Illustration by Ryoko Hamaguchi | Stanford Class of 2015
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 speakers in drug discovery. A broad range of policy, research and venture topics covered.
The audience includes industry leaders from Silicon Valley and a healthy mix of physicians and scientists around the country.
Keynote Speaker
Christopher P. Austin, MD
Director
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Norman Stockbridge, MD, PhD
Director
Division of Cardiovascular and Renal Products, FDA/CDER
Jennifer Grandis, MD
Assoc Vice Chancellor, Clinical and Translational Research; Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute
UCSF School of Medicine
Aarif Khakoo, MD
Vice President, Research, and Site Head
Amgen South San Francisco
Amato Giaccia, PhD
Jack, Lulu and Sam Willson Professor, Professor of Radiation Oncology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Kevin Grimes, MD
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Chemical And Systems Biology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Keynote Speaker
Brian Kobilka, MD
Helene Irwin Fagan Chair in Cardiology and Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Robert Harrington, MD
Chair, Department of Medicine
Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine
Sanjay Malhotra, PhD
Associate Professor (Research) of Radiation Oncology (Radiation and Cancer Biology)
Stanford University School of Medicine
Bradley P. Morgan, PhD
Vice President
Drug Discovery & Early Development
Cytokinetics, Inc.
Chaitan Khosla, PhD
Wells H. Rauser and Harold M. Petiprin Professor In the School of Engineering and Professor of Chemistry
Director, Stanford ChEM-H
Kelly Shepard, PhD
Senior Science Officer, Discovery and Translation, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Charles Homcy, MD
Venture Partner
Third Rock Ventures
Russ Altman, MD, PhD
Kenneth Fong Professor and Professor of Bioengineering, of Genetics, and Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD
Simon H. Stertzer Professor of Medicine & Radiology; Director, Stanford CVI
Stanford University School of Medicine
Colleen Clancy, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
University of California, Davis
Peter S. Kim, PhD
Virginia and D. K. Ludwig Professor of Biochemistry
Stanford University School of Medicine
Jonathan Fox, MD, PhD
Chief Medical Officer
MyoKardia
Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD
Virginia & D.K. Ludwig Professor For Clinical Investigation In Cancer Research
Stanford University School of Medicine
Philip Sager, MD
Chair
FDA Cardiorenal Drugs Advisory Committee
Mark Mercola, PhD
Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine
Schedule
Regulatory Policy and Clinical Trials
Norman Stockbridge, MD PhD | "What Level of Risk Aversion is Sensible in Drug Development?" | Video | Presentation (pdf)
Robert Harrington, MD | "Re-thinking Randomized Control Trials" | Video | Presentation (pdf)
Kelly A. Shepard, PhD | CIRM 2.0 - A New Funding Paradigm for Stem Cell R&D | Video | Presentation (pdf)
Christopher Austin, MD (keynote) | "Catalyzing Translational Innovation" | Video | Presentation (pdf)
Regulatory Policy and Clinical Trials Group Q&A and Panel Discussion | Moderator: Kevin Grimes, MD | Video |
Industry Leaders
Aarif Khakoo, MD | "Translating Insights From Human Genetics to Drug Development" | Video (requires SUNet ID) |
Bradley P. Morgan, PhD | "Modulation of Muscle Contractility" | Video (requires SUNet ID) | Presentation (requires SUNet ID)
Charles Homcy, MD | "Third Rock Ventures’ Approach to Building Therapeutic Companies" | Video (requires SUNet ID) |
Peter Kim, PhD | "Preventing Diseases with Vaccines" | Video (requires SUNet ID) | Presentation (requires SUNet ID)
Industry Leaders Group Q&A and Panel Discussion | Moderator: Jonathan Fox, MD, PhD | Video |
Oncology Research
Jennifer Grandis, MD | "STAT3 as a Cancer Drug Target" | Video (requires SUNet ID) | Presentation (requires SUNet ID)
Chaitan Khosla, PhD | "Discovery and Engineering of Novel Immunomodulatory Natural Products from the Microbiome"
Amato Giaccia, PhD | "Targeting HIF pathway to inhibit Metastasis and increase the Efficacy of Radiotherapy"
Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD | "Molecular Imaging of the Immune System in Humans" | Video (requires SUNet ID) | Presentation (requires SUNet ID)
Oncology Research Q&A and Panel Discussion | Moderator: Sanjay Malhotra, PhD | Video (requires SUNet ID) |
Cardiovascular Research
Russ Altman, MD | "Informatics Methods to Understand the Effects (Good and Bad) of Small Molecule Drugs" | Video |
Colleen Clancy, PhD | "Cardio-pharmacology - From Molecule to Cardiac Rhythm"
Mark Mercola, PhD | "Physiological Screening for Heart Failure Drug Discovery" | Video (requires SUNet ID) | Presentation (requires SUNet ID)
Joseph Wu, MD PhD | "Patient-Specific iPSCs for Precision Cardiovascular Medicine" | Video |
Cardiovascular Research Q&A Panel Discussion | Moderator: Philip Sager, MD | Video |
Blue Sky Talks
Jessica L. Mega, MD, MPH (keynote) | "Using New Technologies and Analytic Tools to Enhance Drug Discovery and Development"
Brian Kobilka, MD (keynote) | "Challenges in GPCR Drug Discovery"
Snapshots of the Day
Organizers
