Catalent’s Bioconjugate Advisory Board is comprised of recognized experts in the field of bioconjugates, drawing members with industry-leading track records of success in academia, science, CMC, clinical pipeline strategy, regulatory and product licensing, and business. The board provides strategic and tactical guidance on Catalent’s SMARTag® technology platform features and offerings, as well as target selection, pipeline development, and out-licensing. Board members include:

Carolyn Bertozzi, Board Chair

Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University
Nobel Laureate

Carolyn Bertozzi is the Baker Family Director of Sarafan ChEM-H and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University. She is also an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her research focuses on profiling changes in cell surface glycosylation associated with cancer, inflammation and infection, and exploiting this information for development of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, most recently in the area of immuno-oncology. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Most recently she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Welch Prize in Chemistry. She also was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Chemistry for the Future Solvay Prize, among many others.

Mary Janatpour

Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Spotlight Therapeutics

Mary Janatpour, Ph.D., currently serves as EVP and Chief Scientific Officer at Spotlight Therapeutics, where she is responsible for the overall strategy and build of Spotlight’s therapeutic pipeline, optimally leveraging the company’s proprietary CRISPR-based in situ gene editing platform. Dr. Janatpour also serves on the Board of Directors of Active Motif. Prior to joining Spotlight in 2019, Dr. Janatpour served as Vice President Oncology Research at Dynavax Technologies where she led an immuno-oncology clinical program through Ph1 and a research laboratory focused on rational clinical combinations. As a pipeline builder for much of her career, she built oncology early-stage portfolios at Chiron Corporation, Schering-Plough Biopharma and Novartis and was an independent consultant for immuno-oncology start-ups with novel platforms. Pertinent to Catalent’s BAB, Dr. Janatpour’s research efforts at Novartis, Dynavax and Spotlight all exploited using antibodies to deliver payloads to select cells. Dr. Janatpour received her BA in Molecular Biology from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science from the University of California, San Francisco. She did her post-doctoral training in Immunology at the DNAX Research Institute in Palo Alto, CA.

Morris Rosenberg

Consultant, Morris Rosenberg Consulting

Dr. Rosenberg is a highly experienced biotechnology veteran with over 30 years of experience in the development of therapeutic agents to treat a variety of human diseases. As a scientist, engineer, and executive, he has played a key role in the development of several important commercially approved therapeutics including Adcetris™,Avonex™, Angiomax™, Forteo™ and Trodelvy™. Dr. Rosenberg is a native of St. Louis, Missouri and earned each of his college degrees, a B.S. in Biology (1982), a B.S (1982)., M.S (1985). and D.Sc (1989) in Chemical Engineering, from Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Rosenberg worked at Invitron from 1987 – 1990 helping to develop large scale cell culture production processes for the first generation of murine and chimeric antibodies introduced into the clinic. He was then employed at Biogen from 1990 – 1998 in roles of increasing responsibility in Process Sciences. Dr. Rosenberg then moved to Eli Lilly as Director Biologics Process Development from 1998 – 2001. In 2001 Dr. Rosenberg joined Seattle Genetics as Vice President Product Development and held roles of increasing responsibility as SVP and EVP of Development and Manufacturing from 2001 – 2012. As part of the executive management team at Seattle Genetics, he played a key role in building a commercial biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of the antibody-drug conjugate technology platform for the treatment of cancer. Most recently Dr. Rosenberg served as the Chief Technical Officer of Immunomedics and helped launch Trodelvy™ for the treatment of 3rd line Triple Negative Breast Cancer.

Pamela Trail

Owner, AGL Biotechnology Consultants, LLC

Pamela A. Trail, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized expert in oncology drug research and development with over 30 years of experience including antibody-drug conjugates, bispecific T-cell engagers, immunomodulatory antibodies, tumor-directed immune modulators and small molecule drugs. Her work has led to multiple IND filings and four approved oncology drugs. Dr. Trail has published extensively and is a co-inventor on multiple small molecule and biologic based patents. Dr. Trail has held senior leadership roles at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Bayer Healthcare, Seattle Genetics, MedImmune, Regeneron and Molecular Partners.

Greg Thurber

Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Michigan

Greg M. Thurber is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan and Associate Chair of Graduate Education in ChE. His work focuses on applying fundamental biotransport principles to design novel therapeutics and molecular imaging agents including antibody-drug conjugates. Prof. Thurber received his Ph.D. training in protein therapeutics at MIT in the laboratory of Dr. Dane Wittrup and postdoctoral training in molecular imaging at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in the lab of Dr. Ralph Weissleder. During his career, he has authored over 65 papers and book chapters and delivered 85 invited talks at major pharmaceutical companies, national and international conferences, and university departmental seminars. He also has consulting/research contract affiliations with more than 20 different companies. Prof. Thurber’s work has been featured in popular news outlets including NPR’s “All Things Considered” and Smithsonian Magazine, and he has received several awards including an NIH K01 award, the National Science Foundation CAREER award, and the World ADC George R. Pettit Award for Individual Contribution to the Field of Antibody Drug Conjugates.

Jonathan Ellis

Independent Consultant & Advisor

Jon Ellis, Ph.D. is an accomplished executive and scientist with more than 30 years of experience in the pharma and biotech industry. Currently working as an independent consultant and advisor, he previously spent more than 25 years in various leadership roles at GSK and predecessor companies, including Head of Antibody Engineering, VP Biopharm Business Development, VP and Head of Science and Technology Licensing; and most recently VP and Head of Technology BD. In these roles Jon created and led GSK’s strategic BD practice for platforms and technology globally, resulting in a broad range of transactions including licensing, M&A, divestment, and novel risk-sharing constructs. Dr Ellis has served on the boards of public and private companies, most notably Orchard Therapeutics where he was a member of the science & technology and audit committees. Jon has a particular interest in strategy and deal-making around complex technologies and emerging therapeutic modalities, and has worked extensively in biopharmaceuticals, cell & gene therapy, big data and genetics. He is an inventor on more than 35 global patent families covering technologies and therapeutic molecules, many of which have been the subject of clinical studies. Jon holds Master of Arts and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge, and a Master of Business Administration from Henley Management College specializing in R&D productivity.