CHICAGO BIOTECH EXCHANGE

The Chicago Biotech Exchange is a nonprofit organization fostering collaboration across Chicago’s life sciences community — including biotechnology, academia, and the pharmaceutical industry. Our inaugural event will take place on November 3, 2025.

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Event Speakers — November 3, 2025

  • Lisa Dhar, Ph.D.

    Associate Vice President for Innovation and New Ventures, Northwestern University

  • Geoffrey Duyk, M.D., Ph.D.

    CEO, Grove Biopharma

  • Ryan Fukushima, MBA

    Chief Operating Officer, Tempus

  • Nathan Gianneschi, Ph.D.

    Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Professor of Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science, and Pharmacology, Northwestern University

  • Shana Kelley, Ph.D.

    President, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago, Neena B. Schwartz Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

  • Dimitri Krainc, M.D., Ph.D.

    Chair, Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Co-founder, Vanqua Bio

  • Richard Morimoto, Ph.D.

    Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University

  • Milan Mrksich, Ph.D.

    Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Cell and Developmental Biology, Northwestern University

Uniting Chicago’s Biotech Community

Uniting Chicago’s Biotech Community