Archives: Speakers

Vinita Bhatt joined Maze Therapeutics in 2023 and currently serves as the Associate Director of Clinical Operations where she leads Maze’s first renal program in APOL1 mediated chronic kidney disease. Vinita started her career as a scientist and then later began working on the CRO side. Prior to Maze, Vinita held various clinical operations positions at sponsor companies, such as BridgeBio and BioMarin, where she focused on bringing rare disease/orphan treatments to patients.

Vinita earned a BA in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and MA in Biotechnology from Boston University and an MS in Biomedical Sciences at Rutgers University.

Susan Owen joined Pliant in June 2022 and brings over 20 years of clinical operations expertise across the areas of respiratory, oncology, cardiology and infectious diseases. Prior to Pliant, she most recently held the role of Executive Director and Head of Clinical Operations at Apexigen where she oversaw the company’s immuno-oncology portfolio. Prior to this, she held clinical operations roles at Cytokinetics, Genentech and InterMune where she managed the conduct of trials including Phase 2/ 3 clinical development respiratory program.

Ms. Owen received a B.A. in biological sciences from Smith College and a M.S. in epidemiology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s School of Public Health and Health Sciences.

More than 30 years’ experience in the packaging industry. Key focus on major large Enterprise accounts.

Over 15 years of Packaging experience, currently focussing on complex automation projects in the Benelux region for Packsize.