Agenda:
Monday 25 February
08.15
Registration
09.00
BALLROOM
Opening Welcome

Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
09.10
Keynote Address
Dennis Purcell, Senior Managing Director, Aisling Capital
09.30
Funding for the Biotech Industry
Chair: Stan Yakatan, Chairman, Katan Associates
Panellists: Stefan Aigner, EVP of Corporate Development, Alpharma Inc
Brian Halak, Partner, Domain Associates LLC
Al Sokol, Partner, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
Stuart Barich, Managing Director, Oppenheimer & Company
10.10
Coffee Break
10.30
Small-Cap Listed Company Presentations
BALLROOM   VENETIAN ROOM
10.30
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals
Arthur T. Sands
President & CEO
  Biophan Technologies Inc.
John Lanzafame
CEO
10.45
Alseres Pharmaceuticals
Peter G. Savas
Chairman & CEO
  Entremed
James S. Burns
President & CEO
11.00
Arana Therapeutics Ltd
Steffen Nock
President
  Lipoxen
Scott Maguire
CEO
11.15
BioMS Medical
Tony Hesby
EVP Corporate Affairs
  OctoPlus N.V.
Hans Pauli
CFO
11.30
Antisense Therapeutics
Mark Diamond
CEO
  Wilex AG
Peter Llewellyn-Davies
CFO
11.45
pSivida
Paul Ashton
Managing Director
  Acrongenomics
12.00
Cequent Pharmaceuticals
Peter Parker
President & CEO
  Santaris Pharma A/S
Keith McCullagh
CEO
12.15
Avir Green Hills Biotechnology AG
Thomas Muster
CEO
  Immunovaccine Technologies
Randall Chase
President & CEO
12.30
Radius Health Inc.
Richard Lyttle
President & CEO
  Mercury Therapeutics Inc.
Neal C. Birnberg
President & CEO
12.45
Questions to Panelists
13.00
Lunch
14.15
Panel Discussion: Global Investor Trends
Chair: Michael Lytton, General Partner, Oxford Bioscience Partners
Panellists: Stephen Knight, Partner, Fidelity Biosciences
Jens Eckstein, Partner, TVM Capital
John Brooks, President & CEO, Medical Capital Advisors
Ulrik Spork, Partner, Novo A/S
15.00
Company Presentations
BALLROOM
Chair: Leslie Wolf-Creutzfeldt,
The Global Consulting Group
  VENETIAN ROOM
15.00
CellTraffix Inc.
Thomas Fitzgerald
President & CEO
  Amulet Pharmaceuticals
Craig M. Liddell
CEO
15.15
F-Star
Gottfried Himmler
CEO
  Photo Dynamic Therapies LLC
Günther Hofmann
COO
15.30
NeuroHealing Pharmaceuticals
Neal M. Farber
CEO
  4-Antibody
Sijmen de Vries
CEO
15.45
Targetetd Cell Therapeutics
Eric J. Evans
CEO
  T2Cure
Manfred Rüdiger
CEO
16.00
Questions to Panelists
16.10
Panel Discussion: Next Generation Antibody Therapeutics
Chair: Steven Dickman, CEO, CBT Advisors
Panellists: Dr. Masamichi Koike, President & CEO, BioWa
Dr. Gottfried Himmler,
CEO, F-Star
Dr.Scott Koenig,
President & CEO, Macrogenics
Markus Goebel,
Managing Director, Novartis Venture Fund
Doug Fambrough,
Partner, Oxford Bioscience Partners
17.10
Panel Discussion: Investing in Medical Devices
Chair: Scott Kirsner, Innovation Economy Columnist, Boston Globe
& Co-Founder of the Convergence Forum
Panellists: Bill Mills, Managing Member, EGS Healthcare
Doug Cole, General Partner, Flagship Ventures
John T. Santini Jr, President & CEO, MicroCHIPS, Inc.
Tim Surgenor, President & CEO, Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc.
18.00
Cocktail Reception
 

 

Tuesday 26 February
08.15
Registration
08.30
BALLROOM
Opening Keynote: Designing the Future of Cancer Research at MIT
Robert Urban, Executive Director, The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
08.50
Science Keynote: Cancer Metabolism
Lewis C. Cantley, Professor of Systems Biology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Harvard Medical School
09.10
Panel Discussion: Transatlantic Investing (US - Europe)
Chair: Lutz Giebel, Partner, SV Life Sciences
Panellists:

Mike Bigham, General Partner, Abingworth Management
Bruce Booth, Principal, Atlas Venture
Jesper Zeuthen, Managing Partner, BankInvest
Ansbert Gadicke, General Partner, MPM Capital

09.50
Panel Discussion: Partnering – Successful Strategic Alliances
Chair: Tamar Howson, Executive Vice President of Business Development, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals
Panellists: John Maraganore, President & CEO,Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Dr George A. Scangos, President and Chief Executive Officer, Exelixis
Arthur T. Sands, President & CEO, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals
10.35
Coffee Break
11.00
Big Pharma and VC Panel
Chair: Maggie LeFlore, Ph.D., Head, R&D Ventures, AstraZeneca  Pharmaceuticals
Panellists:

Dr Reid Leonard, Executive Director Licensing and External Research, Merck & Co
Dr Jeremy Levin, Senior Vice President, Bristol Myers Squibb
Jonathan Fleming, Managing General Partner, Oxford Bioscience Partners

11.45
Partnering Presentations (order of presentations subject to change)
11.45
Biogen Idec: Leslie Coney, Director Business Development
12.00
Bristol-Myers Squibb: Robert Schwartz, Senior Director Oncology Licensing
12.15
Merck & Co.: Dr Reid Leonard, Executive Director Licensing and External Research
12.30
Novartis Pharma: Dr. Jennifer Griffiths, Head Search and Evaluation, AB
12.45
Pfizer Inc.: Dr. Robert Bagdorf, Executive Director, Licensing & Development
13.15
Networking Lunch
18.00
Close of Conference
 

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