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Past Forum 2024

Summary

The 10th Annual World Medical Innovation Forum brought together leaders in healthcare innovation and investment. Attendees engaged directly with top CEOs, investors, Harvard clinical experts, and policymakers against a backdrop of the latest biotech breakthroughs.

Hosted by Mass General Brigham at the state-of-the-art Encore Boston Harbor, the Forum provided an exclusive environment to connect with key decision-makers.

Sponsored by Bank of America, a global leader in healthcare investment and community engagement.

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Speakers

Tazeen Ahmad

SMid-Cap Biotech Analyst, BofA Global Research

Faraz Ali

CEO, Tenaya Therapeutics

Jessica Allegretti, MD

Director, Crohn’s and Colitis Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Peter Anastasiou

CEO, Capsida Biotherapeutics

Rox Anderson, MD

Lancer Endowed Chair of Dermatology; – Director, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School

Katherine Andriole, PhD

Director of Academic Research and Education, Mass General Brigham Data Science Office; – Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Caroline Apovian, MD

Co-Director, Center for Weight Management and Wellness, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Vanita Aroda, MD

Director, Diabetes Clinical Research, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Natalie Artzi, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Anna Åsberg

Vice President, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals

Rahul Ballal, PhD

CEO, Mediar Therapeutics

Stéphane Bancel

CEO, Moderna

Stephen Bartels, MD

Director, The Mongan Institute, – James J. and Jean H. Mongan Professor of Health Policy and Community Health, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Craig Basson MD, PhD

Chief Medical Officer, Bitterroot Bio

John Bishai, PhD

Global Healthcare Investment Banking, BofA Securities

Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, DMSc

Chief Scientific Advisor, Novo Nordisk

Jeff Bluestone, PhD

CEO & President, Sonoma Biotherapeutics

David Blumenthal, MD

Professor of Practice of Public Health and Health Policy, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; – Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; – Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School

Giles Boland, MD

President, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization; – Philip H. Cook Distinguished Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Albert Bourla, PhD

Chairman & CEO, Pfizer

Andrew Bressler

Washington Healthcare Policy Analyst, BofA Global Research

James Brink, MD

Enterprise Chief, Radiology, Mass General Brigham; – Juan M. Taveras Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

O’Neil Britton, MD

Chief Integration Officer & Executive Vice President, Mass General Brigham

Tyler Bryson

Corporate Vice President, US Health & Public Sector Industries, Microsoft Corporation

Jonathan Carlson, MD, PhD

Director of Chemistry, Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Marc Casper

Chairman, President & CEO, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Miceal Chamberlain

President of Massachusetts, Bank of America

Moitreyee Chatterjee-Kishore, PhD

Head of Development, Immuno-Oncology and Cancer Cell Therapy, Astellas Pharma Inc.

Dong Feng Chen, MD, PhD

Associate Scientist, Massachusetts Eye and Ear; – Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Jasmeer Chhatwal, MD, PhD

Associate Neurologist, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

E. Antonio Chiocca, MD, PhD

Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Harvey W. Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School

Bryan Choi, MD, PhD

Associate Director, Center for Brain Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School

Deepak Chopra, MD

Founder, The Chopra Foundation

Chris Coburn

Chief Innovation Officer, Mass General Brigham

Joshua Cohen

Co-CEO, Amylyx Pharmaceuticals

Yolonda Colson, MD, PhD

Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Hermes C. Grillo Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Glen Coppersmith, PhD

Deputy Director, Proactive Health, ARPA-H

Delos “Toby” Cosgrove, MD

Executive Advisor; former CEO & President, Cleveland Clinic

Chad Cowan, PhD

Executive Advisor, Century Therapeutics

Cristina Cusin, MD

Director, MGH Ketamine Clinic and Psychiatrist, Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Associate Professor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Jatin Dave, MD

Chief Medical Officer, MassHealth; – Director of Clinical Affairs, UMass Chan Medical School

Nicole Davis, PhD

Biomedical Communications

Marcela del Carmen, MD

President, Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO); – Executive Vice President, Mass General Brigham; – Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School

Punit Dhillon

CEO, Skye Bioscience

Gerard Doherty, MD

Surgeon-in-Chief, Mass General Brigham Cancer; – Surgeon-in-Chief, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Moseley Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Patrick Ellinor, MD, PhD

Acting Chief of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Liz Everett Krisberg

