Pauling Biotech-Pharma Symposium Agenda

7th Nobel Pauling Biotech-Pharma Symposium: Hong Kong Science Park
February 23 to 26, 2006, MIT Faculty Club


Feb 23-25: Hosting the delegation of Officers of Hong Kong Science Park
Feb 25, 2006: 7th Pauling Biotech-Pharma Symposium: Hong Kong Science Park
Feb 26 Sunday: 8th Pauling Academia-Biotech-Pharma Symposium: NatureJobs

Preliminary Agenda

1. Dinner meeting at Merck

Feb 23, Thursday Transportation from Boston airport to Merck
Time & location:
Hosts:
Guests:
Seminars:
6 pm to 8:30 pm, Merck (33 Avenue Louis Pasteur)
Dr. Lex Van der Ploeg, Site Head, Merck, & Dr. Reid Leonard, Merck
Mr. Carlos Genardini, CEO, & Dr. John Lo, VP, & Dr. Grace Wong, CSO, ActoKine
Dr. John Lo - Your Strategic Bridge to the Huge China Market
Dr. Reid Leonard - Overview of research programs at Merck and China initiative
8:30 pm Transportation from Merck to MIT Hotel


Hong Kong Science Park

2. Breakfast meeting at Genzyme

Feb 24, Friday Transportation from MIT Hotel to Genzyme
Time & location:
Hosts:
Guests:
Seminars:
9 am to 11 am, Genzyme (500 Kendall St)
Dr. Canwen Jiang, Genzyme + other Genzyme personnel
Mr. Carlos Genardini, Dr. John Lo & Dr. Grace Wong, ActoKine
Dr. John Lo - Your Strategic Bridge to the Huge China Market
Dr. Canwen Jiang - Research programs at Genzyme and China initiative
11:15 am Transportation from Genzyme to Biogen-IDEC


Hong Kong Science Park

3. Lunch meeting at Biogen-IDEC

Feb 24, Friday Transportation from Genzyme to Biogen-IDEC
Time & location:
Hosts:
Guests:
Seminars:
12 pm to 2 pm, Biogen-IDEC (14 Cambridge Center)
Dr. Gunther Winkler, VP, Biogen-Idec + other Biogen-IDEC personnel
Mr. Carlos Genardini, Dr. John Lo & Dr. Grace Wong
Dr. John Lo - Your Strategic Bridge To The Huge China Markets
Dr. Gunther Winkler - Research programs at Biogen-Idec and China initiative
2:15 pm Transportation from Biogen-IDEC to Novartis

4. Meeting at Pfizer

Feb 24, Friday Transportation from Biogen-IDEC to Pfizer
Time & location:
Hosts:
Guests:
Seminars:
2:30 pm to 4:30 pm, Pfizer (620 Memorial Drive, Cambridge)
Dr. Phil Vickers, Dr. Ralph Lambalot and other Pfizer personnel
Mr. Carlos Genardini, Dr. John Lo & Dr. Grace Wong
Dr. John Lo - Your Strategic Bridge to the Huge China Market
Dr. Ralph Lambalot- Open Discussion of Pfizer's Interest in Exploring China Initiatives"
4:30 pm Transportation from Pfizer to Nobel Pauling Symposium: HKSP

5. Nobel Pauling Biotech-Pharma Symposium: Hong Kong Science Park

Date & time: Feb 24, Friday, 5 pm ? 9 pm, MIT Faculty Club
5 - 6 pm
6 pm - 8 pm
Networking, Registration
Buffet dinner with biotech-pharma experts
6:30 pm Welcome: Grace Wong, PhD, ActoKine Therapeutics
6:40 pm Keynote Speakers:
Mr. Carlos Genardini, CEO, Hong Kong Science Park (HKSP)
Dr. John Lo, OBE, JP, VP, Your Strategic Bridge to the Huge China Market
7:40 pm Discussion with biotech-pharma experts
8:15 pm Biotech-Pharma: Who’s Who (self introduction)
8:20 pm Concluding Remarks: Dr. Grace Wong ActoKine Therapeutics
8:30 - 9 pm Networking; Transportation from MIT to MIT Hotel

