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e-Proceedings 2020 World Medical Innovation Forum – COVID-19, AI and the Future of Medicine, Featuring Harvard and Industry Leader Insights – MGH & BWH Virtual Event: Monday, May 11, 8:15 a.m. – 5:15 p.m. ET

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e-Proceedings 2020 World Medical Innovation Forum – COVID-19, AI and the Future of Medicine, Featuring Harvard and Industry Leader Insights – MGH & BWH, Virtual Event: Monday, May 11, 8:15 a.m. – 5:15 p.m. ET

 

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THIS IS THE EVENT I COVERED on 5/11/2020  BY INVITATION AS MEDIA for Mass General Brigham

 

From: “Coburn, Christopher Mark” <CMCOBURN@PARTNERS.ORG>

Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 6:48 AM

To: “Coburn, Christopher Mark” <CMCOBURN@PARTNERS.ORG>

Subject: REGISTRANT RECAP | World Medical Innovation Forum  

 

Dear World Forum Attendee, 

On behalf of Mass General Brigham CEO Anne Klibanski MD and Forum co-Chairs Gregg Meyer MD and Ravi Thadhani MD, many thanks for being among the nearly 11,000 registrants representing 93 countries, 46 states and 3200 organizations yesterday. A community was established around many pressing topics that  will continue long into the future. We hope you have a chance to examine the attached survey results. There are several revealing items that should be the basis for ongoing discussion. We expect to be in touch regularly during the year. Among the plans is a “First Look” video series highlighting top Mass General Brigham Harvard faculty as well as emerging Harvard investigators.  As promised, we  wanted to also share visual Forum session summaries.  You will be able to access the recordings on the Forum’s YouTube page . The first set will go up this morning

We hope you will join us for the 2021 Forum!  

Thanks again, Chris

 

Mass General Brigham (formerly Partners Healthcare) is pleased to invite media to attend the World Medical Innovation Forum (WMIF) virtual event on Monday, May 11. Our day-long interactive web event features expert discussions of COVID-related infectious disease innovation and the pandemic’s impact on transforming medicine, plus insights on how care may be radically transformed post-COVID. The agenda features nearly 70 executive speakers from the healthcare industry, venture, start-ups, consumer health and the front lines of COVID care, including many of our Harvard Medical School-affiliated researchers and clinicians. The event replaces our annual in-person conference, which we plan to resume in 2021.

 

Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN, Editor-in Chief, Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence (LPBI) Group, Boston will cover the event in Real Time as MEDIA for our Coronavirus Portal

CORONAVIRUS, SARS-CoV-2 PORTAL @LPBI

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8:15 – 8:25 AM
Opening Remarks

Dr. Klibanski will welcome participants to the 2020 World Medical Innovation Forum, a global — and this year, virtual — gathering of more than 5,000 senior health care leaders. This annual event was established to respond to the intensifying transformation of health care and its impact on innovation. The Forum is rooted in the belief that no matter the magnitude of that change, the center of health care needs to be a shared, fundamental commitment to collaborative innovation – industry and academia working together to improve patient lives. No collaborative endeavor is more pressing than responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Introduction:
Scott Sperling, Co-President, Thomas H. Lee Partners; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mass General Brigham

  • Introducing Anne Klibanski – Leadership at its best for breakthroughs in the entire system when return to normalcy

Anne Klibanski, MD, President & CEO, Mass General Brigham

  • Collaborative innovation between Industry and Hospitals and Government
  • Expediting innovations: Prophylactic, Diagnostics, research and care delivery
  • COVID caregivers contribution to this battle, patient experience and outcome

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8:25 – 8:50 AM
Care in the Next 18 Months – Routine, Elective, Remote

Hospital chief executives reflect on how health care will evolve over the next 18 months in the face of COVID-19. What will routine health care look like? What about elective surgeries and other interventions? And will care-at-a-distance continue to be an essential component? Simply put, how will we provide manage, and pay for health care in a world forever changed by COVID-19?

Moderator:
Gregg Meyer, MD, Chief Clinical Officer, Mass General Brigham; Interim President, NWH; Professor of Medicine, HMS

John Fernandez,  President, Mass Eye and Ear and Mass General Brigham Ambulatory Care

  • Out patients decrease in volume now social distancing enabled by using parking lot as waiting rooms
  • Pre visit and post visit websites will become places of touch – patients accessing via website

Elizabeth Nabel, MD, President, Brigham Health; Professor of Medicine, HMS

  • Support to frontline care
  • Old normal will not be the new normal
  • Telehealth and digital health, work force, healthcare experience, improve access
  • lower medical expense
  • Patients were afraid
  • deferred cancer operation and treatment
  • Cath Lab less 50% occupied
  • Hospitals are safe and patients must come back for procedures
  • COVID-19 only 20% of all patients
  • ICU and OR Scheduling rethink procedure digital care delivers procedures
  • deploy workforce work across repurposed units hybrids, talent acquisition new strategy
  • COVID-19 will have distinct areas
  • BWH – Patient-Nurse-Doctor relations in healing Healthcare team became the Family of the Patients

Peter Slavin, MD, President, MGH; Professor, Health Care Policy, HMS

  • Reemerging more complicated
  • In patients and Out patient realigned with care for COVID-19
  • Telemedicine 85% of outpatients visits at MGH
  • virtual care will dominate the future of care
  • disadvantaged populations suffered more in the pandemic Communities in Chelsea and Revere household received kits social determinants of illness

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8:50 – 9:15 AM
COVID-19: Technology Solutions Now and in the Future

Experts leading large teams at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak discuss how technology is shaping the pandemic response today and in the coming years. What technology categories are most important? What tools are healthcare organizations, biopharmaceutical companies, and other organizations leveraging to battle this crisis? How will those tools evolve? And, importantly, how can technology inform the medical response to future pandemics? What were the biggest technology surprises in the current response?

Moderator:
Alice Park, Senior Writer, Time

Stephane Bancel, CEO, Moderna

  • mRNA synthetic RNA of Spike protein injected to stir immune response
  • Phase II working with FDA starting Phase III early Summer
  • 15 mcg dose available in 2020
  • using own capital to invest to scale up manufacturing no help from Gov’t Grant for clinical trial not for manufacturing

Paul Biddinger, MD, Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness, MGH; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, HMS

  • Sharing information across the system aggregate data technologies
  • ML as Guidance in resource coordination

David Kaufman, MD, PhD, Head of Translational Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute

  • drug development, clinical operations remote monitoring
  • repurpose compounds usinf libraries
  • scalability and Global vaccine cheap and available globally
  • complexity is in coordinations – toolset  biology tool RNA mapping viral screening primaru cells and organoids
  • Outcomes: Aging and co-morbidities
  • Discovery effort using tools infrastructure maintained between pandemics

Rochelle Walensky, MD, Chief, Infectious Disease, Steve and Deborah Gorlin MGH Research Scholar, MGH; Professor of Medicine, HMS

  • shared photos important for Public health, using iPhone distribution Demedicalize Testic – not only at clinics but at many placed contact tracing and diagnosis in 24 hours – iPhone is invaluable GPS capability – privacy issues
  • detect patients with high risk and existing infection monitoring
  • Public Health – Thermometer given to Patients – data collected centrally any spike and pulse oximeter given to home – remote
  • Anxiety in opening the economy requires a bit of giving up on privacy
  • TeleHealth and monitoring remotely
  • Pharmacy and workplace as points to start Testing vs Order and a nurse call

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9:15 – 9:40 AM
Digital Health Becomes a Pillar: Tools, Payment, Data

Deployed in the crucible of the coronavirus pandemic, digital health has now become an essential pillar in the delivery of care. Why is that significant? How and why did it happen? What are the essential tools and components? How is the electronic health record and other health data contributing to this digital movement?

Are there novel use cases for telehealth that arose during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic? How can digital technologies help enable a full return to work. Thinking ahead to the fall and a possible second wave, are there things we should be doing today to ensure this technology to better detect and profile a resurgence and enhance the patient benefit.

Moderator:
David Louis, MD, Pathologist-in-Chief, MGH; Benjamin Castleman Professor of Pathology, HMS

  • DIgitsl technologies – boostong and innovating
  • upscale activity
  • risk of upscaling on Providers
  • Adaptations of innovation

Alistair Erskine, MD, Chief Digital Health Officer, Mass General Brigham

Adam Landman, MD, VP, Chief Information and Digital Innovation Officer, BH; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, HMS

  • COVID-19 call center across Partners, Chat bots automated screening tools, Microsoft assisted 60,000 users of chat bots triaging by screening calls of the Hotline
  • TeleHealth transformation may be lost due to reimbursement which may not be reimburse after the emergency is over Insurers to incentivize use of of TeleHealth
  • In person care: Redesign and how to provide In care for the staff and for the Patients

Brooke LeVasseur, CEO, AristaMD

  • Access problem due to care shortage of specialty care
  • technology better allocate resources
  • Industry and Hospital Institutions populations they serve
  • innovations needs a sustainable economic model for reimbursement
  • Inequity issues How Telehealth can benefit all of Society, potential for future solutions

Lee Schwamm, MD, Director, Center for TeleHealth and Exec Vice Chair, Neurology, MGH; Vice President, Virtual Care/Digital Health, Mass General Brigham; Professor, Neurology, HMS

  • Surge capabilities
  • generate insight
  • Research and Innovation needs embedding in the enterprise
  • technical gap in maintenance
  • supply chain disrupted

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9:40 – 9:45 AM
BREAK
9:45 – 10:05 AM
FIRESIDE CHAT
Bayer Pharma Reflections on Innovation: Creating, Collaborating, and Accelerating Discovery During and After a Pandemic

Dr. Moeller will reflect on how Bayer is weathering the organizational challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. How does a global pharmaceutical company continue to drive drug development when its labs are shut down? What are the critical elements needed to keep the engines of innovation firing even in the face of a global public health crisis? How does a global r&d enterprise plan for an uncertain fall 2020 given a potential return of the virus.

Introduction:
John Fish, CEO, Suffolk; Chairman of Board Trustees, Brigham Health

  • COPD

Moderator:
Janet Wu, Bloomberg

Joerg Moeller, MD, PhD, Head of Research & Development, Pharmaceuticals Division, Bayer AG

  • led team of 9 products
  • Unprecedented is COVID-19: effect on work, travel, life
  • Anti-Malaria vs COVID-19: In China testing early chloroquine approved for RA and anti Malaria Government in China experimental and Bayer supports Clinical Trials by Bill & Melinda Foundation
  • In 8 weeks most Scientist work from home – amazed what was accomplished by 80% of Bayer working from home
  • production is kept ongoing anti-infective for Pneumonia
  • focus on most critical and keep experiment critical and push out studies run Globally – No pre-maturely study was interrupted completely
  • Great collaboration Flexibility with regulatory agencies in Europe and with FDA – levels not seen before
  • R&D in Pharma – when out different point than when we started: Opportunities- Compound libraries OPEN after the COVID Pandemic, speed of decision making, team spirit outstanding – levels not seen before
  • Partnerships: Bayer testing machines and ventilators shared, accelerate mechanisms for new drug development
  • evidence for repurposing drugs: Chloroquine
  • Solidarity – everyone are in it TOGETHER, keep that after the Pandemic is over – levels not seen before

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10:05 – 10:30 AM
The Patient Experience During the Pandemic

The coronavirus outbreak is not only testing health care staff and resources, it is also having an overwhelming impact on patients. This panel will focus on the approach and technologies providers are using to address the patient experience along the continuum of care.

Moderator:
Thomas Sequist, MD, Chief Patient Experience and Equity Officer, Mass General Brigham; Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy, HMS

Anjali Kataria, CEO, Mytonomy

  • Video overcome illiteracy and provide personal engagement without the negative
  • Home health will be the shift – a human component will not go away – sensor technology in car, bathroom
  • COVID-19 accelerated user adoption of Telehealth
  • Digital technologies as an equailizer Hispanic patients consumed for information with the new technologies

Daniel Kuritzkes, MD, Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, BH; Harriet Ryan Albee Professor of Medicine, HMS

  • conserve PPE impacted Physicians ability to see Patients, Nurses meet patients vs Physicians that delivered care remotely – laying on hands was missing in the care
  • Masks will not come off but in a while, can’t allow the infection to surge and curtail hospitals from functioning, use mask for the foreseable future

 

Peter Lee, PhD, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research and Incubation

  • Interactive Chat bots 1 out of 500 hospitals around the Globe adopted the Chat Bot for Patient Intake
  • Scaling telemetry with feedback loop
  • iPad at bedside, platform orchestration, new workflows for COVID-19 patients in the backend guiding Patients in the Process was new infrastructure was in the front line
  • preparing for a game change in Medicine: Patients demanding new experience
  • Historical context for physicians contribution to care and bridge the digital divide

Jag Singh, MD, PhD, Cardiologist & Founding Director, Resynchronization and Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics Program, MGH; Professor of Medicine, HMS

  • Isolation is unbearable
  • Predictive analytics
  • no going back to before Pandemic
  • COVID-19 only severe go to hospital
  • Human contact enhanced interaction with families and Docs

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10:30 – 10:55 AM
The Role of AI and Big Data in Fighting COVID-19 and the Next Global Crisis – Successes and Aspirations

AI is a key weapon used to fight COVID-19. What are the biggest successes so far? Which applications show the most promise for the future? Can it help a return to work? Can AI help predict and even prevent the next global health care crisis?

Moderator:
Alice Park, Senior Writer, Time

Mike Devoy, MD, EVP, Medical Affairs & Pharmacovigilance and CMO, Bayer AG

  • AI allows speeding up Genome of Spike Proteins sequencing
  • Partnership with Academia help focus effort
  • openness and willingness to collaborate and take risk in Therapeutics

Karen DeSalvo, MD,  Chief Health Officer, Google Health

  • Partnership with Apple on Contact Tracing System – BLE – only for Health applications
  • Public Health as driver as consumer Privacy preserving
  • Individual level data collection for AI applications, privacy giving up for public good
  • Trust component – in sharing data

Keith Dreyer, DO, PhD, Chief Data Science Officer, Mass General Brigham; Vice Chairman, Radiology, MGH; Associate Professor, Radiology, HMS

  • COVID allowed data on contact tracing
  • AI in image capturing for Public health – target Imaging use data to be equivalent to Human Testing at Home va in ER 1 in 10, 000 vs all populations
  • Data to AI application SW providers are stewards Open source , no conflict of interest and no discussion on profits
  • Each country will have own lessens

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10:55 – 11:20 AM
Designing for Infection Prevention: Innovation and Investment in Personal Protective Equipment and Facility Design

As with many pathogens, prevention is the best defense against SARS-CoV2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Panelists will discuss the insights, design strategies, technologies, and practices that are emerging to guard against infection and how those innovations are being applied to protect health care providers and their patients.
Based on what was learned during the spring of 2020, are there specific changes that will lessen morbidity and mortality in a potential a second wave?

Moderator:
Erica Shenoy, MD, PhD, Associate Chief, Infection Control Unit, MGH; Assistant Professor, HMS

Shelly Anderson, SVP, Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships, & Chief Strategy Officer, BH

  • How to establish the New normal
  • Surveillence for new sources of infection
  • Operations under uncertainty
  • learned to be effective with data monitoring, training, facility adaptation to new roles
  • Investments in new materials to stabilize the supply chain: Additional suppliers,
  • Extend internal supply work with R&D on alternative materials

Michele Holcomb, PhD, EVP, Strategy and Corporate Development, Cardinal Health

  • Optimize toward lower cost vs availability of supply
  • Diverting supply chain to manufacturing not in PPE business

 

Guillermo Tearney, MD, PhD, Remondi Family Endowed MGH Research Institute Chair, Mike and Sue Hazard MGH Research Scholar, MGH; Professor, Pathology, HMS

  • 3D Printing innovations for filtration capacity of particles, respirators decontaminated, prevention of patient transmission
  • Negative pressure applied on materials as second line of protection beyond PPE
  • CPAP to be used
  • weaning from Ventilators to CPAP
  • Environment to be protected from air born pathogens

Teresa Wilson, Director/Architect, Colliers Project Leaders

  • Physical Design of the facility and rooms – use design to minimize Hospital infections principals of location of clean vs dirty functions
  • room kept cleaned, how long it takes to clean, where is the sink, hands free, modular construction plug & play design of rooms functions

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11:20 – 11:25 AM
BREAK
11:25 – 11:45 AM
FIRESIDE CHAT
Preparing for Fall 2020 and Beyond: Production, Innovation, Optimization

How does a global medical technology and life sciences company respond to the health challenges posed by COVID-19? Mr. Murphy will reflect on how his organization is working to meet the unprecedented demand for life-saving medical equipment for diagnosing, treating, and managing coronavirus patients. How does a large manufacturer make adjustments to FDA regulated products and supply chains in time to help lessen the impact of a second wave of COVID-19 infections.

Introduction:
Jonathan Kraft, President, The Kraft Group; Chair, Mass General Hospital Board of Trustees

  • 90 countries around the Globe – collaborative innovations partnership with GE Health – all assets around the World
  • Academic with GE Health AI, Diagnostics, data set for ML for Health care

Moderator:
Timothy Ferris, MD, CEO, MGPO; Professor, HMS

Kieran Murphy, CEO, GE Healthcare

  • Partnership GE Health & MGH
  • COVID-19 Innovations and Customers needs: Ventilators and
  • ICU Cloud application with Microsoft to save PPE and Labor, monitor several ICU rooms at once by technology
  • Quadruple the production and enter new contracts, crisis exposed weaknesses in supply chain of many products
  • Shortage of PPE was not expected, flexibility and trusted relations with GE Health Suppliers
  • CT in a BOX – 42 Slices in a container – no exposure to radiation in prefabricated rooms in field hospital requiring no contact with clinicians and rapid response
  • Command control center with John Hopkins University
  • Manufacturing facilities in China communicate the situation of the business and the customers needs buyers in the Health care industry
  • Future for Biotech industry: Modular systems deploy rapidly, test vaccine, SPEED is everything productivity & Speed
  • Productivity will increase collaboration and speed like partnership with FORD and MIcrosoft

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11:45 AM – 12:10 PM
Big Tech and Digital Health

Tech giants are dedicating their vast resources to aid in the global response to the coronavirus. This panel will highlight how the big data and computational power of major tech companies is being deployed to help contain the current pandemic through new technologies and services, enable return to work, and how it could help prevent future ones.

Moderator:
Natasha Singer, Reporter, New York Times

Amanda Goltz, Principal, Business Development, Alexa Health & Wellness, Amazon

Michael Mina, MD, PhD, Associate Medical Director, Molecular Virology, BH; Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard Chan School

  • Limitations on Viral Testing
  • Shortage of Swabs for testing
  • Tech giant: Amazon, Walmart – global reach in supply chain
  • new collaborations formed on super charge
  • Antigen test for home administration consumerization of the Testing
  • Walmart can be positioned for blood tests
  • Not only Physicians can order tests
  • Microsoft and Amazon can help in interpretation of the Test using Alexa

Marcus Osborne, VP, Walmart Health, Walmart

Jim Weinstein, MD, SVP, Microsoft

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12:10 – 12:35 PM
LUNCH BREAK
12:35 – 12:55PM
FIRESIDE CHAT
Insights on Pandemics and Health Care from the National Security Community

General Alexander, a renowned expert on national security as well as pandemics and health care, will reflect on how AI can help identify and predict future global disease outbreaks and enable fully reopening commerce. He will also discuss what health care systems can learn from the response to COVID-19 to ensure preparedness for the next infectious disease challenge.

Moderator:
Gregg Meyer, MD, Chief Clinical Officer, Mass General Brigham; Interim President, NWH; Professor of Medicine, HMS

General (Ret) Keith Alexander, Co-CEO, IronNet Cybersecurity

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12:55 – 1:20 PM
Calibrating Innovation Opportunity and Urgency: Medical and Social

The social and medical needs of patients are deeply intertwined, yet there are significant gaps in the tools and technologies being developed to help address those needs. These are especially apparent in the non-uniform impact of COVID-19. Harnessing opportunities, particularly for patients whose needs fall into the low medical complexity/high social complexity category — a group often overlooked by health care innovators.

Moderator:
Natasha Singer, Reporter, New York Times

Giles Boland, MD, Chair, Department of Radiology, BH; Philip H. Cook Professor of Radiology, HMS

  • Boston Hope: 1400 patients were treated at Boston Convention Center, 700 COVID -19 patients and 700 post acute after release from ICUs
  • Policy makers to address social determinants of Health

Amit Phadnis, Chief Digital Officer and GE Company Officer, GE Healthcare

  • Crisis will go away the innovations will stay and develop
  • Population Health to benefit from iPhone in Africa and in India mapping hotspots in populations
  • Multi channels TV, Phones and other devices – social disparities – no app to address social inequality

Krishna Yeshwant, MD, General Partner, GV; Instructor in Medicine, BH

  • communities most affected by social determinants of Health like in Chelsea in MA, a hotspot for COVID-19
  • Google Ventures – social issues are most complex invest in underprivileged

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1:20 – 1:45 PM
FDA Role in Managing Crisis and Anticipating the Next

The FDA and other regulatory bodies have played a key role in managing the coronavirus pandemic. How will the agency’s priorities shift in the coming months as community transmission (ideally) slows? What is the FDA’s role in return to work? What is the FDA doing to anticipate future health crises? How will these drive new tools and effect that rate of innovation?

Moderator:
Ravi Thadhani, MD, CAO, Mass General Brigham; Professor of Medicine and Faculty Dean for Academic Programs, HMS

Amy Abernethy, MD, PhD, Principal Deputy Commissioner & Acting CIO, FDA

  • Future – common tools, more efficient studies study protocols and study design evaluation
  • Learned what need to be put in place to move fast learn what is not in place
  • post pandemic regulatories lessons for being ready for the next one

Lindsey Baden, MD, Director, Clinical Research, Division of Infectious Diseases, BH; Associate Professor, HMS

  • Identify diagnostics for clinical definition of a virus unknown
  • treatment to be developed
  • Sick patients in need for treatment, researchers and clinicians need the best available FDA and the hospitals are flexible in responding
  • Spread globally like a respiratory virus
  • IRB – fast than ever before FDA and Pharma, DSMB – speed

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1:45– 2:05 PM
FIRESIDE CHAT
Keeping Priority on the Biggest Diseases

Biogen CEO Michel Vounatsos will discuss how Biogen is tackling some of society’s most devastating neurological and neurodegenerative disorders, and share his perspective on the impact the global COVID-19 pandemic is having on the biopharmaceutical industry.

Moderator:
Jean-François Formela, MD, Partner, Atlas Venture

  • Testing programs – lack of government cooordination

Michel Vounatsos, CEO, Biogen

  • Venture community supportive
  • to be on the safe side
  • employees tested every evenings to prevent rebound of the pandemic
  • Pandemic is acceleration progress that was only dreamt about
  • Opportunities in technologies new drugs,
  • Biogen will lead the new model
  • ALS – rare genetic expression Phase I encouraging
  • Neuro-immunology – MS phase III Parkinson drug
  • Lessons from COVID-19: Delay in clinical trials because Patients are fearing Hospital admission – Stroke patient did not go to Hospital
  • Biogen is joining the fight against COVID
  • Neuroimmunology is the strength – remain focus

 

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2:05 – 2:30 PM
Building the Plane While Flying: The Experience of Real-Time Innovation from the Front Line

The COVID-19 crisis has required continuous, real time innovation, impacting the way care is delivered on the front lines and across care continuum. This panel will present the perspective, innovations and experiences of care givers interacting directly with patients across the continuum of care – acute, post-acute, rehab and home care.

