Event Details

The 2nd BioCentury Grand Rounds - U.S. provides an interdisciplinary forum of top academic, investor, biotech and pharma R&D leaders that will showcase groundbreaking research, clinical insights and transformative technologies with significant commercial potential.

This conference, BioCentury’s dedicated R&D meeting, focuses on the most upstream part of the drug development continuum, the academia/industry interface.

Grand Rounds will bring together academic innovators and physician scientists with VCs and pharmas looking for breakthrough discoveries and technologies, and provide a forum to discuss critical issues in translation. A particular goal is to give investors access to innovators they do not normally meet, and likewise enable those entrepreneurs to find avenues to commercialize their discoveries.

Speakers

Marty Burke
Professor of Chemical Innovation
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
Melissa Bonner, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer
Nchroma Bio Inc.
Sean Khozin, M.D.
CEO
CEO Roundtable on cancer
Kate Sasser
Chief Scientific Officer
Tempus AI
Jon Sedgwick
SVP and Global Head Discovery
AbbVie
Maziar Zarrehparvar
Fund Advisor
Kurma Partners
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Steering Committee

BioCentury's Scientific Advisory Board brings together top leaders from pharma, biotech, venture and academia and serves as a Steering Committee for the Grand Rounds R&D conference.

Amy Abernethy, M.D., Ph.D.
Co-founder
Highlander Health
Noubar Afeyan, Ph.D.
Founder & CEO
Flagship Pioneering
Houman Ashrafian, D.Phil.
EVP of R&D
Sanofi
Kate Bingham
Managing Partner
SV Health Investors
Melissa Bonner, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer
Nchroma Bio Inc.
Luciana Borio, M.D.
Venture Partner
Arch Venture Partners
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Regional Host Committee

Kali Arduini
Director, NM Ventures and Innovation
Northwestern Memorial Healthcare
Stephen Boppart, MD, PhD
Director, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
John Conrad
President & CEO
Illinois Biotechnology Innovation Organization (iBIO)
Lisa Dhar, PhD
Associate Vice President for Innovation and New Ventures
Northwestern University
Nathan Hoffmann
Director, Office of Technology Management
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Shyama Majundar, PhD, MBA
Director, Science Accelerators and Investments, Polsky Center for Entrepreneurshihp and Innovation
The University of Chicago
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