
Science Meets Society
Balancing Innovation, Equity and Public Health
in a Post-Covid World
900
C-LEVEL PARTICIPANTS
120
COMPANIES
80
INSTITUTIONS/
ACADEMICS
* Based on 2022

The Galien Forum, held every autumn at New York’s Alexandria Center for Life Sciences, offers a full day of spirited discussions with Nobel Laureates, top policy makers, and leading industry executives who offer perspectives on the most significant health challenges of our time while highlighting the latest research and clinical pathways toward diagnosis, treatment, and cure.
Don’t miss the debates.

In the program Galien Forum 2023
Thursday Oct. 26, 2023

Conceiving, Creating and Building BioPharma Companies

PANEL 2
Climate Change and Public Health

Mental Health in America

Fireside Chat with Alex Gorsky

PANEL 4a
AI's Impact on Personal and Public Health -- Now & in the Future
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PANEL 4b
Obesity Science &
Treatment Breakthroughs

CEO panel: Albert Bourla (Pfizer),
Michael J. Dowling (Northwell Health),
David Epstein (Seagen)
and David Ricks (Eli Lilly)
Who will be speaking in 2023
Partial list as of July 05, 2023

Regina Barzilay
Distinguished Professor, MIT

Sangeeta N. Bhatia
Professor, MIT

Albert Bourla
Chairman & CEO, Pfizer
James J. Collins
Professor, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Sue Desmond-Hellmann
Former CEO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Mikael Dolsten
Chief Scientific Officer and President, Worldwide Research, Development and Medical, Pfizer

Michael J. Dowling
President and CEO, Northwell Health

Ruxandra Draghia Akli
Global Head, Global Public Health R&D, The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson

David R. Epstein
CEO, Seagen

Jessica Fanzo
Professor of Climate; Director, Food for Humanity Initiative, The Columbia Climate School

Alex Gorsky
Former Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson

Sir Andy Haines
Professor, Environmental Change & Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Lee Kaplan
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Former Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy
Founder, The Kennedy Forum

Adam Koppel
Partner, Bain Capital Life Sciences
Petra Jantzer
Senior Managing Director, Global Life Sciences Lead, Accenture

Martin Holst Lange
Executive Vice President, Development, Novo Nordisk A/S

Eric Horvitz
Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft

Ariel Katz,
CEO & Co-founder, H1
John Maraganore
Former Founding CEO, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Joel S. Marcus
Executive Chairman and Founder, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc./Alexandria Venture Investments

Joe Nadglowski
President & CEO, Obesity Action Coalition

Mike Nally
CEO, Generate Biomedicines; CEO-Partner, Flagship Pioneering

Bernard Poussot
Director, Roche Holding, Former Chairman & CEO, Wyeth

Steve Quake
Head of Science, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

David Ricks
Chair & CEO, Eli Lilly and Company

Michael Rosenblatt
Prix Galien Awards Committee Chair
Daniel M. Skovronsky
EVP, Chief Scientific & Medical Officer, and President, Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company

Jeffrey Shaman
Professor and Director of the Climate and Health Program, Columbia University

Soren Tullin
Senior Vice President & Global Head of CardioMetabolic Disease Research, Boehringer Ingelheim

Lieven Van der Veken
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Daphne Zohar
Founder & CEO, Member of the Board of Directors, PureTech Health

Lynne Zydowsky
Chief of Science, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc./Alexandria Venture Investments
TOP SCIENTISTS & KOL
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