PRiME 3rd Annual Symposium

PRiME will be holding its 3rd Annual Symposium virtually on October 25th, 2021. This year's agenda includes exceptional keynote speakers from industry and academia and will also feature the diverse expertise of four new PRiME Faculty members. Additionally, Lightning Talks from our 2021 PRiME Fellows and an Innovation Showcase of technology platforms and companies will highlight some of the current research taking place within the PRiME community.

Registration is required.

Monday, October 25th – virtual * all times in EST 

1:00 – 1:15 Opening & Welcome: Christine Allen, Interim Director, PRiME

Keynote Speaker:

1:15 – 2:00 Industry Keynote: Ray Deshaies, Senior Vice President, Global Research, Amgen

“The promise of multispecific molecular medicines”

 2:00 – 2:30 Lightning Talks from 2021 PRiME Fellows

2:30 - 2:35 Break 

PRiME Early Career Faculty Presentations:

2:35 – 2:50 Bowen Li, Assistant Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

“Nanoparticulate Delivery Systems for RNA-based Vaccines and Gene Therapy”

2:50 - 3:05 Helen Tran, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts & Science

“Macromolecular Bioelectronics”

3:05 - 3:20 Rafael Montenegro Burke, Assistant Professor, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

3:20 - 3:35 Christopher Lawson, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering 

“Retooling Microbiome Engineering for a Sustainable Future”

PRiME Innovation Showcase:

3:35 - 3:45 Nanology Labs (Mohammad Ali Amini, CEO; Shirley Wu, Co-Founder) 

3:45 - 3:55 LSK Technologies (Seray Cicek, CEO; Keith Pardee, Co-Founder) 

3:55 - 4:05 AntlerA (Somasekar Seshagiri, CEO; Sachdev Sidhu & Stephane Angers, Co-Founders) 

4:05 – 4:10 Break

Keynote Speaker:

4:10 – 4:55 Academic Keynote: Carolyn Bertozzi, Professor, Baker Family Director, Stanford ChEM-H

“Therapeutic Opportunities in Glycoscience”

4:55 - 5:00 Closing remarks