The goal is to build a bridge between academia and industry, USA and Hong Kong-China



6. Nobel Pauling Biotech-Pharma Symposium: Hong Kong Science Park

Feb 25, Saturday Nobel Pauling Symposium, 10 am to 4 pm at MIT Faculty Club
9 am to 10 am Registration, Breakfast
10:00 am Welcome: Dr. Grace Wong, CSO, ActoKine Therapeutics
10:10 am Dr. Bob Zivin, Overview - Johnson & Johnson's interest in Hong Kong-China
10:20 am Keynote: Mr. Carlos Genardini, CEO, Hong Kong Science Park - Overview
10:30 am Keynote: Dr. John Lo, OBE, JP,- Your Strategic Bridge to the Huge China Market
11:30 pm Networking, Buffet Dim Sum
12:00 pm Moderator: Dr. Scott Wadsworth, Johnson and Johnson,
Moderator: Dr. Bob Zivin, Johnson & Johnson
Dr. Gangfeng Xu, Wyeth: Wyeth's interest in Hong Kong-China
Dr. Christopher Kim, Novartis: potential in Hong Kong-China ?
12:20 pm Panel Discussion: Biotech vs. big pharma
Moderators: Dr. Gangfeng Xu, Wyeth and Dr. Kenneth Dillon, Spectrum Bioscience
Can Hong Kong serve as the bridge between US and mainland China?
Hong Kong-China: opportunities & challenges
Panel speakers > 12 Speakers from Biotech and Pharmaceutical companies
1:20 pm
2: 00 pm
Mr. Carlos Genardini (pick up by Limo to airport):
Biotech-Pharma: Who's who and Smart pitch
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Networking

7. Meeting with Johnson & Johnson

Feb 25, Saturday Meeting Johnson & Johnson at MIT Faculty Club
Event
Hosts:
Guests:
4: 30 pm to 6 pm, MIT Faculty Club
Dr. Scott Wadsworth, Dr. Bob Zivin, Dr. Sergey Ilyin, Dr. Nuwan Kurukulasuriya
Dr. John Lo & Dr. Grace Wong
Sat 6-8 pm:
Feb 26, Sunday
Dinner meeting with Johnson & Johnson, Wyeth, Novartis etc, Transportation from MIT Faculty Club to MIT hotel
Transportation from MIT hotel to airport


