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Melissa Haendel

Dr. Haendel's vision is to fundamentally alter the fabric of biomedical science, utilizing her art as a data translator to weave together healthcare systems, basic science research, and patients; through development of data integration technologies, innovative communication strategies, and collaborative...

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Premal Patel

Premal Patel is a physician-scientist with 15 years of experience in medical oncology drug development, thoughtfully combining clinical strategy with adept biomarker approaches. Most recently, Premal was the SVP, Head of Early Clinical Drug Development at Juno therapeutics where he...

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Paula Rio

Dr. Rio's work is focused on gene therapy and gene editing strategies to correct hematopoietic stem cells in patients with Fanconi anemia. Her team has designed a therapeutic lentiviral vector carrying the FANCA gene that has received orphan drug designation...

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Agata Smogorzewska

Using Fanconi anemia and other genetic disease as a backdrop, Dr. Smogorzewska’s research aims to elucidate pathways that prevent stem cell dysfunction, and cancer development, with a focus on those that repair DNA. Throughout its lifetime, a cell’s DNA is...

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John Wagner

Dr. Wagner's research has focused on the development of new treatment approaches for life-threatening diseases for which conventional treatments are unsatisfactory. Dr. Wagner is recognized for pioneering the use of double umbilical cord blood transplantation in adults and embryo selection...

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