2025 Speaker Faculty

Abraham Scaria

Chief Scientific Officer

Beacon Therapeutics

6th Dry AMD & GA Therapeutics Summit Speaker - Alessia Tassoni

Alessia Tassoni

Associate Director

Annexon Biosciences

Aparna Lakkaraju

Professor and Alexander Endowed Chair for Vision Research

University of California, San Francisco

6th Dry AMD & GA Therapeutics Summit Speaker - Cheryl Rowe-Rendelman

Cheryl Rowe-Rendleman

Owner and Managing Consultant

Omar Consulting Group

6th Dry AMD & GA Therapeutics Summit Speaker - Christine Curcio

Christine Curcio

Professor, Emerita

University of Alabama at Birmingham

6th Dry AMD & GA Therapeutics Summit Speaker - Claire Gelfman

Claire Gelfman

Independent Consultant

CMG Consulting

6th Dry AMD & GA Therapeutics Summit Speaker - Clark tedford

Clark Tedford

President & Chief Executive Officer

LumiThera

6th Dry AMD & GA Therapeutics Summit Speaker - Cynthia Owsley

Cynthia Owsley

Professor

University of Alabama at Birmingham

6th Dry AMD & GA Therapeutics Summit Speaker - Firas Rahhal

Firas Rahhal

Partner

Retina Vitreous Associates & ExSight Ventures

Florian Régent

Head of Ophthalmology

Axol Bioscience

6th Dry AMD & GA Therapeutics Summit Speaker - George Weissgerber

George Weissgerber

Chief Medical Officer

PulseSight Therapeutics

Hendrik Scholl

CMO

Belite Bio

6th Dry AMD & GA Therapeutics Summit Speaker - Huma Qamar

Huma Qamar

Chief Medical Officer

Ocugen, Inc

6th Dry AMD & GA Therapeutics Summit Speaker - Jane Lebkowski

Jane Lebkowski

President

Regenerative Patch Technologies

Karl Csaky

Chief Executive & Medical Officer, Director - Lab, Molecular Ophthalmology Laboratory

Retina Foundation of the Southwest

6th Dry AMD & GA Therapeutics Summit Speaker - Lori Taylor

Lori Taylor

svp

Annexon Biosciences

Lucian Del Priore

Co-Founder, FerRx Bio & Robert R. Young Professor and Chair

Yale

Mark Fields

Co-Founder, FerRx Bio & Associate Professor of Ophthalmology

Yale School of Medicine

Maryam Mokhtarzadeh

Senior Director, Regulatory Strategy

Independent Expert

6th Dry AMD & GA Therapeutics Summit Speaker - Maximillian Pfau

Maximilian Pfau

Professor, University of Bonn, Former Snr Principal Medical Director at Roche

Roche

Natasa Jovic

Vice President, Marketing Strategy & Partnerships

Retinai

6th Dry AMD & GA Therapeutics Summit Speaker - Omer Trivizki

Omer Trivizki

Deputy Chair, Ophthalmology Division

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute

6th Dry AMD & GA Therapeutics Summit Speaker - Paul Ashton

Paul ashton

ceo

Inflammasome Therapeutics

6th Dry AMD & GA Therapeutics Summit Speaker - Robyn Guymer

Robyn Guymer

Deputy Director

Centre for Eye Research Australia

Stephen Poor

Head of Translational Medicine

Apellis Pharmaceuticals

6th Dry AMD & GA Therapeutics Summit Speaker - Thierry Bordet

Thierry Bordet

Chief Scientific & Operating Officer

PulseSight Therapeutics

Viral Kansara

Vice President of Preclinical Development

Clearside Biomedical Inc.

6th Dry AMD & GA Therapeutics Summit Speaker - William Pedranti

William Pedranti

Chief Executive Officer

Visgenx, PENG Life Science Ventures

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Conference Day One