Keynote Speakers

Stefanie Jeffrey, Chief Dr. Jeffrey received her undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Physics and master’s degree in Chemistry from Harvard University. She did her medical and postgraduate surgical training at the University of California, San Francisco, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. At Stanford, she was Chief of Breast Surgery and Director of the Interdisciplinary Breast Fellowship Program prior to becoming Chief of Surgical Oncology Research. Her laboratory studies tumor cells involved in the metastatic spread of cancer with the aim of improving methods for selecting patient-specific therapies through technology development and patient-derived models for drug sensitivity testing.
Brian Kirby, Associate Professor Brian J. Kirby currently directs the Micro/Nanofluidics Laboratory in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University, following several years as Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the Microfluidics Department at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California.  Professor Kirby has received a 2002 R&D Top 100 Invention award for work on microvalves for high pressure-fluid control, a 2004 JD Watson Investigator award for microdevices for protein production and analysis, and a 2006 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award for nanoscale electrokinetics and bioagent detection.
Katharina Pachmann, Professor Degrees and Diplomas 1973 Staatsexamen Humanmedizin in München 1974 German Dissertation 1977 Swedish Dissertation 1993 Habilitation in experimenteller Hämatologie Professional and research experience 1974-1975 Educational grant DFG: Stockholm, Institutet för Cellforskning; and Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried 1976-1977 Research grant DFG: Institute for Hematology GSF, München 1977-1982 Postdoc: Institute for Hematology der GSF, München 1984-1989 Postdoc: I. Medical Clinic, Klinikum rechts der Isar, München 1989-1996 Postdoc: Medical Clinic, Klinikum Innenstadt der Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München 1996-1998 Visiting Scientist: MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas Section of Molecular Hematology and Therapy 1999 Visiting Scientist: LKH Universitätsklinikum Graz Gemeinsame Einrichtung für Klinische Immunologie, Jean-Dausset Laboratorium 2000-2012 Experimental Hematology und Oncology Clinic for Internal Medicine II Friedrich Schiller-Universität Jena Since 2012 Senior Researcher, Transfusion Center Bayreuth, Germany