2023 AGENDA - NOV 7

Ann Tanabe, Chief Executive Officer, BioHouston 
Brad Burke, Managing Director, Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship 

William McKeon, President and Chief Executive Officer, Texas Medical Center

Moderator: Anna Valladolid, Executive Director, Commercial Banking - Life Sciences, J.P. Morgan

Anya Schiess, Managing Director, Co-Managing Partner of Life Science Private Capital, J.P. Morgan Asset Management

Barbara Alcaraz Silva Ph.D., Executive Director, Startup Banking Life Sciences and Healthcare, J.P. Morgan

Omid Veiseh, Ph.D., Associate Professor, CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research, Director of Rice Biotech Launch Pad 

Sponsored by Transwestern

Moderator: Sarah Hein, Co-Founder and CEO, March Biosciences

Ferran Prat, Ph.D., J.D., Senior Vice President, Research Administration and Industry Relations, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Jason Bock, Ph.D., Co-Founder & CEO, CTMC

Paul Wotton, PhD., Executive Director, Rice University Biotech Launch Pad

Elizabeth Hoff, Chief Evangelist, Galen Data

Angela Holmes, Chief Executive Officer, Mercury Data Science 

Jeff Wade,J.D., President and Chief Financial Officer, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals

Elaine Lea-Chou, Ph.D., Consultant, TMCi ACT Accelerator

Imran Alibhai, PhD, CEO, Tvardi

Suzanne Tomlinson, Ph.D., MBA, Director of Research Programs and Strategic Initiatives, Gulf Coast Consortia for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences

Moderator: Angela Holmes, Chief Executive Officer, Mercury Data Science

Sahir Ali, Ph.D., Founder and General Partner, Modi Ventures

Pahini Pandya, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, Panakeia

Rima Chakrabarti, M.D., Partner, KdT Ventures 

Rick Fontenot, Data Scientist, Lantern Pharma

• NKILT Therapeutics
• March Biosciences
• Nandi Life Sciences
• AyuVis Research
• Diakonos Oncology
• Secretome Therapeutics
• Velorum Therapeutics

Kristin Doyle, JD, Deputy Executive Officer and General Counsel, CPRIT

Sponsored by Pearland Economic Development Corporation 

Brad Burke, Managing Director, Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship

Jochen Reiser, President, University of Texas Medical Branch; co-founder, Walden Biosciences

Omid Veiseh, Associate Professor, CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research, Director, Rice Biotech Launch Pad 

Suzanne M. Tomlinson, Director, GCC Research Programs, Gulf Coast Consortia

Steve Lehmann, Director, Portal Innovation (Moderator)

Devin Dunn, Head, Accelerator for HealthTech, Texas Medical Center Innovation

• ScubaTx
• AINOSTICS
• Calon Cardio Technology
• Somnus Scientific
• 52North
• Panakeia Technologies
• NuVision Biotherapies

Samuel Chuang, Ph.D., Director and Senior Principal Scientific Advisor, Charles River

Devin Dunn, Head, Accelerator for HealthTech, Texas Medical Center Innovation

• Lasa Health
• Glidance
• Bairitone Health

• Corveus Medical
• NXgenPort
• Insight Surgery
• Ai-Ris
• Atmo Biosciences
• AiroSolve
• Eisana
• NeuraStasis

Mike Barbera, President, Intersect Management

Jason Chan, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C, Regional Practice Leader, Perkins & Will

Dichelle Burrus, Project Executive, DPR Construction

Michael Conway, Principal and Partner, GMC Commissioning

Allison Rhines, Ph.D., Site Head, JLABS@TMC

Youngwook Won, Ph.D., CSO and Co-founder, Singular Immune

Taylor Chartier, Ph.D., CEO and Founder, Modicus Prime

Alicia Chung, Ph.D., President and Chief Corporate Development Officer, PointLoma Biosciences

Xiaotong Song, Ph.D., Founding Director, Cellula BioPharma

Carrie McAllister, Ph.D., Funding Strategy Director, IntelliSpark, LLC

Sponsored by CNA

• Mongoose Bio
• PHIOGEN
• Singular Immune
• Kuria Therapeutics
• Systemic Bio
• YAP Therapeutics
• 7 Hills Pharma
• OmniNano Pharmaceuticals

• Sonnest
• Resonantia Diagnostics
• Vax-Immune DBA LabReady®
• Advanced Optroncis
• Escher Biomedical Diagnostics
• VUV Analytics

• Ember Sleep
• Vivifi Medical
• StitchLock
• Taurus Vascular
• Cardiost
• Sonostics

• 10 Most Promising Life Science Companies 
• Michael E. DeBakey Award 
• People’s Choice Award

Sponsored by Caidya