Agenda
07:30
Registration & Breakfast
Hinxton Hall Conference Center at The Wellcome Genome Campus
08:30
Medicines for Rare Diseases: No Longer Just on the Horizon
Tim Walbert (formerly Horizon)
Fireside chat with Chris Hite (Royalty Pharma)
09:00
Innovative Approaches to Accelerating Translation
Christy Wyskiel (Johns Hopkins), Stéphane Maikovsky (LifeArc), Greg Raskin (MSKCC)
Hosted by Jim Reddoch (Royalty Pharma)
09:30
Pioneering Checkpoint Therapy for Cancer Treatment
Jim Allison (MD Anderson)
Fireside Chat with Bassil Dahiyat (Xencor)
10:00
The Journey Leading to a New Pill for a Rare Disease
Jon Stonehouse (BioCryst)
Hosted by Anna Philpott (University of Cambridge)
10:20
Refreshment Break
10:45
Windows into Life: Systems for Modeling Living Things
Linda Griffith (MIT), Róisín Owens (University of Cambridge), Madeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge)
Chaired by Laurence Reilly (Royalty Pharma)
11:35
Building an Antibody Innovation Powerhouse
Jan van de Winkel (Genmab)
Fireside chat with Mike Rea (IDEA Pharma)
11:55
Making Sense of US Politics
Paul Begala (CNN Correspondent), Mike Murphy (Political Media Consultant)
Hosted by George Lloyd (Royalty Pharma)
12:40
AI for Genomic Medicine, Drug Development, and Knowledge Navigation
Manolis Kellis (MIT)
Hosted by Rabia Khan (Serna Bio)
13:00
Lunch in the Orchard
Hinxton Hall Conference Center