

2026 Expert Speaker Faculty

Take a look at the globally recognised speaker faculty who joined us for the 16th Clinical Biomarkers & Companion Diagnostics Summit Europe.

Charlotte Herd

Associate Director - International Marketing, Precision Medicine, Oncology
Abbvie

David Krige

Chief Development Officer
Accession Therapeutics

Stewart McWilliams

Global Vice President, Quality & Regulatory Affairs
Almac Diagnostic Services

EK Kim

Head of Global Commercial Biomarkers & Diagnostics
Amgen

Seamus Kearney

Founder & Chief Executive Officer
ARC Regulatory

Aino Telaranta-Keerie

Senior Director, Global Precision Medicine Lead
Astellas Pharma

Sophie Wildsmith

Executive Director, Head of PMB Immuno- Oncology (IO) Franchise
AstraZeneca

Ross Hill

Scientific Lead - Global Oncology Diagnostics
AstraZeneca

Michael Senior

Senior Director, Diagnostic Partnerships, Oncology Business Unit
AstraZeneca

Marilou Taggart

Senior Director, Global Commercial Diagnostics, Lung Franchises
AstraZeneca

James Hadfield

Director ctDNA & Epigenomics Oncology Translational Medicine
AstraZeneca

Ruairidh Edwards

Associate Director, Clinical Science & Translational Medicine
Avacta Therapeutics

Anna Ettorre

Translational Science, Bioassays & Biomarkers Expert Formerly
AviadoBio

Kathrin Schlüter

Medical Affairs Manager (Europe, Middle East, & Africa)
BD Medical Essentials, Specimen Management

Jill Walker

Founder
Beacon Scientific Consulting

Brad Evans

Senior Scientific Advisor
BioIVT

Dennis Merkle

CDx Commercialization Lead
Boehringer Ingelheim

Jonathan Beer

Senior Director, Precision Medicine
Bristol Myers Squibb

Angela Douglas Speaker at 16th World Clinical Biomarkers & Companion Diagnostics Summit Europe

Angela Douglas MBE

President
British In Vitro Diagnostics Association

Nick Dupuis

Executive Director - Scientific Business Development
CellCarta

Pierre Moulin

Chief Scientific Officer
Diagnexia Analytix

T Scott Reid

Vice President & Global Head of Companion Diagnostics
Discovery Life Sciences

Nicole Chaves Petronzi

Senior Director, Global Regulatory Affairs Diagnostics
Eli Lilly & Co.

Brennan Decker

Senior Pathologist, Associate Medical Director, Director of Clinical Biomarkers
Foundation Medicine

Colton Ballou

Director, Biopharma Partnership Development
Foundation Medicine

Renuka Pandya

Associate Director, Business Development
Foundation Medicine

Jules Petit

Project Manager, Companion Diagnostics
GenDx

Matthew Brown

Chief Scientific Officer
Genomics England

Panteli Constantoulakis

Molecular Biologist , Geneticist & Scientific Director
Genotypos Science Labs

Catherine Mela

Head Precision Medicine Operations
GlaxoSmithKline

Eleanor Barr

AI Product manager
GlaxoSmithKline

Monika Lamba Saini

Director - Medical, Translational & Computational Pathology
GSK

Jean-Francois Martini

Senior Director, BioPharma Translational Strategy & Applications
Guardant Health

Christophe Homer

Director of Intelligence
Hanson Wade Intelligence

Rachel Broderick

Senior Director, Business Development
Ibex Medical Analytics

Ali Kuraishy

Senior Director, Head of Clinical Business Development
Illumina

Sarah Stanhope

Director Translational Medicine
Immunocore

Marek Zurawski

EMEA Portfolio & Alliance Lead - Precision Medicine
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Dany Bell

Strategic Adviser Cancer Care
Macmillan Cancer Support

Carlos Galamna

Chief Executive Officer
MDx CRO

Lorna McInroy

Director of Clinical Biomarkers
Moderna

Kiri Granger

Executive Director, Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer
Monument Therapeutics

Radha Krishnan

Executive Director, Head of Clinical Pathology
MSD

Dale Muzzey

Chief Scientific Officer
Myriad Genetics

David Shames

Vice President, Clinical Biomarkers & CDx Partnering
Natera

Ben Glass

Senior Vice President, Product, Research & AI
PathAI

Hilke Zander

Clinical Assessor
Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, National Competent Authority for Medicinal Products & CDx Devices

Jörg Engelbergs

Scientific-Regulatory Assessor Targeted & Personalized Biomedicines
Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, National Competent Authority for Medicinal Products & CDx Devices

Deepshikha Bhandari

Senior Vice President, Quality, Regulatory & Clinical Compliance
Personalis

Wendy Valenius

Senior Manager, Global Regulatory Strategy, CDx Oncology
Pfizer

Kirsten Van Garsse

Director Authorised Representative Services & Manager IVD - Regulatory Affairs
QbD Group

Brian Baker

Executive Director, Regulatory Affairs, In Vitro Diagnostics
Regeneron

Kristina McGuire

Executive Director & Head, Precision Medicine Laboratory Operations & Companion Diagnostics
Regeneron

Niall Martin

Biomarker Samples, Logistics & Operations Officer
Resolution Therapeutics

Mark Hellewell

International Product Manager, PHCS Oncology
Roche

John McAuliffe

Senior Director, PHCS Partnering 
Roche

Landon Inge

Global Medical Affairs
Roche

Jain Pandey Speaker at 16th World Clinical Biomarkers & Companion Diagnostics Summit Europe

Jai Pandey

Head, Global Device Regulatory for IVDs & Digital Health
Sanofi

Florian Klemm

Technical Product Management Expert
SOPHiA GENETICS

Philip Beer

Chief Scientific Officer
Step Pharma

Franz Stark

Senior Manager, Quality Assurance IVDs
Takeda

Andrew Paramore

Executive Director, International
Tempus

Alastair Greystoke

Honorary Medical Oncologist & Professor of Oncology
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Newcastle University

Scott Myrand

Director - Diagnostic Partnering
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Rolf Thermann

Section manager
TUV Rheinland

Paola Nasuti

Real-World Evidence Senior Strategy Lead
UCB

Neil Hawkins

Professor, Health Technology Assessment
University of Glasgow

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