Virtual Event
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Advances in research and technology now afford us the unique opportunity to develop and test novel diagnostics and therapeutics. This conference takes advantage of the collective experience and expertise of our participants to cover a broad range of policy, research, and venture topics. This symposium provides an invaluable forum for interdisciplinary exchange at the forefront of drug research.
Lifetime Achievement Awardees
John Schiller, PhD
Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Cellular Oncology
National Cancer Institute
Douglas Lowy, MD
Principal Deputy Director
National Cancer Institute
Participants
Hal Barron, MD
CSO and President of R&D
GlaxoSmithKline
Robert Califf, MD
Head of Strategy and Policy
Verily Life Sciences and Google Health Divisions of Alphabet
Stanley T. Crooke, MD, PhD
Executive Chairman of the Board
Ionis Pharmaceuticals
Helene Gayle, MD, MPH
President and CEO
The Chicago Community Trust
Thomas Hudson, MD
Senior Vice President, R&D and Chief Scientific Officer
AbbVie
Peter Kim, PhD
Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Biochemistry
Stanford School of Medicine
Roger Kornberg, PhD
Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor in Medicine
Stanford University
Nobel Prize in 2006
Fady Malik, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA
Executive Vice President, Research and Development
Cytokinetics
Ken Mills
President and CEO
REGENXBIO
Michael Nedelman
Producer
CNN
Andrew Plump, MD, PhD
CMO and CSO
Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Marcus Schindler, PhD
Executive Vice President and CSO of Research & Early Development
Novo Nordisk
Young Sohn
Chairman of the Board, HARMAN
Senior Advisor, Samsung Electronics
George Yancopoulos, MD, PhD
President and CSO
Regeneron
Michael Basson, PhD
Senior Editor
Nature Medicine
Andrea Carfi, PhD
CSO for Infectious Disease
Moderna
Jürgen Eckhardt, MD
Senior Vice President and Head of Leaps by Bayer
Anne Heatherington, PhD
Senior Vice President
Head of Data Sciences Institute
Takeda
Mir Imran, MS
Chairman and CEO
Rani Therapeutics
Nina Kjellson
General Partner
Canaan
Nanna Lüneborg, PhD
Partner
Novo Holdings
Mathai Mammen, MD, PhD
Global Head of Research and Development
Janssen
Lloyd Minor, MD
Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Professorship for the Dean
Stanford School of Medicine
Julie Parsonnet, MD
George Deforest Barnett Professor in Medicine
Prof of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford
Camille Samuels, MBA
Partner
Venrock
Mark Smith, MD, MBA
Founding President and CEO
California Healthcare Foundation
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, PhD
President and Bing Presidential Professor
Stanford University
Taiyin Yang, PhD
Executive Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing
Gilead
Elias Zerhouni, MD
Former President for Global R&D, Sanofi
Former Director, NIH
Former US Presidential Science Envoy
Helen Blau, PhD
Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Professor
Director, Baxter Lab for Stem Cell Biology
Carmen Chang, MA, JD
General Partner
Head of Asia
New Enterprise Associates
Levi Garraway, MD, PhD
Executive VP, Head of Product Development, and Chief Medical Officer
Genentech/Roche
Sandra Horning, MD
Board member, Gilead Sciences
Board Member, Moderna
Kathrin Jansen, PhD
Senior Vice President
Head of Vaccine Research and Development
Pfizer
Brian Kobilka, MD
Helene Irwin Fagan Chair in Cardiology
Stanford University
Nobel Prize in 2012
Yvonne Maldonado, MD
Sr Assoc Dean, Faculty Development and Diversity, Taube Professor of Global Health and Infectious Diseases
Joan Mannick, MD
Head of Research and Development
Life Biosciences
Woodrow A. Myers, Jr, MD, MBA
Managing Director
Myers Ventures, LLC
Philip Pizzo, MD
David and Susan Heckerman Professor and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Emeritus Dean, Stanford School of Medicine
Serge Saxonov
Co-Founder and CEO
10x Genomics
Orla Smith, PhD
Editor
Science Translational Medicine
Janet Woodcock, MD
Acting Commissioner
FDA
Wendy Young, PhD
Senior Vice President, Small Molecule Drug Discovery
Genentech
Organizers
Amanda Chase, PhD
Associate Director of Strategic Research Development
Stanford Cardiovascular Institute
Joseph Wu, MD, PhD
Director, Stanford CVI
Simon H. Stertzer, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine and Radiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Sanjay Malhotra, PhD
Professor, Cell, Developmental & Cancer Biology; Director, Center for Experimental Therapeutics
Oregon Health & Science University
Mark Mercola, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Kuldev Singh, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Support by
in alphabetical order
Alexandria Ventures
Alwaysraise, LLC
Astellas
Codex DNA
Cytokinetics
Genentech
Khloris Biosciences
Merck
Novo Nordisk
OptinaDx
REGENXBIO
Santen
Servier BioInnovation
Vala Sciences
10X Genomics
Stanford Cardiovascular Health
Media Sponsors
Biocom California
California Life Sciences Association
Keystone Symposia
Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS)
For additional information, please contact Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD, or Amanda Chase, PhD