Moderator:
Ann Prestipino, SVP; Incident Commander, MGH; Teaching Associate, HMS

  • coming out of crisis
  • the New normal will be diferent

Theresa Gallivan, RN, Associate Chief Nurse, MGH

  • Ambulatory procedures
  • 700 nurses were deployed
  • 164 ICU beds increase of 90%
  • Health care demand will change in the future
  • focussed problem alarms from ventilators were not coordinated till biomed engineers arrives to device a solution

 

Karen Reilly, DNP, RN, Associate Chief Nursing Officer, Critical Care, Cardiovascular and Surgical Services, BH

  • Collaborate and move forward
  • Interdisciplinary team: Physical therapy help quickly
  • tech to communicate with families
  • Ready – I wish I had information to stay ahead of the curve
  • New normal ability to expand and contract

Ross Zafonte, DO, SVP, Research Education and Medical Affairs, SRN; Earle P. and Ida S. Charlton Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, HMS

  • Rehabilitation in Cambridge Spaulding Brighton
  • Off loading to rehab from other units
  • Flexibility MGH Brigham – learn to be a new organization
  • Hotspots optimal mapping
  • Right person at right challenge
  • Stay ready for catastrophies
  • Telecare and Tele rehabilitation – greater benefit on TeleHealth or not who will not benefit from Rehab

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2:30 – 2:55 PM
CEO Roundtable: Will the Innovation Model Remain as It Was

As we envision a post-COVID-19 world, how will the model for biomedical innovation change? What lessons have been learned? Was this pandemic a once-in-a-lifetime event or should organizations begin to weave pandemic planning into their business and operations strategies? Panelists will discuss these and other related questions.

Moderator:
Janet Wu, Bloomberg

Mike Mahoney, CEO, Boston Scientific

  • China 6% of Sales
  • Employees – 148 Counties
  • support hospitals – 57% of volume
  • Resilience for liquidity Variable cost needed be removes partially
  • How will the company come out stronger
  • Innovations by business model innovations – Remote physicians in Japan by European experts in OR
  • Next week 10% of Product management and Quality are priority to come back
  • working remotely works very well except for R&S who needs Labs

Bernd Montag, PhD, CEO, Siemens Healthineers

  • Keep present business and the emerging needs for technologies
  • Serology Test
  • Antibody Test genomic testing
  • Company is Global but Health care is local

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2:55 – 3:05 PM
BREAK
3:05 – 3:30 PM
Emergency and Urgent Care: How COVID-19 Vulnerabilities and Solutions Will Change the Model

How are the roles of emergency medicine and urgent care changing in light of the COVID-19 pandemic? Panelists will discuss this topic as well as how current and anticipated new technologies can aid in the delivery of community, urgent, and emergency care now and in the future.

Given a false negative at the point of care has consequences well beyond the patient being treated, does this change what can be offered in the various patient care settings?

Moderator:
Ron Walls, MD, EVP and Chief Operating Officer, BH; Neskey Family Professor of Emergency Medicine, HMS

Troyen Brennan, MD, EVP and CMO, CVS Health

  • Labs – Quest Diagnostics
  • Point of care – Tests will move to Home will replace Labs
  • Pandemic heated hard people of color and comorbidities

David Brown, MD, Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, MGH; MGH Trustees Professor of Emergency Medicine, HMS

  • Tele Urgent care
  • EMS Providers using TeleHealth
  • Scaled up capability needed administered by Governmental agency
  • new surges of some disease after Re-opening
  • Sensitivity of test for ill patient
  • Demand for Urgent Care will decline higher acuity will increase

Julie Lankiewicz, Head, Clinical Affairs & Health Economics Outcomes Research, Bose Health

  • Management of care with VRE other microbial agents
  • Vulnerable populations EKG between patients no more
  • mitigation of care – Brand new prescriptions for Anxiety and burnout
  • Digital solution to replace medications – audio content to avoid pharmacology by other methods of relaxation
  • Herd immunity  – Digital transformation

Michael VanRooyen, MD, Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, BH; Director, Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University; Professor, HMS

  •  Separate Patients from Providers
  • Infection threat – Intubation – Tent for airsolize – trap air in the hood
  • manage Emergence Health OUT side of EM at Hospital
  • Rapid testing will continue to be central in Emergency Care

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3:30 – 3:55 PM
Accelerating Diagnostics – Maintaining the Priority: Lab, Home and Digital

COVID-19 diagnostics, a linchpin in controlling viral spread — what caused testing in the U.S. to fall so far behind and how can those missteps be prevented in the future? How do the diagnostics industry, and academic medicine, develop the tests that enable group activities including businesses sports, and community? What is the profile of diagnostic tests coming online in the coming months and into next year? What lessons can be learned to guide the global health community in future disease outbreaks? Given the biological complexity, required performance standards, and immense volume is a simple DTC assays possible on a greatly accelerated timeline.

Moderator:
Jeffrey Golden, MD, Chair, Department of Pathology, BH; Ramzi S. Cotran Professor of Pathology, HMS

James Brink, MD, Chief, Department of Radiology, MGH; Juan M. Taveras Professor of Radiology, HMS

  • social determinant of care – communities not able to social distance, multiple languages
  • Radiology: Rapid evolution of pandemic
  • MGB – Standardizations

John Iafrate, MD, PhD, Vice Chair, Academic Affairs, MGH; Professor, Pathology, HMS

  • Ability for Rapid testing was not in existence in the US
  • CDC Test deployed
  • BD and Roche diagnostics will
  • recipients and donors of antibodies

Celine Roger-Dalbert, VP Diagnostic Assays R&D – Integrated Diagnostic Solutions, BD Life Sciences

  • Telemedicine collection of samples outside the hospital
  • Testing if a patient had – serology – antibody – past exposure after day 14
  • Testing if a patient has – PCR after 10 days the virus is not infectious but it is present
  • antigen detection testing
  • molecular test

Matt Sause, President and CEO, Roche Diagnostics Corporation

  • Serology – more people become infected
  • active infection
  • Partnership between FDA and the manufactures
  • In the US scaling – infrastructure in place is a must

 

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3:55 – 4:15 PM
FIRESIDE CHAT
Return to Work: Understanding the Technologies and Strategies

Diagnostic testing is a linchpin of the worldwide response to the coronavirus. How does a global leader pivot to develop molecular diagnostics for a novel global pathogen? How does it scale, including managing international supply chains, to provide unprecedented levels of products and services. What are the expectations for return to work and a possible disease spike in fall 2020 or beyond. How will the diagnostics industry be permanently changed.

Moderator:
Peter Markell, EVP, Finance and Administration, CFO & Treasurer, Mass General Brigham

Marc Casper, Chairman, President and CEO, Thermo Fisher Scientific

  • Re-opening the economy requires Testing for certification of health
  • Testing bringing confidence
  • PCR – have or have not viral proteins: 5Millions a week, June 10 million tests
  • antibody testing will also become available in massive scale
  • Supply chain, more preparedness, robustness of the supply chain
  • Buying supply in China vs US based
  • stockpiling by governments not only at the Hospital level vs JIT shocks to the system
  • Work from home – productivity is good, work from home not ideal environment
  • Transportation and elevators – social distancing – impossible
  • Global change enormous Telemedicine ramp up Academic center Telemedicine will prevail
  • more resilient Health care system dialogue and communications across countries technology will play a role it will improve Health care every where

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4:15 – 4:40 PM
Digital Therapeutics: Current and Future Opportunities

Digital therapeutics (DTx) represents an emerging class of therapies that is poised for significant growth. Yet already, these software-driven, evidence-based tools for the prevention, management, and/or treatment of disease are already changing patients’ lives. This panel will address how existing DTx are having an early impact — in the COVID-19 pandemic and — and where current development efforts are headed in the coming years especially if there is a aggressive return of the virus in the fall 2020 or later.

Moderator:
Hadine Joffe, MD, Vice Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry, Executive Director, Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology, BH; Paula A. Johnson Professor, Women’s Health, HMS

Priya Abani, CEO, AliveCor

  • Medical grade EKG devices
  • Telemedicine on the rise

Julia Hu, CEO, Lark Health

  • AI 24×7 counseling data streaming in data
  • TeleHealth
  • VirtualHealth Provider – working hard to scale
  • Patients @Home work at their schedule 9PM – midnight text messaging
  • 70% in employment reported stress experienced by employees

Dawn Sugarman, PhD, Assistant Psychologist, Division of Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction, McLean; Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, HMS

  • Opioid & substance abuse
  • Treatment gap for women – gender specific Programs online gender specific  treatment

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4:40 – 5:05 PM
Investing During and After the Coronavirus Crisis

The investment environment in life sciences and health care overall was at record levels for most of the last decade. What will this environment look like in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic – especially over the near to mid-term? Will investor priorities and enthusiasm shift? What is the investor role in developing new coronavisurs tests, vaccines, and therapeutics?

Moderator:
Roger Kitterman, VP, Venture and Managing Partner, Partners Innovation Fund, Mass General Brigham

Jan Garfinkle, Founder & Manager Partner, Arboretum Ventures

  • Can you close a deal with out meeting management team
  • Known funds will prevail vs new funds Parma adjacencies vs medical devices
  • Telehealth is of interest GI, Cardiovascular
  • Mental health with TeleHealth

Phillip Gross, Managing Director, Adage Capital Management

  • Clinical Trial issues
  • Inflating value of Biotech because therapeutic related to COVID gives a boost
  • 90 programs in clinical trials on Vaccine

Christopher Viehbacher, Managing Partner, Gurnet Point Capital

  • Health care was great investment because prople will get sick.
  • deal making switch to zoom meeting, no site visit, banking is adapting
  • relationship with people you do not know will be very hard
  • early stage if the cloud exist
  • Medical profession: Healthcare system is hurting revenue loss new technologies
  • clinical trials will be changing like for COVID
  • Sharing data will accelerate science

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5:05 – 5:10 PM
Closing Remarks
Gregg Meyer, MD, Chief Clinical Officer, Mass General Brigham; Interim President, NWH; Professor of Medicine, HMS
Ravi Thadhani, MD, CAO, Mass General Brigham; Professor of Medicine and Faculty Dean for Academic Programs, HMS

Mass General Brigham (formerly Partners Healthcare) is pleased to invite media to attend the World Medical Innovation Forum (WMIF) virtual event on Monday, May 11. Our day-long interactive web event features expert discussions of COVID-related infectious disease innovation and the pandemic’s impact on transforming medicine, plus insights on how care may be radically transformed post-COVID. The agenda features nearly 70 executive speakers from the healthcare industry, venture, start-ups, consumer health and the front lines of COVID care, including many of our Harvard Medical School-affiliated researchers and clinicians. The event replaces our annual in-person conference, which we plan to resume in 2021.

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Live Notes and Conference Coverage in Real Time. COVID19 And The Impact on Cancer Patients Town Hall with Leading Oncologists; April 4, 2020 

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Live Notes and Conference Coverage in Real Time. COVID19 And The Impact on Cancer Patients Town Hall with Leading Oncologists; April 4, 2020

Reporter: Stephen J. Williams, PhD 

@StephenJWillia2

Article ID #273: Live Notes and Conference Coverage in Real Time. COVID19 And The Impact on Cancer Patients Town Hall with Leading Oncologists; April 4, 2020. Published 4/4/2020

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ZCSDX54zgdEeOil8OLXAb?si=b3N0yYNBS627yjokOVmHOA&dl_branch=1

UPDATED 5/11/2020 see below

This update is the video from the COVID-19 Series 4.

UPDATED 4/08/2020 see below

The Second in a Series of Virtual Town Halls with Leading Oncologist on Cancer Patient Care during COVID-19 Pandemic: What you need to know

The second virtual Town Hall with Leading International Oncologist, discussing the impact that the worldwide COVID-19 outbreak has on cancer care and patient care issues will be held this Saturday April 4, 2020.  This Town Hall Series is led by Dr. Roy Herbst and Dr. Hossain Borghaei who will present a panel of experts to discuss issues pertaining to oncology practice as well as addressing physicians and patients concerns surrounding the risk COVID-19 presents to cancer care.  Some speakers on the panel represent oncologist from France and Italy, and will give their views of the situation in these countries.

Speakers include:

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, Ensign Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology) and Professor of Pharmacology; Chief of Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital; Associate Cancer Center Director for Translational Research, Yale Cancer Center

Hossain Borghaei, DO, MS , Chief of Thoracic Medical Oncology and Director of Lung Cancer Risk Assessment, Fox Chase Cancer Center

Giuseppe Curigliano, MD, PhD, University of Milan and Head of Phase I Division at IEO, European Institute of Oncology

Paolo Ascierto, MD National Tumor Institute Fondazione G. Pascale, Medical oncologist from National Cancer Institute of Naples, Italy

Fabrice Barlesi, MD, PhD, Thoracic oncologist Cofounder Marseille Immunopole Coordinator #ThePioneeRproject, Institut Gustave Roussy

Jack West, MD, Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research, City of Hope California

Rohit Kumar, MD Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary Medicine, Fox Chase Cancer Center

Christopher Manley, MD Director, Interventional Pulmonology Fox Chase Cancer Center

Hope Rugo, MD FASCO Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Harriet Kluger, MD Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology); Director, Yale SPORE in Skin Cancer, Yale Cancer Center

Marianne J. Davies, DNP, MSN, RN, APRN, CNS-BC, ACNP-BC, AOCNP Assistant Professor of Nursing, Yale University

Barbara Burtness, MD Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology);  Head and Neck Cancers Program, Yale University

@pharma_BI and @StephenJWillia2 will be Tweeting out live notes using #CancerCareandCOVID19

Live Notes

Part I: Practice Management

Dr. Jack West from City of Hope talked about telemedicine:  Coordination of the patient experience, which used to be face to face now moved to a telemedicine alternative.  For example a patient doing well on personalized therapy, many patients are well suited for a telemedicine experience.  A benefit for both patient and physician.

Dr. Rohit Kumar: In small cancer hospitals, can be a bit difficult to determine which patient needs to come in and which do not.  For outpatients testing for COVID is becoming very pertinent as these tests need to come back faster than it is currently.  For inpatients the issue is personal protection equipment.  They are starting to reuse masks after sterilization with dry heat.   Best to restructure the system of seeing patients and scheduling procedures.

Dr. Christopher Manley: hypoxia was an issue for COVID19 patients but seeing GI symptoms in 5% of patients.  Nebulizers have potential to aerosolize.  For patients in surgery prep room surgical masks are fine.  Ventilating these patients are a challenge as hypoxia a problem.  Myocarditis is a problem in some patients.  Diffuse encephalopathy and kidney problems are being seen. So Interleukin 6 (IL6) inhibitors are being used to reduce the cytokine storm presented in patients suffering from COVID19.

Dr. Hope Rugo from UCSF: Breast cancer treatment during this pandemic has been challenging, even though they don’t use too much immuno-suppressive drugs.  How we decide on timing of therapy and future visits is crucial.  For early stage breast cancer, neoadjuvant therapy is being used to delay surgeries.  Endocrine therapy is more often being used. In patients that need chemotherapy, they are using growth factor therapy according to current guidelines.  Although that growth factor therapy might antagonize some lung problems, there is less need for multiple visits.

For metastatic breast cancer,  high risk ER positive are receiving endocrine therapy and using telemedicine for followups.  For chemotherapy they are trying to reduce the schedules or frequency it is given. Clinical trials have been put on hold, mostly pharmokinetic studies are hard to carry out unless patients can come in, so as they are limiting patient visits they are putting these type of clinical studies on hold.

Dr. Harriet Kluger:  Melanoma community of oncologists gathered together two weeks ago to discuss guidelines and best practices during this pandemic.   The discussed that there is a lack of data on immunotherapy long term benefit and don’t know the effectiveness of neoadjuvant therapy.  She noted that many patients on BRAF inhibitors like Taflinar (dabrafenib)   or Zelboraf (vemurafenib) might get fevers as a side effect from these inhibitors and telling them to just monitor themselves and get tested if they want. Yale has also instituted a practice that, if a patient tests positive for COVID19, Yale wants 24 hours between the next patient visit to limit spread and decontaminate.

Marianne Davies:  Blood work is now being done at satellite sites to limit number of in person visits to Yale.  Usually they did biopsies to determine resistance to therapy but now relying on liquid biopsies (if insurance isn’t covering it they are working with patient to assist).  For mesothelioma they are dropping chemotherapy that is very immunosuppressive and going with maintenance pembrolizumab (Keytruda).  It is challenging in that COPD mimics the symptoms of COVID and patients are finding it difficult to get nebulizers at the pharmacy because of shortages; these patients that develop COPD are also worried they will not get the respirators they need because of rationing.

Dr. Barbara Burtness: Head and neck cancer.  Dr. Burtness stresses to patients that the survival rate now for HPV positive head and neck is much better and leaves patients with extra information on their individual cancers.  She also noted a registry or database that is being formed to track data on COVID in patients undergoing surgery  and can be found here at https://globalsurg.org/covidsurg/

About CovidSurg

  • There is an urgent need to understand the outcomes of COVID-19 infected patients who undergo surgery.
  • Capturing real-world data and sharing international experience will inform the management of this complex group of patients who undergo surgery throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, improving their clinical care.
  • CovidSurg has been designed by an international collaborating group of surgeons and anesthetists, with representation from Canada, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Korea, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, and the United States.

Dr. Burtness had noted that healthcare care workers are at high risk of COVID exposure during ear nose and throat (ENT) procedures as the coronavirus resides in the upper respiratory tract.  As for therapy for head and neck cancers, they are staying away from high dose cisplatin because of the nephrotoxicity seen with high dose cisplatin.  An alternative is carboplatin which generally you do not see nephrotoxicity as an adverse event (a weekly carboplatin).  Changing or increasing dose schedule (like 6 weeks Keytruda) helps reduce immunologic problems related to immunosupression and patients do not have to come in as often.

Italy and France

Dr. Paolo Ascierto:   with braf inhibitors, using in tablet form so patients can take from home.  Also they are moving chemo schedules for inpatients so longer dosing schedules.  Fever still a side effect from braf inhibitors and they require a swab to be performed to ascertain patient is COVID19 negative.  Also seeing pneumonitis as this is an adverse event from checkpoint inhibitors so looking at CT scans and nasal swab to determine if just side effect of I/O drugs or a COVID19 case.  He mentioned that their area is now doing okay with resources.

Dr. Guiseppe Curigliano mentioned about the redesign of the Italian health system with spokes and hubs of health care.  Spokes are generalized medicine while the hubs represent more specialized centers like CV hubs or cancer hubs.  So for instance, if a melanoma patient in a spoke area with COVID cases they will be referred to a hub.  He says they are doing better in his area

In the question and answer period, Dr. West mentioned that they are relaxing many HIPAA regulations concerning telemedicine.  There is a website on the Centers for Connective Health Policy that shows state by state policy on conducting telemedicine.   On immuno oncology therapy, many in the panel had many questions concerning the long term risk to COVID associated with this type of therapy.  Fabrice mentioned they try to postpone use of I/O and although Dr. Kluger said there was an idea floating around that PD1/PDL1 inhibitors could be used as a prophylactic agent more data was needed.

Please revisit this page as the recording of this Town Hall will be made available next week.

UPDATED 4/08/2020

Below find the LIVE RECORDING and TAKEAWAYS by the speakers

 
Town Hall Takeaways
 

 

Utilize Telehealth to Its Fullest Benefit

 

·       Patients doing well on targeted therapy or routine surveillance are well suited to telemedicine

·       Most patients are amenable to this, as it is more convenient for them and minimizes their exposure

·       A patient can speak to multiple specialists with an ease that was not previously possible

·       CMS has relaxed some rules to accommodate telehealth, though private insurers have not moved as quickly, and the Center for Connected Health Policy maintains a repository of current state-by-state regulations:  https://www.cchpca.org/

 

Practice Management Strategies

 

·       In the face of PPE shortages, N95 masks can be decontaminated using UV light, hydrogen peroxide, or autoclaving with dry heat; the masks can be returned to the original user until the masks are no longer suitable for use

·       For blood work or scans, the use of external satellite facilities should be explored

·       Keep pumps outside of the room so nurses can attend to them quickly

·       Limit the use of nebulizers, CPAPs, and BiPAPs due to risk of aerosolization

 

Pool Our Knowledge for Care of COVID Patients

 

·       There is now a global registry for tracking surgeries in COVID-positive cancer patients:  https://globalsurg.org/cancercovidsurg/

·       Caution is urged in the presence of cardiac complications, as ventilated patients may appear to improve, only to suffer severe myocarditis and cardiac arrest following extubation

·       When the decision is made to intubate, intubate quickly, as less invasive methods result in aerosolization and increased risks to staff

 

Study the Lessons of Europe

 

·       The health care system in Italy has been reorganized into “spokes” and “hubs,” with a number of cancer hubs; if there is a cancer patient in a spoke hospital with many COVID patients, this patient may be referred to a hub hospital

·       Postpone adjuvant treatments whenever possible

·       Oral therapies, which can be managed at home, are preferred over therapies that must be administered in a healthcare setting

·       Pneumonitis patients without fevers may be treated with steroids, but nasal swab testing is needed in the presence of concomitant fever

·       Any staff who are not needed on site should be working from home, and rotating schedules can be used to keep people healthy

·       Devise an annual epidemic control plan now that we have new lessons from COVID

 

We Must Be Advocates for Our Cancer Patients

 

·       Be proactive with other healthcare providers on behalf of patients with a good prognosis

·       Consider writing letters for cancer patients for inclusion into their chart, or addendums on notes, then encourage patients to print these out, or give it to them during their visit

·       The potential exists for a patient to be physiologically stable on a ventilator, but intolerant of decannulation; early discussions are necessary to determine reasonable expectations of care

·       Be sure to anticipate a second wave of patients, comprised of cancer patients for whom treatments and surgery have been delayed!

 

Tumor-Specific Learnings

 

Ø  Strategies in Breast Cancer:

·       In patients with early-stage disease, promote the use of neoadjuvant therapy where possible to delay the need for surgery

·       For patients with metastatic disease in the palliative setting, transition to less frequent chemotherapy dosing if possible

·       While growth factors may pose a risk in interstitial lung disease, new guidelines are emerging

 

Ø  Strategies in Melanoma:

·       The melanoma community has released specific recommendations for treatment during the pandemic:  https://www.nccn.org/covid-19/pdf/Melanoma.pdf

·       The use of BRAF/MEK inhibitors can cause fevers that are drug-related, and access to an alternate clinic where patients can be assessed is a useful resource

 

Ø  Strategies in Lung Cancer:

·       For patients who are stable on an oral, targeted therapy, telehealth check-in is a good option

·       For patients who progress on targeted therapies, increased use of liquid biopsies when appropriate can minimize use of bronchoscopy suites and other resources

·       For patients on pembrolizumab monotherapy, consider switching to a six-week dosing of 400 mg

·       Many lung cancer patients worry about “discrimination” should they develop a COVID infection; it is important to support patients and help manage expectations and concerns

 

UPDATED 5/11/2020

Townhall on COVID-19 and Cancer Care with Leading Oncologists Series 4

Addressing the Challenges of Cancer Care in the Community

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AACR and Dr. Margaret Foti Announce Free Virtual Annual Meeting for April 27, 28 2020 and other Free Resources

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AACR and Dr. Margaret Foti Announce Free Virtual Annual Meeting for April 27, 28 2020 and other Free Resources

Reporter: Stephen J. Williams, PhD

Please see the following email from Dr. Foti and the AACR on VIRTUAL MEETING to be conducted April 27 and 28, 2020.

This is truly a wonderful job by AACR.  In a previous posting I had considered the need for moving international scientific meetings to an online format which would make the information available to a wider audience as well as to those who don’t have the opportunity to travel to a meeting site.  At @pharma_BI we will curate and live tweet the talks in order to enhance meeting engagement, as part of the usual eConference Proceedings we do.

Again Great Job by the AACR!

Dear Colleagues,

We hope you are staying safe and well and are adjusting to the challenges of the COVID-19 global pandemic. During this crisis, we remain steadfast in supporting our members and our mission.

I am pleased to announce a number of actions that we are taking to disseminate innovative cancer science and medicine to the global cancer research community:

  • AACR Virtual Annual Meeting 2020: Selected Presentations. We were excited to receive more than 225 clinical trials for presentation at the Annual Meeting. Due to the time-sensitive nature of these trials—many of which are practice-changing—we are making them available to the community at the time of the original April meeting. Therefore, as per our recent announcement, the AACR will host a slate of selected sessions online featuring these cutting-edge data.
This Virtual Annual Meeting will be held on April 27 and 28, 2020, and will include more than 30 oral presentations in several clinical trial plenary sessions along with commentaries from expert discussants, as well as clinical trial poster sessions consisting of short videos providing the authors’ perspectives. The Virtual Meeting will feature a New Drugs on the Horizon session as well as nine minisymposia that will showcase a broad sample of basic and translational science. Topics will include genomics, tumor microenvironment, novel targets, drug discovery, therapeutics, immunotherapy, biomarkers, and cancer prevention. A special minisymposium titled “Advancing Cancer Research Through an International Cancer Registry” will feature use cases of data available through AACR Project GENIE.

This Virtual Meeting will be available free to everyone, although attendees will be asked to register to participate. The session and presentation titles for the Virtual Meeting, as well as a link to the registration site, will be posted to the AACR website by Monday, April 13.

  • Release of Abstracts. All of the abstracts scheduled for presentation in the Virtual Meeting—and any other clinical trial abstracts that are scheduled for presentation at the rescheduled meeting—will be posted online on Monday, April 27. All other abstracts that have been accepted for presentation at the rescheduled meeting will be posted online on Friday, May 15.
  • AACR Annual Meeting 2019: Free Webcast Presentations. The complete webcasts of the AACR Annual Meeting are typically made freely available 15 months after the conclusion of the meeting. However, we have made these webcast presentations available free effective immediately, so that you can review the most compelling science from the Annual Meeting 2019 which was held in Atlanta.
  • Free Access to AACR Journals. To ensure that all members of the cancer research community have access to the information they need during this challenging time, we have opened access to our nine highly esteemed journals effective today through the end of the virtual meeting. Please be sure to visit the AACR journals webpage for journal highlights, and to sign-up for eTOC alerts.
  • Rescheduled AACR Annual Meeting. We are planning to reschedule the Annual Meeting for late August while at the same time closely monitoring the developments surrounding COVID-19. An official announcement of the rescheduled meeting will be made in the near future.

We hope that these plans will enable you to continue your important work during this global health crisis. Thank you for all you do to accelerate progress against cancer, and thank you for your loyalty to the AACR.

Sincerely,
Margaret Foti, PhD, MD (hc)
Chief Executive Officer
American Association for Cancer Research

 

For more information on Virtual Meetings please see

Is It Time for the Virtual Scientific Conference?: Coronavirus, Travel Restrictions, Conferences Cancelled

and  REAL TIME conference coverage at https://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com/press-coverage/

and other article and e-conference proceedings on this Online Open Access Journal

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Live Notes from Town Hall for Patients with Leading Oncologists on Lung Cancer and COVID19 3_28_20

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Live Notes from Town Hall for Patients with Leading Oncologists on Lung Cancer and COVID19 3_28_20

Reporter: Stephen J. Williams, PhD

UPDATED 3/31/2020

Leading Thoracic Oncologists from the United States and Milan, Italy shared their opinions and views on treating lung cancer patients during this COVID-19 pandemic.  Included in the panel is a thoracic oncologist from Milan Italy who gave special insights into the difficulties and the procedures they are using to help control the spread of infection within this high at-risk patient population and changes to current treatment strategy in light of this current virus outbreak.  Please see live notes and can follow on Twitter at #LungCancerandCOVID19.  Included below is the recording of the Zoom session.

 

UPDATED 3/29/2020

Leading Lung Cancer Oncologists from around the world are meeting and discussing concerns for lung cancer patients and oncologist during the novel coronavirus (SARS-COV2; COVID19) pandemic.  The town hall “COVID-19 and the Impact on Thoracic Oncology” will be held on Zoom on Saturday March 28, 2020 at 10:00 – 11:30 AM EST. sponsored by Axiom Healthcare Strategies . You can register at

Please join this virtual Town Hall

Zoom link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/846752048

Zoom Webinar ID: 846-752-048

eSpeakers

Anne Chiang, MD, PhD, Associate Professor; Chief Network Officer and Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Smilow Cancer Network

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, Ensign Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology) and Professor of Pharmacology; Chief of Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital; Associate Cancer Center Director for Translational Research, Yale Cancer Center

 Kurt Schalper, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Pathology; Director, Translational Immuno-oncology Laboratory

Martin J. Edelman, MD, Chair, Department of Hematology/Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center

Corey J. Langer, MD , Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Hossain Borghaei, DO, MS , Chief of Thoracic Medical Oncology and Director of Lung Cancer Risk Assessment, Fox Chase Cancer Center

Marina Garassino, MD, Fondazione IRCCS Instituto Nazionale del Tumori

Kristen Ashley Marrone, MD, Thoracic Medical Oncologist. Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Taofeek Owonikoko, MD, PhD, MSCR, Medical Oncologist, Emory University School of Medicine

Jeffrey D. Bradley, MD, FACR, FASTRO , Emory University School of Medicine

Brendon Stiles, M.D, Weil Cornell

@pharma_BI will be Live Tweeting in Real Time this Town Hall

Please follow at the following # (hashtags)

#LungCancerandCOVID19

#Livingwithcancer

#LungCancer

#NoOneAlone

and

We have added new faculty for our program on Saturday . @JeffBradleyMD and @BrendonStilesMD are also joining us to share their insight. This program is open to all. pic.twitter.com/EGGpUyajMV

— Hossein Borghaei, DO (@HosseinBorghaei) March 27, 2020

UPDATED 3/29/2020

Below is a collection of live Tweets from this meeting as well as some notes and comments from each of the speakers and panelists.  The recording of this Town Hall will be posted on this site when available.  The Town Hall was well attended with over 250 participants

Town Hall Notes

The following represent some notes taken at this Town Hall.

Dr. Owonkiko: 1-2% lethality in China; for patients newly diagnosed with lung cancer 1) limit contact between patient, physician and healthcare facility = telemedicine and oral chemo suggested 2) for immunotherapy if i.v. must monitor health carefully

Dr. Kurt Schalper: on COVID19 testing: Three types of tests each having pros and cons.

  •     viral culture: not always practical as you need lots of specimen
  • ELISA: looking for circulating antibodies but not always specific for type of coronavirus
  • RT-PCR: most sensitive but right now not much clarity on best primers to use; he noted that there is a 15% variance in test results using different primers to different targeted COVID19 genes

Dr. Marina Garassino: The Lombardi outbreak was 1st in Italy and took them by surprise.  She admits they were about one month behind in preparation where they did not have enough masks as late as January 31.  It was impractical to socially distance given Italian customs in greeting each other.  In addition, they had to determine which facilities would be COVID negative and COVID positive an this required access to testing.  Right now they are only testing symptomatic patients and healthcare workers have to test negative multiple times.  As concerning therapy with lung cancer patients, they have been delaying as much as possible the initiation of therapy.  Patients that are on immunotherapy and immunosuppresive drugs are being monitored by CT scan more often during this pandemic so as instances of pneumotitis began increasing they were unsure if these patients are at increased risk of infection to COVID19 or just a bias in that they are screening more often so their risk to COVID 19 is unclear.  Dr. Garissino also felt we need to move from hospital based to community based measures of prevention against COVID infection (social distancing, citizens more vigilant).  She noted that usually the cancer patients are more careful with respect to preventative measures than the general populace.  Healthcare workers have to test negative twice in three days if they had been in close contact with a COVID postitive patient.  However her hospital is still running at 80% capacity so patients are getting treated. However there are ethical issues as to who gets treated, who gets respirators, and other ethical issues related to unfortunate rationing of care.

Dr. Anne Chiang: Scheduled visits have notably decreased.  They have seen patients visits decrease from 4500 down to 2300 in two weeks but telemedicine visits or virtual visits have increased to 1000 so are replacing the on site visits.  She also said they are trying to reduce or eliminate the extremely immuno-suppressive drugs from chemotherapy regimens.  For example they are removing pemetrexemed from standard regimens and also considering neoadjuvant chemotherapy.  As far as biopsies, liquid biopsies can be obtained in the home so more preferred as patients do not have to come in for biopsy.

Dr. Edelman: Fox Chase is somewhat unique in being an NCI center which only does oncology so they rely on neighboring Jeanes Hospital of the Temple University Health System for a lot of their outpatient and surgical and general medicine needs.  Patients who will be transferred back to Fox Chase are screened for COVID19.

Brenden Stiles: Lung cancer surgeries have ground to a halt.  He did only one last week.  The hospital wants to conserve resources and considers lung cancer surgery to great a COVID risk.  They have shut down elective surgeries and there are no clinical trials being conducted.  He said that lung cancer research will be negatively impacted by the pandemic as resources are shuttled to COVID research efforts.

 Live Tweets

@marinagarassino not sure whether #lungcancer patients are more sensitive. They wound up testing more some cases of #Immunotherapy and pneumonitis & unclear for TKI therapy what is risk. Important to retest #lungcancerandcovid19 #livingwithcancer

— Stephen J Williams (@StephenJWillia2) March 28, 2020

#lungcancerandcovid19 @Annechiangmd talks on cutting pemetrexemed for tx regimen and considering more neoadjuvant tx. Also liquid biopsy can be performed in home setting

— Stephen J Williams (@StephenJWillia2) March 28, 2020

Dr. Schaller on #COVID19 testing at town hall #lungcancerandcovid19
Sees a 15% discordance of genes used for testing by RT-PCR #lungcancer @Pharma_BI

— Stephen J Williams (@StephenJWillia2) March 28, 2020

@Pharma_BI #lungcancerandcovid19 @marinagarassino notes that they are very active seeing new patients up to 80% of their cancer clinic operations working

— Stephen J Williams (@StephenJWillia2) March 28, 2020

#lungcancerandcovid19 Dr. Edelman @FoxChaseCancer uses adjacent @templemedschool Jeanes as #COVID19 triage & screening and keep cancer center as clean facility. Patients transferred from surgery to #fccc only when testing negative

— Stephen J Williams (@StephenJWillia2) March 28, 2020

#lungcancerandcovid19 @Pharma_BI talk with @BrendonStilesMD #lungcancer surgeries have ground to a halt. He only did one last week. They shut down elective surgeries. No #clinicaltrials #lungcancer #COVID19

— Stephen J Williams (@StephenJWillia2) March 28, 2020

#lungcancerandcovid19 @Pharma_BI Town hall on #COVOD19 and #lungcancer Dr Kurt Schaller @Yale says viral culture testing not efficient ELIZA has its own issues RT-PCR seems to be most sensitive & specific

— Stephen J Williams (@StephenJWillia2) March 28, 2020

#lungcancerandcovid19 @marinagarassino says only testing #cancerpatients for #COVID19 if they are undergoing surgery not testing all patients @Pharma_BI

— Stephen J Williams (@StephenJWillia2) March 28, 2020

@Pharma_BI from #lungcancerandcovid19 @owonkoko said for new diagnosed #lungcancerusing more oral chemo but #Immunotherapy we need to limit physician & clinic contact #livingwithcancer

— Stephen J Williams (@StephenJWillia2) March 28, 2020

Convening with leading #oncologist on the impact of #COVID19 topics include lessons learned from Italy, triage, treatment options, radiation, #telehealth with @StephenJWillia2 @marinagarassino @Annechiangmd @HosseinBorghaei and many others! pic.twitter.com/AogGWdPYVh

— Surviving Breast Cancer (@SBC_org) March 28, 2020

We currently have a post op lung cancer patient from another cancer center intubated in our #ICU with #COVID19 and a horrible air leak. Also had a patient w/ part solid tumor who I recommended to wait, tell me he is having surgery elsewhere.

Please consider #surgery carefully.

— Brendon Stiles (@BrendonStilesMD) March 28, 2020

Very thoughtful discussion about need for having prognosis and end of life discussions with lung cancer patients prior to going into hospital. Coordination with the long term treatment team, acute care team, and family are critical. #lcsm #COVID19 https://t.co/7ni9YIbrsB

— Brendon Stiles (@BrendonStilesMD) March 28, 2020

4) Surgery not w/o risk. Last week I only did 1 lung cancer case – on a woman w/ clear local progression on interval CT. She was healthy enough to go home pod#1 after lobectomy. However, we subsequently found out she was exposed to #COVID19.
Please proceed carefully.

— Brendon Stiles (@BrendonStilesMD) March 28, 2020

 

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e-Proceedings 19th Annual Bio-IT World 2020 Conference, October 6-8, 2020 Boston

https://bio-itworld.pathable.co/meetings/virtual/3T3SuWw9J2Bceei9s

 Virtual Conference coverage in Real Time: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN

 

Tweets & Retweets by @pharma_BI and @AVIVA1950 at #BioIT20, 19th Annual Bio-IT World 2020 Conference, October 6-8, 2020 in Boston

Virtual Conference coverage in Real Time: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN

https://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com/2020/10/08/tweets-retweets-by-pharma_bi-and-aviva1950-for-bioit20-19th-annual-bio-it-world-2020-conference-october-6-8-2020-in-boston/

October 6, 2020

PLENARY KEYNOTE –

10:15 am ET – NIH’s Strategic Vision for Data Science

  • Susan Gregurick

    NIH

    Associate Director for Data Science

  • Connected Data Ecosystem – Project is FAIR
  • Data shareable
  • NIH – agenda on data: diverse sets of data: Images of MRI, cells, of organs, of communities,
  • Share images and link it to tables
  • METADATA 34PB enable search – moving Data to clouds for Large-Scalable Analysis
  • Sequence Read Archive (SRA) – DNA seq.
  • COVID-19 from around the World SRA in Cloud Partnerships enabled
  • Open Science – enhance SW tools for making research cloud-ready
  • NIH has 12 Centers: Genomics, Neuro-imaging
  • SCH – Smart & Connected Health
  • IT, Sensor system hardware, effective usability, medical interpretation, Transformative data Science
  • Cancer, Alzheimer’s, Genomics, Medical Imaging, Brain circuits,
  • Coding it Forward: Students come to NIH Virtually from home to join CIVIL DIGITAL FELLOWSHIP
  • COVID-19: repositories of data for researches:
  1. Treatment for Interventions
  2. Long term Sequelae
  3. Clinical platforms: BigData Catalyst, Allow US, ADSO, National COVID Cohort
  4. Across platforms: workflow after RAS August Deploy: Passport for researchers to access data faster, Privacy-Preserving Tokens, Interoperability across clinical COVID data bases
  5. Metadata super rich to link to other new data sources is a challenging issue to solve across studies

Scott Parker

Sinequa Corp

Director of Product Marketing

  • Disconnect between R&D & IT
  • Intelligence search Applications for sensitive information: Sinequa is a leader
  • shares one index cost for document go down & productivity increases

Rebecca Baker

NIH OD

Dir HEAL Initiative

  • END ADDICTION Project – NIH HEAL Initiative: 20 NIH collaborating on Studies
  • National Overdose Deaths overdose opioid drugs – synthetic Fentanyl
  • Heroin, Cocaine, Methamphetamine
  • During COVID Overdose increased during the pandemic
  • Increase in drug use overall and 67% of Fentanyl
  • Chronic Pain: Daily severe pain: can’t go to work – 25 Million
  • $500 Million/year Sustained Research Investment 25+ HEAL Research Programs
  • HEAL Initiative: Pain management, Translating research, New presention, enhance outcomes for affected newborns, novel medications options Pre-clinical translational research in Pain management
  • Improving treatments for opioid misuse & addiction
  • Opioid disorder people do not receive treatment: justice community, collaborative, ER, pregnant mothers
  • Medication-based treatment – do not stay long enough to achieve long-term recovery
  • People experience Pain differently: Muscular, neurological, : Biomarkers, endpoints, signatures, test non-addictive treatments for specific pains
  • Pain control balance of risks of long-term opioid therapy
  • HEAL Research – infant born after exposure to opioids in utero affect brain growth, born with withdrawal syndromes
  • Diversity of Data under HEAL Initiative –>> Harmonize the data
  • Common Data Elements in HEAL Clinical Research in Pain Management
  • CORE CDE & Supplemental CDE
  • Making HEAL Data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interpretable, Reusable
  • LINK HEAL data with communities studies, predict behaviours
  • Data sharing made available to the public
  • HEAL Data Lifecycle
  • effect of change due to change in dosage used – if dat is not collected – then we are not able to explore the relationships
  • Use the data to advance research beyond the current understanding of the problem
  • #NIHhealthInitiative

 

Ari Berman

BioTeam Inc

Chief Executive Officer

  • Distributed Questions from the Audience to the speakers

10:00 AM – 11:25 AM EDT on Tuesday, October 6

How to Hold on to Your Knowledge in an Agile World

Etzard Stolte

Roche Pharma

Global Head

October 7, 2020

The Chicagoland COVID-19 Commons: A Regional Data Commons Powering Research to Support Public Health Efforts

  • Matthew Trunnell

    VP & Chief Data Officer

9:00 AM – 9:20 AM EDT on Wednesday, October 7

  • Seattle & COVID – samples from Seattle Flu Study
  • Public Health Practice vs Research – Data from Human Subjects: Avoid delute the control
  • Chicagoland COVID-19 Data Commons – in Chicago
  1. Neighborhood level in Chicago
  2. common data model
  3. power efforts Predictive modeling : Case rate Total confirmed cases, Death cases
  4. Legal agreement of the Consortium
  5. https://chicagoland.pandemic
  • Commons – resources held in commons non-for profit
  • Data Commons: cloud based SW platforms that are co-located data, computing infrastructure and applications
  • Level 1: Basic, Level 2: Repeatable, Level 3: Governance Level4: Interoperability Level 5: Sustainable
  • COVID-19 Data Common: Public health authorities collects data – nor available to Research community
  • Research community need access to Public health authorities
  • Regional COVID-19 Data Commons: Reasons: Public health decision is LOCAL but specific to the Region
  • Fund raising in the communities
  • Data 1: Clinical Data for Health care Summary of incidence – Signals of ethnic dependencies and co-morbidities
  1. Safe harbor: removal of 18 identifiers
  2. Expert Determination
  • Data 2: Public Data: Environmental,
  • Data 3: Resident-Reported Data on iPhones: multiple languages supported early reports of people feeling unwell

CompBio: An Augmented Intelligence System for Comprehensive Interpretation of Biological Data

Richard Head

Washington Univ

Prof & Dir Genome Technology Access Ctr

9:20 AM – 9:40 AM EDT on Wednesday, October 7

  • Formating, data scrubbing,
  • Replace data fabric with simplified version
  • create “Memory Model” Machine learning does classification of patterns
  • dimensions are the variables
  • “Hyper-dimensional – ingestions of abstracts and articles
  • Example; IL^: Aggregate Memories to create a NORMALIZED Aggregate Memory
  • Relationships explored
  • Complex Knowledge Patterns Generated by the PCMM: Compared Utilization
  • Augmented AI System: Combination PCMM with AI
  • Literature mining CompBio
  • Evidence of Utility: PCMM – Accepted or Published Research Leveraging PCMM Applications
  • Example 1: Cell Metabolism CompBio – A person formulate hypothesis
  • Example 2: Analysis of RNA-Seq a rare mutational subtype of GBM
  1. Hypothesis –>> BioExplorer –>> Multiple relations revealed
  2. Example 3: Animal Models to Human Disease: CompBio – Crohn’s Assertion Engine

Summary – Augmented AI Platform for Biological DIscovery

  • PCMM – Memory modle – hyperdimensional
  • AAI Infrastructure
  • Knowledge map libraries
  • In development Medical Discoveries

PercayAI Team – commercial Development

Kingdom Capital

 

Precision Cancer Medicine

  • Jeffrey Rosenfeld

    Rutgers Univ

    Asst Prof

9:40 AM – 10:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, October 7

  • Cancer Classification: Shift from Anatomy/History of Molecular Etiology
  • Chronic Myeloenous Leukemia  – Gleevec
  • Type cancer seq:

 

  1. Hereditary cancer sequencing – BRCA
  2. Tumor cancer sequencing
  • Panel Sizes – 500-1000x – the bigger the panel – more computational time more data need be investigated
  1. Hotspot Panels,
  2. Gene Panels,
  3. Exomes
  • Cell free DNA Testing – Liquid biopsy
  1. Apoptosis
  2. Necrosis
  • FoundationONE
  • Patient Results: ALL mutations found, Mutation Burden,
  • Gene EGFR – no mutation
  • For every Mutation what Therapy is recommended for approved drugs
  • Clinical Trials for the mutations
  • VARIANTS of unknown significance
  • WORKFLOW: many MDs send sample get 38pps report
  • Genomic Classification and Prognosis in AML: Mutations subset and therapies available
  • Paradigm Shift in Classification
  1. 2013 – Lung Adenocarcinoma <<<- –
  2. 2011 – another cancer

 

mTOR System: A Database for Systems-Level Biomarker Discovery in Cancer

  • Iman Tavassoly – CANCELLED

    C2i Genomics

    Physician Scientist

10:20 AM – 10:40 AM EDT on Wednesday, October 7
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mTOR system is a database I have designed for exploring biomarkers and systems-level data related to mTOR pathway in cancer. This database consists of different layers of molecular markers and quantitative parameters assigned to them through a current mathematical model. This database is an example of merging systems-level data with mathematical models for precision oncology.

FAIR and the (Tr)end of Data Lakes

  • Kees Van Bochove

    The Hyve

    Founder & Owner

10:20 AM – 10:40 AM EDT on Wednesday, October 7

Normalizing Regulatory Data Using Natural Language Processing (NLP)

  • Qais Hatim, Dr.

