9-10:30 AM

Greetings and opening statements about the charge to the committee by:

Joseph Pagano, M.D., Committee Chair (9:00)

• Patricia Modrow, Ph.D., CDMRP Ovarian Cancer Research Program (9:15)

• Leo Giambarresi, Ph.D., CDMRP Prostate Cancer Research Program Manager

• Richard Kenyon, Ph.D., CDMRP Breast Cancer Research Program Manager

10:30 AM12:15 PM

PANEL 1: STAKEHOLDERS (Robert Cook-Deegan, Moderator)

• Fran Visco, President, National Breast Cancer Coalition

• Rick Atkins, M.D., President and CEO, National Prostate Cancer Coalition

• Ann Kolker, Executive Director, Ovarian Cancer National Alliance

• Michael Coburn, President and CEO, Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance

• Brenda Duffy, President, Neurofibromatosis, Inc.

1:15-3:00

PANEL 2: EXAMPLES OF PUBLIC PRIVATE RESEARCH FUNDING (Eric Campbell, Moderator)

• Amy McGuire, Executive Director, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health

• Robert Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

• Gayle E. Lester, Ph.D., Program Director, Osteoarthritis Initiative Public-Private Initiative, NIAMS

• Carole A. Heilman, Ph.D., Director, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, NIAID

• Robert O’Keefe, Vice President, Health Effects Institute

3:00-3:15

Break

3:15-5:00

PANEL 3: PERSPECTIVES OF NONFEDERAL RESEARCH FUNDERS (Samuel Broder, Moderator)

• Alan Kinniburgh, Ph.D., Vice President, Medical & Scientific, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

• Robert C. Wells, J.D., Vice President for Government Relations and Public Policy, Affymetrix, Inc.

• Ray Takigiku, Ph.D., Director of Core Technologies, Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals

• Donald C. Harrison, M.D., Senior Vice President and Provost for Health Affairs Emeritus, University of Cincinnati

5:00-5:30

Open microphone for public statements

8:30 AM

Maria Freire, Ph.D., CEO, Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, on lessons learned from the TB Alliance experience about public-private partnerships in biomedical research (Dr. Freire was previously head of NIH’s Office of Technology Transfer) (introduced by MaryAnn Guerra)

9:15-10:00

Queta Bond, Ph.D., President, Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, on the roles of philanthropy and the federal government in biomedical research (introduced by Joseph Pagano)

10:00-10:15

Break

10:15 AM12:00 PM

PANEL 4: PERSPECTIVES OF ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS AND RESEARCH ADMINISTRATORS (Thomas Caskey, Moderator)

• Mina J. Bissell, Ph.D., Distinguished Scientist/Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Chung Lee, Ph.D., Professor of Urology, Cell and Molecular Biology and Director, Prostate Cancer Program, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University

• Susan Ehringhaus, J.D., Associate General Counsel, Regulatory Affairs, Division of Biomedical & Health Sciences Research, Association of American Medical Colleges (former Vice Chancellor and General Counsel, UNC at Chapel Hill)

• Hank Gardner, Dr.P.H., Associate Vice President for Research and Professor, Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University

1:00-2:45

PANEL 5: STATE PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLIC-PRIVATE RESEARCH COLLABORATION (Frank Samuel, Jr., Moderator)

• Dan Berglund, President and CEO, State Science and Technology Institute

• Frank E. Samuel, Jr., Science Advisor to the Governor of Ohio

• Marion H. E. Kavanaugh-Lynch, M.D., M.P.H., Director, California Breast Cancer Research Program

• Phillip A. Singerman, Ph.D., Executive Director, Maryland Technology Development Corporation

• Leslie M. Alexandre, Dr.P.H., President and Chief Executive Officer, North Carolina Biotechnology Center

2:45-3:15

Robert D. Wells, Ph.D., President, Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology, and Director, Center for Genome Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, on the role of public-private partnerships in biomedical research (introduced by Musa Mayer)

3:15-3:30

Break

3:30-4:15

J. Leighton Read, M.D., General Partner, Alloy Ventures, Palo Alto, CA, on the roles of public funding and venture capital in biomedical research and biotechnology (introduced by Thomas Caskey)

4:15-4:45

Andrew A. Toole, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Economics, Cook College, Rutgers University, on the economics of collaborative public-private research funding (introduced by Maryann Feldman)

4:45-5:00

Wrap-up

5:00

Adjourn