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Confirmed Speakers & Panelists

Sonia Abdelhak, PhD
Head of Research Unit on Orphan Genetic Diseases
Institut Pasteur de Tunis
TUNISIA

Laurent Abel MD, PhD
Director of Research at Inserm/University Paris Descartes; Head of the Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases
Necker Medical School
FRANCE

Jeffrey Almond
Vice President Discovery Research & Extern R&D
Sanofi Pasteur
FRANCE

Ralf Altmeyer, PhD
Director General
Institut Pasteur Shanghai
CEO, Founder
Advance BioChina
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Jean-Claude Ameisen
Doctor and Professor of immunology
President of ethics committee
INSERM
Member of The national consultative ethics committee
FRANCE

Olivier Appert
President
Conseil Français de l'Energie
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
IFP Energies nouvelles
FRANCE

Philipe Archinard
President
LyonBiopole
Chairman and CEO
Transgene
FRANCE

Charles Auffray
Research Director
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
FRANCE

Françoise Barre-Sinoussi, PhD
Nobel Prize in Medicine 2008
Professor Head of Unit of regulation of retroviral infections
Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale
FRANCE

Christian Béchon
CEO
Laboratoire français du Fractionnement et des Biotechnologies (LFB sa)
FRANCE

John Beard
Director
Department of Ageing and Life Course
World Health Organization (WHO)

Alim-Louis Benabid
Scientific Advisor
CEA/Minatec/Leti/Clinatec
FRANCE

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
President
Vivagora
Professor
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
FRANCE

Nora Berra
Secretary of State for Health
Minister of Labour, Employment and Health
FRANCE

Bernard Bigot
Chairman
Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA)
FRANCE

Jean-Yves Blay
President
European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer
Leon Berard Center
Lyon, FRANCE

Jean Bousquet
Professor of Pulmonary Medicine
University Hospital of Montpellier
FRANCE

Chris Bowler
Director of Environmental and Evolutionary Genomics
Institute of Biology, Ecole Normale superieure (ENS)
Paris, FRANCE

Pascale Briand
General Director for Food
French Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries
FRANCE

Herb Brody
Editor
Nature Outlooks
Nature Magazine
UK

Anthony J. Brookes
Professor in Genomics & Bioinformatics
University of Leicester
UK

Rémy Burcelin
Professor, Research director ,
Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm) U858
Toulouse, FRANCE

Anne Cambon-Thomsen, MD
Head of research, “Genomics, biotherapy and public health”
UMR Inserm/University Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3
FRANCE

Philip Campbell
Editor in Chief
Nature
UK

Luis Cantarell
President & CEO
Nestlé Health Science SA
SWITZERLAND

Maria Livanos Cattaui
Member of the Board
Petroplus Holdings AG
SWITZERLAND

Olivier Charmeil
President & CEO
Sanofi Pasteur
FRANCE

Dominique Charron
Professor
Laboratoire “jean dausset” and INSERM umr 940 Hopital saint louis paris
President
HLA et MEDECINE - SYSTEMOSCOPE
FRANCE

Bernard Chaud
Vice President for Biofuel Development
Tereos
FRANCE

Zhu Chen
Minister
Ministry of Health
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

André Choulika
President
France Biotech
CEO
Cellectis
FRANCE

Kathrin Cohen Kadosh
Doctor
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
University College London
UK

Bertrand Coiffier
Head, Department of Hematology
Hospices Civils de Lyon
FRANCE

José Angel Cordova Villalobos
Secretary
Secretariat of Health of Mexico
MEXICO

Ricardo Correa Rotter
Head Department of Nephrology and Mineral Metabolism
National Institute for Medical Science and Nutrition Salvador Zubiran
MEXICO

António Fernando Correia de Campos
Vice-chairman
Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA)
Member
European Parliament

Pascale Cossart
Professor
Head of Bacteria-Cell Interactions Unit Director of Inserm Unit, U604 and of INRA Unit, USC2020
Institut Pasteur
FRANCE

Christophe Dardel
President DSM Biomedical
Royal DSM N.V.
Netherlands

Julian Davies, FRS FRSC
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Department of Microbiology and Immunology Life Sciences Institute,
University of British Columbia
Canada

Stanislas Dehaene
Director
Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit
Inserm-CEA
FRANCE

Jacques Delort
Vice President
Prospective Strategic Initiatives
Sanofi-aventis
FRANCE

Don Deyo
Vice President
Product Development & Technology
Medtronic Neuromodulation
SWITZERLAND

Michel du Peloux
Senior Vice President
Mérieux NutriSciences
Head
BioFortis business unit
FRANCE

Esther Duflo
Professor
Social economics,Development economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
USA

Martin Enserink
European Correspondent
Science
UK

Charlotte Ersbøll
Corporate Vice President, Global Stakeholder Engagement
Novo Nordisk
DENMARK

Alain Fischer
Professor/Head of Inserm research unit 768
University Paris Descartes
FRANCE

Richard Frackowiak
Professor of Neurology
Head of Clinical neurosciences department
CHU Université de Lausanne
SWITZERLAND

