Speakers
Eyal C. Attar, MD
Hematologist/Oncologist
Massachusetts General Hospital
Nir Barzilai, MD
Director, Institute for Aging Research
Albert Einstein School of Medicine
Yeshiva University
Edward J. Benz, Jr., MD
CEO, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Gregory A. Bonfiglio
Managing Partner, Proteus Venture Partners
Tricia Brooks
Managing Director, Alliance Development
Biotechnology Industry Organization
G. Steven Burrill
President, Burrill & Company
Kenneth R. Chien, PhD
Director, MGH Cardiovascular Research Center
Sabrina Cohen
Associate Director, Genetics Policy Institute
Founder, Sabrina Cohen Foundation for Stem Cell Research
George Q. Daley, MD, PhD
Principal Faculty, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Assistant Director, Stem Cell Research Program, Children's Hospital Boston
President-elect, International Society for Stem Cell Research
Kevin Eggan, PhD
Principal Faculty, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Assistant Professor, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
Assistant Investigator, Stowers Medical Institute
Mark S. Ellinger, JD, PhD
Principal, Fish & Richardson, P.C.
The Brooke Ellison Project
President and Founder
Douglas M. Fambrough, PhD
Partner, Oxford Biosciences Partners
Joe Fuller
Co-founder and CEO, Monitor Group
John Gearhart, MSC, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health
Gary Gottlieb, MD
President, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Louis Guenin
Lecturer on Ethics in Science
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Eve Herold
Director of Public Policy Research and Education
Genetics Policy Institute
Author: "Stem Cell Wars: Inside Stories From the Frontlines"
Danny Heumann, JD
Heumannly Capable, Inc.
Rafael Hofstein, PhD
President & CEO, Hadasit
Jerusalem, Israel
Rudolf Jaenisch, MD
Member, Whitehead Institute
M.I.T.
John A. Kessler, MD
Benjamin Boshes Professor, Department of Neurology
Northwestern University
Shelley Klein, JD
Director of Advocacy. Hadassah
Paul Levy
President, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
James J. Kovach, MD, JD
President & COO, Buck Institute for Age Research
Stephen Livesey, MD, PhD
CEO, Australian Stem Cell Centre
S. Peter Ludwig, JD
Darby & Darby
Jeffrey D. Macklis, MD, D.HST
Director, MGH-HMS Center for Nervous System Repair
Harvard Stem Cell Institute
James Mandell, MD
President and CEO, Children's Hospital
Michael Manganiello
Principal, Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek Government Affairs
John McNeish, PhD.
Sr. Director, Genetic Technologies
Pfizer Global Research & Development
Douglas Melton, PhD
Co-Director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Chair, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
AnneMarie Moseley, MD, PhD
CEO, Aggregate Therapeutics
Christine Mummery, PhD
Hubrecht Institute (The Netherlands)
HSCI Radcliffe Fellow
P. Pearl O'Rourke, MD
Director, Human Research Affairs, Partners HealthCare Systems
Dan Perry
Executive Director, Alliance for Aging Research
Past-President, Coalition for Advancement of Medical Research
Don Reed
Californians for Cures
Brock C. Reeve
Executive Director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Camillo Ricordi, MD
Scientific Director, Diabetes Research Institute, Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami
Janet Rossant, PhD
Chief of Research, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
Professor of Molecular and Medical Genetics and Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Toronto
William A. Sahlman
Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for External Relations, Harvard Business School
Al Sandrock
SVP, Neurology R&D
Biogen Idec
David Scadden, MD
Co-Director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Chair, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
Jeanne Shaheen
Director, Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Former governor, New Hampshire
Beth Seidenberg, MD
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Bernard Siegel, JD
Executive Director
Genetics Policy Institute
Doug Sipp
Manager, Office for Science Communications & International Affairs
Center for Developmental Biology (Japan)
Peter Slavin, MD
President and CEO, Massachusetts General Hospital
Shane G. Smith, PhD
Science Director, CNS Foundation
David Tancredi, MD,PhD
Scientific Director, Fondation Leducq
Paris, France
Sean Tipton
President, Coalition for Advancement of Medical Research
Gordon C. Weir, MD
Joslin Diabetes Center
Harvard Stem Cell Institute
James T. Willerson, MD
President, University of Texas Health Science Center
President-elect, Texas Heart Institute
Ian Wilmut, PhD
Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine
University of Edinburgh
Len Zon, MD
Chair, Executive Committee, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Director, Stem Cell Research Program, Children's Hospital Boston Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Conversations with Experts
Robert Hindle, JD
Montreal, Canada
John Hlinko
Founder, StemPAC
Stephen E. Levick, MD
Patient Advocate, author of “Clone Being”
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Marion J. (Joe) Riggs
Founder, Student Society for Stem Cell Research
John A. Robertson, JD
University of Texas Law School
Carol Saunders
Executive Director, Stem Core
Professor Silviu Itescu
Founder Mesoblast Limited and Angioblast Systems Inc.
Dr Donna Skerrett
MD, Vice President, Clinical & Regulatory Affairs, Angioblast Systems Inc.
Susan L. Solomon
Co-founder and CEO, New York Stem Cell Foundation
Gary Stein, PhD
Gerald L. Haidak, MD and Zelda S. Haidak Distinguished Professor and Chair, Cell Biology
Deputy Director, U/Mass Memorial Cancer Center
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Michael J. Werner, JD
President, The Werner Group
Laurie Zoloth, PhD
Director, Bioethics, Center of Genetics Medicine
Northwestern University
