Live Panel Schedule for Digital RESI September 2020

Corporate VC Panel – “The Corporate Landscape Morphed & New Opportunities Abound”

Date & Time: Tuesday, September 8, 10:00 – 10:50 am EST

• Andy Merken (Moderator), Partner and Co-Chair, Life Sciences, Burns & Levinson
• Lana Ghanem, Managing Director, Hikma Ventures
• Mark Ralph, Executive Director, Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund
• Tom Gibbs, Director, Debiopharm Innovation Fund

Medtech Strategics Panel – “Large Medical Device Firms Seeking External Innovation”

Date & Time: Tuesday, September 8, 12:00 – 12:50 pm EST

• Geoff Dacosta (Moderator), Director of Business Development and Licensing, Medtronic
• Christina Salys, Director of New Business development, Intuitive Surgical
• David Uffer, Senior Partner, Alira Ventures
• Rupert Winckler, Head of EMEA New Business Development, Olympus Corporation

Health System Partners Panel – “Care Providers and Payers Seek New Technologies”

Date & Time: Wednesday, September 9, 12:00 – 12:50 pm EST

• Cyrll Philip, Principal, Providence Ventures
• Linda Maxwell, Director, Biomedical Zone
• Mayank Taneja, Director of Venture Investments, OSF Healthcare Ventures
• Rajesh Aggarwal, Executive Vice President, Jefferson Strategic Ventures

Seed Funds Panel – “Investing in Emerging Science to Pursue High Rewards”

Date & Time: Wednesday, September 9, 2:00 – 2:50 pm EST

• Gary Gershony (Moderator), Life Science Angels
• Anya Roy, Head of Illumina Accelerator Cambridge, Illumina Accelerator
• Jun Deng, Investment Partner, Joyance Partners
• Nancy Kaufman, CEO, Beacon Capital
• Prathna Ramesh, Executive Director, Maple Leaf Angels

Oncology Innovation Panel – “The Search for New Approaches to Diagnosing & Treating Cancer”

Date & Time: Thursday, September 10, 12:00 – 12:50 pm EST

• Steve Yoder (Moderator), Vice President of Business Development, Taiho Oncology
• Anthony Bajoras, Managing Director, Cancer Fund
• Barbara Lavery, Chief Program Officer, Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy
• Duncan Young, Director of Search and Evaluation Oncology, Business Development & Licensing, AstraZeneca
• Mark Krul, Partner, Aglala Oncology Fund

Global Investment and Partnership Panel – “Asia Firms Looking to Build Global Partnerships”

Date & Time: Thursday, September 10, 8:00 – 8:50 pm EST (Sponsored by Onelin Capital, Open to the public)

• Judy Lee (Moderator), General Manager, Onelin Capital
• Haolin Sung, Managing Partner, Chaperone Investment
• Haruhiko Sugino, Director of Global Business Development, Otsuka Pharmaceuticals
• Weiyong Sun, Senior Director of Specialty Medicine Search & Evaluation, Daichi Sankyo
• Yao Li Ho, Senior Director of Business Development, LYFE Capital

Impact Investors Panel – “Life Science Investors Looking for More Than Financial Returns”

Date & Time: Friday, September 11, 12:00 – 12:50 pm EST

• Lore Gruenbaum (Moderator), Vice President of Therapy Acceleration Program, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
• Chris Penland, Vice President of BioPharma Programs, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
• Kuldip Dave, Vice President of Research, ALS Association
• Michael Cole, Founder and General Partner, Global Neurohealth Ventures
• Paul Larkin, Manager of Research Innovation, Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation