Here’s The Agenda for Seattle Biotech Seizes The Momentum, May 6

Xconomy Forum: Seattle Biotech Seizes the Momentum

A quick reminder that on May 6 I’ll be hosting our annual Seattle biotech forum, Seattle Biotech Seizes the Momentum, a half-day of discussion, debate, and interviews with the local community’s top biotech and life science leaders.
We’ve just posted the agenda. Check it out here.

The afternoon features one-on-one talks with Gary Gilliland, the new president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Lee Hood, president of the Institute for Systems Biology.

We’ve got panel discussions on how to build local biotechs for the long haul, and on the crucial role of Seattle’s nonprofit research core, plus cancer immunotherapy updates from Juno Therapeutics, Adaptive Biotechnologies. Last but not least, we’ll feature the battle for the soul of Seattle: a top VC from biotech (Bob Nelsen) and tech (Matt McIlwain) square off about the local tensions between the two industries (and remind us how the two sides also need each other).

We’re gathering the afternoon of May 6 at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Please join us.

Author: Alex Lash

I've spent nearly all my working life as a journalist. I covered the rise and fall of the dot-com era in the second half of the 1990s, then switched to life sciences in the new millennium. I've written about the strategy, financing and scientific breakthroughs of biotech for The Deal, Elsevier's Start-Up, In Vivo and The Pink Sheet, and Xconomy.