    FDA CDER

    Visiting Assoc

David Milward

Linguamatics

Senior Director, NLP Technology

10:40 AM – 11:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, October 7

  • ML focus on Disease
  • NLP – different words have same meanings, different expression same meaning, grammer & Meaning
  • Normalizes output
  1. Disease
  2. Genes
  3. Dates
  4. Mutations
  • Transform Unstructured into structured
  • Identifying Gaps in adverse events Labelling: Pain and Opioids
  • Improve drug safety
  • ChemAxon

Supplemental Approval Letters

Coding for Adverse events: “derived values of possible interest”

  • Use of Prominent Terminologies used at the FDA: UNII – Translation into ANSI tesaurus standard
  • Matching to the Variation found within Real Text: synonyms
  • Using ML for Normalization in Disease Context
  • Deep Learning PRE-TRAINING APPROACH for annotated date = supervised learning
  • A set of rules to handle overlapping entities
  • normalized the amp extracted from concepts
  • BERN and Terminologies: BioBERN, PubMed Central, PubMed Articles
  • NER – Named Entity Recognition
  • Evaluation of the Approach

Conclusions

NLP, ML, Hybrid methods, Terminology +ML methods

Building an Artificial Intelligence-Based Vaccine Discovery System: Applications in Infectious Diseases & Personalized Neoantigen-Related Immunotherapy for Treatment of Cancers

  • Kamal Rawal

    Amity Univ

    Assoc Prof

10:40 AM – 11:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, October 7

  • Classification of proteins
  • Data Collection
  • Feature Selection – Most important from 1447 features
  • Deep learning Model: Vaxi-DL: Layers, compilation
  • Overfitting Model strategy
  • Balancing Imbalanced
  • Hyper parameter tuning: Internal parameter of the model
  • Stratified K-Fold Training and Validation
  • Ensembling Approach: many weak classifier to create a STRONG Classifier
  • ROC Curve: Ensemble by Consensus
  • Before and after calibration
  • Benchmarking the system: Vaxi-DL Ensemble by Average vs by Consensus
  • SYSTEM developed: Type protein – find results
  • Rare disease CHARGE Syndrome was used for validation
  • Application to COVID-19 – Methodology
  • Application on Cancer: Which peptide can be used as antigen for prediction of immunogenic peptides

 

Using GPU Computing to Evaluate Variant Calling Strategies

  • George Vacek

    NVIDIA Corp

    Sequencing Strategic Development

  • Eriks Sasha Paegle

    Dell EMC

    Senior Business Development Manager

11:15 AM – 11:30 AM EDT on Wednesday, October 7

  • Navidia: 100 Genomes Cohort generated at NY Genome Center  NHGRI
  • Navidia Parabricks mentioned AZURE
  • Dell EMC: Test environment: Dell Technology Cloud Storage for Multi-Cloud: resources across GCU, AWS, Azure in Northern Virginia regions
  • Multi-Cloud ease of use: without Multi-cloud vs with Faction multi-clouds
  • Ease of use
  • Deep Averaging Network (DAN)
  • NVIDIA CLARA PARABRICK TOOLKIT: Short & Long read, Deep learning, Data Analytics, ML
  • Reference applications – host of customized applications, 3rd Party App, Libraries
  • GPU (Genomics PUs) – Drop in tools for Somatic Pipelines : Clara Parabricks v3.5
  • Partnership of NVIDIA and Petagene announced at BioIT20 – NGS Data compretion
  • Petagene technology allows lossless compression reduce storage costs
  • Project with Sanger Institute – Optimizing Muto-graph Identification
  • completed run in 24 hours instead 31 days
  • Parabricks is a joint project Dell/EMC and NVIDIA

PLENARY KEYNOTE: Game On: How AI, Citizen Science, and Human Computation Are Facilitating the Next Leap Forward

12:30 PM – 1:55 PM EDT on Wednesday, October 7

  • Allison Proffitt

    BioIT World & Diagnostics World

    Editorial Dir

Seth Cooper

Northeastern Univ

Asst Prof

  • Foldit – Scientific discovery using video games in the domain of protein structures and folding
  • Combine Human with machine
  • Score based on competition among players for higher score and collaboration in groups
  • Problem: Chemistry give input.
  • Puzzle available for one week on the Internet, games ongoing,
  • Solution analysis – continually IMPROVE the structure of Protein folding
  • Foldit Tutorials offered online
  • Player accomplishments: Articles by scientists ,
  • development of algorithms discovery
  • Electron Density fitting
  • Enzyme re-design
  • de novo Protein Design – named authors on a paper – scientific process
  • Future Work: Coronovirus Spike protein
  • Small molecule design
  • narrative
  • virtual reality – 3D protein structure for manipulation
  • htp://Fold.it/Educator Mode
  • htp://Fold.it/standalone
  • http://fold.it/
  • seth.cooper@gmail.com

Lee Lancashire, CIO

Cohen Veterans Bioscience – not for profit – advancing Brain health

  • Biotyping and stratification
  • Biomarkers
  • Omics data
  • All meet in the Common – Brain Commons: Clinician, Geneticist, Scientist, Bioinformatician, R Studio, Python, Jupyterhub
  • Multidimensional Biomarkers in Multiple Sclerosis

 

Pietro Michelucci

Human Computation Institute

Director

  • Why machine can’t tackle AI on their own and AI can’t do Precision Medicine on their own
  • young people more than others N of 1 – Precision Mediicne
  • Scandinavians and Russians are immune
  • AI & Precision Medicine: can’t solve the complexity of messy data vs big data
  • Messy data: heterogeneous multidimensional, to many combinations to explore, select which combination to explore vs let the machine generate all the combination and do analysis on all and discover PATTERN
  • Causal vs spurious
  • Logical reasoning, right brain abstract and short cuts – Human brain does routinely
  • Human do better on context: Not all info is in pixels such as context
  • #ADS – SBIR suspected the hypothesis to be tested
  • improving crowd wisdom methods: 20 input by different people PLUS machine
  • combine crowd answers with machine faster and improved accuracy
  • Machine has no intuition – machine bias of Human and of machine is similar
  • Wisdom of Crowd: Bootstrapping hybrid Intelligence: CIVIUM
  • bit.ly/civiumintro

 

 

Jerome Waldispuehl

McGill Univ

Assoc Prof

  • visualization of nucleotide – tools for
  • http://phylo.cs.mcgill.ca
  • GAME: Phylo DNA Puzzles: Goal 202, Score, Top Score
  • Whole-genome multiple
  • Phylo: 350,000 participants, 1MM solutions Improve 40 to 95% computer alignments
  • education & science outreach – reach out to the Public
  • Borderlands Science + game designers: 1MM participants 50MM solutions
  • Joint initiative with a major science project
  • Improvement of 16S rRNA
  • MMOS company in Science games

Towards AI-Guided Cell Profiling of Drugs with Automated High-Content Imaging

Ola Spjuth

Uppsala Univ

Professor

2:10 PM – 2:30 PM EDT on Wednesday, October 7

  • Accelerate drug discovering using AI automation in collaboration with AstraZeneca
  • Closed-loop (autonomous) experimentation
  • collect the best data at the minimal cost
  • Active learning: query active learning model
  • Exploitation [best predictions from given data] vs Exploration
  • Automation in Life Science: micro-plate, stack of micro-plates
  • Robot scientist: come out with hypothesis and conduct research
  • high-throughput biology: Robots vs Disease
  • Cell painting: Imaging with multiplexed dyes: genetic or chemical perturbations
  • classify images into biological mechanisms
  • combinations of toxicants
  • A discovery engine: Toxicity, Efficacy, mechanisms combinations
  • Automating our cell-based lab: fixed setup
  • Open source lab automation suite: Github https://github.com/pharmbio/imagedb
  • Dealing with large scale data [TensorFlow]
  • STACKn.com – AI modeling Life cycle
  • HASTE: Hierarchical analysis of Spacial and Temporal
  • https://pharmb.io

Advanced Imaging and AI Technologies Providing New Image and Data Analysis Challenges and Opportunities

Richard Goodwin

AstraZeneca

Dir & Head of Imaging & AI

2:30 PM – 2:50 PM EDT on Wednesday, October 7

AstraZeneca is empowering its scientists to see the complexity of a disease in unprecedented detail to enable effective development and selection of new medicines. This is enabled though the use of an extensive range of cutting-edge imaging technologies that support studies into the efficacy and safety of drugs through the R&D pipeline. This presentation will introduce the range of novel in vivo and ex vivo imaging technologies employed, describe the data challenges associated with scaling up the use of molecular imaging technologies, and address the new data integration and mining challenges. Novel computational methods are required for large cohort imaging studies that involve tissue based multi-omics analysis, which integrate spatial relationships in unprecedented detail.

  • Small molecule – not suitable for complex diseases
  • focus on quality vs quantity
  • compound for commercial value
  • right safety
  • Imaging supports R&D: Molecular, medical, big data and AI
  • convergence of ML for decision making
  • Spatial imaging: morphology
  • Multiplex imaging like MRI
  • Multimodal analysis: tissue data and invivo holistic understanding of drug delivery
  • spacial transcriptomics proteomics: imaging platforms in R&D
  • AZ invest in imaging technologies already impacting projects: AI-empowered imaging delivering subcellular resolution
  • Mass Spec Imaging (MSI) – ex-vivo imaging techniques- spatial distribution of molecular
  • cartography of cancer: Drug metabolite distribution – NEW understanding of disease and drug distribution in tissue
  • DATA: digitization, integration, analysis, exploration
  • Digital pathology and beyond – AI Image Analysis – AI outperform pathololigst and radiologists
  • Data volume and dimensionality challenge and opportunity
  • Data volume and dimensionality: complete image
  • AZ Oncology – disease is understood for drug discovery using Imaging technology

PANEL: Framework and Approach to Unlock the Potential of Quantum Computing in Drug Discovery

  • Brian Martin

    AbbVie Inc

    Research Fellow & Head

Philipp Harbach

Merck KGaA

Head of In Silico Research in Germany

  • chemistry and manufacturing with QC – end user in Pharmaceutical
  • VC at Merck ask expert in Merck to guide investment of Merck in QC
  • 50 people across Merck [three areas at Merck [Pharmaceutics, Animal Health, Diagnostics]

Celia Merzbacher

SRI Intl

Assoc Dir Quantum Economic Dev Consortium (QEDC)

  • Methodology from Pistoia to be used in QC
  • QC R&D developed in parallel
  • Simulation of all the components is possible

John Wise

Pistoia Alliance Inc (2007)

We are a global, not-for-profit members’ organization working to lower barriers to innovation in life science and healthcare R&D through pre-competitive collaboration.

Consultant

  • How Pharmaceutical Industry can benefit from quantum computing
  • 9 of 10 big Pharma are members of the Pistoia Alliance
  • IP created on specifications

 

Zahid Tharia

Pistoia Alliance Inc

Consultant

  • Barriers to adoption of quantum computing (QC) in Pharma is training of staff and skills in the IT aspects of QC

3:10 PM – 4:00 PM EDT on Wednesday, October 7

In 2019, major life sciences companies mobilized to form a pre-competitive, collaborative quantum computing working group (QuPharm) and delineate a framework and approach to accelerate realizing the potential of quantum acceleration in drug discovery. Learn from industry thought leaders on how to valuate and map problems into quantum algorithms, set up organizations to enable and scale quantum computing pilots and establish effective cross-industry, tech, and start-up collaborations.

TRACK 11: BIOINFORMATICSTRACK 12: PHARMACEUTICAL R&D INFORMATICS

Session Wrap-Up Panel Discussion

Etzard Stolte, PhD

Roche Pharma

Global Head

  • no official policy
  • 2020 it become important to be mentioned by management as a potential use in automation
  • continual updates needed – it is manual and a disillusion without a business case
  • Roche try to commodatized tools in AI as Classifiers, automation,

Samiul Hasan

GlaxoSmithKline

Scientific Analytics and Visualization Director

  • AI is perceived as having potential to take off on its own
  • POC – demonstrate the vlaue
  • Proof of Concept – Semantic report – a story vs one off
  • demonstration of value is needed and is continuous

 

 

Bin Li

Millennium The Takeda Oncology Co

Dir Computational Biology & Translational Medicine

  • ML community at Takeda
  • Positive to have, how successful not much yet – not used much yet
  • some models are pretty good do not need improvement

Jens Hoefkens

Accenture

Industry Principal Director

  • Future of AI as support to the Human intuition vs replacement of humans
  • automation like pathology classification
  • Machine and Human working together – not as maker of decisions in clinical settings
  • POC cycle prevent production conversion
  • where is the highest value for production and deploy with scale
  • AI Assisted to sift Genomics data
  • BERT term extraction from Google technology to make sense of data assist the user
  • ML
  • RPA – Robotic concept extraction – 80% accuracy needed by scientists

4:00 PM – 4:20 PM EDT on Wednesday, October 7

  • PANEL

October 8, 2020

Trends from the Trenches

Kevin Davies, PhD

CRISPR Journal

Exec VP & Exec Editor

Timothy Cutts

Wellcome Sanger Institute

Head

  • Collaborations with scientists in subSahara
  • pay for data analysis – ownership issues
  • in UK 6 Labs for the entire countries: all send the data to Wellcome Sanger Institute for analysis
  • Metadata is the problem – coordination of each of the 6 labs to send the metadata created problems

 

  • Cindy Crowninshield

    Cambridge Healthtech Institute

    Executive Event Director

Vivien Bonazzi

Deloitte Consulting LLP

Managing Dir & Chief Biomedical Data Scientist

  • How organizations use bioscience data
  • Data Ecosystem: Hardware and software: Cloud and other options
  • Operationalize the two trends:
  1. Platforms: End to end solutions resulting in SILOS, systems are native: data ingestions
  2. Data Commons: Open arch, open source – integration and interdependence issues
  • Biomedical Agencies in NIH various Organizations in the Private sector: Sharing data must be more effective
  • IT, Data Science, Management – COVID – reduced barriers
  • Leadership: Different voices from different people
  • Data strategies & Governance not the whole but small pieces , incentives to share data

Chris Dagdigian

BioTeam Inc

Sr Dir

  • 10th Anniversary to Trends from the Trenches
  • IT infrastructure changes
  • Research IT:
  1. Genomics & BioInformatics
  2. Image-based data acquisition and analysis: CryoEM, 3D microscopy, fMRI image analysis
  3. ML and AI – GPU FPGAs, neural processors: Drive in organizations: bottom up
  4. Chemistry & Molecular Dynamics
  5. Storage and exploitation of data for insights
  6. 2020 Hype vs Reality
  7. Scientific Data: managing and understanding, data movement, federated/access
  8. Big Data: data storage, management & governance standards vs human curated data
  9. IT needs guidance and decisions from Science Team
  10. Culture change for joint management by Science & IT: data fidelity, attribution, allocation top down
  11. NERSC File System quotas & Purging overviewSilos & So
  12. Petabytes of open access data, collaborative research resources: Data rich environments
  13. Data Lakes: Gen3 Data Commons
  14. Data hygiene:metadata is Science side vs IT
  15. Biased Data: Model & Data Bias
  • Failed Predictions:
  1. Compilers matter again – not True
  2. CPU benchmarking is back – WRONG
  3. AMD vs Inter arm64 vs both
  4. Policy driven auto-tiering storage – wrong, USER self-service for tiering, movement and archive decision. Let researchers tier/move/archive based on Project, Experiment or Group
  5. Single storage namespace – Wrong: Data intensive science: scientists must do some IT jobs themselves

Kjiersten Fagnan

Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab

CIO

  • Genome Project of DOE
  • Data management with other agencies
  • COVID: Collaborations, breaking down barriers, small labs and big labs ALL generate data and sharing
  • that collaboration is needed regardless of COVID – not happen
  • If twoo big one lab can’t handle it all
  • Funding and training does not support the Collaborations because next round of funding depend on individual publications – which requires silos
  • Data cleaning and data management:Standards are annoying and painful – not needed for publishing the results as soon as possible – just that someone else will be able to use it
  • Facebook have hundred of curators – the curation of scientific data requires same hunsrands od curators that are SCIENTISTS and Data scientists

Matthew Trunnell

Pandemic Response Commons, Seattle

VP & Chief Data Officer

  • Data commons for intra- and inter-mural data sharing
  • ML is needed for Data commons
  • Progress in FAIRness, NIH efforts driven by Susan Gregory across NIH all centers
  • Large amount of B-to-B Data sharing UBER sharing with a jurisdiction they operate
  • SNOWFLAKES – new cloud technology
  • COVID – plays an accelerator
  • Cancer vs COVID – transfer knowledge from COVID to Cancer

9:00 AM – 10:40 AM EDT on Thursday, October 8

The “Trends from the Trenches” will celebrate its 10th Anniversary at Bio-IT! Since 2010, the “Trends from the Trenches” presentation, given by Chris Dagdigian, has been one of the most popular annual traditions on the Bio-IT Program. The intent of the talk is to deliver a candid (and occasionally blunt) assessment of the best, the worthwhile, and the most overhyped information technologies (IT) for life sciences. The presentation has helped scientists, leadership, and IT professionals understand the basic topics related to computing, storage, data transfer, networks, and cloud that are involved in supporting data-intensive science. In 2020, Chris will give the “Trends from the Trenches” presentation in its original “state-of-the-state address” followed by guest speakers giving podium talks on relevant topics. An interactive Q&A moderated discussion with the audience follows. Come prepared with your questions and commentary for this informative and lively session.

  • PLENARY
  • PANEL

Q&A

  • Project vs enterprise – Sequencing for internal research vs for clients’ data
  • Tension in governmental agencies – no robust solutions: IT, Science, Management
  • different Use cases need different infrastructure: HW & SW: Storage and data exploration
  • Data Lakes: rule base, enterprising – training is an issue in organizations
  • Management, Scientists, IT in enterprises – terra byte of storage, budgets issues, conversation on the limits that IT can ofer putting more burden on the Scientists for triage and quotas – business and scientific value
  • New capabilities in organizations: hands on in data management tactical of data management not IT bur data engineering
  • Citizen Science: privacy vs plants and microbes – no privacy issues
  • Incentives need be changed for Data Citations in addition to Papers
  • Curation Citations as Authorship citation
  • Data sharing in Cancer: GEN3 – NCI Data Commons, Data Governance and Data Permission (Access) – NCI does work in data commons – much data outside this space
  • EBI – in UK Sanger Institute has the infrastructure in one place
  • Migrating Project based Data structure: that involves scientist decisions that should not be a quota (storage is full)  in the IT space
  • Human to Human communications vs tools for data migration
  • Which Organizations get the data curation and annotation well: Subject matter from day 1 – hard to teach vs data engineering skills; TEAM as a solving is critical in Biomedical space no incentives
  • BBC – Meta tagging system is outstanding
  • NCAST TRANSLATOR – across organizations
  • Changing incentives – MORE organizations will do that task better
  • Common metadata across domains with predict uses of data in the Future – collaboration of CS to create in the science organization tagging like in BBC

TRACK 16: OPEN ACCESS AND COLLABORATIONSTRACK 15: CANCER INFORMATICSTRACK 13: GENOME INFORMATICS

Session Wrap-Up Panel Discussion

  • Chris Anderson

    Clinical OMICs

    Editor in Chief

Ian Fore

NIH NCI

Sr Biomedical Informatics Program Mgr

  • NCI – Cancer Data Commons – concierge services to organization on data services

Ravi Madduri – CVD large cohort

Univ of Chicago

Scientist

 

  • Lara Mangravite

    Sage Bionetworks

    President

  • Kees Van Bochove

    The Hyve

    Founder & Owner

11:10 AM – 11:30 AM EDT on Thursday, October 8

 

BREAKOUT: Driving Scientific Discovery with Data / Digitization

  • Timothy Gardner

    Riffyn Inc

    CEO

11:35 AM – 12:00 PM EDT on Thursday, October 8

 

PLENARY KEYNOTE – 12:00 PM – 1:25 PM EDT on Thursday, October 8

Robert Green

Brigham & Womens Hospital

Co-founder of Genome Medicine

Prof & Dir G2P Research

  • Combining data to rapidly analyze COVID-19 Patients –
  • identify BIOMARKERS for vulnerability
  • Preventive Genomics – Angelina Jolly’s musectomy as a preventive clinical condition
  • Patients access to own genomics data
  • Population screening – to predict risks
  • Genetic Testing to Consumer: Preventive Genomics: conflated genotyping/sequencing and labs/care providers
  • Genetic Testing to Consumer: COST & Benefits – UNCLEAR
  1. diagnosis of unsuspected genetic disease
  2. stratification for surveillance
  3. which pieces of the puzzle need to be brought to bear in patient care
  4. Categories and Reporting criteria: Gene-Disease validity vs Variant Pathogenicity –>> Clinic
  5. MedSeq Project: 10MM randomized study – all genome info shared with Patient, other arm only selective genome data shared with patient: 100 patients 20% carry monogenic condition: Polygenic risk scores:
  6. CAD – high Cholesterol biomarker, A-FIb, DM2, 52% Women 48% Men
  7. No high risk error by PCP discussing and disclosing the results of the sequence
  8. Filtering the results: Indication -based testing vs Screening
  9. BabySeq Project: INFANTS sequencing to prevent disease: 11% carry a mutation in a monogenic gene for a monogenic condition -like abnormal narrowed aorta
  10. MDR – Monogenic Disease Risk
  11. MilSeq Project: US Air Force – Military active duty
  12. 5,8,10 – are all Polygenic studies
  13. Polygenic Risk Scores – High risk
  14. Classification need to be repeated every few years (2 years – re-sequence) due to changes in health and to efficiencies in new discovery in curated data which is improving as on-going
  • Risk benefit – UTILITY – Partners Biobank Return of Genomic Results
  • No interest on knowing by the Public NCCN criteria on chart review 20%
  • Brigham Preventive Genomics via telemedicine – First in the country
  • APC mutation after colonoscopy – obstruction diagnosed
    www.genomes2people.org 
  • @robertgreen

 

Juergen Klenk

Deloitte Consulting LLP

Principal

  • Bradykinin hypothesis for COVID-19
  • liberate the data: People , Data Risk

 

Natalija Jovanovic

Sanofi

Chief Digital Officer

  • AI in Pharma
  • Vaccine preventable diseases – produce 1Billion vaccines a year
  1. reduction of incidence: Pertusis – 92% eradication
  • manage risk profile
  • Science mechanism translatable to machines
  1. high automated ingestible data for AI
  2. Digital is about people: Good data Good algorithms Good GUI

Vivien Bonazzi

Deloitte Consulting LLP

Managing Dir & Chief Biomedical Data Scientist

12:00 PM – 1:25 PM EDT on Thursday, October 8
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12:00 Organizer’s Remarks

Cindy Crowninshield, RDN, LDN, Executive Event Director, Cambridge Healthtech Institute

12:05 Keynote Introduction

Juergen A. Klenk, PhD, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP

12:15 Toward Preventive Genomics: Lessons from MedSeq and BabySeq

Robert Green, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine (Genetics) and Director, G2P Research Program/Preventive Genomics Clinic, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Broad Institute, and Harvard Medical School

12:40 AI in Pharma: Where We Are Today and How We Will Succeed in the Future

Natalija Jovanovic, PhD, Chief Digital Officer, Sanofi Pasteur

1:05 LIVE Q&A: Session Wrap-Up Panel Discussion

PANEL MODERATORS:

Juergen A. Klenk, PhD, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Vivien R. Bonazzi, PhD, Managing Director & Chief Biomedical Data Scientist, Deloitte Consulting LLP

  • PLENARY

Below are included sessions that are NOT included above. I covered ONLY the above sessions.

