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“The only way we will defeat this outbreak is for all countries to work together in a spirit of solidarity and cooperation. We are all in this together, and we can only stop it together.” - Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General, World Health Organization
LET SCIENCE LEAD: A Special Online Forum on COVID-19
5-8pm PST Feb 25
8-11pm EST Feb 25
9am-12pm China time Feb 26
5:00 – 5:04
OPENING
Hui Cai, Forum Chair, Vice President and Head of Content Division, WuXi AppTec
5:04 – 5:05
A Moment of Silence for the Lives Lost to COVID-19
5:05 – 5:50
Towards Faster and More Accurate Diagnosis
Feng Zhang, Professor, MIT McGovern Institute and Broad Institute
Charles Chiu, Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Medicine / Infectious Diseases; Director, UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center
Victor Shi, CEO, Adicon Clinical Laboratories; General Partner, Serica Partners
Moderated by Nick Naclerio, Founding Partner, Illumina Ventures
5:50 – 6:40
Expediting Therapeutic Intervention
George Scangos, CEO, Vir Biotechnology
Tomas Cihlar, Vice President of Virology, Gilead Sciences
David Ho, Director of Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center; Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Chris Chen, CEO of WuXi Biologics; Chairman, WuXi Vaccines
Moderated by Zhi Hong, Co-founder and CEO, Brii Biosciences
6:40 – 7:40
Can We Move Quickly on Vaccines?
Gregory Poland, Professor and Director of Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group; Editor-in-Chief, VACCINE
Johan Van Hoof, Global Therapeutic Area Head IDV, Vaccines, Janssen Pharmaceuticals R&D and Managing Director, Janssen Vaccines & Prevention, B.V.
Joseph Kim, President and CEO, Inovio Pharmaceuticals
Xuefeng Yu, Chairman and CEO, CanSino Biologics
Mark Esser, Vice President of Microbial Sciences, AstraZeneca
Moderated by Steve Yang, EVP and CBO, WuXi AppTec
7:40 – 8:00
How to Improve Readiness for the Next Epidemic?
Arthur Reingold, Division Head of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Moderated by Richard Soll, Senior Advisor of Strategic Initiatives and Head of Boston Office, WuXi AppTec
8:00
CLOSING
The COVID-19 outbreak reminds us that we must continue to do the right thing for global health, both individually and collectively.
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