Alan Gara
Exascale and BlueGene Exascale Chief Architect
IBM
SWITZERLAND

James A. Geraghty
Senior Vice President
Genzyme Corporation
USA

Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle
Executive Director
European food safety authority

Michel Goldman
Executive Director
Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)
BELGIUM

Jonathan Gressel
Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder
TransAlgae
Professor Emeritus
Weizmann Institute of Science
ISRAEL

Marion Guillou
President
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
FRANCE

Herve Guyomard
Scientific Director
Agriculture Department
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
FRANCE

Claudie Haigneré
Chairwoman
Universcience
FRANCE

William N. Hait, PhD
Global Therapeutic Area Head, Oncology
Janssen Research & Development, Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
USA

Abdelali Haoudi
Vice President Research
Research Division
Qatar Foundation
QATAR

Mike Hardman
Vice President
AstraZeneca R&D Science Policy
UK

Liselotte Højgaard, MD, DMSc
Director, Professor,
Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclearmedicine & PET
Copenhagen University Hospital
DENMARK

Nicolaus Henke
Leader of the EMEA Healthcare Payors and Providers Practice
McKinsey & Company
GERMANY

Chris Hentschel
Founding former CEO and Board member
Medicines for Malaria Venture (Geneva) and of the MRC Collaborative Center (London)
UK

Matthew Hills
Head of Operations
Norwich Research park
UK

Eivind Hoff
Director of Bellona Europa

Leroy Hood
President
Institute for Systems Biology
USA

Maria Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez
Biological oceanographer
National Oceanography Centre
Southampton, UK

Donald Jones
Vice President
Business Development for Health & Life Sciences
Qualcomm Wireless Health
USA

Michel Kazaktchkine
Executive Director
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Alastair Kent
Vice President
International Genetic Alliance
UK

François Kepes
Director
Epigenomics Project / iSSB
Genopole, CNRS

Manfred Kircher
Chairman of the Board
Cluster industrielle Biotechnologie 2021
GERMANY

Thomas Kirkwood
Professor
Institute for ageing and health
Newscastle University, UK

Béatrice Korc
Head
Science and Society department
University of Lyon
FRANCE

Philippe Kourilsky
Principal Investigator, Chairman
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Professor
College de France

Denis Lacombe
Director
European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)
BELGIUM

Petra Laux
Head of Global Public Affairs,
Novartis

Martine Laville, MD
Professor of Nutrition
Lyon1 University
Director
Centre de recherche en nutrition humaine Rhone Alpes
FRANCE

Thomas Lönngren
Strategic Advisor
NDA Regulatory Science Ltd
UK

Jean-Marie Lehn
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Honorary Professor
Collège de France
FRANCE

Manoelle Lepoutre
Senior Vice President
Sustainable Development and Environment
Member of the Total Management Committee
Total
FRANCE

Simon Lewis, Dr
Royal Society Research Fellow and Reader in Global Change Science School of Geography,
University of Leeds
UK

Tom Lillie, MD, PhD
International Development Executive Medical Director
International Therapeutic Area Head for Oncology
Amgen
USA

Bruno Lina
Professor of Virology
University of Lyon
FRANCE

Edison T. Liu
Executive Director Genome Institute of Singapore,
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star)
SINGAPORE

Pierre-Marie Lledo
Head of the laboratory “Perception and Memory”
Institut Pasteur
Research Director
“Genes, Synapses and Cognition” Unit
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
FRANCE

Gaëll Mainguy
Scientific Publication Director, S.A.P.I.E.N.S
Institut Veolia Environnement
FRANCE

Sue Mainka
Head Science and Learning Unit,
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Michael Marmot
Professor and Director
University College London International Institute for Society and Health (UCL IISH)
UK

Olga Georgina Martínez Montañez MD,MPH
Advisor to the Underminister of Health in Prevention and Health
Ministry of Health México
MEXICO

Cathie Martin
Professor/ Theme Leader
Metabolism Institute Strategic Program
John Innes Center
Norwich, UK

Julia Marton-Lefèvre
Director General, IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature

Francois Mauguiere
Director
Fondation Neurodis
FRANCE

John C. Mazziotta, MD PhD
Large Scale, Probabilistic Atlases of the Human Brain, Brain Mapping Center David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
USA

Alain Mérieux
President
Mérieux Institute
FRANCE

Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, MD, PhD MSc
Director
Central Institute of Mental Health
Mannheim, GERMANY

Benoit Miribel
President
Action Contre la Faim
General Director
Fondation Mérieux

Nathalie Moll
General Manager
Europabio

Rebecca Muller
Secretary General
Global Alliance of Mental Illness Advocacy Networks (GAMIAN)
President
Ups & Downs
SWITZERLAND

Bernard Munos
Founder
InnoThink Center for Research in Biomedical Innovation
USA

Luigi Naldini, MD, PhD
Scientific Director
San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy
San Raffaele Foundation
Milano, ITALY

Denis Noble
Professor Emeritus
Cardiovascular Physiology
Oxford University
UK

Helga Nowotny
President
European Research Council (ERC)

Mickael O’Donohue
Research manager and Deputy Head
CEPIA Division
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
FRANCE

