MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference

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The MIT Sloan 2009 BioInnovations Conference: Revolutions in Healthcare is happening on Saturday, March 7, 8:30am-4:30pm at the Tang Center, Wong Auditorium, Building E51, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge. Here's the
Sloan campus map.

The VIP reception to be held at the British Consulate, 1 Memorial Drive in Cambridge on Friday, March 6 at 6pm.

Join more than 200 healthcare pioneers from a broad range of industries from bio-pharma and medical devices to healthcare providers and non-profits at this year's conference.

Keynote Speakers are the following:
Naseem Amin, M.D. PhD; SVP, Business Development, Biogen Idec
Andrin Oswald, M.D.; CEO, Novartis Vaccines

Panels will include:

Entrepreneurship: Making Your Company a Success
Lesa Mitchell (Kauffman Foundation), Stanley Lapidus (Helicos BioSciences Corp.), Tstvetelina Lazarova (MedChemPartners), Ben Zeskind (Immuneering Corporation)

Choice and Change: Innovations in Consumer Centric Healthcare
Jeff Carter (Patients without Borders), Nathanial B. Findlay (MyCa), Chaim Indig (Phreesia), Karen Mastrianni (BCBS MA)

Other slated topics are:

• The Changing Face of Policy, Payment, and Science in Drug Development


• Business Development: Filling the Tank and Bridging the Patent Cliff


• Vaccines: The Cure of Tomorrow

For more information and a complete schedule, click here.