With a keynote address by Dr. Frances S. Collins, MD, PhD, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the forum will discuss topics such as how the private, public and academic sectors in three regions (the Americas, Europe and the Asia Pacific) can leverage meaningful partnerships, highlight emerging best practices, and explore risk-sharing at the clinical research stage and ways to bridge the gap in funding and know-how necessary to take university research to the next level.
The forum will feature the following speakers:
- Welcoming Remarks
- Mark Crowell, Executive Director, Innovation Partnerships, University of Virginia
- Keynote Address
- Dr. Frances S. Collins, MD, PhD, Director, National Institutes of Health
- Panel Discussion: Unique Funding Mechanisms and Ways to Generate Know-How (1:35 – 2:35 PM)
- Moderator: Barbara Handelin, PhD, President & Principal, BioPontis Alliance
- Dr. Michel Goldman, MD, PhD, Executive Director, Innovative Medicines Initiative
- Prof Dr P.R. Luijten, Chief Scientific Officer, Imaging Division and the Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Centre Utrecht
- Ora Dar, PhD, Head of Life Sciences Office of the Chief Science, Israeli Ministry of Industry Trade and Labor
- Panel Discussion: Effective Strategies for Sustainably Positioning University Technologies (2:45 – 3:50 PM)
- Moderator: Jon Soderstorm, PhD, Managing Director, Office of Cooperative Research, Yale University
- Prof. Ian Frazer, Director, MB, ChB Edin., MD Melb, CEO & Research Director, Translational Research Institute
- Prof. Koen Debackere, PhD, Professor of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Elias Caro, Vice President, Technology Development, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation
- Panel Discussion: Risk Sharing and Clinical Research (3:50 – 4:55 PM)
- Moderator: Steve Usdin, Washington Editor, BioCentury, & Co-host, BioCentury This Week
- Dr. Roch Doliveux, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Executive Committee, UCB
- Dr. Christopher Austin, MD, Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases Program, National Institutes of Health
- Aaron Schacht, Executive Director/COO Global External R&D, Lilly Research Laboratories
- Closing Remarks (4:55 - 5:15PM)
- Mark Crowell, Executive Director, Innovation Partnerships, University of Virginia
- Barbara Handelin, PhD, President & Principal, BioPontis Alliance
- Jon Soderstorm, PhD, Managing Director, Office of Cooperative Research, Yale University
- Steve Usdin, Washington Editor, BioCentury, & Co-host, BioCentury This Week
A reception will follow the conclusion of the panel discussions.
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