7th Nobel Pauling Symposium
Carlos Genardini Hong Kong Science Park
John Lo, OBE, JP, PhD Hong Kong Science Park
Bill Cafruny, PhD University of South Dakota
Jerry Yang, PhD University of Connecticut
Ming Chiu Fung, PhD CUHK
Ricky K.N. Leung, PhD CUHK
Mak Nai Ki, PhD, Hong Kong Baptist Univesity
Benny Zee, PhD CUHK
Soumyaroop Bhattacharya Harvard
Paul Smaglik, PhD NatureJob Editor
Dyke Hendrickson, Mass High Tech
Myrna E. Watanabe, PhD Science writer
Kenneth J. Dillon, PhD Spectrum Bioscience
Gunther Winkler, PhD VP, Biogen-Idec
Huo Li, PhD Biogen-Idec,
Dennis France, VP, Arqule
Steve Gullans, PhD Rx-gen
Kevin Li, PhD Fountain Pharmaceuticals
James Wang, PhD Hypromatrix
Michael Kinch, PhD MedImmune
Xinhua Li, PhD Genzyme
Canwen Jiang, PhD Genzyme
Seng H. Cheng, Ph.D Genzyme
Huawei Qiu, PhD Genzyme
Reinhard Ebner, PhD Avalon Pharmaceuticals
Marsha Paul, PhD Caliper Life Science
William R. Shek, PhD, Charles River Lab.
Adam Bell, PhD CoGenesys (HGS) 
David Merberg, PhD Cell Signaling Technology
Elizabeth Abraham, PhD ViaCell
Feb 23-26, 2006
Lex Van der Ploeg, PhD Merck
Robert Gould, PhD Merck
Laura Chavez-Noriega, PhD Merck
Reid Leonard, PhD Senior Director, Merck
James Leung, PhD Biomeasure
Norrie Russell, PhD Invitrogen
Scott Wadsworth, PhD Johnson & Johnson
Bob Zivin, PhD Johnson & Johnson
Sergey Ilyin, MD, PhD Johnson & Johnson
Philip J. Vickers, PhD Pfizer
Ralph H. Lambalot, PhD Pfizer
Ajith Kamath, PhD Associate Director, Pfizer
Rajiv Shukla, PhD Pfizer
Yuan-Hua Ding, PhD  Pfizer
Leyu Wang, PhD Pfizer
Brian Wong, PhD Roche
Yong Jia, PhD Abbott
David He, PhD Abbott
Joanne Kamens, PhD Abbott
Jun Han, PhD Novartis
Chandrika Kumar, PhD Novartis
Dejan Bojanic, PhD Novartis
Christopher P. Miller, PhD Wyeth
ZhiJian Lu, PhD  Wyeth
Gangfeng Xu, PhD, MBA  Wyeth
Christopher Sampson, Manager, AstraZeneca
Jason A. Slusher, Site Head, Sanofi-Aventi
Ben Askew, PhD Serono
Timothy Wells, PhD Serono
Steve Arkinstall, PhD Serono
Keith Robison, PhD Millennium
Frank Hsieh, PhD Millennium
Grace Wong, PhD ActoKine Therapeutics


The goal is to build a bridge between academia and industry, USA and HK-China



Linus Pauling Keynote Speakers
Alexander Rich, MD MIT
Louis Tartaglia, PhD Millenium
Timothy Wells, PhD Serono
Steve Arkinstall, PhD Serono
Dalia Cohen, PhD Novartis
Robert Allen Lewis, MD Aventis
Steve Wiley, PhD Amgen
Napoleone Ferrara, PhD Genentech
Jeffrey Browning, PhD Biogen
Wolfgang Ketterle, PhD MIT
Eugene L. Brown, PhD Wyeth
Dr. Leroy Hood, MD, PhD Inst. for Systems Biology
Lex Van der Ploeg, PhD Merck

Pharmaceutical Companies
John Zawad, PhD Aventis
Scott Wadsworth, PhD Johnson & Johnson
Francis Xavier Farrell, PhD Johnson & Johnson
Kuldeep Neote, PhD Pfizer
Shi-Chung Ng, PhD Abbott
Kevin Xie, PhD Bayer
Sridaran Natesan, PhD Aventis
Lee Babiss, PhD Hoffmann-La Roche
Alexander Sasha Kamb, PhD Novartis Institute
Joanne Kamens, PhD Abbott
Suxing Liu, PhD Schering-Plough
Jeanette Wood, PhD Novartis
Jacky Vonderscher, PhD Novartis
Thomas Seng-Lai Tan, PhD Eli Lilly & Company
Suresh B. Singh, PhD Merck
Anton Beletskii, PhD Abbott
Michael A. Mallamaci, PhD AstraZeneca
Jianling Wang, PhD Novartis Institute

