Bay Area Biotech Day 2026 | Program

Bay Area Biotech Day 2026 banner with Campanile and Golden Gate Bridge

 

PROGRAM

8:30 - 9:00 AM Registration & Coffee: LKS, 2nd floor lobby
   
9:00 - 9:05 AM  Opening Remarks
   
9:05 - 9:50 AM Keynote Address
Howard Chang
Chief Scientific Officer and SVP Global Research, Amgen
   
Session I:
 
Induced Proximity and Next-Generation Modalities
 
9:50 - 10:25 AM Neil Bence
Senior Vice President, Bristol Myers Squibb
10:25 - 11:00 AM Phil Chamberlain
Chief Executive Officer, Neomorph
   
11:00 - 11:20 AM Coffee Break
   
11:20 - 11:55 AM Andrew Phillips
Senior Director, AbbVie
   
Session II:
 
Engineering Therapies for the Nervous System
 
11:55 - 12:30 PM Marina Bershteyn
Senior Director, Neurona Therapeutics
12:30- 1:05 PM Shilpa Sambashivan
Chief Executive Officer, Nura Bio
   
1:05 - 2:15 PM Lunch
   
2:15 - 2:50 PM Kevin Eggan
Chief Scientific Officer, BioMarin
   
2:50 - 3:25 PM MTx Faculty Talk
Daniel Nomura
Professor of Molecular Therapeutics
   
Session III:
 
Scaling Up Approaches to Drug Discovery
 
3:25 - 4:00 PM Matthew Albert
VP, Discovery Biology, Octant Bio
4:00 - 4:35 PM Leena Patel
Senior Director, Gilead Sciences
   
4:35 - 4:45 PM Break & Poster Setup
   
4:45 - 7:30 PM Poster Session, Networking, and Reception
Featuring posters from students, postdocs, and participating companies