Juan Pinelli

Juan Pinelli is an R&D Strategist on Pfizer’s Digital Innovation and Alliances team, where he evaluates disruptive technologies across the R&D value chain from drug discovery to clinical development. He has contributed as a clinical SME on AI and data initiatives, including Enterprise Knowledge Unification, Post-acquisition Agentic Knowledge Mining, and pilots for AI-enabled Clinical Trial Emulation. Juan has taught AI applications in biopharma R&D at UCSF and Stanford’s CERSI and ACDRS programs.

Previously, he spent nearly a decade in oncology clinical development at Pfizer, Seagen, and consulting, serving as Global Development Lead and Medical Monitor on ADC and CAR-T programs. He is a named author in journals including Journal of Clinical Oncology, Blood, and Annals of Oncology, with fifteen years of clinical experience at Fred Hutch Cancer Center and the University of Washington Medical Center specializing in bone marrow transplant and cellular immunotherapy.