
To “celebrate” biomedical research as the substrate to this great life science industry.
900
C-LEVEL PARTICIPANTS
120
COMPANIES
80
INSTITUTIONS/
ACADEMICS
* Based on 2024

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.

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?

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

PANEL 2
Advancing the Pipeline:
Ensuring Academic and Government Discoveries are Translated for Medical Impact

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

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
Advancing Brain Health: Innovations and Insights for a Healthier Future

How to Build a Paradigm-Transforming Blockbuster
Who will be speaking in 2025
Partial list as of June 24, 2025

Albert Bourla
Chairman & CEO, Pfizer
Andrea Ciucci, Reverend, MD. PhD
Secretary General of the RenAIssance Foundation, The Pontifical Academy for Life, Vatican

Robert M. Davis
Chairman and CEO, Merck & Co., Inc
Mikael Dolsten
Former Chief Scientific Officer and President, Worldwide Research, Development and Medical, Pfizer
Michael J. Dowling
President and CEO, Northwell Health

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

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

Julie Gerberding
President & CEO, Foundation for NIHs
Angela Hwang
CEO Metaphore Biotechnologies and CEO-Partner Flagship Pioneering
Julie Kim
President, U.S. Business Unit, and U.S. Country Head, Takeda
Sally Kornbluth
Pesident, MIT
Rob Lin
CEO, Avista Therapeutics
Michelle Longmire
Co-Founder and CEO Medable, Inc.
Joel S. Marcus
Executive Chairman and Founder, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc./Alexandria Venture Investments

Thomas Miller
Co-founder and CEO, Iambic Therapeutics
Steven Paul
Founder and Board Chair at Seaport Therapeutics & Venture Partner at Third Rock Ventures
John C. Reed, MD, PhD
Executive Vice President, Innovative Medicine R&D, Johnson & Johnson

Michael Rosenblatt
Prix Galien Awards Committee Chair
Thomas Schinecker
Chief Executive Officer, Roche Group

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

Devyn Smith
CEO, Arbor Biotechnologies & Ex-Officio Chairman ARM
Marc Tessier-Lavigne
President Emeritus and Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

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

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