Head of Bank of America Institute

Maurizio Fava, MD

Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Steve Favaloro

Chairman & CEO, Genezen

John Fish

Chairman & CEO, Suffolk

Keith Flaherty, MD

Director of Clinical Research, Mass General Cancer Center; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Jose Florez, MD, PhD

Physician-in-Chief and Co-Chair, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Alexandria Forbes, PhD

CEO, MeiraGTx

Jean-François Formela, MD

Partner, Atlas Venture

Fritz François, MD

Executive Vice President and Vice Dean, Chief of Hospital Operations, NYU Langone Health

Justin Gainor, MD

Director, Center for Thoracic Cancers Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Joanna Gajuk

Health Care Facilities and Managed Care Analyst, BofA Global Research

Niyum Gandhi

CFO & Treasurer, Mass General Brigham

Chris Garabedian

Chairman & CEO, Xontogeny; – Venture Portfolio Manager, Perceptive Advisors

Jason Gerberry

Specialty Pharma and SMid-Cap Biotech Analyst, BofA Global Research

Gad Getz, PhD

Director of Bioinformatics, Krantz Center for Cancer Research and Department of Pathology; – Paul C. Zamecnik Chair in Cancer Research, Mass General Cancer Center; – Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Alexandra Golby, MD

Neurosurgeon; – Director of Image-guided Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Professor of Neurosurgery, Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Allan Goldstein, MD

Chief of Pediatric Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Surgeon-in-Chief, Mass General for Children; – Marshall K. Bartlett Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Teresa Gomez-Isla, MD, PhD

Director, Memory Division, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Scott Gottlieb, MD

Physician; – Former Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration (2017-2019)

Arjun Goyal, MD

Co-Founder & Managing Director, Vida Ventures

David Grayzel, MD

Partner, Atlas Venture

Jessica Green, PhD

Program Manager, ARPA-H

Steven Greenberg, MD

Neurologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Steven Grinspoon, MD

Chief, Metabolism Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Daphne Haas-Kogan, MD

Chief, Enterprise Radiation Oncology, Mass General Brigham; – Professor, Harvard Medical School

Daniel Haber, MD, PhD

Director, Mass General Cancer Center; – Kurt J. Isselbacher Professor of Oncology, Harvard Medical School

Roger Hajjar, MD

Director, Gene & Cell Therapy Institute, Mass General Brigham

Penelope Hallett, PhD

NRL, McLean; – Assistant Professor Psychiatry, HMS

John Hanna, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Yvonne Hao

Secretary of Economic Development, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Lucas Harrington, PhD

Co-Founder & CSO, Mammoth Biosciences

Marc Harrison, MD

Co-Founder & CEO, Health Assurance Transformation Corp. (HATCo)

Nobuhiko Hata PhD

Director, Surgical Navigation and Robotics Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Maura Healey

Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Amos Hedt

Chief Business Strategy Officer, Perspective Therapeutics

Elizabeth Henske, MD

Director, Center for LAM Research and Clinical Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Leigh Hochberg MD, PhD

Director of Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Senior Lecturer on Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Rod Hochman, MD

President & CEO, Providence

Daphne Holt, MD, PhD

Director of the Resilience and Prevention Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Susan Huang, MD

EVP, Chief Executive, Providence Clinical Network, Providence

David Hyman, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Eli Lilly and Company

Keith Isaacson, MD

Director of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery and Infertility, Newton Wellesley Hospital; – Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School

Ole Isacson, MD-PhD

Founding Director, Neuroregeneration Research Institute, McLean Hospital; – Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School

Haim Israel

Head of Global Thematic Investing Research, BofA Global Research

Lana Janes, PhD

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Abdera Therapeutics

Russell Jenkins, MD, PhD

Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Mass General Cancer Center, Center for Melanoma; – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Hadine Joffe, MD

Executive Director of the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology; – Interim Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Paula A. Johnson Professor of Psychiatry in the Field of Women’s Health, Harvard Medical School

Benjamin Kann, MD

Assistant Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Philip Kantoff, MD

Co-Founder & CEO, Convergent Therapeutics

Daniel Karlin, MD

Chief Medical Officer, MindMed

Tatsuo Kawai, MD, PhD

Director of the Legorreta Center for Clinical Transplantation Tolerance, – A.Benedict Cosimi Chair in Transplant Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Reshma Kewalramani, MD

CEO & President, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Albert Kim, MD

