08:00

09:00

Registration & Breakfast

MIT Campus, Building 13 Lobby

09:00

09:05

Welcome by MIT Provost Cynthia Barnhart

MIT Campus, Building 10, Room 10-250

09:05

09:30

Engineering the Future with Biology

MIT Campus, Building 10, Room 10-250

Conversation with Sangeeta Bhatia and Susan Hockfield

09:30

10:35

Next-Gen Genetic Therapies

MIT Campus, Building 10, Room 10-250

Hosted by Christiana Bardon

10:35

11:10

Pipeline Portfolio Strategies

MIT Campus, Building 10, Room 10-250

Conversation with Deborah Baron and Ted Love

11:10

11:30

Refreshment Break

11:30

12:00

Illuminating the Dark Genome

MIT Campus, Building 10, Room 10-250

Conversation with Rosana Kapeller and Anthony Philippakis

12:00

12:20

Is RNA the Key to Cancer Vaccines?

MIT Campus, Building 10, Room 10-250

Introduced by Jim Reddoch

12:20

13:25

Lunch Break

MIT Campus, Building 10, Room 10-250

13:25

13:50

Antisense: Seeing the Light after a Long Tunnel

MIT Campus, Building 10, Room 10-250

Introduced by Sheila Gujrathi

13:50

14:15

Next-Gen Immunology: An FcRN Blockbuster in the Making

MIT Campus, Building 10, Room 10-250

Introduced by Sheila Gujrathi

14:15

14:55

Ode to the Ribosome, and Musings on Life and Death

MIT Campus, Building 10, Room 10-250

Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | Fireside chat with Brian Greene

14:55

15:15

Harnessing Natural Killer Cells for Cancer Treatment

MIT Campus, Building 10, Room 10-250

Introduced by Jane Grogan

15:15

15:30

Refreshment Break

MIT Campus, Building 10, Room 10-250

15:35

16:35

Cell Therapy Breakthroughs

MIT Campus, Building 10, Room 10-250

Hosted by Mary Lynne Hedley

16:35

16:50

MIT Hacks: A Rich Tradition

MIT Campus, Building 10, Room 10-250

16:50

17:25

Looking Back - and Forward - On a Career of Innovation

MIT Campus, Building 10, Room 10-250

Robert Langer | Fireside chat with Amy Schulman

17:25

17:45

Closing Remarks by Sid Mukherjee

MIT Campus, Building 10, Room 10-250

17:45

20:00

Cocktails and Dinner at MIT Media Lab

75 Amherst Street, Cambridge

Remarks by Pablo Legorreta and Sally Kornbluth