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Dr. Nina Siragusa, Ph.D., MBA, is the Strategy, Business, and Data & Digital Lead within the global R&D organization of Merck Healthcare KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. In this role, she leads strategic projects, manages business operations, and drives digital transformation.

Previously, she served as Chief of Staff to Dr. Laura Matz, Chief Science and Technology Officer at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. As part of the Science and Technology Office Leadership Team, she was responsible for fostering cross-sectoral collaboration, innovation, and digitalization across Merck’s three business sectors. She also spearheaded the company’s efforts in Bioconvergence, a multidisciplinary approach that synergizes biology, engineering, data, and digitalization. This initiative promises groundbreaking advancements in healthcare and the life sciences, heralding a new era of scientific collaboration for a healthier, more sustainable future.

Prior to that, Dr. Siragusa contributed to corporate innovation in several leadership roles:

• As Biotechnology Lead of a synthetic biology innovation project,
• As Senior Manager, responsible for creating strategic alignment and building high-performing teams, and
• As Associate Director, focusing on sourcing innovative ideas to generate new business opportunities.

Dr. Siragusa earned her Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Tuebingen, Germany, and conducted research in Europe and the USA, including at Yale University, before joining Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany in 2016.

In 2024, she completed an MBA in Digital Transformation Management with a focus on Digital Leadership at Goethe Business School, Frankfurt, Germany.

Dr. Siragusa is also the lead author of the recently published book, Bioconvergence Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities in Research Productivity. You can find it here:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-61593-1

Home Page Merck KGaA Darmstadt, Germany - https://www.emdgroup.com/en

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Dr. Jackie Kunzler, Ph.D. is Senior Vice President and Global Head of Research and Development (R&D), and member of the Executive Management Committee, of Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies ( https://www.terumobct.com/ ), where she focuses on innovation and development leading the way for unlocking the potential of blood and cell collections in varied sectors, including blood banking, plasma-based therapies and cell and gene therapies.

Dr. Kunzler joined Terumo from Baxter Healthcare where she held successive leadership roles in their business, including as Baxter Healthcare's Senior Vice President for Quality and Regulatory and Head of Global Life Sciences.

Dr. Kunzler holds a Ph.D. in Cell Biology/Neuroscience from the University of Illinois, Chicago. She earned a Master of Science in Toxicology from the University of Florida, Bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Medical Technology (Laboratory Medicine) from University of Iowa and an MBA in Healthcare Administration from Benedictine University.

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Sam Murray, MT-BC, CADDCT, CDP, is a Music Therapist at Goodwin Living ( https://goodwinliving.org/ ), a non-profit senior living and healthcare organization, located in Northern Virginia, that serves more than 2,500 older adults in the National Capital Region (Northern Virginia, Washington, DC, and Maryland) and more than 25,000 older adults across the nation who participate in their brain health programs.

Sam and her team are exploring novel ways to help residents living with mild cognitive impairment or dementia connect with through music therapy programs. With approximately 7 million Americans facing Alzheimer's today, and the eventual loss of communication that they experience, music therapy is becoming more widely acknowledged by many experts as a viable way to communicate with individuals for whom language is no longer enough, helping to re-establish comfort and connection.

Goodwin Living’s foundation recently invested in a new instrument called the Crdl ( https://www.crdl.com/ ) that helps translate physical touch into music, in essence transforming a person's body into an instrument, for an entirely new concept in communications and human interaction.

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