Transforming Research and Higher Education Institutions in the Next 75 Years: Proceedings of the 2022 Endless Frontier Symposium (2023)
Chapter: Appendix A: Symposium Agenda
Appendix A
Symposium Agenda
Thursday, September 22, 2022
All times listed are in Eastern Time
| 12:00 – 12:15 PM | Opening Remarks |
Alan Leshner (event emcee), Chair, Endless Frontier Symposium 2022 Planning Committee; Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Chair, Committee on Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Public Policy, the National Academies | |
Cynthia Friend, President, The Kavli Foundation | |
Marcia McNutt, President, National Academy of Sciences | |
| 12:15 – 1:25 PM | Reevaluating the Structure of Institutions and the Scientific Enterprise |
Richard Meserve (moderator), Member, Endless Frontier Symposium 2022 Planning Committee; President Emeritus, Carnegie Institution for Science; Senior of Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP | |
Frances Arnold, Co-Chair, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry, California Institute of Technology | |
Harvey Fineberg, President, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | |
Ottoline Leyser, Chief Executive Officer, United Kingdom Research and Innovation | |
Elias Zerhouni, Professor Emeritus, Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University; former Director, National Institutes of Health; President, OPKO Health | |
| 1:25 – 1:30 PM | Pre-recorded Remarks from U.S. Senator Todd Young, R - Indiana |
| 1:30 – 2:30 PM | The “Valleys of Death”: Addressing the Translational Gaps Between Discovery and Innovation |
Shirley M. Tilghman (moderator), Member, Endless Frontier Symposium 2022 Planning Committee; Professor, Molecular Biology, Princeton University; President Emerita, Princeton University | |
Mark Fishman, Professor, Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology; President Emeritus, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research; Founder, AditumBio; Board of Directors, Beam Therapeutics and Skyline Therapeutics | |
Demis Hassabis, Co-founder and CEO, DeepMind | |
Geraldine Richmond, Under Secretary for Science and Innovation, Department of Energy | |
| 2:30 – 2:50 PM | Break |
| 2:50 – 3:50 PM | Producing the Right Technical and Professional Science Workforce: Ensuring Inclusivity, Increasing Diversity, and Improving Training |
Kim Hunter Reed (moderator), Member, Endless Frontier Symposium 2022 Planning Committee; Commissioner of Higher Education for the Board of Regents, State of Louisiana | |
Angela Belcher, James Mason Crafts Professor, Biological Engineering, Materials Science; Head, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
Kafui Dzirasa, K. Ranga Rama Krishnan Endowed Associate Professor, Duke University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute | |
Keith Yamamoto, Vice Chancellor for Science Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Francisco; Director, University of California, San Francisco Precision Medicine; Professor, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco | |
| 3:50 – 3:55 PM | Pre-recorded Remarks from U.S. Representative Frank Lucas, R - Oklahoma, Ranking Member, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology |
| 3:55 – 4:55 PM | Is the Science and Technology Enterprise Optimized to Benefit Society? |
Bryan Walsh (moderator), Editor, Future Project, Vox | |
Peter Gluckman, President, International Science Council; Distinguished Professor, University of Auckland; Director, Koi Tū: the Centre for Informed Futures | |
Darshan Karwat, Assistant Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, College of Global Futures, Arizona State University | |
Alondra Nelson, Deputy Assistant to the President and Performing the Duties of the Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) | |
| 4:55 – 5:00 PM | Pre-recorded Remarks from U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, D - Texas, Chairwoman, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology |
| 5:00 – 5:05 PM | Closing Remarks |
Adam Falk, President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | |
Alan Leshner, Chair, Endless Frontier Symposium 2022 Planning Committee; Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Chair, Committee on Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Public Policy, the National Academies | |
| 5:05 – 6:05 PM | Reception |
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