Session Availability

1. PLENARY KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

10:15 am ET – NIH’s Strategic Vision for Data Science

Susan K. Gregurick, PhD, Associate Director, Data Science (ADDS) and Director, Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS), National Institutes of Health

Rebecca Baker, PhD, Director, HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) Initiative, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health

2. WORKSHOPS

11:55 am ET – W1: Data Management for Biologics: Registration and Beyond

Monica Wang, PhD, Principal Technology Lead, Scientific Informatics, Takeda

Sebastian Schlicker, Head, Biologics Business Operations, Genedata AG

11:55 am ET – W2: A Crash Course in AI: 0-60 in Three

Peter V. Henstock, PhD, Machine Learning & AI Lead, Software Engineering & Statistics & Visualization, Pfizer Inc.

11:55 am ET – W3: Data Science Driving Better Informed Decisions

Meghan Raman, Director, R&D Data Lake & Analytics, Bristol Myers Squibb Co.

Nigel Greene, PhD, Director & Head Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Drug Safety & Metabolism, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals

2:15 pm ET – W4: Digital Biomarkers and Wearables in Pharma R&D and Clinical Trials

Danielle Bradnan, MS, Research Associate, Digital Health and Wellness, Lux Research

Graham Jones, PhD, Director, Innovation, Technical Research and Development, Novartis

Ariel Dowling, PhD, Director of Digital Strategy, Data Sciences Institute, Research and Development, Takeda Pharmaceuticals

2:15 pm ET – W5: AI-Celerating R&D: Foundational Approaches to How Emerging Technologies Can Create Value

Brian Martin, Head of AI, R&D Information Research, Senior Principal Data Scientist, AbbVie

2:15 pm ET – W6: Dealing with Instrument Data at Scale: Challenges and Solutions

Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Executive Director, Globus, University of Chicago

Michael A. Cianfrocco, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Research Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan

Brigitte E. Raumann, Product Manager, Globus, University of Chicago

3. Connect with peers from across the industry during these dedicated networking times.

9:25 am ET – Virtual Exhibit Hall Open

1:00 pm ET – Speed Networking

Looking to meet fellow attendees and have meaningful conversations – just as you would at an in- person event? This is the perfect way to achieve just that. Get to know your fellow attendees by joining this interactive speed networking event. To participate, each attendee will be paired at random with another fellow attendee and given a chance to interact for 7 minutes in a private zoom room. Once the 7 minutes are up, you will move on to meet with another selected attendee. Maximize your networking at the meeting and join in.

2:00 pm ET – Stretch Break

Take a minute to revitalize and join our friends from VOS Fitness for a stretch break. The professional trainer from VOS will bring you through some easy moves that will help with screen fatigue and ease your muscles after a long day of sitting at the computer. All moves can be done right at your desk and is appropriate for all fitness levels.

4. Game On!

Earn points by completing the activities listed on our Game tab. Some activities will only award points once, but others will award you every time you do it – so the more involved you are in the virtual event, the more points you will earn! You can start earning points one week before the event – so get ready to start sending meeting invitations, exploring our virtual expo and planning your schedule.

Attendees in the top 5% of points earned when the game closes at the end of the conference will be eligible to win a gift card worth $200 USD!

5. Take part in 1-on-1 networking with an easy-to-navigate profile search and scheduling platform.

  • Check out your recommended connections flagged as “Want to Meet” in the People Tab. These connections were chosen based on your similar roles, companies and conference program interests.
  • Take a moment to add relevant interest tags to your profile. Then search and connect with participants who have the same interests.
  • Engage with technology leaders in their booths and view relevant videos and demos.
  • Take part in live Q&A with speakers and participants following each educational session.
  • Create and join in ad hoc group discussions throughout the event.
  • Watch Our Quick Tutorial on how to Maximize Networking Opportunities: CII’s Virtual Event Platform – Networking

10:00 AM – 11:25 AM EDT on Tuesday, October 6
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10:00 Welcome Remarks

Cindy Crowninshield, RDN, LDN, Executive Event Director, Cambridge Healthtech Institute

10:05 Keynote Introduction

Scott Parker, Director of Product Marketing, Marketing, Sinequa

10:15 PLENARY KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: NIH’s Strategic Vision for Data Science

Susan K. Gregurick, PhD, Associate Director, Data Science (ADDS) and Director, Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS), National Institutes of Health

Rebecca Baker, PhD, Director, HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) Initiative, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health

11:05 LIVE Q&A: Session Wrap-Up Panel Discussion

PANEL MODERATOR:

Ari E Berman, PhD, CEO, BioTeam Inc

  • PLENARY

Session Availability

  • ON DEMAND
  • LIVE
  • OPEN TO ALL

Wednesday, October 7

9:00 AM EDT
  • TRACK 7: AI FOR DRUG DISCOVERY

    The Emergence of the AI-Augmented Drug Discoverer

    9:00 AM – 9:20 AM EDT
    PRESENTATIONON DEMANDRECORDEDSESSION PASS

    Mark Davies

    BenevolentAI

9:20 AM EDT
  • TRACK 7: AI FOR DRUG DISCOVERY

    Generative Chemistry and Generative Biology for AI-Powered Drug Discovery

    9:20 AM – 9:40 AM EDT
    PRESENTATIONON DEMANDRECORDEDSESSION PASS

    Alex Zhavoronkov

    Insilico Medicine

9:40 AM EDT
  • TRACK 7: AI FOR DRUG DISCOVERY

    Talk Title to be Announced

    9:40 AM – 11:00 AM EDT
    PRESENTATIONON DEMANDRECORDEDSESSION PASS

    Grace Wenjia You

    EMD Serono

11:00 AM EDT
  • TRACK 7: AI FOR DRUG DISCOVERY

    Coupling AI and Network Biology to Generate Insights for Disease Understanding and Target ID

    11:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT
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    PRESENTATIONON DEMANDRECORDEDSESSION PASS

    Alexander Ivliev

    Clarivate

11:30 AM EDT
  • TRACK 7: AI FOR DRUG DISCOVERY

    Session Wrap-Up Panel Discussion

    11:30 AM – 11:50 AM EDT
    PANELON DEMANDLIVESESSION PASS

 

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Welcome to Bio-IT World 2020

In the spirit of open collaboration, the world’s premier bio-IT conference will bring together the community to focus on how we are using technologies and analytic approaches to solve problems, accelerate science, and drive the future of precision medicine. With a focus on AI, data science and other “data-driven” technologies that are advancing biomedical research, drug discovery and healthcare, the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo ’20 will bring together more than 3,000 participants to the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston from October 6-8, 2020.

The participants will have the chance to meet and share research/ideas with leading life sciences, pharmaceutical, clinical, healthcare, informatics and technology experts.

BROCHURE

http://www.giiconference.com/chi909998/catalog.pdf?20200122

2020 CONFERENCE PROGRAMS VIEW

TRACK 1 Data Storage and Transport VIEW

TRACK 2 Data and Metadata Management VIEW

TRACK 3 Data Science and Analytics Technologies VIEW

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TRACK 5 Data Security and Compliance VIEW

TRACK 6 Cloud Computing VIEW

TRACK 7 AI for Drug Discovery VIEW

TRACK 8 Emerging AI Technologies VIEW

TRACK 9 AI: Business Value Outcomes VIEW

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TRACK 11 Bioinformatics VIEW

TRACK 12 Pharmaceutical R&D Informatics VIEW

TRACK 13 Genome Informatics VIEW

TRACK 14 Clinical Research and Translational Informatics VIEW

TRACK 15 Cancer Informatics VIEW

TRACK 16 Open Access and Collaborations

 

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Rebecca Baker, PhD

Director, HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) Initiative, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health

Vivien Bonazzi, PhD

Chief Biomedical Data Scientist, Managing Director, Deloitte

Tim Cutts, PhD

Head, Scientific Computing, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Chris Dagdigian

Co-Founder and Senior Director, Infrastructure, BioTeam, Inc

Kevin Davies, PhD

Executive Editor, The CRISPR Journal, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

Kjiersten Fagnan, PhD

Chief Informatics Officer, Data Science and Informatics Leader, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Robert Green, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine (Genetics) and Director, G2P Research Program/Preventive Genomics Clinic, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Broad Institute, and Harvard Medical School

Susan K. Gregurick, PhD

Associate Director, Data Science (ADDS) and Director, Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS), National Institutes of Health

Natalija Jovanovic, PhD

Chief Digital Officer, Sanofi Pasteur

Pietro Michelucci, PhD

Director, Human Computation Institute

Matthew Trunnell

Vice President and Chief Data Officer, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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Is It Time for the Virtual Scientific Conference?: Coronavirus, Travel Restrictions, Conferences Cancelled

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Is It Time for the Virtual Scientific Conference?: Coronavirus, Travel Restrictions, Conferences Cancelled

Curator: Stephen J. Williams, PhD.

UPDATED 3/12/2020

To many of us scientists, presenting and attending scientific meetings, especially international scientific conferences, are a crucial tool for disseminating and learning new trends and cutting edge findings occurring in our respective fields.  Large international meetings, like cancer focused meetings like AACR (held in the spring time), AAAS and ASCO not only highlight the past years great discoveries but are usually the first place where breakthroughs are made known to the scientific/medical community as well as the public.  In addition these conferences allow for scientists to learn some of the newest technologies crucial for their work in vendor exhibitions.

During the coronavirus pandemic, multiple cancellations of business travel, conferences, and even university based study abroad programs are being cancelled and these cancellations are now hitting the 2020 Spring and potentially summer scientific/medical conferences.  Indeed one such conference hosted by Amgen in Massachusetts was determined as an event where some attendees tested positive for the virus, and as such, now other attendees are being asked to self quarantine.

Today I received two emails on conference cancellations, one from Experimental Biology in California and another from The Cancer Letter, highlighting other conferences, including National Cancer Coalition Network (NCCN) meetings which had been canceled.

 

Experimental Biology - San Diego 2020 - April 4-7

Dear Stephen,

After thoughtful deliberations, the leaders of the Experimental Biology host societies have made the difficult but necessary decision to cancel Experimental Biology (EB) 2020 set to take place April 4–7 in San Diego, California. We know how much EB means to everyone, and we did not make this decision in haste. The health and safety of our members, attendees, their students, our staff, partners and our communities are our top priority.

As we have previously communicated via email, on experimentalbiology.org and elsewhere, EB leadership has been closely monitoring the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease). Based on the latest guidance from public health officials, the travel bans implemented by different institutions and the state of emergency declared in California less than 48 hours ago, it became clear to us that canceling was the right course of action.

We thank you and the entire EB community for understanding the extreme difficulty of this decision and for your commitment to the success of this conference – from the thousands of attendees to the presenters, exhibitors and sponsors who shared their time, expertise, collaboration and leadership. We deeply appreciate your contributions to this community.

What Happens Next?

Everyone who has registered to attend the meeting will receive a full registration refund within the next 45 days. Once your registration cancellation is processed, you will receive confirmation in a separate email. You do not need to contact anyone at EB or your host society to initiate the process. Despite the cancellation of the meeting, we are pleased to tell you that we will publish abstracts in the April 2020 issue of The FASEB Journal as originally planned. Please remember to cancel any personal arrangements you’ve made, such as travel and housing reservations. 

We ask for patience as we evaluate our next steps, and we will alert you as additional information becomes available please see our FAQs for details.

And in The Cancer Letter

Coronavirus vs. oncology: Meeting cancellations, travel restrictions, fears about drug supply chain

By Alexandria Carolan

NOTE: An earlier version of this story was published March 4 on the web and was updated March 6 to include information about restricted travel for employees of cancer centers, meeting cancellations, potential disruptions to the drug supply chain, and funds allocated by U.S. Congress for combating the coronavirus.

Further updates will be posted as the story develops.

Forecasts of the inevitable spread of coronavirus can be difficult to ignore, especially at a time when many of us are making travel plans for this spring’s big cancer meetings.

The decision was made all the more difficult earlier this week, as cancer centers and at least one biotechnology company—Amgen—implemented travel bans that are expected to last through the end of March and beyond. The Cancer Letter was able to confirm such travel bans at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Meetings are getting cancelled in all fields, including oncology:

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network March 5 postponed its 2020 annual conference of about 1,500 attendees March 19-22 in Orlando, citing precautions against coronavirus.

“The health and safety of our attendees and the patients they take care of is our number one concern,” said Robert W. Carlson, chief executive officer of NCCN. “This was an incredibly difficult and disappointing decision to have to make. However, our conference attendees work to save the lives of immunocompromised people every day. Some of them are cancer survivors themselves, particularly at our patient advocacy pavilion. It’s our responsibility, in an abundance of caution, to safeguard them from any potential exposure to COVID-19.”

UPDATED 3/12/2020

And today the AACR canceled its yearly 2020 Meeting (https://www.aacr.org/meeting/aacr-annual-meeting-2020/coronavirus-information/)

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Board of Directors has made the difficult decision, after careful consideration and comprehensive evaluation of currently available information related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, to terminate the AACR Annual Meeting 2020, originally scheduled for April 24-29 in San Diego, California. A rescheduled meeting is being planned for later this year.

The AACR has been closely monitoring the rapidly increasing domestic and worldwide developments during the last several weeks related to COVID-19. This evidence-based decision was made after a thorough review and discussion of all factors impacting the Annual Meeting, including the U.S. government’s enforcement of restrictions on international travelers to enter the U.S.; the imposition of travel restrictions issued by U.S. government agencies, cancer centers, academic institutions, and pharmaceutical and biotech companies; and the counsel of infectious disease experts. It is clear that all of these elements significantly affect the ability of delegates, speakers, presenters of proffered papers, and exhibitors to participate fully in the Annual Meeting.

The health, safety, and security of all Annual Meeting attendees and the patients and communities they serve are the AACR’s highest priorities. While we believe that the decision to postpone the meeting is absolutely the correct one to safeguard our meeting participants from further potential exposure to the coronavirus, we also understand that this is a disappointing one for our stakeholders. There had been a great deal of excitement about the meeting, which was expected to be the largest ever AACR Annual Meeting, with more than 7,400 proffered papers, a projected total of 24,000 delegates from 80 countries and more than 500 exhibitors. We recognize that the presentation of new data, exchange of information, and opportunities for collaboration offered by the AACR Annual Meeting are highly valued by the entire cancer research community, and we are investigating options for rescheduling the Annual Meeting in the near future.

We thank all of our stakeholders for their patience and support at this time. Additional information regarding hotel reservation cancellations, registration refunds, and meeting logistics is available on the FAQ page on the AACR website. We will announce the dates and location of the rescheduled AACR Annual Meeting 2020 as soon as they are confirmed. Our heartfelt sympathies go out to everyone impacted by this global health crisis.

However,  according to both Dr. Fauci and Dr. Scott Gottlieb (former FDA director)  the outbreak may revisit the US and the world in the fall (see https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/04/were-losing-valuable-time-ex-fda-chief-says-of-coronavirus-spread.html)  therefore these meetings may be cancelled for the whole year.

Is It Time For the Virtual (Real-Time) Conference?

Readers of this Online Access Journal are familiar with our ongoing commitment to open science and believe that forming networks of scientific experts in various fields using a social strategy is pertinent to enhancing the speed, reproducibility and novelty of important future scientific/medical discoveries.  Some of these ideas are highlighted in the following articles found on this site:

Scientific Curation Fostering Expert Networks and Open Innovation: Lessons from Clive Thompson and others

Old Industrial Revolution Paradigm of Education Needs to End: How Scientific Curation Can Transform Education

Twitter is Becoming a Powerful Tool in Science and Medicine

e-Scientific Publishing: The Competitive Advantage of a Powerhouse for Curation of Scientific Findings and Methodology Development for e-Scientific Publishing – LPBI Group, A Case in Point

Reconstructed Science Communication for Open Access Online Scientific Curation

In addition, we understand the importance of communicating the latest scientific/medical discoveries in an open and rapid format, accessible over the social media platforms.  To this effect we have developed a methodology for real time conference coverage

see  Press and Conference Coverage

at  https://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com/press-coverage/

AND

The Process of Real Time Coverage using Social Media

at https://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com/press-coverage/part-one-the-process-of-real-time-coverage-using-social-media/

Using these strategies we are able to communicate, in real time, analysis of conference coverage for a multitude of conferences.

Has technology and social media platforms now have enabled our ability to rapidly communicate, in a more open access platform, seminal discoveries and are scientists today amenable to virtual type of meetings including displaying abstracts using a real-time online platform?

Some of the Twitter analytics we have curated from such meetings show that conference attendees are rapidly adopting such social platforms to communicate with their peers and colleagues meeting notes.

Statistical Analysis of Tweet Feeds from the 14th ANNUAL BIOTECH IN EUROPE FORUM For Global Partnering & Investment 9/30 – 10/1/2014 • Congress Center Basel – SACHS Associates, London

Word Associations of Twitter Discussions for 10th Annual Personalized Medicine Conference at the Harvard Medical School, November 12-13, 2014

Comparative Analysis of the Level of Engagement for Four Twitter Accounts: @KDNuggets (Big Data) @GilPress @Forbes @pharma_BI @AVIVA1950

Twitter Analytics on the Inside 3DPrinting Conference #I3DPConf

 

Other Twitter analyses of Conferences Covered by LPBI in Real Time have produced a similar conclusion: That conference attendees are very engaged over social media networks to discuss, share, and gain new insights into material presented at these conferences, especially international conferences.

And although attracting international conferences is lucrative to many cities, the loss in revenue to organizations, as well as the loss of intellectual capital is indeed equally as great.  

Maybe there is room for such type of conferences in the future, and attending by a vast more audience than currently capable. And perhaps the #openscience movement like @MozillaScience can collaborate with hackathons to produce the platforms for such an online movement of scientific conferences as a Plan B.

Other articles on Real Time Conference Coverage in the Online Open Access Journal Include:

Innovations in electronic Scientific Publishing (eSP): Case Studies in Marketing eContent, Curation Methodology, Categories of Research Functions, Interdisciplinary conceptual innovations by Cross Section of Categories, Exposure to Frontiers of Science by Real Time Press coverage of Scientific Conferences

Real Time Coverage and eProceedings of Presentations on 11/16 – 11/17, 2016, The 12th Annual Personalized Medicine Conference, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston

Tweets by @pharma_BI and by @AVIVA1950: Real Time Coverage and eProceedings of The 11th Annual Personalized Medicine Conference, November 18-19, 2015, Harvard Medical School

REAL TIME Cancer Conference Coverage: A Novel Methodology for Authentic Reporting on Presentations and Discussions launched via Twitter.com @ The 2nd ANNUAL Sachs Cancer Bio Partnering & Investment Forum in Drug Development, 19th March 2014 • New York Academy of Sciences • USA

Search Results for ‘Real Time Conference’

REAL TIME Cancer Conference Coverage: A Novel Methodology for Authentic Reporting on Presentations and Discussions launched via Twitter.com @ The 2nd ANNUAL Sachs Cancer Bio Partnering & Investment Forum in Drug Development, 19th March 2014 • New York Academy of Sciences • USA

2020 State of Possible Conference, MassBio’s Annual Meeting, March 25-26, 2020, Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA

eProceedings 15th Annual Personalized Medicine Conference at Harvard Medical School – THE PARADIGM EVOLVES, November 13 – 14, 2019 • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

eProceedings for BIO 2019 International Convention, June 3-6, 2019 Philadelphia Convention Center; Philadelphia PA, Real Time Coverage by Stephen J. Williams, PhD @StephenJWillia2

 

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2020 State of Possible Conference, MassBio’s VIRTUAL Annual Meeting, August 26 – 27, 2020

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2020 State of Possible Conference, MassBio’s VIRTUAL Annual Meeting, August 26 – 27, 2020

Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence (LPBI) Group will cover this event in REAL TIME

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Speakers

https://massbio.microsoftcrmportals.com/speakers/?event=2020_State_of_Possible_Conference378018264

Agenda Tracks

https://massbio.microsoftcrmportals.com/event/tracks/?event=2020_State_of_Possible_Conference378018264

Live Stream

https://massbio.microsoftcrmportals.com/event/livestream/?event=2020_State_of_Possible_Conference378018264

Wed Aug 26

Wed Aug 26
9:30 AM
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM EDT   (30 Min)
Networking
10:00 AM
10:00 AM – 11:15 AM EDT   (1 Hour, 15 Min)
Main Stage: Welcome & Changing the Narrative Panel
Mike Nikitas
Master of Ceremonies
Moderator
  • How the message form Patient is to be shared to get the impact deserved
  • How do we tell the stories
  • 1/2 or 1/3 would get the Vaccine if it is available NOW
Robert Coughlin
President and Chief Executive Officer
  • David Lucchino – CEO Frequency Therapeutics Mentor to Robert Coughlin – had two years of record success
MassBio
Speaker
David Lucchino
MassBio’s Immediate Past Board Chair and Co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer
Frequency Therapeutics
  • Cancer survival [Millenium & Takeda drug prolonging life for Multiple Myeloma], Therapeutics developer, CEO in Biotech and President and Chief Executive Officer, MassBio
  • High performance students from suburban school were recruited to get opportunities in biotech
Speaker
Charles Wilson
MassBio’s Board Chair and President and Chief Executive Officer
Unum Therapeutics
  • Incoming MassBio’s Board Chair and President
  • Sustainability and opportunities
  • Fight COVID-19, develop Vaccines
  • Infrastructure to increase productivity
  • Equity, diversity inclusion in Biotech
Speaker
Nancy Simonian
Chief Executive Officer
Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  • Patient stories and journey that illness is impacting
  • Joining Pharma because you want to help  other people
  • Foundation need to tell the stories for credibility vs. Pharma as drug developers or Physicians who have a skin in the game of diagnosis and treatment
  • 1st dose of Vaccine 56% while 1/3% Black – will get the vaccine while the black has a disproportional % of COVID-19 effects
  • Leaders role: National, State level – people will follow Leaders
  • Dr. Faucci – a role model and treasure
  • The Focus and opportunities are in Innovations – are insafficient redirect to resonate to People on the Street – open communicate and access
Panelist
Pam Randhawa
Chief Executive Officer
Empiriko
Panelist
  • drug developers need to have stories from Patients about efficacy of the drug
  • diagnosis & treatment – tell the story
  • improve productivity via therapeutics – bringing ill patients back to the labor market impact on Society as a whole
  • Price and profiting discussion need to change to the good produced
  • Talking about success is not selling, involve patients to tell stories
  • Providers need to tell the story of patients – how they perform under a certain treatment
  • Quit Smoking – brought good stories and the journey of change in life style – dissemination of stories
  • Vaccines: Speed is increased by operation technology by Government investment – happened due to Pandemic not in regular times
  • Industry scaling challenge requires explanation to the Public
  • High health impact vs profits, yet investment needed are coming from the profits

 

