The theme this year will be “Translational Science in a Pandemic World.”

The event will allow for virtual and in-person attendance. More details will be announced later this summer about the format.

2021 Featured Speakers: 

• J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
• Susan Weiss, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
• Linfa Wang, PhD BSc, Duke-NUS Medical School
• Jean Laurent Casanova, MD, PhD, The Rockefeller University
• Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• John Wherry, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
• Megan O’Driscoll, MSc, University of Cambridge
• James Heath, PhD, Institute for Systems Biology
• Nuala Meyer, MD, MTR, University of Pennsylvania
• Tiannan Guo, MD, PhD, Westlake University
• Fabian Theis, MCs, PhD, The Techincal University of Munich
• Paolo Vineis, MD, MPH, Imperial College
• Holden Thorp, PhD, Science Family of Journals
• Tony Barber, Former Editor, Financial Times (Dinner Speaker)
• Michel C. Nussenzweig, MD, PhD, The Rockefeller University
• George Yancopoulos, MD, PhD, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• Luca Varani, PhD, Universita’ della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona
• Nevan Krogan, PhD, University of California San Francisco
• Josef Penninger, MD, University of British Columbia Vancouver
• Kaiyuan Sun, PhD, National Institutes of Health
• Ester Cerdeira Sabino, MD, PhD, The University of São Paulo
• Sharon Lewin, MB BS, FRACP, PhD, The University of Melbourne
• Sir Patrick Vallance, FRS, FMedSci, FRCP, United Kingdom Government Chief Scientific Advisor
• Katalin Karikó, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
• Andrew Pollard, FRCPCH, PhD, FMedSci, University of Oxford
• Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
• Garret A. FitzGerald, MD, FRS, University of Pennsylvania