Virtual Regeneron ISEF 2020 – Day 1

Meet the Regeneron ISEF 2020 finalists along with Society for Science & the Public President & CEO Maya Ajmera and George Yancopoulos, Regeneron’s Co-Founder, President & Chief Scientific Officer.

Day 1 panels include amazing speakers, from MacArthur Fellow Elissa Hallem to to Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn to National Medal of Technology and Innovation winner Cato Laurencin.

Welcome Remarks

Society for Science & the Public President & CEO Maya Ajmera

Interview with George Yancopoulos

Interview with George Yancopoulos, Regeneron’s Co-Founder, President & Chief Scientific Officer by Joe Palca, National Public Radio (NPR) Science Correspondent

Dancing Around the World with the Virtual ISEF 2020 finalists

Excellence in Science and Technology Panel

Moderated by Joe Palca, NPR Science Correspondent
Panelists:

  • Elizabeth Blackburn, Professor Emerita, UCSF; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2009
  • Martin Chalfie, Professor, Biological Sciences, Columbia University; Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2008
  • Elissa Hallem, Associate Professor, MIMG Department, University of California, Los Angeles; MacArthur Fellow, 2012
  • Cato Laurencin, University Professor, University of Connecticut; National Medal of Technology and Innovation in Medicine, 2014
  • W.E. Moerner, Harry S. Mosher Professor and Professor by Courtesy of Applied Physics, Stanford University; Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2014

Women in STEM Panel

Moderated by Mary Sue Coleman, President, Association of American Universities

Panelists:

  • Frances Arnold, Linus Pauling Professor, California Institute of Technology; Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2018
  • Dianne Newman, Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology, California Institute of Technology; MacArthur Fellow, 2016
  • Monika Schleier-Smith, Associate Professor of Physics, Stanford University, Hellman Fellow, 2015

The Future of Bioscience

Tina Hesman Saey, Molecular Biology Senior Writer, Science News, interview with:

  • Leroy “Lee” Hood, Senior Vice President and Chief Science Officer, Providence St. Joseph Health, Chief Strategy Officer, Co-founder and Professor, ISB
  • Huda Zoghbi, Professor, Baylor College of Medicine; Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

Lessons in Leadership During Times of Uncertainty

  • An interview with Craig R. Barrett, Retired CEO/Chair, Intel Corporation and Maya Ajmera, President and CEO, Society for Science & the Public and Publisher, Science News

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