The Future of Life Sciences
The 3rd Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation Day is the biggest day for life sciences startups and innovation in the State of Massachusetts. Last year this house-full, high-energy, hands-on event brought together legendary speakers and experts to mingle with innovators, post-docs, professors, entrepreneurs, innovators, and venture capitalists. It is the flagship event of life sciences in Massachusetts, jointly and actively put together by all the major organizations that are involved in starting and supporting the life sciences startup ecosystem in the Commonwealth.
The event's speakers include:
Keynotes
Matthew W. Emmens, Chairman, President and CEO, Vertex Pharmaceuticals: The Future of Science
Leonard Zon, Founder of FATE Therapeutics & Harvard Stem Cell Institute: How Zebrafish lost its stripes
James O'Mara, VP of BD: The Story of Ironwood Pharma: A billion dollar IPO
Innovators & Inventors
Nat Sims, Inventor of the Smart Infusion Pump, MGH
Edward Brown, Professor, Brigham and Women's Hospital
David Walt, Founder of Illumina & Quanterix, and Robinson Professor of Chemistry, Tufts University
Jeffrey Karp, Director of Advanced Biomaterials, Harvard Medical School & Recipient of Top 20 Breakthroughs that will change Medicine 2009
Bill Rodriguez, Founder, Daktari & Former Chief Medical Officer, Clinton Foundation & Harvard Medical School
Uli von Andrian, Founder, Selecta Biosciences & Harvard Medical School
Giulio Draetta, Founder, Mitotix, Chief Research BD Officer, DFCI, Former Head of Oncology, Merck and Harvard Medical School
Li Huei Tsai, Scientific Advisory Board, Sirtris, Picower Professor of Neuroscience, MIT
Dennis L. Fowler, Professor of Surgery, Columbia and CIMIT
Athan Kuliopulos, Founder, Anchor Therapeutics and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University
Dr. Rox Anderson, Founder of Follica, Juniper Medical and Director, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, MGH/HST
Presenters & Panelists
Tim Murray, Lieutenant Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Scott Kirsner, Writer, Innovation Economy
Gordon Wong, Head of the Incubator, Biogen Idec
Edward Kerslake, VP of R&D, Boston Scientific
Mohammed Ali, Head of M&A, Avaya
Funding Sources
Karin Hehenberger, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Andrew Kurtz, Co-founder, SBIR Program, National Cancer Institute
Allison B. Milutinovich, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
