Julien Muller
Russell Warman
Russell Warman is Head of Infrastructure and Operations at Auto Trader, the UK's largest digital automotive marketplace
He leads the team charged with the capacity and performance of one the UK’s busiest websites - autotrader.co.uk, which sits at the heart of the UK's vehicle buying process. The team have a cloud native approach to enable our developers to make more frequent changes safely and are increasingly looking at public cloud services to help achieve that aim.
Gwenn Hansen
Gwenn is Vice President of Drug Discovery Technologies at Nurix Therapeutics, a company focused on discovering and developing next-generation therapies that target protein homeostasis through modulation of the ubiquitin proteasome system. Since joining Nurix in January of 2016, Gwenn has focused on establishing the company’s DNA encoded library technology platform for small molecule discovery, and now leads teams of scientists in both early discovery as well as medicinal chemistry. Prior to joining Nurix, Gwenn spent one year as an Associate Professor in the Center for Drug Discovery at Baylor College of Medicine and over 13 years in a variety of discovery-focused roles at Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, both located in Houston, Texas. Gwenn received her PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1998 and completed postdoctoral training at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Kirti Sharma
Sara Buhrlage
Sara Buhrlage, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Dana-Farber’s Cancer Biology Department and Harvard Medical School’s Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Department. Her research group focuses on the development of first-in-class inhibitors and prototype drugs for deubiquitylating enzymes (DUBs) that can be utilized to pharmacologically validate members of the gene family as new targets for cancer treatment and other diseases. DUBs have garnered significant attention recently as potential therapeutic targets in the field of oncology due to their removal of degradative ubiquitin marks from cancer causing proteins.
Prior to joining as a faculty member in July 2015, Dr. Buhrlage was a professional track scientist at Dana-Farber in the medicinal chemistry core laboratory. In this role she collaborated with Institute researchers to pharmacologically validate novel targets of disease and study mechanisms of oncogenesis and drug resistance.
Dr. Buhrlage completed a Doctor of Philosophy in organic chemistry in 2008, under the direction of Professor Anna Mapp, PhD, from the University of Michigan, where she successfully designed, synthesized and characterized small molecules that bind the transcriptional co-activator CBP and upregulate transcription when tethered to DNA. Following completion of her Doctor of Philosophy, Dr. Buhrlage trained for two years in medicinal chemistry at the Broad Institute.