2018 Agenda

 

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

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7:45am-5:30pm Registration
8:00am-8:45am Pipeline Café
Columbus Room
8:45am Welcoming Remarks
9:00am-9:55am

Opening Plenary Session: Current Deal Trends in Mergers, Acquisitions, & Strategic Partnerships
Columbus Room

Moderator: Ellen B. Corenswet, Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP

Panelists:

  • Neil Exter, MS, MBA, Partner, Third Rock Ventures
  • Christine Fischette, PhD, Executive Director, Torreya Partners
  • Skip Kelly, Head, Northeast Life Science & Healthcare, Silicon Valley Bank
  • Dan Passeri, MSc, JD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Cue BioPharma
  • Bavani Shankar, MBA, Senior Director, Business Development, Scientific Partnering & Alliances, AstraZeneca
  • Deepa J. Talpade, PhD, MBA, Head, Primary Care and Specialty Transactions, Business Development and Licensing, MRL, Merck & Co., Inc.
10:00am-10:55am

Therapeutic Insight: Immuno-Oncology’s Next Generation Therapies: What’s In, What’s Out, What’s Up-and-Coming
Columbus Room

Moderator: Jeffrey M. Bockman, PhD, Executive Vice President, Head of Oncology Practice, Defined Health

Panelists:

  • Michael Aberman, MD, MBA, President and CEO, Quentis Therapeutics, Inc.
  • William Ho, MBA, Co-founder, President & CEO, Incysus Therapeutics, Inc.
  • Christopher Mortko, PhD, Head, Headquarters Search and Evaluation, Merck
  • Michael Quigley, PhD, Executive Director, Head – Oncology Discovery Biology, CA, Bristol-Myers Squibb
  • Dmitriy Zamarin, MD, PhD, Assistant Attending Physician, Gynecologic Medical Oncology, Immunotherapetics Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Therapeutic Insight

10:00am-11:00am

Emerging Company Showcase  
Tower Room

10:00am – Venarum Medical, LLC
10:15am – PainQx
10:30am – ZephyRx
10:45am – NoMo Diagnostics

10:00am-12:00pm

Partnering Forum

11:00am-11:55am

Business Workshop: Early Stage Financing: Novel Partnerships, Solutions, & Terms
Columbus Room

Moderator: Nicole McKnight, PhD, Managing Director, BioLabs New York 

Panelists:

  • Stephen F. Flaim, PhD, FAHA, FACC, Director, Angel Capital Association, Chair Emeritus, Tech Coast Angels Board of Governors
  • Sherry Grisewood, CFA, Senior Investment Officer, FoxHill Asset Management
  • Gaurav Misra, MBA, Head, Greenfield BioVentures, Purdue Pharma
  • Mike Pieck, PhD, Small Business Coordinator, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
  • Tony Stanco, Executive Director, National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2)
  • Tingting Zhang-Kharas, PhD, Advisor – Oncology External Innovation, Eli Lilly and Company
11:00am-12:00pm

Emerging Company Showcase
Tower Room

11:00am – Allosteros Therapeutics, Inc.
11:15am – Avery Therapeutics, Inc.
11:30am – CardioCreate, Inc.
11:45am – Madeleine Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

12:00pm-1:05pm Lunch with The Experts
Columbus Room 
12:00pm-1:05pm Pipeline Café
Columbus Room 
1:15pm-2:10pm

Therapeutic Insight: Sepsis, a National Healthcare Crisis
Columbus Room 

Moderator: Edward C. Saltzman, Executive Chairman, Defined Health

Panelists:

  • Timothy G. Buchman, PhD, MD, Special Advisor, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)
  • Clifford S. Deutschman, MS, MD, MCCM, Vice Chair, Research, Department of Pediatrics, Cohen Children’s Medical Center
  • Anup Singh, Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer, InnaMed Inc.
  • Orlaith Staunton, Co-Founder, The Rory Staunton Foundation

Therapeutic InsightSolving Sepsis

1:15pm-2:15pm

Emerging Company Showcase
Tower Room 

1:15pm – Kiromic, Inc.
1:30pm – CuronBiotech Inc
1:45pm – ADT Pharmaceuticals
2:00pm – AAVogen, Inc.

1:15pm-4:30pm 

Partnering Forum

2:15pm-3:30pm

Emerging Company Showcase
Tower Room  

2:15pm – EpiVax Oncology
2:30pm – Celdara Medical
2:45pm – Global BioTherapeutics (GBT)
3:00pm – Rumi Scientific
3:15pm – Applied Immunotherapeutics

2:15pm-3:30pm

Emerging Company Showcase (Track 2) 
Columbus Room

2:15pm – PHD Biosciences
2:30pm – Rise Therapeutics
2:45pm – Goodwin & Wells
3:00pm – Intensity Therapeutics, Inc.
3:15pm – Aronora

3:30pm-4:25pm

Business Workshop: Diversity Through Leadership
Columbus Room

Moderator: Mia Jung, MBA, Partner, Oxeon Partners

Panelists:

  • Joanne M. Duncan, President, Membership & Business Operations, Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO)
  • Rena Harper, MBA, Advisor, Human Resources, Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company
  • Sharon Klugewicz, MS, Senior Vice President, Chief Quality and Regulatory Officer, Chembio Diagnostic Systems, Inc.
  • Minita Shah-Mara, MS, MBA, Head, Global Diversity and Inclusion, Biogen
3:30pm-4:30pm

