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        Legacy & Leap: Hindsight, Foresight, and a Generation's Impact on Health Innovation

        Thursday Oct. 29, 2026

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        NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE
        7:30 AM - 5 PM

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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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        The Galien Forum, hosted this year at the New York Academy of Medicine, 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.

        In tandem with the Forum, the second annual Galien Patient Summit will bring together patient groups, key thought leaders, regulators and industry to evaluate challenges through the patient prism.

        Don’t miss the debates!

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        Thursday Oct. 26, 2023

        Preliminary Program

        PANEL 1

        Breakthroughs & Blind Spots:
        What Will Today’s Consensus Regret Tomorrow?

        PANEL 2

        Medical Triumph vs Pricing Paradox:
        Can We Afford the Medicines We’re Capable of Creating?

        PANEL 3

        20 Years in 20 Minutes:
        A History of Breakthroughs + Lessons for the Next 2 Decades

        PANEL 4

        The Biology We Still Don’t Understand:
        Frontiers That Will Define the Next 20 Years

        PANEL 5

        Life Science Diplomacy & Scientific Sovereignty:
        Strategy for the Next 20 Years

        PANEL 6 I CEO PANEL

        Biopharma Leaders:
        Leading the Leap

        FIRESIDE CHAT

        FDA Commissioner
        (1 Year Later)

        PANEL 7

        The Science Trust Conundrum:
        When Society Doubts Its Own Progress

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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 2026

        Partial list as of March 23, 2026

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        Bruce Booth

        Partner, Atlas Venture

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        Albert Bourla

        Chairman & CEO, Pfizer

        Pr. Awa Marie COLL SECK, MD, PhD

        Awa Coll Seck

        Former Minister of Health, Senegal; Chair of Prix Galien Africa Committee

        Howard Chang

        Howard Chang

        Senior Vice President, Global Research & CSO, Amgen

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        John F. Crowley

        President & CEO, Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO)

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        Robert M. Davis

        Chairman and CEO, Merck & Co., Inc
        Sue Desmond-Hellmann

        Sue Desmond-Hellman

        Former CEO, Gates Foundation; Former Chancellor, UCSF

        Samantha Du

        Samantha Du

        Co-founder & CEO, Zai Lab

        Joaquin Duato

        Joaquin Duato

        Chairman & CEO, Johnson & Johnson

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        Ken Frazier

        Prix Galien USA Committee Chair; Retired Chairman & CEO, Merck & Co., Inc.; Chairman, Health Assurance Initiatives, General Catalyst

        Yvonne Greenstreet

        Yvonne Greenstreet

        Chair & CEO, Alnylam

        Atul A. Gawande

        Atul A. Gawande

        Fish Chair in Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Samuel O. Thier Professor of the Practice, Harvard Medical School; Distinguished Professor in Residence, Ariadne Labs

        Avram Hershko-1

        Avram Hershko

        Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Professor, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa

        Katherine High

        Katherine High

        CEO, RhyGaze

        Larry Jameson

        Larry Jameson

        President, University of Pennsylvania

        Eric Lander

        Eric Lander

        Founding Director Emeritus & Core Institute Member, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

        Olivier Laureau

        Olivier Laureau

        Chairman and CEO, Servier Group & Servier International Foundation for Research

        Nick Leschly

        Nick Leschly

        Founder & CEO,  Atida Bio; Co-Founder & Chair, Altido Therapeutics; Former CEO, bluebird bio

        Jeremy Levin

        Jeremy Levin

        Executive Chairman, Ovid Therapeutics; Former Chair, BIO

        Brett Monia,

        Brett Monia

        CEO, Ionis Pharmaceuticals

        Alex Oshmyansky

        Alex Oshmyansky

        CEO & Co-Founder, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company

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        Jean Frederic Paulsen

        Chairman & CEO, Ferring Pharmaceuticals

        Andrew Plump

        Andrew Plump

        President, Research & Development, Takeda

        Vardit Ravitsky

        Vardit Ravitsky

        President and CEO, The Hastings Center for Bioethics

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        Michael Rosenblatt

        Chair of Prix Galien USA Committee, Member, Harvard Board of Overseers

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        Thomas Schinecker

        Chairman & CEO, Roche

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        Marc Tessier-Lavigne

        CEO, Xaira Therapeutics; President Emeritus, Stanford

         

        Helen Torley

        Helen Torley

        President & CEO, Halozyme Therapeutics

        Renee Wegrzyn

        Renee Wegrzyn

        CEO, Transfyr

        Xiaowei Zhuang

        Xiaowei Zhuang

        Howard Hughes Medical Institute; David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science; Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Biology & Physics, Harvard University

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