CEO & Co-Founder Immuto Scientific Dr. Faraz Choudhury is the CEO and co-founder of Immuto Scientific, a contract research organization providing analytical research services to pharmaceutical companies for drug discovery. Dr. Choudhury is one of the inventors of Immuto’s core technology that was developed at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. He holds a Ph.D. from…
President and CEO Estrigenix Therapeutics, Inc. Over a 38-year academic career at Marquette University, Dr. William Donaldson has exemplified the teacher-scholar model. He and his co-workers have published over 120 research articles and have been awarded more than $2.25 million in external funding to support his academic research. He is the recipient of the 1995…
Director of Research and Development Retham Technologies Curtis Jones received his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2012. He has been involved in research focused on the diagnosis, treatment, and pathophysiology of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, an adverse reaction to heparin treatment, from 2012-2019 while at the BloodCenter of Wisconsin. In 2019,…
Life Sciences Leader Former EVP, Chief Medical Officer, & Chief Patient Officer at Pfizer, Inc A pioneer in medicine and leadership, Freda Lewis-Hall, MD, DFAPA, MFPM has been on the frontlines of healthcare for more than 40 years as a clinician, researcher, and leader in the biopharmaceuticals and life sciences industries. Exclusively represented by Leading…
General Manager, Screening Exact Sciences Pat Setji has served as General Manager, Screening since January 2021. Prior to this role, she served as Vice President, Business Operations, leading Corporate Affairs, Commercial Operations, Organizational Engineering, as well as oversight of the Office of the CEO. Ms. Setji brings more than 20 years of experience in marketing,…
General Counsel Nexus Pharmaceuticals Ayesha Ahmed is General Counsel of Nexus Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company that focuses on developing, manufacturing, and commercializing specialty and generic injectables. After graduating from law school in 2006 Ayesha began her career at a boutique litigation firm. She then went on to clerk for the Honorable Moshe Jacobius at…
Chief Clinical Research Officer UW Health/University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health For the past 30 years, Ms. Nugent has worked in clinical research in everything from drug discovery to epidemiology to all phases of clinical trials. For the past 16 years, she has focused on developing innovative methods to improve the…