Assistant Physician, Mass General Cancer Center; – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Roger Kitterman

Senior Vice President, Ventures and Business Development & Licensing, Mass General Brigham – Managing Partner, Mass General Brigham Ventures

Justin Klee

Co-CEO, Amylyx Pharmaceuticals

Anne Klibanski, MD

President & CEO, Mass General Brigham; – Laurie Carrol Guthart Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Vesela Kovacheva, MD, PhD

Director of Translational and Clinical Research, Mass General Brigham; – Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School

Jonathan Kraft

President, The Kraft Group; – Board Chair, Massachusetts General Hospital

John Krystal, MD

Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine

Samarth Kulkarni, PhD

CEO, CRISPR Therapeutics

Daniel Kuritzkes, MD

Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Harriet Ryan Albee Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Liz Kwo, MD

Chief Commercial Officer, Everly Health

Adam Landman, MD

Chief Information Officer & SVP, Digital, Mass General Brigham; – Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Chemu Lang’at

Chief Operating Officer, Best Buy Health

Paul LaViolette

Managing Partner & COO, SV Health Investors

Cynthia Lemere, PhD

Scientist, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

John Lepore, MD

CEO, ProFound Therapeutics; – CEO-Partner, Flagship Pioneering

Bruce Levy, MD

Physician-In-Chief and Co-Chair, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Katherine Liao, MD

Associate Physician, Department of Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Associate Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

Christopher Longhurst, MD

Chief Medical & Digital Officer, UC San Diego Health

David Louis, MD

Enterprise Chief, Pathology, Mass General Brigham; – Benjamin Castleman Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Tim Luker, PhD

VP, Ventures & West Coast Head, Eli Lilly

Andrew Luster, MD, PhD

Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology; – Director, Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Persis, Cyrus and Marlow B. Harrison Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Allen Lutz

Health Care Services Analyst, BofA Global Research

Calum MacRae MD, PhD

Vice Chair for Scientific Innovation, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Joren Madsen, MD, PhD

Director, MGH Transplant Center; – Paul S. Russell/Warner-Lambert Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Faisal Mahmood, PhD

Associate Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Umar Mahmood, MD, PhD

Chief, Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Kevin Mahoney

CEO, University of Pennsylvania Health System

Peter Marks, MD, PhD

Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA

Niall Martin, PhD

CEO, Artios Pharma

Marcela Maus, MD, PhD

Director of Cellular Therapy and Paula O’Keeffe Chair in Cancer Research, Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research and Mass General Cancer Center; – Associate Director, Gene and Cell Therapy Institute, Mass General Brigham; – Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

James Mawson

CEO, Global Corporate Venturing

Mark McKenna

Chairman & CEO, Mirador Therapeutics

Thorsten Mempel, MD, PhD

Associate Director, Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Rebecca Mishuris, MD

Chief Medical Information Officer, Mass General Brigham; – Member of the Faculty, Harvard Medical School

Susan Monarez, PhD

Deputy Director, ARPA-H

Jane Moran

Chief Information and Digital Officer, Mass General Brigham

William Morris, MD

Chief Medical Information Officer, Google Cloud

Patricia Musolino, MD, PhD

Co-Director, Pediatric Stroke and Cerebrovascular Service, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Niranjana Nagarajan, PhD

Entrepreneur in Residence, Mass General Brigham Ventures

Pradeep Natarajan, MD

Director of Preventive Cardiology, Paul & Phyllis Fireman Endowed Chair in Vascular Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Aaron Nelson, MD, PhD

Managing Director, Novartis Venture Fund

Nawal Nour, MD

Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Associate Professor, Kate Macy Ladd Professorship, Harvard Medical School

Heather O’Sullivan, MS, APRN

President, Mass General Brigham Healthcare at Home

Anne Oxrider

Senior Vice President, Benefits Executive, Bank of America

Rohan Palekar

CEO, 89bio

Laura Peabody

Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel, Mass General Brigham

Claire-Cecile Pierre, MD

Vice President, Community Health Programs, Mass General Brigham; – Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Richard Pierson III, MD

Scientific Director, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Mark Poznansky, MD, PhD

Director, Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Steve and Deborah Gorlin MGH Research Scholar; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Raju Prasad, PhD

