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To “celebrate” biomedical research as the substrate to this great life science industry. 

Thursday Oct. 30, 2025

7:30 AM - 4 PM
ALEXANDRIA CENTER FOR LIFE SCIENCES,
NEW YORK CITY

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Thursday Oct. 26, 2023

Science Meets Society:

Balancing Innovation, Equity and Public Health in a Post-Covid World

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To celebrate biomedical research as the substrate to this great life science industry

The Galien Forum, hosted each fall at New York’s Alexandria Center for Life Sciences, provides an entire day of lively discussions featuring Nobel Laureates, prominent policymakers, and top industry leaders who share insights on the most pressing health issues of our era, while showcasing the newest research and clinical approaches to diagnosis, treatment, and cure.

Don’t miss the debates.

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In the program Galien Forum 2023

Thursday Oct. 26, 2023

Preliminary Program

PANEL 1

Promise & Reality:
Decoding AI’s Impact on Drug Development

PANEL 2

Advancing the Pipeline: Ensuring Academic and Government Discoveries are Translated for Medical Impact

PANEL 3

Therapeutic Area Advances and Challenges (mRNA & CRISPR): Getting Gene Therapy Innovation to a Critical Mass of Patients

PANEL 4

Advancing Brain Health: Innovations and Insights for a Healthier Future

PANEL 5

CEO Panel: Courage to Innovate

PANEL 6

How to Build a Paradigm-Transforming Blockbuster?

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PANEL 1
Promise & Reality:
Decoding AI’s Impact on Drug Development
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PANEL 2 
Advancing the Pipeline:
Ensuring Academic and Government Discoveries are Translated for Medical Impact

Mental Health in America
PANEL 3 
Therapeutic Area Advances and Challenges (mRNA & CRISPR): Getting Gene Therapy Innovation to a Critical Mass of Patients
Fireside with J&J’s Alex Gorsky
FIRESIDE CHAT 
Fireside Chat with Alex Gorsky
AI, Digital Health and Clinical Trials

PANEL 4a 
AI's Impact on Personal and Public Health -- Now & in the Future

PANEL OBESITY SCIENCE (1)

PANEL 4b 
Advancing Brain Health: Innovations and Insights for a Healthier Future

Fireside with J&J’s Alex Gorsky
CEO PANEL

How to Build a Paradigm-Transforming Blockbuster

Who will be speaking in 2025

Partial list as of June 24, 2025

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Albert Bourla

Chairman & CEO, Pfizer
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Andrea Ciucci, Reverend, MD. PhD

Secretary General of the RenAIssance Foundation, The Pontifical Academy for Life, Vatican

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Robert M. Davis

Chairman and CEO, Merck & Co., Inc
Mikael Dolsten-3

Mikael Dolsten

Former Chief Scientific Officer and President, Worldwide Research, Development and Medical, Pfizer
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Michael J. Dowling

President and CEO, Northwell Health

Ferrari Mauro

Mauro Ferrari

Professor, University of Washington (biomedical nano-/micro-technology)

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⁠Kenneth C. Frazier

Retired Chairman and CEO, Merck & Co., Inc.; Chairman, Health Assurance Initiatives, General Catalyst

Julie Gerberding

Julie Gerberding

President & CEO, Foundation for NIHs
Angela Hwang

Angela Hwang

CEO Metaphore Biotechnologies and CEO-Partner Flagship Pioneering
Julie Kim

Julie Kim

President, U.S. Business Unit, and U.S. Country Head, Takeda
President Sally Kornbluth

Sally Kornbluth

Pesident, MIT 
Rob Lin

Rob Lin

CEO, Avista Therapeutics
Michelle Longmire-2

Michelle Longmire

Co-Founder and CEO  Medable, Inc.
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Joel S. Marcus

Executive Chairman and Founder, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc./Alexandria Venture Investments

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Thomas Miller

Co-founder and CEO, Iambic Therapeutics
Steven Paul

Steven Paul

Founder and Board Chair at Seaport Therapeutics & Venture Partner at Third Rock Ventures
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John C. Reed, MD, PhD

Executive Vice President, Innovative Medicine R&D, Johnson & Johnson

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Michael Rosenblatt

Prix Galien Awards Committee Chair
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Thomas Schinecker

Chief Executive Officer, Roche Group

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Daniel M. Skovronsky
Chief Scientific Officer; President, Lilly Research Laboratories and Lilly Immunology, Eli Lilly and Company

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Devyn Smith

CEO, Arbor Biotechnologies & Ex-Officio Chairman ARM
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Marc Tessier-Lavigne

President Emeritus and Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

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⁠George Yancopoulos

Board co-chair, co-founder, President, and Chief Scientific Officer, Regeneron

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Lynne Zydowsky

Chief of Science, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc./Alexandria Venture Investments
Marinka Zitnik

Marinka Zitnik

Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School; Associate Faculty, Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Harvard University; Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Faculty Affiliate, Harvard Data Science Initiative
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