David Meeker MD
Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer
Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Panelist
  • Math needed to be done for drugs selling
  • Front line to bring drugs – Price too high – explain
  • comorbidity continues during the Pandemic – two stories need now efforts
  • Story: What is memorable and relatable
  • Leadership needs to share the stories of themselves vs talking about Financial
  • Talk about failing
  • Be careful with Vaccine to be presented as an industry issue
  • Strong supporter to encourge volunteers to get the Vaccine
  • The industry needs Solutions not winners
11:15 AM
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM EDT   (15 Min)
Networking
11:30 AM
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
(30 Min)
Business Breakout: Resilience, Grit, Freedom to Fail…and Pivot
Stuart Peltz
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
PTC Therapeutics, Inc.
Moderator
Barbara Fox
Chief Executive Officer
Rheos Medicines, Inc.
Panelist
Anna Protopapas
President & Chief Executive Officer
Mersana Therapeutics, Inc.
Panelist
Paula Soteropoulos
Executive Chairman, Biotech NewCo and Strategic Advisor, 5AM Ventures; Board of Directors, uniQure, Inc.
Panelist
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
(30 Min)
Science Breakout: Lifting the Curtain on R&D to Advance New Drugs Faster
Adam Feuerstein
Senior Writer, Biotech
STAT
Moderator
Katie Ellias
Managing Director
JDRF, T1D Fund = Not-for profit on Diabetes T1D
  • Foundation works during the years to identify who is at risk
  • New avenues of Science – in development of therapies
  • Data sharing, Outreach to Academia
  • Meetings organized as an Educational day under CDA Pharma and the Foundation – Target of Exploration
  • What is the Foundation interested in and Pharma collaboration
  • Transparent with the Foundation due to under CDA
  • Beta cell Stress vs Stress Companies – targeting Tissue by other companies for other indication – co-develop a plan
  • accelerate projects to invest in therapeutics then other investors pick up
  • Immune response is an area of interest – Disease specific educate regulators on candidates
  • Manufactoring changes for COVID-19
Panelist
John Tallarico
Head, Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
Novartis
Panelist
  • Gilead, Takeda and Novaris – Working together on Coronavirus on R&D aspects
  • Create a Journal of Negative Results – share what was tried but did not work
  • proprietary targets are under greatest secrecy at Novartis
  • Novartis Global Scholar Program – Select Academic Institutions for Tech Licensing
  • Collated from across all parts of Novaris – THIS IS THE PLAY BOOK for the Future and Academis Instituions share with they researches and they submit Intent to collaborate
  • Can the collaboration for COVID-19 can be ported to OTHER areas of research – attempts will be done because it is rewarding
  • COVID-19 helped transfer reagents across organization beyond COVID-19 – Silos will remain due to IP channels requiring strict protection
  • What emerged with OCVID-19 will be preserved vs adandoned like after SAR in 2004
Kathleen Gondek
Global Head, Health Economics
Takeda
Panelist
  • COVID R&D Alliance – accelerate therapeutics solutions, Takeda is taking the lead
  • think in different ways on solutions: Collaboration: Data curators, lab
  • FDA is motivated to accelerate – first therapies to be our as soon as possible
12:00 PM
12:00 PM – 12:15 PM EDT
(15 Min)
Facilitated Networking: Lifting the Curtain on R&D to Advance New Drugs Faster Breakout
BROADCAST

Starts 2 min before the session time

12:00 PM – 12:15 PM EDT
(15 Min)
Facilitated Networking: Resilience, Grit, Freedom to Fail…and Pivot Breakout Session
BROADCAST

Starts 2 min before the session time

12:15 PM
12:15 PM – 12:25 PM EDT   (10 Min)
Main Stage: Henri A. Termeer Innovative Leadership Award Presentation
Robert Coughlin
President and Chief Executive Officer
MassBio
Abbie Celniker
Partner
Third Rock Ventures
12:25 PM
  • Opportunity to innovate
  • Innovation in Making Therapies
  • Ex-Genentech –>> Millenium –> Takeda
  • Mounting the Antibodies response by drugs
  • 1994 in Boston at GI – Genetic Institute – Hemophilia drugs developed – prophylactic treatment
  • 2007 Rock Ventures to see investment in Therapeutics – building teams with diversity is the challenge – expend the landscape to diverse background
  • Henri A. Termeer created access to diverse work force
  • This Award calls for taking risks
12:25 PM – 12:45 PM EDT   (20 Min)
Networking
12:45 PM
12:45 PM – 1:00 PM EDT   (15 Min)
Main Stage: Possible Talk: Patient Stories – Lina Rebeiz’s Road to Medical School
  • Diagnosis of Acute Intermittent Porphyria (AIP) – is a rare metabolic disorder that is characterized by partial deficiency of the enzyme hydroxymethylbilane synthase (also known as porphobilinogen deaminase). This enzyme deficiency can result in the accumulation of porphyrin precursors in the body.
Lina Rebeiz
First Year Medical Student
1:00 PM
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
(30 Min)
Business Breakout: From Seed to Series A – Creative Ways to Fun Your Startup
Deborah Palestrant
Partner
5AM Ventures
Moderator
Raymond J. Tesi
President and Chief Executive Officer
ImmuneBio
Panelist
Stephen Kennedy Smith
Principal
Park Agency – Kennedy Enterprises
Panelist
Ann DeWitt
General Partner
The Engine
Panelist
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
(30 Min)
Science Breakout: Realities of Precision Medicine – How Small is Too Small?
Jennifer Carter
Healthcare Executive, Board member and Entrepreneur
JLC Precision Health Strategies, LLC
Moderator
  • Rare diseases are different than Cancer – is the kinase different
  • There are rare cancers
  • How small is too small
Timothy Yu
Assistant Professor in Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Panelist
  • Neurologist in Genetics department of Children’s Hospital
  • Rare genetic disorders without Cancer
  • Genetically subcategorize patients like doing so in a pediatric disease sub-population
  • A drug was developed for ONE single patient
  • Nucleotide drugs allow using one platform for several genetics disorders: Same chemical class arranged differently suite of drugs the PK and PD is similar – common approach to treat different patients with same disease but in need for drugs that as slightly different in molecular arrangement
  • Same drug for multiple indications vs One disease with multiple specific drugs – multiple agents in ONE drug
  • the only way to make progress in rare disease
  • EGFR a case for Genetic disease treated by drugs dealing with the genetic disorder
  • Duchenne is another example EXON 51 vs CRISPR
  • N-of-1 is the standard achievable if Regulatory will join

 

Marion Dorsch
Chief Scientific Officer
Blueprint Medicines
Panelist
  • Rare disease drug — GI 500 patients – FDA allows approval & use after Phase 1
  • Pediatric population vs Adult
  • Target the genetic driver
  • Few hundreds is the current goal
Tamar Thompson
Govt Affairs, Alliance Development & Policy
Alexion Pharmaceuticals
Panelist
  • Reimbursement: Private payers, Medicare, Medicaid – adopting Genomics as treatment
1:30 PM
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EDT
(15 Min)
Facilitated Networking: From Seed to Series A – Creative Ways to Fun Your Startup
BROADCAST

Starts 2 min before the session time

1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EDT
(15 Min)
Facilitated Networking: Realities of Precision Medicine – How Small is Too Small?
BROADCAST

Starts 2 min before the session time

1:45 PM
1:45 PM – 2:02 PM EDT   (17 Min)
Main Stage: Possible Talk: Steve Burton, Determination Through Adversity
Steve Burton
Sports Anchor and Reporter
WBZ-TV
Speaker

Thu Aug 27

Thu Aug 27
9:30 AM
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM EDT   (30 Min)
Networking
10:00 AM
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM EDT   (15 Min)
Main Stage: Possible Talk: Empowering the Financial Lives of People & Companies with Morgan Stanley
  • David Lacchino – is praised by MassBio and Executive Team
  • Encourage diversity, risk taking, affects people and management
  • as cancer survivor did inspired Frequency Therapeutics
  • Thanking him for high Bar, impacting patients around the Globe
Jed Finn
Head of Corporate and Institutional Solutions; COO, Wealth Management
Morgan Stanley
Speaker
10:15 AM
  • Morgan Stanley (MS) – growth faster of peers $50Trillion Asset in Management +$1MM age +50 years old – Emerging segment – moving from Branch to online – direct to client – did not yet developed
  • In the institutional space – Siliant was acquired a SW cloud-based Canadian for combined Employers and Employees
  • Education, Retirement Readiness  and Wealth Management for Employees via endorsement from Employers
  • MS offers services to biotech

MS @ works

  • Benefits for Employers: The C-Suite AND all other employees, lowest fees, Portal soon to be released – How many of the Employees are selleing are holding are buying, shares hold by Employees
  • Benefits for Employees – Individual Holdings, account reviews and Consulting offered to Employees, Financial Wellness Program to be provided by the Employer is desired by Employees
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM EDT
(30 Min)
Business Breakout: Supporting Regional Growth of the Life Sciences Beyond Cambridge
Mathias Cousin
Managing Director
Deloitte
Moderator
Jim Glasheen
Executive Vice Chancellor
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Panelist
Matt Daniels
Executive Managing Director
JLL
Panelist
Richard Cassidy
Head of Operations & Commercialization
Astellas Pharma
Panelist
Meredith Harris
Executive Director
Marlborough Economic Development Corporation (MEDC)
Panelist
Imran Nasrullah
Vice President & Head of Open Innovation Center, North America-East
Bayer
Panelist
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM EDT
(30 Min)

Science Breakout: AI and Drug Discovery: Marrying Data Science with Core Biology

Colin Hill
Chief Executive Officer, President, Chairman, and Co-Founder
GNS Healthcare
Moderator
  • cellular phynotype, drug target and therapeutics outcome
  • data is most important technology and Biology which has many interpretations done by different biologists
  • computer models need one interpretation vs many: Yes no rule bases are needed
Juan Alvarez
AVP, Computational and Structural Chemistry
Merck & Co., Inc.
Panelist
  • Drug Target identification
  • Drug Discovery – ML since 1980s
  • Identify molecules
  • syntesis prediction
  • physico space – physiological systems – Transcriptomics, single cell biomarkers, proteomic, metabolomics
  • evolving proteins
  • analyzing data
  • access to compute power data acquisition and storage – High dimensional spaces sample comparison
  • Find therapies for Humans in the absence of having Humans participating, data on human is BIASED by drugs history
  • Drugable – identify interventions translatable to Humans pathway-based
  • Pessimist: Unknowns and changes are inevitable
  • COVID-19 – some problems can be solved, some are changing environment
  • collect specimens from melanoma easier than from others
Renée Deehan-Kenney
PhD, VP, QuartzBio
Precision Medicine Group
Panelist
  • technology enable company clinical data analysis of data clical trials
  • ML prior knowledge
  • network biology
  • drive inside
  • MOA prioritize indications
  • Chemistry in developing drugs is complex
  • Network biology modeling – helps inform chemistry models: Cell line in Mice translation to Human in pancreatic cancer cell line
  • Pessimistic view: Long way to go end point most of the time are not good, not in my life time
  • must try encoouraged by published data
  • love basic research not in Academe
Rachel Hodos
Senior AI Scientist
BenevolentAI
Panelist
  • Pick Targets
  • AI is a Possible dream trusted a drug in human
Nora Khaldi
Founder and CSO
Nuritas
Panelist
  • Math, computer Science
  • PhD in Drug discovery
  • Molecular chemistry of Peptide are not used in drug design
  • integrate toxicity, bioavailability and cell penetration of many peptides,
  • Identify peptides with very good PK
  • modulating pathways human perspective vs animal studies – no public sources on humans at the peptide level
  • synthetic version of plant & food vs natural version for human – efficacy it will have
  • AI biological data is early while relying on that knowledge
  • identify drug safe for human is possible I believe AI – take a molecule to humans 99% working in humans AI teated and validated in vitro
10:45 AM
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM EDT
(15 Min)
Facilitated Networking: AI and Drug Discovery: Marrying Data Science with Core Biology
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM EDT
(15 Min)
Facilitated Networking: Supporting Regional Growth of the Life Sciences Beyond Cambridge
11:00 AM
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT   (30 Min)
Main Stage: Possible Talk: The Process of Turning What Ifs into Realities through the Life Sciences & State of Possible Award Presentation
Judy Luu
Student
UMass Amherst
Speaker
Robert Coughlin
President and Chief Executive Officer
MassBio
Speaker
Kenneth Anderson
Director, Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Speaker
  • Multiple Myeloma – 23 drugs approved by FDA
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute with Sanofi collaboration
  • Foundations stepped forward to study Multiple Myeloma
  • FDA motivated to help patients Hematologic Division – African Americans
  • Change paradigm of clinical trials
  • Geraldine Feraro was a patient at DFCI
  • Tom Bracow was a patient at DFCI
  • Ronald Burden – sports
  • STEM – girls 6th grade to 12 grade
  • David Lacchino – patient at DFCI
Joe Malarney
Complex Manager and Managing Director
Morgan Stanley
Speaker
11:30 AM
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT   (30 Min)
Networking
12:00 PM
12:00 PM – 1:20 PM EDT   (1 Hour, 20 Min)
Main Stage: Building a Digital Health Community in Massachusetts and Keynote
Speakers
Naomi Fried
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Health Innovation Strategies
Moderator
  • MA best Hospitals: MGH-BWH, Beth Israel-Lahey Clinic, Stuart
  • BC/BS
  • Medical Schools
  • Clusters in Biotech & Digital Health Counsel
  • Definition of Community changed in the COVID-19 Era
  • connected is having a new meaning
  • Service providers will play in building DIGITAL Communities
Stephen Bernstein
Attorney at Law
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Panelist
  • Webinars and Zooms allows communication – we will see more innovations – Flatten the World
  • Greater isolation – US is expected to lead
  • collaborate is NOW home based – no travel – be creative
  • Virtual Clinical Trials
  • Virtual Bench science
  • Life sciences Products; Deploying a compound, provider responsible for the cost or how the Reimbursement will work
  • Consumer & Patients: Specialty Pharmacy
  • collaborations by planning ahead
  • Virtual will be inevitable if more social distancing will take place
Nick Dougherty
Managing Director
MassChallenge HealthTech
Panelist
  • Around the World communities, MA Biotech infrastructure
  • MassChallenge HealthTech: In Mexico, in Israel in Switzerland
  • Becoming virtual instantly in MARCH 2020
  • More locations pick up and scale up innovations around the Globe
  • Financial constraints, solve old problems
Thomas McCourt
President
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Panelist
  • GI disease in Patients – My Gi Health started in NIH – symptoms of GI diseases
  • GI entrepreneurs to build a smart e-Tool to analyze the GI Symptoms
  • few thousand Patients
  • Clinical trials many are STUCK – solve problems calls for adoption of all companies to digital platforms
  • Entrepreneurial spirit in Kendall square took away the prime position of CA Biotech
12:45 PM – 1:05 PM EDT   (20 Min)
Main Stage: Keynote: Leading in 21st Century Technologies: Our Products and Our People and Closing Remarks
BROADCAST

Starts 2 min before the session time

Susan Hockfield
President Emerita
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keynote
  • Regional advantage: Collaborations among industry and academia.
  • Biotech – emerging technologies cusp: Biology convergence with Engineering: sweetspot
  • resources to be used more productively: Opportunities to include supremely talented people
  • MA lead by people, by products : Digital Technologies: Physics & Engineering 1.0 to build devices: Electronics industry
  • 21st Century: Partless Biology – DNA, RNA: Biology and Engineering 2.0  Pathways, water,
  • 2.0 Technologies for Diagnostics for COVID-19: is frustrating
  • Healthcare Cost: Diagnostics too late and too expensively treated
  • Convergence technology in Cancer: Diagnosis is still two late: Synthetic Biomarkers: Disease specifics enzymes in nano particles used in diagnosis of cancer cells – urine based Test for cancer
  • Inhaling of particles Volatile organic nano particles can be exhaled for the diagnosis
  • Future Founders Initiative: Data, Approaches, Implementation
  • MIT Faculty founding of companies: 56 companies only 2 founded by Women: Inclusion of Women and Black impact GDP and innovations
  • Bootcamp for Women from the Lab to the Market place
  • Funding start ups: For Women founded and more women on boards increased to 25% signed by VC Association to track
  • Draw on more of our TALENTED people as advantages to be drown in the action to invent a better future
Mike Nikitas
Master of Ceremonies
Speaker
Robert Coughlin
President and Chief Executive Officer
MassBio
Speaker

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19th Annual Koch Institute Summer Symposium on Cancer Immunotherapy, June 12, 2020 at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium

Posted in Cancer-Immune Interactions, Conference Coverage with Social Media, Immuno-Oncology & Genomics on February 16, 2020| Leave a Comment »

19th Annual Koch Institute Summer Symposium on Cancer Immunotherapy, June 12, 2020 at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium

Reporter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN

 

 

Summer Symposium 2020

Engineering the Next Wave of Immunotherapy

The 19th Annual Koch Institute Summer Symposium on June 12, 2020 at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium will focus on cancer immunotherapy.

Cancer immunotherapy has revolutionized the landscape of cancer treatment, our thinking of tumor biology and clinical practice. Following the groundbreaking successes of checkpoint blockade therapy and CAR T cell therapy, culminating in multiple FDA-approved treatments and the awarding of the 2018  Nobel Prize in Medicine to Jim Allison and Tasuku Honjo, the field is currently at a critical juncture.

While checkpoint blockade therapy has demonstrated that the immune system can be harnessed to fight cancer,  the next generation of treatments will require us to understand what causes resistance in non-responders, how this can be overcome, and how these issues are best addressed clinically. Discussing these questions will be at the core of this symposium as we move towards our ultimate goal to increase the number of patients benefiting from immunotherapy. 

Session Speakers


Targeting T Cells
Rafi Ahmed, Michael Dougan, Chris Love

Thinking Beyond T Cells
Angelika Amon, Yasemine Belkaid, Stefani Spranger

Engineering Clinical Translation  
Nina Bhardwaj, Chris Garcia

Panel Discussion: Clinical Translation: A Real Life Perspective


Daniel Chen, Howard Kaufman, Kimberly Schaefer-Weaver
Moderator: Steven Silverstein

SOURCE

https://ki.mit.edu/news/events/symposium/2020

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youngStartup Ventures “Where Innovation Meets Capital” – First Round of VC Firms Announced, August 4th – 6th, 2020.

Posted in BioTechnology - Venture Creation, BioTechnology - Venture Creation, Venture Capital, Conference Coverage with Social Media on December 17, 2019| Leave a Comment »

Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence (LPBI) Group is pleased to invite you to youngStartup Ventures “Where Innovation Meets Capital” – First Round of VC Firms Announced, August 4th – 6th, 2020.

First Round of VC Firms Announced

Second Virtual Summit to feature over 100 VCs

Friends,

We’re pleased to announce the first round of VCs confirmed to be featured at Venture Summit Virtual Connect | Global being held on August 4th – 6th, 2020.

This exclusive venture summit will bring together over 1,300 VCs, corporate VCs, angel investors, industry executives, and founders of venture-backed, emerging, and early-stage companies, will feature more than 100 leading VCs, presentations by 100 cutting-edge innovators, and high-level networking opportunities.

Register Now to lock in the lowest rates possible. Click here

Submit your company for the opportunity to present to leading investors: Click here

 

Connect with leading early stage VCs

 

Susan Akbarpour

Partner

Candou Ventures

Sep Alavi

Venture Partner

White Star Capital

Grant Allen

General Partner

Schneider Electric Ventures

Logan Allin

General Partner

Fin Venture Capital

Milad Alucozai

Partner

Good AI Capital

Amolak Badesha

Investor

Sand Hill Angels

Wade Bitaraf

Founder, Energy & Sustainability

Plug & Play Tech Center

Greg Bohlen

Managing Director

Union Grove Venture Partners

Christophe Bourque

General Partner

White Star Capital

Daniel Burstein

Managing Partner

Millennium Technology Value Partners

Adam Carson

Operating Partner

Point72 Ventures

Jeffrey Cherry

Co-Founder & Executive Director

Conscious Venture Lab

Elizabeth Cho-Fertikh

Cofounder & Managing Director

MEDA Angels

Andy Clapp

Managing Partner

Arctaris Capital Partners

Jay Crone

Director, Investments

TELUS Ventures

Lake Dai

Partner

LDV Partners

Angelo Del Priore

Partner

HP Tech Ventures

Jun Deng

Investment Partner

Joyance Partners

Robert Dunkle

Founder and CEO

ABES Venture Partners

Amy Dyck

Associate

Framework Venture Partners

Nick Efstratis

Managing Director

EPIC Ventures

Mark Farrell

Managing Director

Thayer Ventures

Andrew Felbinger

Investor

Urban Innovation Fund

Constance Freedman

Managing Partner

Moderne Ventures

Isabelle Freidheim

Managing Partner

Starwood VC

Stan Fung

Managing Director

FarSight Ventures

Norm Gitis

Managing Partner

Lymo Ventures

Ajay Gopal

Principal

Framework Venture Partners

Robert Hamlin

Principal

Portag3 Ventures

Florian Haupt

Partner

TruVenturo

Ben Jen

Investor

Ben Jen Holdings

Najib Khouri-Haddad

General Partner

Sway Ventures

Ryan Kole

Partner

VCapital

Elaine Kunda

Founder, Managing Director

Disruption Ventures

Eddie Lee

Principal

White Star Capital

James Lee

Director

Photon Fund Venture Capital

Jessica Li

Investor

Soma Capital

Ephraim Lindenbaum

Managing Director

Advance Ventures

Darwin Ling

Founding General Partner

Good AI Capital

Edwin Loredo

Vice President

Core Innovation Capital

Wasim Malik

Managing Partner

Iaso Ventures

Eugene Malobrodsky

Venture Partner

One Way Ventures

Eric Martineau-Fortin

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

White Star Capital

Philip Mertens

Associate

DSM Venturing

Ivan Nikkhoo

Managing Partner

Navigate Ventures

Carlos Ochoa

Managing Partner

AI8 VENTURES

Valerie Photos

Operating Partner

Iaso Ventures

Filipe Portela

Managing Partner

COREangels Atlantic

Safa Rashtchy

Managing Director

Think + Ventures

John Ricci

Managing Director

US Angels

Alex Rozenfeld

Managing Director

Climate Impact Capital

Gayatri Sarkar

Managing Partner

Hype Capital VC Fund

Brian Schuman

Investment Professional

PepsiCo Technology Ventures

Kristina Serafim

Managing Director

Verizon Ventures

Greg Shepard

Managing Partner

BOSS Capital Partners

Charles Sidman

Managing Partner

ECS Capital Partners

Sean Simpson

Director

WIND Ventures

Jean Sini

General Partner

Partech

Mark A. Solovy

Managing Director

Monroe Capital

Vivek Soni

General Partner

S Cap Cleantech Fund

Kat Utecht

Managing Partner

Core Innovation Capital

Jordan Wahbeh

Managing Partner

SV Venture Group

Henry Wong

Managing Partner

Diamond Tech Ventures

Stephanie Zepeda

Senior Associate

Arbor Ventures

We’re just getting started, more to be announced!

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TOP INNOVATORS!

Get Noticed > Get Funded > Grow Faster

A select group of more than 100 Top Innovators from the fintech, technology, clean-tech, life sciences/healthcare, medical devices, healthcare IT, and mobile sectors will be chosen to present their breakthrough investment opportunities to an exclusive audience of Venture Capitalists, Corporate Investors, Private Investors, Investment Bankers, and Strategic Partners!

First Round Submission Deadline for presenting company applications is TODAY June 11th, 2020.

To apply, your company must be privately held and ideally come from one of the following industry sectors:

Tech

Life Sciences / Healthcare

CleanTech

FinTech

EdTech

Hardware

Internet/Digital Media

IoT

Mobile

Security

Software/IT

Biotech

Diagnostics

Drug Discovery

Healthcare IT

Medical Devices

Pharma

Energy Efficiency

Energy Generation

Energy Infrastructure

Energy Storage

Transportation

Water & Wastewater

Banking

Blockchain

Insurtech

Personal Finance

Payments

Predictive Analytics

 

Questions about presenting? Email Preston Michaels at iwant2present (at) youngstartup .co

Seed Stage Track

If you are a seed-stage company seeking angel funding and would like to present check out our seed stage track.

