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2021 SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS
Elona Baum
Managing Director,
DEFTA Partners
Darrick Carter
Co-Founder and CSO
HDT Bio Corp
Francis Chan
Dean,
Faculty of Medicine,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sophia Chan
Secretary for Food and Health,
Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Victor Chan
CFO
ACT Genomics Holdings Company Ltd
Vikram Chaudhery
Principal
Genoa Ventures
Simon Collinson
Chief Science Officer,
Savonix Inc.
Katherine Grill
CEO & Co-founder
Neolth Behavioral Neuroscientist
Karl Handelsman
Managing Partner,
Codon Capital
George Hara
Chairman of the Board
Alliance Forum Foundation
Group Chairman & CEO
DEFTA PARTNERS
Eric Hargan
Founder and CEO
The Hargan Group
Former Deputy Secretary
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Jim Havelka
CEO,
InformAI
Yoshimasa Hayashi
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Japan
Akira Higuchi
CEO
CogSmart, Co. Ltd.
Hiroaki Ishizuka
Chairman
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)
John (JJ) Jiang
CTO
CP Group
Hiroshi Kawamura
Consul-General of Japan
in San Francisco
Takaaki Kajita
Professor, Director
Institute for Cosmic Ray Research
The University of Tokyo
John Kao
Head of the Institute for Translational Research
Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
Yoshinori Kiuchi
Project Manager
Life Science Innovation Department
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
Giannoula Lakka Klement
Chief Medical Officer
CSTS Health Care
Akihiko Kondo
Dean & Professor,
School of Science,
Technology and Innovation,
Kobe University
Pentao Liu
Director
Centre for Translational Stem Cell Biology
The University of Hong Kong
Paulisally Lo
Senior Scientist
Rohto Advanced Research Hong Kong Ltd.
Tak Wah Mak
Professor
The University of Hong Kong &
University of Toronto
Kevin McCormack
Senior Director
Public Communications & Patient Advocate Outreach,
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Khondaker A. Mamun
Founder & President,
CMED Health;
Founder & Director,
AIMS Lab, United International University, Bangladesh
Yusuke Nakamura
Director
Cancer Precision Medicine Research Center
Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research
Toshio Nakagawa
President,
Japan Medical Association
Toshio Nakami
Writer and Journalist,
The Advocate for the Cancer Eradication Summit
Hidenori Nonaka
Group Manager,
Div. Regenerative Medicine Research & Development
Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Jonathan Norris
Managing Director,
Life Science & Healthcare Practice,
Silicon Valley Bank
Hideo Ohno
President
Tohoku University
Hideyuki Okano
Dean,
Keio University Graduate School of Medicine
Matiur Rahman
Deputy Executive Director
TMSS
Mark J. Ratain
Leon O. Jacobson Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Personalized Therapeutics
The University of Chicago
Beth Rogozinski
CEO,
Oncoustics
Suzanne Saffie-Siebert
Chairwoman & CEO
SiSaf Ltd
James S. Sergi
President,
CSSi LifeSciences
Shahram Seyedin-Noor
Founder & General Partner,
Civilization Ventures
Naureen A. Shaikh
Founder, MMTI
Senior Faculty, UCDenver Family Medicine
Mathias Schmidt
Vice President
Clinical Development, Global Business Strategy and Business Development
JCR Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.
CEO
ArmaGen, Inc.
President and CEO
JCR USA, Inc.
Hideyuki Shimada
Director
Center for Gerontology and Social Science Research Institute,
National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology
Dan Schumitt
President and CEO
Actuate Therapeutics, Inc.
Alfred Sit
Secretary for Innovation and Technology,
Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Tony Smyth
Senior Vice President,
Corporate Development & Communications,
iFREE GROUP (HK) Ltd
Kazunori Tanizawa
Executive Director
Development Division
JCR Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd
Mike Tanji
Director
DEFTA Capital Inc.
Director & Executive Officer
Alliance Forum Foundation
Rocky Tuan
Vice-Chancellor and President,
The Chinese University
of Hong Kong
Edward Yau
Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Bureau The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China
Shiyong Wang
Senior Health Specialist
The World Bank
Albert Wong
CEO,
Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
Alex Zhavoronkov
founder & CEO
Insilico Medicine Hong Kong Limited