24th Annual Cancer Progress Conference March 5 & 6, 2013 Conrad New York
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
7:00 – 8:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:15 – 8:45am Opening Remarks
8:45 – 9:15am Keynote address
9:15 – 10:15am Translational Oncology: How Far Have We Come & Where Do We Need to Go Next?
Moderator:
Panelists:
- Chris H. Takimoto, MD, PhD, Vice President, Translational Medicine Early Development, Oncology Therapeutic Area, Janssen
- Greg Plowman, MD, PhD VP Oncology Research, Eli Lilly
- Pamela Carroll, PhD, Vice President, Oncology, Innovation Center, Janssen
- Dirk Jan Reitsma, MD, Vice President, Global Product Development Head, Oncology, PPD
10:15 – 10:45am Networking Break
10:45 – 11:45pm Changing AML Outcomes via Personalized Medicine: Transforming Cancer Management with Genetic Insight
Co-Moderators:
- Rick Winneker, PhD, Senior Vice President, Research, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
- Mike Rice, Senior Consultant, Defined Health
Panelists:
- Brian J. Druker, MD, Director, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, JELD-WEN Chair of Leukemia Research, Oregon Health & Science University, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Eric Hedrick, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Epizyme, Inc.
- Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD, Assistant Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Nicholas J. Sarlis, MD, PhD, Vice President & Head, Medical Affairs, Incyte Corporation
- Scott Biller, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Agios Pharmaceuticals
11:45 – 12:45pm Next Generation Diagnostic Approaches: From Arrays to Next Gen Sequencing – Will Data Points Lead Us to the Cure?
Moderator:
- Colin Hill, Chief Executive Officer President & Chairman, GNS Healthcare
Panelists:
- Michael J. Pellini, MD, President & Chief Executive Officer, Foundation Medicine, Inc
- Donald Bergstrom, MD, PhD, Associate VP and Global Head, Translational and Experimental Medicine, Sanofi Oncology
- Brad Gray, President and Chief Executive Officer, NanoString
- Frank Diehl, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer and Managing Director, Inostics GmbH
12:45 – 2:00pm Networking Luncheon
2:00 – 3:00pm The Challenges of Chemoprevention: How Can We Develop Drugs to Treat Cancer Risk Instead of Metastases?
Moderator:
Panelists:
- Michael B. Sporn, MD, Professor of Pharmacology, Principal Investigator, Sporn Laboratory at Dartmouth Medical School
- William Nassib William, Jr, M. D. Assistant Professor, Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- V. Craig Jordan, PhD, Scientific Director, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University
3:00 – 3:30pm Networking Break
3:30 – 4:30pm Growing a Cancer-Focused Biotech: Learning from Previous and Current Business Models
Moderator:
- Sol J. Barer, PhD, Managing Partner, SJ Barer Consulting
Panelists:
- Michael Morrissey, PhD, President & Chief Executive Officer, Exelixis, Inc.
- James S.J. Manuso, PhD, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Astex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Patrick J. Mahaffy, President & Chief Executive Officer, Clovis Oncology
- Mark Simon, Advisor, Torreya Partners LLC
4:30- 5:30pm Cancer Metabolism: Where Exactly is the Sweet Spot?
Moderator:
Panelists:
- Tak Mak, PhD, Director, The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research, Ontario Cancer Institute; University Professor, University of Toronto
- Matthew Vander Heiden, MD, Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT
- Charles Hart, PhD, Vice President of Biology, Threshold Pharmaceuticals
5:30-8:30pm Cancer Progress Reception
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
7:00 – 8:00am Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:15am Opening Remarks
- Mike Rice, Senior Consultant, Defined Health
8:15 – 8:45am Keynote Address
8:45 – 9:45am Cancer Stem Cells: Getting Past the Controversies – Academic and Industry Perspectives on Key Targets & Development Paths
Moderator:
Panelists:
- George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, Samuel E. Lux IV Professor of Hematology-Oncology and Director, Stem Cell Transplantation, Program, Children’s Hospital/ Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Professor of Biological Chemistry , Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Jonathan Pachter, PhD, Vice President & Head, Research, Verastem, Inc.
- Kenichi Nomoto, PhD, President of Eisai Oncology Unit
- Eric Rowinsky, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Head of Research & Development, Stemline Therapeutics, Inc.
9:45 – 10:15am Networking Break
10:15 – 11:15am Epigenetics – Are We There Yet? Building on the Foundations of DNMT and HDAC Inhibitors
Moderator:
Panelists:
- James S.J. Manuso, PhD, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Astex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Keith E. Dionne, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Constellation Pharmaceuticals
- Robert J. Gould, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, Epizyme, Inc.
11:15 – 12:15pm Pancreatic Cancer: Making the Intractable Tractable
Moderator:
- Jordan D. Berlin, M.D. Professor of Medicine Ingram Professor of Cancer Research Clinical Director, GI Oncology Program Director, Phase I Program, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Panelists:
- Margaret A. Tempero, MD, Director, UCSF Pancreas Center and Leader, Pancreas Cancer Program, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
- David Tuveson, MD, PhD, Professor and Deputy Director of Cancer Center Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Charles J. Link, Jr. MD, Chairman, Chief Executive & Scientific Officer at NewLink Genetics Corp
12:15 – 1:30pm Networking Luncheon
1:30 – 2:30pm Immunotherapy, Bringing It All Together: The Next Generation of Approaches & Combinations
Moderator:
Panelists:
- Neil Berinstein, MD, Affiliate Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute
- Paul Higham, Chief Executive Officer, Immatics
- Sara Zaknoen, MD, CMO, Polynoma, LLC
- Dennis L. Panicali, Ph.D, Vice President, Technical Operations Bavarian Nordic ImmunoTherapeutics
- Charles J. Link, Jr. MD, Chairman, Chief Executive & Scientific Officer at NewLink Genetics Corp
2:30 – 3:30pm: Designing an Optimal Label for Commercial Success: When and How?
Moderator:
Panelists:
- Chandra Ramanathan, PhD, Head Early Pipeline Oncology Global Marketing SMBU, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals
- Usman Iqbal, MD, Senior Director and Head of Oncology, Sanofi
- Steve Heller, Independent Consultant Situation Analysis, Strategy and Product Development
3:30 – 4:00pm: Networking Break
4:00- 5:00pm Next Generation Biologics for Cancer Therapy: Beyond the Success of Conventional Monoclonal Antibodies
Moderator:
Panelists:
- Christian Zahnd, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, Molecular Partners AG
- John Haurum, MD, Chief Executive Officer , F-Star
- Hans-Peter Gerber, PhD, Executive Director, Pfizer
- John M. Lambert, Ph.D, Executive Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer, ImmunoGen, Inc.
- Bill Grossman MD, PhD, Senior Vice President of Research & Development, Biothera
5:00pm Closing Remarks
5:15pm Conference Concludes