Anders Olauson
President
European Patients' Forum (EPF)
BELGIUM

Koji Omi
Founder and Chairman
STS forum
JAPAN

Donald Ort
Professor
Department of Plant Biology
University of Illinois
Urbana, USA

Martina Otto
Head of policy unit
Energy Branch
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Sven Panke
Associate Professor
Bioprocess Engineering, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Zurich, SWITZERLAND

Rajesh Parekh
Director
Head of Healthcare Practice - Asia
McKinsey & Company
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Wim Parys, Md
Head of Development & World Projects
Infectious Diseases & Vaccines
Janssen Research & Development, Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
BELGIUM

Valérie Pécresse
Minister
Ministry of Higher education and research
FRANCE

Bart Peterson
Senior Vice President
Corporate Affairs and Communications
Eli Lilly and Company

Sven Pettersson, MD, PhD
Professor
Karolinska Institutet
SWEDEN

Leo Lit Man Poon
Dr/ Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology
The University of Hong Kong
HONG KONG

Yves Queneau
Research Director
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Deputy-Director
Institut de Chimie et Biochimie Moléculaires et Supramoléculaires (ICBMS)
Lyon, FRANCE

Miroslav Radman
Professor
Université Paris Descartes
Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm)
FRANCE

Bob Rastall
Professor / Head
Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences
The University of Reading
UK

Olivier Raynaud
Senior Director
Global Health and Healthcare sector
World Economic Forum (WEF)
SWITZERLAND

Sylvie Recous, PhD
Research Director
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
Reims, FRANCE

Brian B. Rudkin, PhD
Senior Scientist
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
FRANCE

Paul Ruebig, Dr
Member
European Parliament
Member
The European People's Party Group (EPP)

Maive Rute
Director
Biotechnologies, Agriculture, Food
DG Research & Innovation,
European Commission

Félix Sancho, PhD, MSc
Nutrition, Scientific & Regulatory Affairs Director
Kraft Foods Europe
SWITZERLAND

Carmen Sandi
Professor and Director
Laboratory of Behavioral Genetics Brain Mind Institute
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
SWITZERLAND

Vincent Schachter
Vice President
Research & Development
Total Gas and Power
FRANCE

Jennifer L. Schenker
Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Informilo
FRANCE

Bernhard Schwartländer
Director
Evidence, Strategy and Results Department
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS(UNAIDS)
SWITZERLAND

Paul Seabright
Professor of Economics
Toulouse School of Economics
FRANCE

Robert Sebbag
Vice President
Access to Medicines
Sanofi-aventis
FRANCE

Lisbeth Shepherd
Founder and Executive Director
Green City Force
USA

Feike Sijbesma
CEO & Chairman of the Managing Board
Royal DSM N.V.
NETHERLANDS

Wolf Singer
Director
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
GERMANY

Victor Smetacek
Professor of Bio-Oceanography,
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
GERMNAY

Kerri Smith
Journalist
Nature
UK

Paul Stoffels, MD
Worldwide Chairman Pharmaceuticals
Janssen, Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
USA

Mgr. Jacques Suaudeau
Director
Scientific section
Pontifical Academy for Life
VATICAN

François Taddei
Research Director
U 1001 INSERM Laboratory of Evolutive and Medical Molecular Genetics
Team Evolutionary systems biology
Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm)
FRANCE

John E. Tedstrom, PhD
President and CEO
Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC)
USA

Rob ten Hoedt
President Europe
Medtronic
SWITZERLAND

John A. Thomson, PhD
Vice President
Strategic Research & Development Networks
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
USA

Didier Trono
Dean
Faculty of Life Sciences
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
SWITZERLAND

Alan Trounson
President
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
USA

Tran Thi Trung Chien
Chairwoman
Viet Nam Association HIV/AIDS Prevention (VAHP)
President
The Arm-Round Foundation (ARF)
VIETNAM

Roger Tsien
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008
Professor of Pharmacology and of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California
San Diego, USA

Marc Van Ameringen
Executive Director
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

Alex Van Belkum
Global Director Microbiology Research
bioMérieux
FRANCE

Rob van Leen
Chief Innovation Officer
DSM Innovation Center
NETHERLANDS

Wim Van Lerberghe
Director
Department for Health System Governance and Service Delivery (HDS)
World Health Organisation (WHO)

Christopher A. Viehbacher
Chief Executive Officer
Sanofi-aventis
FRANCE

Liisa Viikari
Professor
Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology
University of Helsinki
FINLAND

Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Dr
Executive Director
MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines (MSFACESS)

Walter Wahli, PhD
Professor of Biology
Center for Integrative Genomics
University of Lausanne
SWITZERLAND

Keith Waldron
Professor
Head
Sustainability of the Food Chain Exploitation Platform
Institute of Food Research
Norwich, UK

Mark Walport
Director
Wellcome Trust
UK

Robert C. Wells
Head
Biotechnology Unit, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry OECD Science and Technology Policy Division

Ada Yonath
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009
Professor
Weizmann Institute
ISREAL

Elias Zerhouni, MD
President Global R&D
Sanofi-aventis
Professor
Collège de France
FRANCE

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