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Agenda

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Agenda

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7:00 – 8:00 AM | Breakfast & Registration
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8:00 – 8:20 AM | Welcome
Saurabh Mehandru, MD
8:20 – 8:50 AM | Saurabh Mehandru, MD

Associate Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

Galit Alter, PhD
8:50 – 9:20 AM | Galit Alter, PhD

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

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9:20 – 11:00 AM | Break & Poster Session
11:00 – 11:30 AM | Bali Pulendran, PhD

Professor, Stanford University

Laura MacKay, PhD
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Laura MacKay, PhD

Professor, University of Melbourne

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12:00 – 1:30 PM | Lunch
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1:30 – 2:00 PM | Carla Rothlin, PhD

Professor, Yale School of Medicine

Feng Shao, PhD
2:00 – 2:30 PM | Feng Shao, PhD

Investigator and Deputy Director for Academic Affairs, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing

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2:30 – 4:00 PM | Break & Poster Session
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4:00 PM | End Of Sessions
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5:00 PM | Reception

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July 18-20, 2025

The Ritz-Carlton Oʻahu, Turtle Bay, Kahuku, Hawaiʻi

Registration is open through June 11 for the 2025 Innovations Symposium.

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