If you’re seeking less than $1M (and have raised less than $300,000) this is for you.

Joe Benjamin

Founder & CEO

youngStartup Ventures

“Where Innovation Meets Capital”

Don’t hesitate to connect with me personally via LinkedIn and request to join our venture network LinkedIn group below.

August 4-6, 2020

  Contact

  youngstartup.com/vcglobal

  info@youngstartup.co  

   212.202.1002

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NEW DATE

May 5 – 7, 2020

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Venture Summit \ Virtual Connect

Where Innovation Meets Capital

May 5 – 7, 2020

 

Join early stage VCs, Corporate VCs, Angel Investors and founders of venture backed, emerging and early stage companies at Venture Summit \ Virtual Connect on May 5-7 2020.

 

Whether you’re a startup seeking capital and exposure, or an investor seeking new deals, Venture Summit \ Virtual Connect is one event you won’t want to miss.

 

A highly productive venture conference, Venture Summit \ Virtual Connect will feature:

 

  • Over 100 VCs (regional and national)
  • Presentations by 100 Top Innovators
  • One-on-One (zoom) investor + startup meetings
  • 2 days of content including timely panel discussions and workshops
  • Keynote: Uri Levine, co-founder of Waze

 

Special Offer:

Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence (LPBI) Group has made special arrangement for our network to receive 20% off with discount code LPBI-VIP (Note: Rates will go up this Thursday at midnight but the discount will still apply).

 

Register Today & Save Click here http://bit.ly/2PfsbM7.   

 

Over 100 Investors Confirmed:

11.2 Capital, 500 Startups, ABES Venture Partners, Activate Capital, Advance Ventures, Aligned Partners, Alliance of Angels, Alliance Ventures, Alpha Square Group, American Family Ventures, AMINO Capital, Anzu Partners, Arbor Ventures, ARIE Capital, Asset Management Ventures, Augment Ventures, Avestria Ventures, BAM Ventures, Band of Angels, Bay Angels, Bee Partners, Ben Jen Holdings, Benhamou Global Ventures, Better Ventures, Blue Bear Capital, Blue Bear Ventures, Blue Startups, BlueRun Ventures, Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund, Boeing HorizonX Ventures, Brand New Matter, Candou Ventures , Catapult VC, Charles River Ventures, CIG CAP, Citi Ventures, City Light Capital, Clean Energy Venture Group, Communitas Capital Partners, Core Innovation Capital, COREangels Atlantic, Costanoa Ventures, Cottonwood Technology Fund, CRCM Ventures, Crestlight Ventures, Data Collective, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, DHVC, DigitalDX Ventures, Disruption Ventures, Dow Ventures, DPH Ventures, DSM Venturing, DXA Investments, Dynamk Capital, E. ON , E8 Angels, ECS Capital Partners, Elevate Ventures, Energy Foundry, Energy Innovation Capital, ENGIE New Ventures, Eudemian Ventures, Evok Innovations, F-Prime Capital, Fidelity Investments, Financial Venture Studio, FinSight Ventures, Fort Ross Ventures, Foundation Capital, Framework Venture Partners, Galaxy Digital, Garage Technology Ventures, GM Ventures, Good AI Capital, Good Growth Capital, H.I.G. Growth Partners, Halogen Ventures, Harvard Business School Angels, HealthTech Capital, Henkel Ventures, HP Tech Ventures, Hype Capital VC Fund, Insight Partners, JetBlue Technology Ventures, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Journey Venture Partners, Joyance Partners, Juniper Networks, K5 Ventures, Kubera Venture Capital, Lam Capital, Life Science Angels, Lymo Ventures, Magnet Ventures, ManchesterStory Group, Marcy Venture Partners, McKesson Ventures, Mighty Capital, Millennium Technology Value Partners, Moderne Ventures, Morpheus Ventures, Munich Re Ventures, MVM Partners, National Science Foundation, Navigate Ventures, NEA, New Science Ventures, New York Life Ventures, NextGen Venture Partners, NextWorld Capital, Nielsen Innovate, OCA Ventures, One Way Ventures, Owl Ventures, Pangaea Ventures, Paypal Ventures, Photon Fund, Pipeline Angels, Plug & Play Tech Center, Point72 Ventures, Portag3 Ventures, Portfolia, Prelude Ventures, PROOF VC, Revel Partners, SABIC Ventures, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Sand Hill Angels, Santander InnoVentures, Saudi Angel Fund, Shasta Ventures, SignalFire, Social Impact Capital, Spike Ventures, Starwood VC, Sunrise Capital Partners, Sway Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, The Westly Group, TiE Angels, TruVenturo, UL Ventures, Union Grove Venture Partners, Unusual Ventures, US Angels, Verizon Ventures, Viridian Capital, VisionPassage, Volvo Cars Tech Fund, WAVE Equity Partners, Wharton Alumni Angels More to be announced.

 

More details: http://bit.ly/2PfsbM7

 

We look forward to seeing you there. 

 

Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence (LPBI) Group & youngStartup Ventures

 

OLD CONTENT

NEW DATE  Venture Summit | West – “Where Innovation Meets Capital”, May 5 – 7, 2020,

Santa Clara Convention Center, Silicon Valley

VSW20 – Discount code, LPBI-VIP and unique event site link http://bit.ly/2PfsbM7.

Video link for most recent event http://bit.ly/2LQpONN 

 

UPDATED on 3/25/2020

The dedicated discount code LPBI-VIP and unique event site link http://bit.ly/2PfsbM7 now entitles LPBI network to $350 off the current rates. Applicants should register as soon as possible to lock in the lowest possible rates.

We will be hosting 1on1 startup and investor meetings live at Venture Summit | West [digital edition] online in May. The summit will now be expanded for featured companies to 3 days, May 5th – 7th (coaching session + 2 days of content and one on one sessions) and for general attendees to 2 days.

The summit will feature over 150 venture funds as speakers/judges (many others in attendance), more than 100 Top Innovators as presenters, effective and seamless 1:1 meetings + chat, and high-level networking opportunities.

The screening committee is currently interviewing companies and will be selecting more than 100 Top Innovators to present live to the investors at the summit.

Featured Confirmed VC Speakers & Judges:

Kira Noodleman

Bee Partners

 

Kira enjoys tackling problems in disruptive industries and across cultures. Her appreciation for skillful risk-taking attracted her to entrepreneurship, and ultimately to her role in venture capital. At Bee Partners, she spends the majority of her time identifying and investing in Founders and startups servicing enterprises and enabling new marketplaces. She dedicate the remainder of […] Read more

Li Sun

Foundation Capital

 

Li Sun comes from a global background spanning four countries with diverse experiences across engineering, science, technology, and entrepreneurship. She holds a B.Eng in EE and business (1st class honors) from NTU in Singapore, an M.Eng in Materials Science from MIT, and a PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard. During her PhD, she cofounded and […] Read more

Bill Reichert

Garage Technology Ventures

 

Bill Reichert is co-founder and Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, a seed and early stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. He is also a Partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures, a global venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley and around the world. Bill and his partners invest in promising emerging technology […] Read more

Charlie Hanna

Marcy Venture Partners

 

Charlie Hanna is an investor at Marcy Venture Partners (MVP) in San Francisco, an early-stage venture capital firm co-founded by Larry Marcus, Jay Brown and Jay-Z. Charlie’s focus is consumer products and services with an emphasis on sustainability, accessibility and culture. Prior to MVP, Charlie was an Associate at SWAT Equity Partners, a NYC-based venture […] Read more

SC Moatti

Mighty Capital

 

SC Moatti is the managing partner of Mighty Capital, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and Products That Count, one of the largest communities of product managers, leaders and entrepreneurs in the world. Previously, she built products that billions of people use at Facebook, Nokia and Electronic Arts. She also serves on boards of both […] Read more

Mario Ruiz

Paypal Ventures

 

Mario Ruiz is a financial technology investor at PayPal Ventures, focusing on investments in the U.S. and internationally. Prior to joining PayPal, Mario was an investor at Napier Park, where he was a member of a nine-person investment team responsible for the evaluation, diligence, and execution of growth equity and real asset investments. Mario started […] Read more

Danny Cotter

The Westly Group

 

Danny Cotter serves as Principal at The Westly Group. Prior to joining the Westly Group, He worked at Pacific Gas & Electric Company where he focused on discovering advanced technology pilots and analyzing regulatory, competitive and technology landscapes to shape smart grid strategies across the organization. While at PG&E, He also helped lead the development […] Read more

 

UPDATED on 2/26/2020

The dedicated discount code LPBI-VIP and unique event site link http://bit.ly/2PfsbM7 now entitles LPBI network to $350 off the current rates. Applicants should register as soon as possible to lock in the lowest possible rates.

Updated list of over 130 VCs and Angels confirmed to speak and judge. 

 

Partial Lineup of over 130 VCs & Angels confirmed to speak and judge includes:

Ben Abadi, Managing Director, Energy Innovation Capital | Andrew Abrams, Vice President, New Science Ventures | Susan Akbarpour, Partner, Candou Ventures | Joel Albarella, Founder, New York Life Ventures | Navid Alipour, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Analytics Ventures | Shaun Arora, Founding Partner, MiLA Capital | Doug Atkin, Managing Partner, Communitas Capital Partners | Shannon Austin, Partner, Financial Venture Studio | Jennifer Azapian, Partner , Mighty Capital | Mike Biddle, Managing Director, Evok Innovations | Wade Bitaraf, Founder, Energy & Sustainability, Plug & Play Tech Center | Dave Blivin, Managing Director, Cottonwood Technology Fund | Greg Bohlen, Managing Director, Union Grove Venture Partners | Maureen Boyce, Managing Partner, Good Growth Capital | Peter Bruce-Clark, Partner, Social Impact Capital | Pratik Budhdev, Investment Director, Volvo Cars Tech Fund | Amy Burr, Managing Director, JetBlue Technology Ventures | Ray Chan, Managing Director, K5 Ventures | Ryan Chou, Investment Associate, JetBlue Technology Ventures | Darren Cooke, Investor, Life Science Angels | Martha Cosgrove, Investing Associate, Boeing HorizonX | Danny Cotter, Principal, The Westly Group | Ross Darwin, Principal, Owl Ventures | Anne DeGheest, Founder, HealthTech Capital | Angelo Del Priore, Partner, HP Tech Ventures | Jun Deng, Partner, Joyance Partners | Dan Doble, Managing Director, SABIC Ventures | Ted Driscoll, Managing Partner, DigitalDX Ventures | Robert Dunkle, President, ABES Venture Partners | Ali Farahanchi, Director, DHVC | Anna Fokina, Senior Associate, Data Collective | Isabelle Freidheim, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Starwood VC | Emily Fritze, Senior Associate, The Westly Group | Will Fung, Senior Associate, Samsung Catalyst Fund | Norm Gitis, Managing Partner, Lymo Ventures | Ajay Gopal, Founding Principal, Framework Venture Partners | Daniel Greene, Principal, Wipro Ventures | Sheeraz Haji, Managing Partner, Zip Dragon Ventures | Charlie Hanna, Investor, Marcy Venture Partners | Daniel Harris, Managing Director, DPH Ventures | Florian Haupt, Partner, TruVenturo | Guy Horowitz, Partner, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners | Jens Horstmann, Founding Director, Crestlight Ventures | Michael Julve, Associate, 500 Startups | Najib Khouri-Haddad, General Partner, Sway Ventures | Howard Ko, Principal, Morpheus Ventures | Shruti Kothari, Director, Kaiser Permanente Ventures | Elaine Kunda, Founder & Managing Director, Disruption Ventures | Ricky Lai, Principal, Portag3 Ventures | Anh Le, Partner, CRCM Ventures | James Lee, Investment Associate Director, Photon Fund | Marina Levinson, Partner, Benhamou Global Ventures | Larry Li, Managing Partner, AMINO Capital | Darwin Ling, Founding General Partner, Good AI Capital | Catherine Lu, Managing Partner , Alumni Ventures Group (AVG) | Vincent Lui, Partner, XCEL Asia | Hector MacQuarrie, Senior Investment Associate, Shell Ventures | Radhika Malik, Investment Manager, Samsung Catalyst Fund | Ricky Margolis, VP of Business Development, ARIE Capital | Melina Mathur, Principal, Asset Management Ventures | Manan Mehta, Founding Partner, Unshackled Ventures | Eric Meyer, Vice President, Activate Capital | Jonathan Mo, Senior Associate, 11.2 Capital | SC Moatti, Managing Partner, Mighty Capital | Mark Mueller-Eberstein, Angel Investor, Alliance of Angels | Maxim Nazarov, Investor, FinSight Ventures | Ivan Nikkhoo, Managing Partner, Navigate Ventures | Kira Noodleman, Principal, Bee Partners | Brett Noyes, Founder & Managing Director, Unbank. Ventures | Demi Obayomi, Investor, NextWorld Capital | Nihar Patel, General Partner, Journey Venture Partners | Charles Paul, Vice President – Technology, Henkel Ventures | Damien Petty, Principal, Morpheus Ventures | Patrick Pfeffer, Lead Investor, Juniper Networks | Scott Pinizzotto, Senior Investment Director, ENGIE New Ventures | Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures | Mario Ruiz, Investor, Paypal Ventures | Ernst Sack, Partner, Blue Bear Capital | Praveen Sahay, Managing Director, WAVE Equity Partners | Gayatri Sarkar, Managing Partner, Hype Capital VC Fund | Jordan Segall, Enterprise Investor, Unusual Ventures | Kristina Serafim, Managing Director, Verizon Ventures | Charles Sidman, Managing Partner, ECS Capital Partners | Sean Simpson, Investment Manager, GM Ventures | Ratan Singh, Principal, Fort Ross Ventures | Kenn So, Associate, Shasta Ventures | Allison Steitz, Investor, BlueRun Ventures | Li Sun, Partner, Foundation Capital | Jessica Tan, Associate, 500 Startups | Grahme Taylor, Venture Analyst, Wildcat Venture Partners | Jonathan Tower, Founding Managing Partner, Catapult VC | Erica Van, Investor, Charles River Ventures | Anuj Varma, Investor, BAM Ventures | Kutral Veerabadran, Principal, Flow Capital | Alessandro Vigilante, Head of Global Innovation Ecosystem, Fidelity Investments | Sonali Vijayavargiya, Managing Director, Augment Ventures | Alex Whitney, Senior Analyst, ManchesterStory Group | Henry Wong, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures | Joanne Wong, General Partner, REDDS Capital | Russell Yue, Investor, H.I.G. Growth Partners | Elaine Zelby, Principal & Director of Growth, SignalFire | Stephanie Zepeda, Senior Associate, Arbor Ventures | Yanan Zhao, General Partner, Magnet Ventures | Sebastian Zhou, Investor, Alpha Square Group | Simin Zhou, VP & Managing Director, UL Ventures and many more…

 

 

UPDATED on 2/6/2020

Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence (LPBI ) Group is pleased to spons and invite you to join us at Venture Summit | West

Special offer:  Register Now & Save $450 off (Use discount code “LPBI-VIP”)

* Call for Top Innovators Details below

Venture Summit | West

Where Innovation Meets Capital

March 23rd & 24th  2020

Santa Clara Convention Center, Silicon Valley

 

Reminder to register for the prestigious Venture Summit | West being held on March 23rd & 24th 2019 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. This year will again feature a dedicated Lifesciences/Healthcare Track. Come meet, interact and network with more than 1,300 VCs, Corporate VCs, angel investors, industry execs and founders of venture backed, emerging and early stage companies.

 

Whether you’re a Lifesciences/Healthcare startup seeking capital and exposure, or an investor seeking new deals, Venture Summit West presented by youngStartup Ventures – is the event of the year you won’t want to miss.

 

A highly productive venture conference, Venture Summit | West is dedicated to showcasing VCs, Corporate VCs and angel investors committed to funding venture backed, emerging and early stage companies.

 

Partial Initial Lineup of over 90 VCs & Angels confirmed to speak and judge includes:

Ben Abadi, Managing Director, Energy Innovation Capital | Andrew Abrams, Vice President, New Science Ventures | Susan Akbarpour, Partner, Candou Ventures | Navid Alipour, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Analytics Ventures | Shaun Arora, Founding Partner, MiLA Capital | Shannon Austin, Partner, Financial Venture Studio | Jennifer Azapian, Partner , Mighty Capital | Wade Bitaraf, Founder, Energy & Sustainability, Plug & Play Tech Center | Dave Blivin, Managing Director, Cottonwood Technology Fund | Greg Bohlen, Managing Director, Union Grove Venture Partners | Maureen Boyce, Managing Partner, Good Growth Capital | Peter Bruce-Clark, Partner, Social Impact Capital | Pratik Budhdev, Investment Director, Volvo Cars Tech Fund | Darren Cooke, Investor, Life Science Angels | Martha Cosgrove, Investing Associate, Boeing HorizonX | Danny Cotter, Principal, Westly Group | Ross Darwin, Principal, Owl Ventures | Anne DeGheest, Founder, HealthTech Capital | Jun Deng, Partner, Joyance Partners | Dan Doble, Managing Director, SABIC Ventures | Robert Dunkle, President, ABES Venture Partners | Ali Farahanchi, Director, DHVC | Anna Fokina, Senior Associate, Data Collective | Norm Gitis, Managing Partner, Lymo Ventures | Daniel Greene, Principal, Wipro Ventures | Sheeraz Haji, Managing Partner, Zip Dragon Ventures | Charlie Hanna, Investor, Marcy Venture Partners | Daniel Harris, Managing Director, DPH Ventures | Florian Haupt, Partner, TruVenturo | Guy Horowitz, Partner, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners | Jens Horstmann, Founding Director, Crestlight Ventures | Najib Khouri-Haddad, General Partner, Sway Ventures | Howard Ko, Principal, Morpheus Ventures | Shruti Kothari, Director, Kaiser Permanente Ventures | Elaine Kunda, Founder & Managing Director, Disruption Ventures | Ricky Lai, Principal, Portag3 Ventures | Anh Le, Partner, CRCM Ventures | James Lee, Investment Associate Director, Photon Fund | Marina Levinson, Partner, Benhamou Global Ventures | Larry Li, Managing Partner, AMINO Capital | Darwin Ling, Founding General Partner, Good AI Capital | Catherine Lu, Managing Partner , Alumni Ventures Group (AVG) | Vincent Lui, Partner, XCEL Asia | Melina Mathur, Principal, Asset Management Ventures | Manan Mehta, Founding Partner, Unshackled Ventures | Eric Meyer, Vice President, Activate Capital | Jonathan Mo, Senior Associate, 11.2 Capital | SC Moatti, Managing Partner, Mighty Capital | Mark Mueller-Eberstein, Angel Investor, Alliance of Angels | Ivan Nikkhoo, Managing Partner, Navigate Ventures | Kira Noodleman, Principal, Bee Partners | Brett Noyes, Founder & Managing Director, Unbank.Ventures | Charles Paul, Vice President – Technology, Henkel Ventures | Damien Petty, Principal, Morpheus Ventures | Patrick Pfeffer, Lead Investor, Juniper Networks | Scott Pinizzotto, Senior Investment Director, ENGIE New Ventures | Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures | Mario Ruiz, Investor, Paypal Ventures | Ernst Sack, Partner, Blue Bear Capital | Praveen Sahay, Managing Director, WAVE Equity Partners | Gayatri Sarkar, Managing Partner, Hype Capital VC Fund | Kristina Serafim, Managing Director, Verizon Ventures | Charles Sidman, Managing Partner, ECS Capital Partners | Ratan Singh, Principal, Fort Ross Ventures | Allison Steitz, Investor, BlueRun Ventures | Li Sun, Partner, Foundation Capital | Grahme Taylor, Venture Analyst, Wildcat Venture Partners | Jonathan Tower, Founding Managing Partner, Catapult VC | Erica Van, Investor, Charles River Ventures | Anuj Varma, Investor, BAM Ventures | Kutral Veerabadran, Principal, Flow Capital | Sonali Vijayavargiya, Managing Director, Augment Ventures | Alex Whitney, Senior Analyst, ManchesterStory Group | Henry Wong, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures | Russell Yue, Investor, H.I.G. Growth Partners | Elaine Zelby, Principal & Director of Growth, SignalFire | Stephanie Zepeda, Senior Associate, Arbor Ventures | Yanan Zhao, General Partner, Magnet Ventures | Sebastian Zhou, Investor, Alpha Square Group | Simin Zhou, VP & Managing Director, UL Ventures and many more.

 

Special Offer:

LPBI has made special arrangement for our network to receive a special discount of $450 off. This conference will be attended by the best people in the industry. Please register early to avoid disappointment.

 

Register Today & Save Click here.   (Use promo code “ LPBI-VIP”)

 

In addition to providing access to leading Investors, the conference will feature more than 100 pre-screened venture backed, emerging and early stage companies seeking capital, and hardcore networking.

 

 

Call for TOP INNOVATORS!

Get Noticed > Get Funded > Grow Faster

 

A select group of more than 100 Top Innovators will be chosen to present their breakthrough investment opportunities to an exclusive audience of Venture Capitalists, Corporate Investors, Private Investors, Investment Bankers, and Strategic Partners.

 

Apply to Present / Nominate a company:

For more information or to be considered for one of the Top Innovator slots click here.

 

Seed Pitchfest:

If you are a seed stage company seeking angel funding of less than $1M (and have raised less than $300,000) click here to apply for the Seed stage track.

 

Volunteer Opportunities:

Students and recent alumni are to volunteer to help out for part of the day and enjoy the summit for the other part. Volunteers assist with setup, registration, program coordination, company presentations etc. To join us as a volunteer, please fill out the form here: Click Here http://bit.ly/VSW20VOLUNTEER .

 

 

UPDATED on 1/16/2020

Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence (LPBI ) Group is pleased to sponsor and invite you to join us at Venture Summit | West

Special offer:  Register Now & Save $450 off (Use discount code “LPBI-VIP”)

* Call for Top Innovators Details below

Venture Summit | West

Where Innovation Meets Capital

March 23rd & 24th  2020

Santa Clara Convention Center, Silicon Valley

  

Reminder to register for the prestigious Venture Summit | West being held on March 23rd & 24th 2019 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. This year will again feature a dedicated Lifesciences/Healthcare Track. Come meet, interact and network with more than 1,300 VCs, Corporate VCs, angel investors, industry execs and founders of venture backed, emerging and early stage companies.

 

Whether you’re a Lifesciences/Healthcare startup seeking capital and exposure, or an investor seeking new deals, Venture Summit West presented by youngStartup Ventures – is the event of the year you won’t want to miss.

 

A highly productive venture conference, Venture Summit | West is dedicated to showcasing VCs, Corporate VCs and angel investors committed to funding venture backed, emerging and early stage companies.

