Key Opportunities and Challenges for the Future of Cancer Treatment
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Key Opportunities and Challenges for the Future of Cancer Treatment

Foresite Capital is pleased to host selected graduate students and postdoctoral fellows interested in the intersection of life sciences and data sciences for a workshop and series of networking events on January 8, 2018.


The day's events include a program from 8:00am - 12:45pm at the Merchants Exchange Club at 75 Leidesdorff Street (near California/Montgomery in the Financial District), followed by a reception at 5:00pm at The Barrel Room at 415 Sansome Street. The reception is open to all postdocs, whether they attended the morning meeting or not. 

January 
08
, 
2018
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8:00AM
 – 
12:45PM
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Speaker Highlights

Richard Pazdur, MD

Director, oncology center of excellence, FDA


Anand Shah, MD, MPH

Chief Medical Officer

Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation

CMS

Ellen Sigal, PhD

founder & chairperson

friends of cancer research


Mathai Mammen, PhD

global head of R&D

(in transition)

janssen/johnson & johnson


Hans Bishop

president & ceo

juno therapeutics


Jeff Bluestone, PhD

professor

UCSF School of medicine


Agenda


8am - 11:45am

Presentations & Panel Discussions

Hosted by Rick Klausner

11:45 - 12:45

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3pm - 4pm

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8:00am - 11:30 am Panel Discussions & Presentations


The first event (8AM-11:30AM), hosted by Rick Klausner, former Director of the National Cancer Institute, and Ellen Sigal, from Friends of Cancer Research, will focus on the future of cancer treatment. You will hear from a variety of speakers and panelists from government, industry, and academia including:

Agenda

8:00am

learn

Presentations & Panel Discussion

Focused presentations and panel discussions on topics including:

- Past and future of drug development

- Emerging priorities

- Breaking barriers to cancer immunotherapy discoveries

- Cell-based therapies in oncology - special issues

- Future opportunities in clinical trials


& more

 

11:45am

ASK

Q&A with Rick Klausner, former director of the National Cancer Institute

After the presentations, Rick Klausner will be available to answer questions from postdocs in attendance. 

12:45pm

depart

Adjourn until evening

The sessions will break for the afternoon, and reconvene in the evening for happy hour. 

5:00pm

enjoy

Happy Hour Networking Reception

Foresite Capital is hosting a happy hour for participants at the Barrel Room at 415 Sansome Street, San Francisco. All attendees are welcome to join us for hosted cocktails. 

Agenda


8:00am

Welcome & introductions

Merchants Exchange Club

75 Leidesdorff Alley, SF

Rick Klausner, MD

8:05am

Overview of Friends of Cancer Research - collaborations and policy initiatives

Ellen Sigal, PhD

Jeff Allen, PhD

8:15am

A Dialogue with the Oncology Center of Excellence at the FDA:

- Targeted therapies

- PD-1/PD-L1 therapies

- Bioinformatics

- Biologics & gene therapies

Richard Pazdur, MD

with comments by:

 Gideon Blumenthal, MD

Marc Theoret, MD

Sean Khozin, MD

Ke Liu, MD, PhD

9:00am

The View from CMS 

- How CMS makes decisions

- A summary of recent CMS activity

- CMS’s interest in new ideas

 Anand Shah, MD, MPH

9:15am

Breaking barriers to cancer immunotherapy discoveries

The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy Model

Jeff Bluestone, PhD

9:35am

Cell based therapy in oncology – special issues

Hans Bishop

9:55am

Panel discussion: flooding the System (moderated by Rick Klausner, MD)

 

Topics:

- The many challenges with

   reverse translation

- Too many choices

- Too many tests 


with comments by:

Mathai Mammen, MD, PhD

Terry Rosen, PhD

Jennifer Wargo, MD


10:40am

Panel Discussion – future opportunities in clinical trials (moderated by George Demetri, MD)


Topics:

- Phase 0 trials

- IO trials infrastructure

- Novel trial designs

with comments by:

Stan Riddell, MD

Dan Auclair, PhD

George Demetri, MD


11:20am

Closing thoughts

Rick Klausner, MD

Gideon Blumenthal, MD 

11:30am

Morning program adjourns


11:45am

Lunch & networking session with speakers

Rick Klausner, MD

12:45pm

Postdoc program adjourns


5:00pm

Networking reception for postdoctoral scientists and graduate students

The Barrel Room

415 Sansome Street

San Francisco, CA

Speakers

rick pazdur

Director, Oncology Center of Excellence at the FDA


Jeff bluestone

Head of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

& Professor, UCSF


hans bishop

CEO, Juno Therapeutics


mathai mammen

Global Head of R&D, Janssen/J&J


Your Hosts

About foresite capital


Foresite Capital Management is an investment firm focused on the development and commercialization of transformative products that address what we believe are the most critical, unmet healthcare needs. Our unique structure allows us to develop complete financing solutions in both private and public markets, and every one of our investments gets attention from each member of our investment team. We call it radical collaboration. We invest in emerging leaders across all areas of healthcare including therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, and services. Data science drives our decision-making framework, and we have a special interest in companies that are ushering in healthcare transformation through data science and machine learning applied to human biology data.


Photo by Elisabeth Fall, Fall Foto. 


#FutureOfCancerTreatment

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Vik Bajaj

Managing Director

Foresite Capital

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