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David J. Whelan

Chief Executive Officer – BioscienceLA

Holly J. Mitchell

Supervisor, 2nd District – Los Angeles County

Susan Windham-Bannister, PhD

Board Chair – BioscienceLA

David Piacquad

Senior Vice President, Business Development – Amgen

Peter Moglia

Co-CEO & Co-CIO – Alexandria Real Estate Equities

Harlan Levine, MD

President, Strategy and Business Ventures – City of Hope

Amber Kaplan, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer, Karma Biotechnologies

Stephanie Hsieh

Executive Director, Los Angeles, Biocom California

Monica Jain, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery & Surgical Innovation Officer – Cedars-Sinai

Chris Bostick

Partner | Venture Capital – OCV

Andrea Choe

Founder & CEO – Holoclara

Stephen Cheung

Chief Operating Officer – LAEDC

Karen Glenn

Corporate Affairs Senior Manager – Grifols

Rohit Shukla

Founder & CEO – Larta

Kwame Ulmer

Venture Partner, Wavemaker360 / Founder, MedTechColor

Ryan Witt

Hub Director, UCLA Biodesign

Shyam Natarajan

CEO, Avenda Health

Lindsay Bourgeois

Director. BioLabs LA at the Lundquist Institute

Julenne Elliott

Lead Growth Strategist, Kiira Health

Crystal Adesanya

CEO & Founder of Kiira Health

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BioscienceLA

Founded in 2018, BioscienceLA is the innovation catalyst for life sciences and health innovation in the greater Los Angeles region, accelerating the growth of funding, space, and talent, as well as messaging and awareness-building. The independent not-for-profit organization was seeded by LA County and has backing from Amgen, PhRMA, Richard Lundquist, Richard Merkin, City of Hope, and Cedars-Sinai, among others.