 

Partial Initial Lineup of over 60 VCs & Angels confirmed to speak and judge includes:

Ben Abadi, Managing Director, Energy Innovation Capital | Shaun Arora, Founding Partner, MiLA Capital | Shannon Austin, Partner, Financial Venture Studio | Jennifer Azapian, Partner , Mighty Capital | Wade Bitaraf, Founder, Energy & Sustainability, Plug & Play Tech Center | Greg Bohlen, Managing Director, Union Grove Venture Partners | Peter Bruce-Clark, Partner, Social Impact Capital | Darren Cooke, Investor, Life Science Angels | Ross Darwin, Principal, Owl Ventures | Anne DeGheest, Founder, HealthTech Capital | Jun Deng, Partner, Joyance Partners | Robert Dunkle, President, ABES Venture Partners | Anna Fokina, Senior Associate, Data Collective | Norm Gitis, Managing Partner, Lymo Ventures | Sheeraz Haji, Managing Partner, Zip Dragon Ventures | Charlie Hanna, Investor, Marcy Venture Partners | Daniel Harris, Managing Director, DPH Ventures | Guy Horowitz, Partner, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners | Jens Horstmann, Founding Director, Crestlight Ventures | Najib Khouri-Haddad, General Partner, Sway Ventures | Howard Ko, Principal, Morpheus Ventures | Elaine Kunda, Founder & Managing Director, Disruption Ventures | Ricky Lai, Principal, Portag3 Ventures | Anh Le, Partner, CRCM Ventures | James Lee, Investment Associate Director, Photon Fund | Darwin Ling, Founding General Partner, Good AI Capital | Melina Mathur, Principal, Asset Management Ventures | Manan Mehta, Founding Partner, Unshackled Ventures | SC Moatti, Managing Partner, Mighty Capital | Mark Mueller-Eberstein, Angel Investor, Alliance of Angels | Ivan Nikkhoo, Managing Partner, Navigate Ventures | Kira Noodleman, Principal, Bee Partners | Damien Petty, Principal, Morpheus Ventures | Patrick Pfeffer, Lead Investor, Juniper Networks | Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures | Mario Ruiz, Investor, Paypal Ventures | Ernst Sack, Partner, Blue Bear Capital | Praveen Sahay, Managing Director, WAVE Equity Partners | Gayatri Sarkar, Managing Partner, Hype Capital VC Fund | Charles Sidman, Managing Partner, ECS Capital Partners | Ratan Singh, Principal, Fort Ross Ventures | Li Sun, Partner, Foundation Capital | Erica Van, Investor, Charles River Ventures | Kutral Veerabadran, Principal, Flow Capital | Sonali Vijayavargiya, Managing Director, Augment Ventures | Elaine Zelby, Principal & Director of Growth, SignalFire | Stephanie Zepeda, Senior Associate, Arbor Ventures | Yanan Zhao, General Partner, Magnet Ventures | Sebastian Zhou, Investor, Alpha Square Group | Simin Zhou, VP & Managing Director, UL Ventures and many more.

 

 

Special Offer:

LPBI has made special arrangement for our network to receive a special discount of $450 off. This conference will be attended by the best people in the industry. Please register early to avoid disappointment. 

 

Register Today & Save Click here.   (Use promo code “ LPBI-VIP”)

 

In addition to providing access to leading Investors, the conference will feature more than 100 pre-screened venture backed, emerging and early stage companies seeking capital, and hardcore networking. 

 

 

Call for TOP INNOVATORS!

Get Noticed > Get Funded > Grow Faster

 

A select group of more than 100 Top Innovators will be chosen to present their breakthrough investment opportunities to an exclusive audience of Venture Capitalists, Corporate Investors, Private Investors, Investment Bankers, and Strategic Partners.

 

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Seed Pitchfest:

If you are a seed stage company seeking angel funding of less than $1M (and have raised less than $300,000) click here to apply for the Seed stage track.

 

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Where Innovation Meets Capital

March 23rd & 24th  2020

Santa Clara Convention Center, Silicon Valley

  

Come meet, interact and network with more than 1,300 VCs, Corporate VCs, angel investors, industry execs and founders of venture backed, emerging and early stage companies at the prestigious Venture Summit | West being held on March 23rd & 24th 2019 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. This year will again feature a dedicated Lifesciences/Healthcare Track.

 

Whether you’re a Lifesciences/Healthcare startup seeking capital and exposure, or an investor seeking new deals, Venture Summit West presented by youngStartup Ventures – is the event of the year you won’t want to miss.

 

A highly productive venture conference, Venture Summit | West is dedicated to showcasing VCs, Corporate VCs and angel investors committed to funding venture backed, emerging and early stage companies.

 

Lineup of over 150 VCs and Angels that spoke and judged at VSW19 includes:

Ben Abadi, Managing Director, Energy Innovation Capital | Navid Alipour, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Analytics Ventures | Logan Allin, General Partner & Founder, Fin Venture Capital | Kareem Aly, Principal, Thomvest Ventures | Magdi Amin, Investment Partner, Omidyar Network | Ash Archibald, Deal Principal, Wharton Angels | Jennifer Azapian, Partner , Mighty Capital | Carlos S. Baradello, General Partner, Alaya Capital Partners | Scott Beechuk, Partner, Norwest Venture Partners | Marcus Behrendt, Partner, BMW i Ventures | Lisha Bell, Dealflow Lead, Pipeline Angels | Ashish Bhatia, Angel Investor | Sunny Bia, Associate, CRCM Ventures | Mike Biddle, Managing Director, Evok Innovations | Alexa Binns, Associate, Maven Ventures | Wade Bitaraf, Founder, Energy & Sustainability, Plug & Play Tech Center | Tico Blumenthal, Co-chair of the Medical Device Screening Committee, Life Science Angels | Greg Bohlen, Managing Director, Union Grove Venture Partners | Will Borthwick, Senior Associate, Bold Capital Partners | Eric Breese, Investment Manager, Evonik Venture Capital | Maxx Bricklin, Founding Principal, Bold Capital Partners | Pratik Budhdev, Investment Director, Volvo Cars Tech Fund | Edouard Bulteau, Investment Manager, Total Energy Ventures | Andy Cao, Principal, Comcast Ventures | Packey Carrier, Investment Manager, American Express Ventures | Jeffrey Carter, General Partner, West Loop Ventures | Matthew Chavez, Associate, New Enterprise Associates | Joy Chen, Chief Investment Officer, TAL Education Group | Kelly Chen, Principal, Data Collective | Keting Chu, Venture Partner, LYFE Capital | Jackson Cummings, Investor, Salesforce Ventures | Michael D’Aurizio, Investment Manager, Centrica Innovations | Ned Daoro, Senior Associate, Clocktower Technology Ventures | Angelo Del Priore, Partner, HP Tech Ventures | Jun Deng, Partner, Joyance Partners | Dan Doble, Managing Director, SABIC Ventures | Rexhi Dollaku, Principal, Base10 | Yizhen Dong, Principal, 11.2 Capital | Ted Driscoll, Managing Partner, DigitalDX Ventures | Marah Dudenhoeffer, Manager, Verizon Ventures | Susannah Duke, Associate, Pelion Venture Partners | Robert Dunkle, President, ABES Venture Partners | Victor Echevarria, Principal, Jackson Square Ventures | Tom Eggleston, Managing Director , Charmides Capital | Geoffrey Eisenberg, Principal, Ecosystem Integrity Fund | Sean Engel, Principal, Top Tier Capital Partners | Michael Fanfant, Senior Associate, Runa Capital | Chenoa Farnsworth, Managing Director, Blue Startups | Kristen Faulkner, Associate, Threshold Ventures | Linda Fingerle, Partner, Tappan Hill Ventures | Spencer Foust, Principal, Sozo Ventures | Ben Freeberg, Senior Associate, Alpha Venture Partners | Chris Gaertner, Principal, Omega Venture Partners | Karim Gillani, General Partner, Luge Capital | Norm Gitis, Managing Partner, Life Science Angels | Garrett Goldberg, Partner, Bee Partners | Jocelyn Goldfein, Managing Director, Zetta Venture Partners | Daniel Gomez, Investment Analyst, Fusion Fund | Tyler Griffin, Managing Partner, Financial Venture Studio | Baris Guzel, Principal, BMW i Ventures | Perry Ha, Analyst, The Westly Group | Sheeraz Haji, Managing Partner, Zip Dragon Ventures | Daniel Harris, Managing Director, DPH Ventures | Laurence Hayward, Partner, Independence Equity | Annie Hazlehurst, Founder, Faridan | Alicia Castillo Holley, Investor, Sand Hill Angels | Jens Horstmann, Founding Director, Crestlight Ventures | Heyu Huang, Venture Partner, Fresco Capital | Anup Jacob, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Activate Capital Partners | Alexis Ji, Partner, Illumina Ventures | Gary Jinks, Founding Managing Director, South Valley Angels | Matt Jones, Managing Director, Solvay Ventures | Kathleen Jurman, Corporate Technology Scout, Dow Ventures | Amir Kabir, Investment Principal, Munich Re Ventures | Jimmy Kan, Senior Associate, Anzu Partners | Kester Keating, Head of US Strategic Investments, Barclays | Roger King, Founder, Bay Angels | Steve Kishi, Managing Director, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners | Yasemin Kliman, Co-President, Harvard Business School Angels | Daniella Kranjac, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Dynamk Capital | Nathan Krishnamurthy, Principal, Capital One Growth Ventures | Vivek Krishnamurthy, Associate, Commerce Ventures | Amit Kumar, Investor, Band of Angels | Kwasi Kyei, Associate, Sandbox Industries | Eduardo Laiter, Sr Investment Analyst, Kapor Capital | Severine Lalande, Investment Manager, Total Energy Ventures | Javaughn Lawrence, Investor, Eniac Ventures | Lindsay Lee, Managing Director, Authentic Ventures | Roberta Lee, Angel Investor, Life Science Angels | Sarah Lee, Investor, EdVentures Group | Julie Lein, Managing Partner, Urban Innovation Fund | Geraldine Le Meur, Founding Partner, The Refiners | Ephraim Lindenbaum, Managing Director, Advance Ventures | Alex Luce, Principal, Creative Ventures | Vincent Lui, Senior Director of Corporate Ventures, SK Telecom Americas | Silvia Mah, Executive Director and Founder, Hera Angels | Ashish Mahashabde, Investor, Amex Ventures | Shripriya Mahesh, Co-Founding Partner, Spero Ventures | Tasneem Manjra, Head of Network Development, Volvo Cars Tech Fund | Jillian Manus, Managing Partner, Structure Capital | Ben Metcalfe, Principal, Ridge Ventures | Wouter Meuleman, Director of Investments, Illumina Ventures | SC Moatti, Managing Partner, Mighty Capital | Linda Molnar, Program Director, National Science Foundation | Sasha Ostojic, Angel investor, Playground Global | Umesh Padval, Venture Partner, Thomvest Ventures | Hirak Parikh, Venture Partner, Augment Ventures | Victor Pascucci III, Managing Partner, Lightbank | Phoebe Peronto, Investor, Salesforce Ventures | Ricardo Politi, Partner, Mindset Ventures | Salil Pradhan, Venture Partner, Draper Nexus | Gagan Rana, Executive-in-Residence, Learn Capital | Peter Redford, Investor, Band of Angels | Bill Reichert, Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures | John Ricci, Founder & Managing Partner, US Angels | Jennifer Richard, Senior Associate, Cross Culture Ventures | Andre Rocha, Investor, Glasswing Ventures | Riley Rodgers, Associate, Valia Investments | Peter Rojas, Founding Partner, Betaworks Ventures | Praveen Sahay, Managing Director, WAVE Equity Partners | Natalie Sandman, Senior Associate, Shasta Ventures | Miraj Sanghvi, Principal, DigiTx | Jason Schoettler, Co-Founder & Partner, Calibrate Ventures | Wes Selke, Managing Director, Better Ventures | Jayni Shah, Principal, Accomplice | Prashant Shah, Partner, Monta Vista Capita | Ann Shin, Founding Partner, Ultrafund Capital | Charles Sidman, Managing Partner, ECS Capital Partners | Kathleen Siswanto, Investor, Propel Venture Partners | Ira Smith, Director of Venture Investments, Pandect BioVentures | Tanya Soman, Venture Partner, 500 Startups | Shirley Speakman, Partner, Cycle Capital Management | Adam Spector, Angel Investor | Kumar Sripadam, Chair, TiE Global | Jack Statza, Senior Associate, Allstate Strategic Ventures | George Straschnov, Managing Director, Bisk Ventures | Marcus Stroud, Managing Partner, TXV Partners | Mayra Tama, Principal, Initial Capital | Wei Tao, Life Science Angels, Chair Bio Genomics Committee | Craig Taylor, General Partner, Alloy Ventures | Laura Thompson, Principal, Sapphire Ventures | Vishal Verma, General Partner, Edgewood Ventures | Che Voigt, Chairman, North Bay Angels | Jordan Wahbeh, Managing Director, Bay Angels | Timothy Wang, Principal, The Westly Group | Kyoko Watanabe, Managing Director, DEFTA Partners | Patricia Wexler, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Starlight Ventures | James Wu, Senior Associate, M12 | Jonathan Wu, Board Director and Vice President, Sand Hill Angels | Margaret Wu, Investor, Georgian Partners | Veronica Wu, Managing Partner, Hone Capital | Wei Wu, Healthcare Investment Director, BOE Ventures | Matthew Wukasch, Managing Director, Charmides Capital | Wenz Xing, Associate, Bullpen Capital | Sue Xu, Managing Partner , Amino Capital | Lu Zhang, Founder & Managing Partner, Fusion Fund | Jimmy Zhu, Vice President, Citi Ventures | Shelley Zhuang, Founder and Managing Partner, 11.2 Capital | TX Zhuo, Managing Partner, Fika Ventures and many more.

 

 

Special Offer:

LPBI has made special arrangement for our network to receive a special discount of $450 off.

This conference will be attended by the best people in the industry. Please register early to avoid disappointment. 

 

Register Today & Save Click here.   (Use promo code “ LPBI-VIP”)

 

In addition to providing access to leading Investors, the conference will feature more than 100 pre-screened venture backed, emerging and early stage companies seeking capital, and hardcore networking. 

 

Call for TOP INNOVATORS!

Get Noticed > Get Funded > Grow Faster

 

A select group of more than 100 Top Innovators will be chosen to present their breakthrough investment opportunities to an exclusive audience of Venture Capitalists, Corporate Investors, Private Investors, Investment Bankers, and Strategic Partners.

 

  • Apply to Present / Nominate a company:

For more information or to be considered for one of the Top Innovator slots click here.

 

  • Seed Pitchfest:

If you are a seed stage company seeking angel funding of less than $1M (and have raised less than $300,000) click here to apply for the Seed stage track.

 

 We look forward to seeing you there. 

 

LPBI & youngStartup Ventures

 

LPBI Group – Executive Summary

The Challenge

“Today, there is a digital information explosion in the fields of Life Sciences and Medicine,” said Aviva Lev-Ari, Ph.D., R.N., and founder of Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence (LPBI) Group. “To manage that challenge, we are responding to the needs of our multi-faceted audiences in order to guard against information obsolescence through transformational technologies and solutions.”

 

Our Vision:

LPBI Group generates vast scientific content via industry thought leaders through multiple platforms and makes it universally accessible.

 

About LPBI Group

Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence Group (“LPBI Group”) is a leading, electronic scientific content-creation venture, offering real-time, original scientific content through advanced platform architecture methodologies since 2012. The company’s commitment is to synthesize, analyze and interpret complex, medical and scientific disease information through electronic publishing venues via the cloud to advance the knowledge and research efforts of the scientific and business community.

LPBI Group was created in 2012 by Dr. Aviva Lev-Ari, Ph.D., R.N. The Group has evolved into three, interrelated domains – an open-access online scientific journal, a series of 16 BioMed e-books and real-time press coverage of BioMed scientific and medical conferences. Through this transformative offering, the Group effectively meets and exceeds the information needs of researchers, scientists and industry pharmaceutical and biotechnology executives by offering real-time and currently available medical and scientific information on any subject as well as cutting-edge biomedical research innovation widely available to the scientific and non-research community. The method of curation includes synthesis, analysis and interpretation of complex medical and scientific areas.

Year over year, there is increased readership of highly valued content, which equates to more than 5,500 scientific articles with over 1.6 million readers in the online scientific journal.

 

Unique, Experienced Team

The Group employs a team of highly experienced individuals in Life Sciences, particularly within the key domains of BioMedicine, Biotechnology, Pharmaco-therapy, Medical and Information Technology, Health Care and the Life Sciences/Medicine connection.

All members of the LPBI Group team have a wealth of expertise and experience in Life Sciences and have been trained to master the methodology of scientific curation used in the articles. Those individuals include senior MDs, MD/PhDs, PharmDs and senior PhDs who expressed interest in medical writing and clinical interpretation of basic research, translational research and interpretation of clinical trials outcomes.

  • Medical Doctors: Dr. Larry H. Bernstein (retired), Dr. Justin Pearlman (Central Maine Medical Center)
  • Doctors of Philosophy: Dr. Justin Pearlman, Dr. Stephen Williams, Dr. Sudipta Saha, Dr. Ritu Saxena, Dr. Tilda Barliya, Dr. Irina Robu, Dr. Dror Nir, Dr. Aviva Lev-Ari
  • Professors in Academia: Prof. Marcus W. Feldman (Stanford University), Prof. Stephen J. Williams (Temple University), Prof. Sudipta Saha (Amity University Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India), Dr. Irina Robu (Windsor, Ontario, Canada), Adam Sonnenberg, PhD(c), Boston University
  • Executives in Biotechnology and Information Technology Industries: Amnon Danzig, MBA, Europe-Asia (business development consultant with specialization in Strategy, Corporate Finance and Human Capital, published author on Value Creation concepts), Rick Mandahl, MBA, Americas (business development consultant in emerging technologies with Biotech, Information Technology focus), Ritu Saxena (Astellas Pharma), Gail S. Thornton, M.A., PhD(c), (Merck & Co., USA, communications consultant, published author on health, wellness, communications strategy)

 

Scientific e-Books Source

The 16 BioMed e-books include topics focused on medical science, diagnostics and therapy. The books’ sustainability is maintained by online continuing updates made to articles in the online scientific journal. Each of the scientific e-books contain an abbreviated electronic table of contents, which consists of ‘live’ links from each article in the e-book to the article in the online scientific journal. Readers of the e-books can click on this link to receive the most, updated “State of Science” for each topic. This unique feature makes the e-books relevant and provides a timely source of knowledge and reference.

Highly qualified content consultants, who are senior MDs, MD/PhDs and Professors, are involved in the production and clinical interpretations of the curations. The topics for curation and the contents of the books are uniquely created and carefully edited. Dr. Aviva Lev-Ari as the editor-in-chief leads this multidisciplinary content compilation using her diverse areas of technical training and experience. It should be noted that all of LPBI’s material could, in principle, be translated into other languages.

 

Journal Ontology

Our intellectual property consists of three classes of Intellectual property assets as described in detail with live links in the following article:

eScientific Publishing a Case in Point: Evolution of Platform Architecture Methodologies and of Intellectual Property Development (Content Creation by Curation) Business Model

https://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com/2019/02/04/escientific-publishing-a-case-in-point-evolution-of-platform-architecture-methodologies-and-of-intellectual-property-development-content-creation-by-curation-business-model/

 

Three Classes of Intellectual Property Assets

These assets include an open-access online scientific journal with curated, current biomedical research; a series of 16 BioMed e-books available via Amazon in five specialties of Medicine: Cardiovascular, Genomic Medicine (a subset of Precision Medicine), Cancer, Immunology and Precision Medicine; and real-time curation of biotech and medical conferences yielding an e-Proceedings at the end of the conference in one click operation.

For example, Genomic Medicine, as an emerging medical discipline, is making an impact in the fields of oncology, pharmacology, rare and undiagnosed diseases and infectious disease. This field involves using genomic information about an individual as part of their clinical care (e.g., for diagnostic or therapeutic decision-making) and the health outcomes and policy implications of that clinical use.

The open-access online scientific journal ontology is a relational and hierarchical knowledge base allowing for expansion of the content creation process between the journal and the series of BioMed e-books, but it is not limited to these two areas. For example, one of the research categories, entitled “Interviews with Scientific Leaders,” includes in its growth plan the option of podcasts, an audio media component that will supplement the video media component used extensively in the BioMed e-Series.

The Group’s business is scalable, and the skill set needed for curation of scientific findings for clinical interpretations, as well as in other disciplines can be augmented by appropriate training in the curation methodology to be offered to experts in many fields. In our seven years together, the Group’s writers and editors generated a remarkable synergy among experts, authors and writers, which yields outstanding collaboration in producing these curations. There are many post-doctoral individuals in the biotechnology industry as well as academia who can serve as experts, authors and writers in continuing the Group’s operations, following appropriate onboarding.

Contact us

Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN

Director & Founder

https://lnkd.in/eEyn69r

Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence (LPBI) Group, Boston, NJ, Salt Lake City, Berkeley, Cambridge UK, Maine, New Delhi, Palo Alto, Philadelphia, Toronto

Editor-in-Chief

http://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com

e-Mail: avivalev-ari@alum.berkeley.edu

(M) 617-775-0451

https://cal.berkeley.edu/AvivaLev-Ari,PhD,RN

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A DOWN TURN HURTS MOST INVESTORS FUND RAISERS don’t go for the biggest valuation if not meet numbers second trench negatively affected same for valuation technology progresses support Series A, B

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Aviva Lev-Ari
@AVIVA1950
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#NEVS19

@pharma_BI
@AVIVA1950

#VC #Investors are presenting the #pulse #investment #market #institutionalInvestors #Ecits #IPO by #M&A #women #leaders #platform #investment #corporate #technology #gamechanging #Entrepreneur #raisingfunds 12-18 month #economic #downturn #deals

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Aviva Lev-Ari
@AVIVA1950
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Dec 4

#NEVS19

@pharma_BI
@AVIVA1950

Travera Solutions a #biomarker for all the #Cancer drugs approved by

@FDA

#Suspended #Micro channel #Resonator SMR invented

@MIT

IVD and Lab developed test LDT amazing innovation

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Aviva Lev-Ari
@AVIVA1950
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Dec 4

#NEVS19

@pharma_BI
@AVIVA1950

SIG.NUM SIG.RHYTHM SIG.12-LED #ECG alternative technology to 12 leads a pad with sensors

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Aviva Lev-Ari
@AVIVA1950
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Dec 4

#NEVS19

@pharma_BI
@AVIVA1950

micro needles for diagnostics using ISF #Interstitial System Fluid uses #glucose, #allergy, #neonatal

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1

Aviva Lev-Ari
@AVIVA1950
·

Dec 4

#NEVS19

@AVIVA1950
@pharma_BI

A DOWN TURN HURTS MOST INVESTORS FUND RAISERS don’t go for the biggest valuation if not meet numbers second trench negatively affected same for valuation technology progresses support Series A, B

1

Aviva Lev-Ari
@AVIVA1950
·

Dec 4

#NEVS19

@pharma_BI
@AVIVA1950

#VC #Investors are presenting the #pulse #investment #market #institutionalInvestors #Ecits #IPO by #M&A #women #leaders #platform #investment #corporate #technology #gamechanging #Entrepreneur #raisingfunds 12-18 month #economic #downturn #deals

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2

Aviva Lev-Ari
@AVIVA1950
·

Dec 4

#NEVS19

@pharma_BI
@AVIVA1950

SIG.NUM SIG.RHYTHM SIG.12-LED #ECG alternative technology to 12 leads a pad with sensors

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