2018 Keynote Speakers:
SCHEDULE
7:00-8:15am Continental Breakfast
8:15-8:25am Opening Remarks: Jon Soderstrom, Managing Director, Yale Office of Cooperative Research
8:25-9:00am Keynote: “Transforming Healthcare: Personal Genomes to AI Enabled Ultrasound on a Chip” [Video]
Jonathan Rothberg, Chief Strategy Office, 4Catalyzer & Inventor of High-Speed DNA Sequencing
Introduction: Michael Crair, Yale
9:05-10:05am (Biotech Track, Zhang Auditorium)
China & Asia: Future Opportunities for Advancing Biotech [Video]
9:05-10:05am (Tech Track, Room 2400)
Building a Quantum Computer – Can a Yale Startup Lead the Next Generation in Computing? [Video]
10:10-11:00am (Biotech Track, Zhang Auditorium)
Trends in Biotech Investing [Video]
10:10-11:00am (Tech Track, Room 2400)
Blockchain & Internet Security – What Does the Future Hold?
[Video]
11:00am-12:30pm Lunch & ePoster Session & Presentations (Courtyard)
12:30-1:30pm Biotech Pitch Contest (Zhang Auditorium)
Moderator: Rob Bettigole, Elm Street Ventures
Pacific Oncovirus – Lassa-VSV targets and eliminates brain cancer
Team: Anthony van den Pol [Video] [Slide Deck] Second Place
Vittix Therapeutics – Curing idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis with thyroid hormone mimetics
Team: Naftali Kaminski, Milica Vukmirovic [Video] [Slide Deck]
NASHTherapeutics – Clinical development of a compound for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, the most common liver disease in the US
Team: Wajahat Mehal [Video] [Slide Deck]
Center Pharm – NCS1 – a new target for Wolfram syndrome
Team: Barbara Ehrlich [Video] [Slide Deck]
Domillin – Keeping the antibiotic miracle alive
Team: Mark Plummer [Video] [Slide Deck]
EvolveImmune – Novel platform technologies and targets for development of new cancer (immuno-) therapies
Team: Sidi Chen, Charles Fuchs
Paci-PHI – Evolution-proof therapy against multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens
Team: Paul Turner, Benjamin Chan [Video] [Slide Deck] First Place
Innatia – RIG-I agonists as next-gen immunotherapies
Team: Anna Pyle, Akiko Iwasaki [Video] [Slide Deck] Third Place
12:30-1:30pm Tech Pitch Contest (Room 2400)
Moderator: Monica Kolinsky, Wiggin and Dana
PremieBreathe – Low-cost breathing aid for newborns
Team: Anjelica Gonzalez [Video] Second Place
SOL – The new face of mental health
Team: Nicholas Chedid, Anusha Raja [Video] [Slide Deck]
HybriTech – Hybrid technologies for cereal crops
Team: Maria Moreno [Video] [Slide Deck]
ProteoWise – Rapid, low cost, multiplexed, bench-top proteomics
Team: Erik Gunther, Mikhail Kostylev, Stephen Strittmatter
[Video] [Slide Deck] Third Place
Expect With Me – Revolutionizing health care by reducing costs and improving outcomes
Team: Jessica Lewis, Jeannette Ickovics [Video] [Slide Deck]
CORISMA – Novel cardiac device bridges critical treatment gap
Team: Jiheum Park, Pramod Bonde [Video] [Slide Deck]
Integraid Immune – A genetics-free approach to producing potent T cells in a bedside manner for cancer, autoimmunity and infections
Team: Tarek Fahmy [Video] [Slide Deck]
Nth Cycle – Providing a secure supply of rare earth and specialty metals for advanced electronics
Team: Desirée Plata, Megan O’Connor [Video] [Slide Deck] First Place
1:35-2:30pm (Biotech Track, Zhang Auditorium)
Biotech Startup Ecosystems [Video]
1:35-2:30pm (Tech Track, Room 2400)
Challenges in Implementing Innovation [Video]
2:30-3:00pm: Coffee Break
3:00-3:40pm Keynote: “New Paradigm of Translational Research” [Video]
Yibing Wu, Joint Head, Portfolio Strategy & Risk Group, Temasek China
Introduction: Haifan Lin, Yale
3:45-4:20pm Keynote: “Passing the Torch” [Video]
Arie Belldegrun, Leading Biotech Researcher, Entrepreneur & Investor with Kite Pharma and Vida Ventures
Introduction: Sean Mackay, Isoplexis
4:25-5:00pm Closing Remarks and Announcement of Pitch Contest Winners and Blavatnik Awards
[Pitch Contest Awards Video] [Blavatnik Fund Awards Video] [Pictures]
5:00-7:30pm Post-Event Reception at the Peabody Museum Sponsored by Wiggin and Dana