Privately Held Biotech Companies

Reinhard Ebner, PhD Avalon Pharmaceuticals
Brent L. Kreider, PhD Akceli
Kenneth Carter, PhD Avalon Pharmaceuticals
James Strickler, PhD Suntory Pharmaceuticals
Yat Sun Or, PhD Enanta Pharmaceuticals
Pat Gray, PhD MacroGenics
Andrew Mazar, PhD Attenuon LLC
Jeffrey Peterson Target Discovery
Lynn Doucette-Stamm, PhD Agencourt Bioscience
Martin A. Wasserman, PhD AtheroGenics
Karoly Nikolich, PhD AGY Therapeutics
Steven R Gullans, PhD US Genomics
Jennifer Shore StemCell Technologies
Frank Y. Xie, PhD Intradigm Corporation
David Merberg, PhD Cell Signaling Technology
John Maraganore, PhD Alnylam
Jeffrey Hillman, DMD, PhD IviGene
Randall K. Wetzel, PhD Cell Signaling Technology
Jeff Brockman, PhD Psychiatric Genomics
Gordon Vehar, PhD Raven Biotechnologies
Arnon Rosenthal, PhD Rinat Neuroscience
Frank Striggow, PhD KeyNeurotek
Mark Tepper, PhD Araios
Sunkwei Huang, PhD ActivBiotics
Amy L. Rubinstein, PhD Zygogen
Kathy Hehir TranXenoGen
Erdogan Memili, PhD GTC Biotherapeutics
Daniel Hu, PhD Bonature
James Wang, PhD Hypromatrix

Cytokine Companies
Linda Burkly, PhD Biogen
Meena Subramanyam, PhD Biogen
Martin Scott, PhD Biogen
Matthew Cooper, PhD Biogen
Richard L. Cate, PhD Biogen
Dinah W. Sah, PhD Biogen
Akshay K. Vaishnaw, MD, MRCP, PhD Biogen
Marianne T. Sweetser, MD, PhD Biogen
Diane Pennica, PhD Genentech
Hans-Peter Gerber, PhD
Genentech
Thomas D. Wu, MD, PhD Genentech
Andrew Chan, MD, PhD Genentech
Grace Wong, PhD ActoKine Therapeutics

Publicly Held Biotech Companies
David Leung, PhD Cell Therapeutics
Tomi Sawyer, PhD ARIAD Pharmaceuticals
Kevin Foley, PhD Millennium
David White, PhD Millennium
Keith Robison, PhD Millennium
Zhenping Zhu, MD, PhD ImClone Systems
Irina Agoulnik, PhD Millennium
Tarif A. Awad, PhD Affymetrix
Brian Zambrowicz, PhD Lexicon Genetics
Timothy Hoey, PhD Tularik
Roy Pollock, PhD ARIAD Pharmaceuticals
John Randle, PhD Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Mark Namchuk, PhD Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Juan A. Ruiz, PhD, MBA Transkaryotic Therapies


Academic and Other Institutions
Sonia Sparks Wallman, PhD NH Biotech Council
Sonia Guterman, PhD Mintz Levin
Tolleiv Trimborn, PhD Life Sciences Partners VC
Sunny Tam, PhD Charles River Lab
Andy Bhattacharjee, PhD Agilent
Dyana Dalton, PhD Trudeau Institute
James Lyons-Weiler, PhD University of Pittsburgh
Shuguang Zhang, PhD MIT
Kim Seth, PhD Harvard
Iain Campbell, PhD Scripps
David Vaux, MD, PhD Walter & Eliza Hall Institute
Li-An Yeh, PhD Harvard
Andrew Marshall, PhD Nature Biotechnology
Arthur Pardee, PhD Harvard
King Li, MD NIH Clinical Center
Howard Martin Fillit, MD The Aging Institute
Irene Bosch, PhD UMASS Medical School
Lee Marshall Ellis, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Thomas D Gilmore, PhD Boston University
Seth Cohen, PhD LRIG
Mark Kon, PhD Boston University
John J. Rossi, PhD City of Hope
Pavel Hradecky, MD Harvard University
Jeremy Zucker Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Advice from experts
Richard Gregory, PhD Genzyme
Alex Harris, PhD Chiron
Michael Kinch, PhD MedImmune
David G. Lowe, PhD Skyline Ventures
Bruce Stillman, PhD Cold Spring Harbor
David Baltimore, PhD Caltech
Charles M. Vest, PhD former President of MIT
Michael Brown, PhD Southwestern Medical School
David de Kretser, MD Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development (MIRD)
Jordan S. Pober, MD, PhD Yale University
Sir Gus Nossal, former Head of WEHI Institute



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