2026 AGENDA

Jeff Wade, Chairman, BioHouston

John (J.R.) Reale, Executive Director, Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship

William McKeon, President and CEO, Texas Medical Center

Moderator: Annie Sendejo, Vice President, Life Sciences Banking, JP Morgan

Barbara Alcaraz Silva, PhD, Executive Director, National Head Life Sciences and Healthcare Startup Banking, JP Morgan

Ankit Aggarwal, Executive Director, Healthcare Investment Banking, JP Morgan
 

Moderator: Mike Silliman, Partner, Baker Botts

Kalen Hall, PhD, CEO & Cofounder, Informuta, Inc.

Drew Yashar, Principal, Capital Factory

Moderator: Jeff Wade, Chairman, BioHouston

Michael Torres, PhD, Founder and Former CEO of CrossBridge Bio

Moderator: Pablo Lapuerta, MD, Chief Executive Officer, 4M Therapeutics

Hung-Kai Kevin Chen, MD, PhD, Founder, Chairman, CEO & Chief Medical Officer, Elixiron Immunotherapeutics; Founder & CEO, NeuroVantix Therapeutics

Joshua Shulman, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Director of Baylor Center for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases

Sudhir Sivakumaran, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Lewy Body Dementia Association

Moderator: Michael King, Managing Director and Head of Research, Rodman & Renshaw

Chau Khoung, Founder and Chief Investment Officer, CJNV Bioventures

Moderator: David Schull, President, Russo Partners

Adam Matthews, Chief Executive Officer, Discover International
 

Harris Eyre

David Gow

Brian Mayhew, Executive Vice President of Regulatory Policy, ELIQUENT Life Sciences

Gabriela de Almeida, PhD, Managing Director and Partner, Boston Consulting Group

Moderator: Jeff Wade, Chairman, BioHouston

Panelists:

Joseph Petrosino, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Baylor College of Medicine

Rima Chakrabarti, MD, Co-founder and Managing Partner, RBL LLC

Bruce Butler, PhD, Vice President, Research and Technology Director, Office of Technology Management, UT Health Houston

Papia Ghosh, PhD, Director, Business Development and Commercial Strategy, Strategic Industry Ventures, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Vineet Gupta, PhD, Vice President for Innovation and Tech Development and Transfer, UTMB

Dustin Edwards, Partner, Winston Taylor
 
Eric Johnson, Partner, Winston Taylor

Robert Suffoletta, Partner, Wilson Sonsini

Kristen Doyle, Chief Executive Officer, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas

Arthur Sands, MD, PhD, President and CEO, Nurix Therapeutics

Ten Most Promising Life Science Companies
   Presented by Monique Knighten, Executive Director, Life Science, Beacon Co-Lab

Michael E. DeBakey Award - Presented by BioHouston

People’s Choice Award