Events

Drew Weissman, MD, PhD

2023 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Drew Weissman, MD, PhD2023 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or MedicineRoberts Family Professor in Vaccine ResearchPerelman School of Medicine, University of PennsylvaniaDrew Weissman, MD, PhD, is a world-renowned physician and researcher at Penn Medicin...

Wendy Chung, M.D., Ph.D.

Incoming Chief, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital &
Kennedy Family Professor of Pediatrics in Medicine
Chief, Division of Clinical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics
Columbia University

Wendy Chung, MD, PhD, is the Incoming Chief of the Department of Pediatrics of Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Chung will be responsible for leadership, strategy, oversight, and vision for the Department of Pediatrics, ensuring alignment with the goa...

Peter Lee, Ph.D.

Corporate Vice President for Research & Incubations,
Microsoft

Dr. Peter Lee is Corporate Vice President, Research and Incubations, at Microsoft. He leads Microsoft Research across its nine laboratories around the world. He also oversees several incubation teams for new research-powered lines of business, the la...

Ellis Monk, PhD

Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Visiting Faculty Researcher, Google

Dr. Ellis Monk is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard University; and a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google, where he works on skin tone, artificial intelligence, and machine-learning. His award-winning research focuses on the comparativ...

Noubar Afeyan, PhD

Founder and CEO, Flagship Pioneering
Co-founder and Board Chairman, Moderna

Dr. Noubar Afeyan is founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, a company that creates bioplatform companies to transform human health and sustainability. An entrepreneur and biochemical engineer, Dr. Afeyan holds more than 100 patents and has co-founde...

Professor Ambroise Wonkam

Director, McKusick -Nathans Institute & Department of Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
President, African Society of Human Genetics

Prof Ambroise Wonkam is a professor of Genetic Medicine, and Director of the McKusick-Nathans Institute, and Department of Genetic Medicine. Prof Wonkam is president of the African Society of Human Genetics, Chair of the steering committee of H3Afric...

Professor Christine Seidman

Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Service, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Institute Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Professor Christine Seidman is the Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Harvard Medical School, an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Service at Brigham and Women's Hospit...

Chidiebere Ibe

Medical Student
Lead Medical Illustrator, International Center for Genetic Disease
Chief Medical Illustrator and Creative Director – Journal of Global Neurosurgery

Chidiebere Ibe is a medical illustrator and a medical student at Kyiv Medical University. He was born on 31 March 1996. Having lost his mother to surgery for fibroid, he became passionate about medicine, especially as it relates to mothers and childr...

Professor Mark Daly

Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine Finland(FIMM)
Founding Chief, Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and
Harvard Medical School
Institute Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Professor Mark Daly is the Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine Finland. His lab has developed many foundational computational tools and statistical techniques in genome mapping, linkage and association, and automated interpretation of lab...

Tracy Johnson, Ph.D.

Keith and Cecilia Terasaki Endowed Chair in the Life Sciences
Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
Dean, Division of Life Sciences, UCLA

Dr. Johnson is Dean of Life Sciences, and holder of the Keith and Cecilia Terasaki Presidential Endowed Chair, and a Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology at UCLA. Dr. Johnson is recognized for her scientific leadership, contribu...