Agenda
Friday, May 17, 2013
I. Drugs and Vaccines
Moderator: Simon Lovestone, MB, Ph.D.
8:30 AM Opening Welcome: Larry Gold, Ph.D., MCDB, CU and
SomaLogic “Complexity: Rube Goldberg Was Merely Linear”
9:00 AM Christopher T. Walsh, Professor, Harvard Medical School
“Antibiotics Past, Present, and Future: At the Academic/Biotech
Interface”
9:45 AM Steven G. Reed, Ph.D., Founder, President and Chief
Scientifi c Offi cer, Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) “Novel
Adjuvants for New Vaccines”
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM Peter S. Kim, Ph.D., Former President, Merck Research
Laboratories “Towards an HIV Vaccine”
11:45 AM John Swindle, Ph.D., President and CEO, CompleGen,
Inc. “Drug Discovery: Infi nitely Complex but Don’t Overthink It”
12:30 PM Lunch
II. Drugs and Diagnostics
Moderator: Pippa Marrack, Ph.D.
2:00 PM Mat Todd, Ph.D., University of Sydney “Open Source Drug
Discovery - A Limited Liability Tutorial”
2:45 PM Lakshmi A. Devi, Ph.D., Professor, Mount Sinai School of
Medicine “Big Science on a Small Budget: Neuropeptide Receptors
and Drug Development”
3:30 PM Break
4:00 PM Charles Cantor, Ph.D., Chief Scientifi c Offi cer, Sequenom,
Inc. “Noninvasive Personal Genomics”
4:45 PM David Juncker, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department
of Biomedical Engineering, McGill University “The Transformation of
Society by Microchips and Scalable Technologies: From Computers
to Healthcare“
5:30 PM Closing Remarks
Saturday, May 18, 2013
III. Drugs, Nutrition and Magic
Moderator: Steve Williams, M.D., Ph.D.
8:30 AM Tim Harris, Ph.D., D.Sc, Senior Vice President of
Translational Medicine, Biogen Idec “Drug Discovery and
Development: It’s All about Human Genetics Really”
9:15 AM Emmanuel E. Baetge, Ph.D., Vice President and
Head of Nestle Institute of Health Sciences SA “The Scientifi c
Challenge of Expanding the Frontiers of Nutrition”
10:00 AM Break
10:30 AM Susana Martinez-Conde, Ph.D., Director, Laboratory
of Visual Neuroscience “Sleights of Mind”
11:15 AM Stephen Macknik, Director, Laboratory of Behavioral
Neurophysiology “Champions of Illusions”
12:00 PM Stanley Feld, M.D., FACP, MACE, Clinical
Endocrinologist, Founding Partner, Endocrine Associates of
Dallas, Past President of the American Association of Clinical
Endocrinologists and the American College of Endocrinology “We
Know How to Fix the Healthcare System”
12:45 PM Lunch
IV. Roses, Education and Complexity
Moderator: David Lawrence, M.D.
2:00 PM Daniel Klein, Author, “Travels With Epicurus” “Death
and Its Prequel”
2:45 PM Diana Chapman Walsh, President Emerita, Wellesley
College “Educating Our Smartest Kids to Tackle the Big Problems
in Healthcare”
3:30 PM Break
4:00 PM Ian Billick, Ph.D., Executive Director, Rocky Mountain
Biological Laboratory “Complex Systems, Idiosyncracy, and
Scarce Data: Observations from the Field”
4:45 PM Stephen Ansolabehere, Professor, Department of
Government, Harvard University “Energy and Climate Policy and
the Lessons for Healthcare”
5:30 PM Closing Remarks
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