Advisory Board

Our Scientific Advisory Board Members

  • Clifford S. Mintz, PhD
  • Alain Beck, Ph.D
  • Rakesh Dixit, Ph.D., DABT
  • Laurent Ducry, Ph.D.
  • Alain Herrera, MD
  • Prathap Kumar Mahalingaiah, DVM, MS, PhD, DABT
  • Lisa McDermott
  • Sanjay Nilapwar, Ph.D
  • Thomas Rohrer, BS, MS
  • Srinath (Sri) Thirumalairajan, Ph.D.
  • Ruta Waghmare, Ph.D
  • Cecilia Zapata-Harms, MS, MHA
  • Weixing (Star) Zhang, Ph.D

Clifford S. Mintz, Ph.D

A seasoned bioscience professional with over 18 years of experience in drug discovery/development, biomanufacturing, commercialization and regulatory compliance. Dr Mintz is also a professional medical/healthcare writer and a regular contributor to life sciences business publications.

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Alain Beck, Ph.D.

Alain Beck is Senior Director, Biologics CMC & Developability (Pierre Fabre), Associate Editor of mAbs (2009) & chairman of MabDesign SAB (2014). Alain is also member of the World ADC Advisory Board.

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Rakesh Dixit, Ph.D., DABT

President, CEO and Founder of Bionavigen, a biopharmaceutical navigation company specializing in consulting for the discovery, preclinical development, translational, and regulatory sciences as well as early development of new drugs through smart acquisition.

Dixit is also co-founder, President and CSO of Regio Biosciences, an AstraZeneca spin-off Biotechnology company focusing on innovative biologics with a special focus on improving reverse cholesterol transport and HDL to prevent or treat multiple diseases, including cardio-metabolic diseases and cancers.

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Laurent Ducry, Ph.D.

Ducry joined Kodiak Sxiences in 2019 as head of Biologics Development and Manufacturing, responsible for the global supply chain of Kodiak's bioconjugates (DS and DP). Kodiak is a clinical stage company developing innovative therapeutics to treat chronic, high prevalence ophthalmic diseases.

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Alain Herrera, MD

Consultant in Oncology and Associate Director at Kephren in Paris, France.

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Prathap Kumar Mahalingaiah, DVM, MS, PhD, DABT

Prathap Kumar Mahalingaiah, DVM, MS, PhD, DABT is currently Senior Scientist Senior Scientist, Investigative Toxicology and Pathology at Abbvie.

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Lisa McDermott, BS

Lisa McDermott BS, is Director Process and Analytical Development at MilliporeSigma.

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Sanjay Nilapwar, Ph.D

Sanjay Nilapwar, Ph.D, works as Purification Process Scientist in Novel Molecules group of Medimmune, Gaithersburg and is also part of platform ADC CMC development team.

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Thomas Rohrer, BS, MS

Thomas Rohrer, BS, MS, is Head of Antibody Drug Conjugation Project Evaluation at Lonza, has 30 years of experience in development, scale-up and manufacturing.

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Thomas Shellenberger, MD

Thomas Schellenberger, MD, is a Surgical oncologist who focuses on cancers of and neck.

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Srinath (Sri) Thirumalairajan, Ph.D.

Srinath (Sri) Thirumalairajan, Ph.D., is Director of Process Engineering at Seagen, Inc., a global biotechnology company dedicated to revolutionizing cancer care.

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Ruta Waghmare, Ph.D

Ruta Waghmare, Ph.D is the Vice President, Scientific Affairs and Laboratory Services at Pall Biotech (a Danaher company)

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Cecilia Zapata-Harms, MS, MHA

Cecilia Zapata-Harms (MS, MHA) is chief visionary office at ELEV8BIO. She has held leadership positions in strategy, joint venture startup and program administration. Her career spans more than 25+ years in life science/biotechnology and healthcare industry.

Weixing (Star) Zhang, Ph.D

Medicinal chemist; Roche R&D Center (China) Ltd.

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