Chief Financial Officer, CRISPR Therapeutics

Xiayang Qiu, PhD

CEO, Regor Therapeutics

Harith Rajagopalan, MD, PhD

CEO & Co-Founder, Fractyl Health

Shiv Rao, MD

CEO & Founder, Abridge

Heidi Rehm, PhD

Chief Genomics Officer, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer, McLean Hospital; – Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Leonardo Riella, MD, PhD

Medical Director of Kidney Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Harold and Ellen Danser Endowed Chair in Transplantation, Harvard Medical School

Matthew Roden, PhD

President & CEO, Aktis Oncology

Jorge Rodriguez, MD

Clinician-investigator, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Adam Ron

Health Care Facilities and Managed Care Analyst, BofA Global Research

Jason Roos, PhD

Director, Scalable Solutions, ARPA-H

David Ryan, MD

Physician-in-Chief, Mass General Brigham Cancer; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Michael Ryskin

Life Science Tools & Diagnostics Analyst, BofA Global Research

Sandi See Tai, MD

Chief Development Officer, Lexeo Therapeutics

Angela Shen, MD

Vice President, Strategic Innovation Leaders, Mass General Brigham Innovation

Gregory Simon

President, Simonovation

Samantha Singer

President & CEO, Abata Therapeutics

Prabhjot Singh, MD, PhD

Senior Advisor, Strategic Initiatives Peterson Health Technology Institute

Brendan Singleton

Healthcare Equity Capital Markets, BofA Securities

Joanne Smith-Farrell, PhD

CEO & Director, Be Biopharma

Caroline Sokol, MD, PhD

Assistant Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Daniel Solomon, MD

Matthew H. Liang Distinguished Chair in Arthritis and Population Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Scott Solomon, MD

Director, Clinical Trials Outcomes Center; – Edward D. Frohlich Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Pathophysiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Emma Somers-Roy

Chief Investment Officer, Mass General Brigham

Fatima Cody Stanford, MD

Obesity Medicine Physician Scientist, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Kimberley Steele, MD, PhD

Program Manager, ARPA-H

Shannon Stott, PhD

Associate Investigator, Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research; – d’Arbeloff Research Scholar, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Associate Investigator, Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research Harvard Medical School

Alec Stranahan, PhD

SMid-Cap Biotech Analyst, BofA Global Research

Marc Succi, MD

Executive Director, Mass General Brigham MESH Incubator; – Associate Chair of Innovation & Commercialization, Mass General Brigham Radiology; – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Tadaaki Taniguchi, MD, PhD

Chief Medical Officer, Astellas Pharma

Elsie Taveras, MD

Chief Community Health & Health Equity Officer, Mass General Brigham; – Executive Director, Kraft Center for Community Health; – Conrad Taff Endowed Chair and Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Guillermo Tearney, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Remondi Family Endowed MGH Research Institute Chair; – Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

David Ting, MD

Associate Clinical Director for Innovation, Mass General Cancer Center; – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Raul Uppot, MD

Interventional Radiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Chris Varma, PhD

Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Frontier Medicines

Kaveeta Vasisht, MD, PharmD

Associate Commissioner, Women’s Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Alexandra-Chloé Villani PhD

Investigator, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Matt Vincent, PhD

Chief Business Officer, AdvanCell Isotopes

Jo Viney, PhD

Co-Founder, President & CEO, Seismic Therapeutic

Christina Vorvis, PhD

Director, East Coast Ventures, AbbVie

Ron Walls, MD

Chief Operating Officer, Mass General Brigham; – Neskey Family Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Kate Walsh

Secretary of Health and Human Services, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

David Walt, PhD

Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; – Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School

Jennifer Warner-Schmidt, PhD

Vice President, Scientific Affairs, Transcend Therapeutics

Christophe Weber

President & CEO, Takeda

Renee Wegrzyn, PhD

Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health

Christoph Westphal, MD, PhD

General Partner, Longwood Fund

Deborah Wexler, MD

Chief, Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital; – Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

H. Jeffrey Wilkins, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Abcuro

Fraser Wright, PhD

Chief Gene Therapy Officer, Kriya Therapeutics

Charlie Yang, PhD

Large/SMid-Cap Biotech and Major Pharma Analyst, BofA Global Research

Nathan Yozwiak, PhD

Head of Research, Gene and Cell Therapy Institute, Mass General Brigham

Jason Zemansky, PhD

SMid-Cap Biotech Analyst, BofA Global Research

Alice Zheng, MD

Principal, RH Capital

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