Emerging Company Showcase 
Tower Room

3:30pm – Aegle Therapeutics
3:45pm – Elex Biotech
4:00pm – Trove Therapeutics, Inc.
4:15pm – DiamiR Biosciences

4:30pm-5:30pm

Plenary Session: Is It Too Early to Be Thinking IPO?
Columbus Room 

Moderator: Lee Stettner, MBA, Managing Director, Solebury Capital

Panelists:

  • Isai Peimer, MBA, Biotech Analyst, Surveyor Capital (Citadel)
  • Dennis J. Purcell, MBA, Founder and Senior Advisor, Aisling Capital LLC
  • Maren Winnick, MBA, Managing Director, New York, Evercore
  • Alex Zisson, Managing Director, H.I.G. Capital

Solebury Trout

5:30pm-7:00pm

Reception & Pipeline Café
Sponsored by Sartorius Stedim North America Inc.

Sartorius Stedim Biotech

Thursday, October 25, 2018

8:00am-3:00pm Registration
8:15am-9:00am Pipeline Café
Columbus Room
9:00am-9:55am

Plenary Session: US/China: Cross-Border Investment and Partnering Opportunities
Columbus Room 

Moderator:

Panelists: Xinxin Li, Director of Business Development, MyBioGate Inc.

  • Michael Baran, PhD, MBA, Principal, Pfizer Ventures, Executive Director, External Science & Innovation, Oncology Research, Worldwide R&D, Pfizer, Inc
  • Kimberly A. Nearing, Managing Director, Head of Life Sciences, Cedrus Group; Regional Leader, NY/NJ/PA Chapters, BayHelix
  • Wyle Solomon, MS, MBA, Chief Executive Officer, iCell Gene Therapeutics
  • Xiaodong(Eric) Wu, International Business Development Manager, Qilu Pharmaceutical
  • Yan Zhang, PhD, Investment Director, Cowin Capital

MYBIO

10:00am-10:55am

Therapeutic Insight: “Metabesity” – A New Path for Drug Development in Metabolic Disease? 
Columbus Room 

Moderator: Danielle M. Marra, MS, MBA, Associate Principal, Defined Health

Panelists:

  • Chuck Gray, Director of Search and Evaluation, Global Drug Discovery, Novo Nordisk A/S
  • Thomas C. Seoh, President & Chief Executive Officer, Kinexum
  • Michael B. Zemel, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, NuSirt Biopharma

Therapeutic Insight

10:00am-11:00am

Emerging Company Showcase 
Tower Room 

10:00am – Windmill Cardiovascular Systems, Inc
10:15am – ColdSteel Laser
10:30am – Dendro Technologies (Formerly MyReLeaf )
10:45am – Neurovation Labs

10:00am-12:00pm

Partnering Forum

11:00am-11:55am

Business Workshop: Decision Points in IP Strategy
Columbus Room 

Moderator: Deborah A. Somerville, Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP

Panelists:

  • Laurence Blumberg, MD, President & CEO, Syntalogic
  • Peter Donnelly, MS, MBA, Managing Director, Accelerate NY Seed Fund
  • Craig S. Kenesky, PhD, Associate, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati PC
  • David S. Resnick, MS, Partner, Nixon Peabody
11:00am-12:00pm

Emerging Company Showcase 
Tower Room

11:00am – Neurovascular Diagnostics
11:15am – New York R&D Center for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Inc. (Ny.TmT)
11:30am – LiberaBio
11:45am – Novo Biosciences, Inc.

12:00pm-1:05pm Lunch with The Experts
Columbus Room 
12:00pm-1:05pm

Pipeline Café
Columbus Room 

1:15pm-2:15pm

Strategic Partner Presentations
Columbus Room 

1:15pm-2:15pm

Emerging Company Showcase 
Tower Room 

1:15pm – iCell Gene Therapeutics
1:30pm – Inhibikase Therapeutics, Inc.
1:45pm – Manhattan BioSolutions
2:00pm -Kures Inc

1:15pm-4:30pm 

Partnering Forum

2:15pm-3:30pm

Emerging Company Showcase
Tower Room

2:15pm – Forkhead BioTherapeutics Inc.
2:30pm – Glia LLC
2:45pm – Organix, Inc
3:00pm – Regenosine
3:15pm – Teclison 

3:30pm-4:45pm

Closing Plenary Session & Reception:
Corporate vs Private VC’s: The Differences and Similarities, and How They Impact Strategy
Columbus Room 

Moderator: Joseph Gangitano, Associate, Covington & Burling LLP

Panelists:

  • Colleen Cuffaro, PhD, Principal, Canaan 
  • Jens Eckstein, PhD, President, SR One
  • Sam Hall, PhD, Principal, Apple Tree Partners
  • Alicia Iruzun-Lafitte, MBA, Principal, M Ventures, Merck KGaG
  • Jonathan Mandelbaum, PhD, Principal, Accelerator Life Science Partners
  • Denis Patrick, PhD, Vice President and Head, Oncology, External Science & Innovation and Innovative Medicines Initiative, Pfizer; Managing Partner, Pfizer Ventures
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