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Please mark your calendars for a special event on Wednesday, October 28, from 1:00pm to 3:30pm ET via Zoom Webinar to celebrate the launch of the HMS Ideation Hub (I-Hub) and HMS Translator. The symposium will feature a special discussion about emerging techniques, the future of medicine, and the direction of the industry as well as presentations by (in order of appearance):
- George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University, Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Tim Mitchison, PhD, Director of the I-Hub, Harvard Medical School, Hasib Sabbagh Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
- Ifat Rubin-Bejerano, PhD, Director of Translational Research Programs, Harvard Medical School
- Mark Namchuk, PhD, Executive Director of Therapeutics Translation, Harvard Medical School
- Len Blavatnik, MBA ’89, Founder and Chairman, Access Industries
The "Frontiers in Therapeutics" panel discussion will be moderated by Mark Namchuk and feature the following panelists:
- Linda Avey Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Precisely, Inc.
- Kevin Bitterman, PhD, Partner, Atlas Venture
- Jose-Carlos Gutiérrez-Ramos, PhD, Vice President, Global Drug Discovery, AbbVie
- Timothy A. Springer, PhD, Latham Family Professor of Medicine, Professor Pediatrics, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Co-Founder and Executive Chair, Institute for Protein Innovation
The I-Hub (Ideation Hub) at Harvard Medical School is a new initiative that aims to build community and catalyze ideation in therapeutics science, help faculty and students assemble interdisciplinary teams to prosecute translational projects, and provide early-stage support.
The Translator at Harvard Medical School is a new organization that is tasked with accelerating the movement of fundamental science at Harvard Medical School toward the medicines of tomorrow. The Translator works across a number of disease areas and therapeutic modalities via several translational research programs.
Registration Link: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7sfiuWaBQHCnNov2xBKGkA
Please note that once you register, you will receive the confirmation email with the Zoom meeting link.
