Agenda
| 9:00am – 9:30am | Registration Check-in and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:30am – 9:45am | Welcome Remarks (Video) Andrew W. Lo, MIT |
| 9:45am – 10:15am | Morning Keynote: The Origins and Future of Kendall Square (Video) Phil Sharp, MIT |
| 10:15am – 11:30am | Session I: Gene Control Medicines for Diseases |
| Drugging Transcription (Video) Rick Young, MIT | |
| Fireside Chat (Video) Nancy Simonian, Syros Pharmaceuticals Rick Young, MIT | |
| Taming a Master Regulator (Video) Angela Koehler, MIT | |
| 11:30am – 11:45am | Break |
| 11:45am – 1:00pm | Session II: Immune Engineering/Immunotherapy |
| Engineering the Next Generation of Cell Therapies for Cancer Darrell Irvine, MIT | |
| Fireside Chat Darrell Irvine, MIT Ulrik Nielsen, Torque | |
| Use of Genetically-Engineered Models of Cancer to Investigate Tumor-Immune Interactions (Video) Tyler Jacks, MIT | |
| 1:00pm – 2:15pm | Lunch Break |
| 2:15pm – 3:30pm | Session III: Nanomedicine |
| Nanolayered Delivery Packages – From Wound Healing to Cancer (Video) Paula Hammond, MIT | |
| Fireside Chat (Video) Paula Hammond, MIT Ken Mandell, LayerBio | |
| Using Deep Vision to Detect Tiny Ovarian Tumors (Video) Angela Belcher, MIT | |
| 3:30pm – 4:00pm | Break |
| 4:00pm – 5:15pm | Session IV: Common Health Challenges and Uncommon Solutions |
| Gastrointestinal Drug Delivery Devices for Extended Drug Release (Video) Robert Langer, MIT | |
| Fireside Chat (Video) Robert Langer, MIT Terry McGuire, Polaris Partners | |
| From Bugs to Drugs: Lessons Learned from Fecal Microbiome Transplants in Recurrent Clostridium Difficile Infection (Video) Eric Alm, MIT | |
| 5:15pm – 5:45pm | Science-Based Innovation and Venture Creation – Reinventing the Biotech Value Chain (Video) Noubar Afeyan, Flagship Ventures |
| 5:45pm – 7:00pm | Reception |