Program at a glance

July 27th

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Meet & Greet: Coffee & Light Breakfast

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks

Deepak Vashishth (RPI), John Kolb (RPI), Priti Balchandani (Mount Sinai), Bing Ren (NYGC)

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Co-Chairs: Scott Friedman (Mount Sinai), Eric Ledet (RPI)

Panel Discussion: Thomas Zwaka (Bart Solutions, CEO), Chris Puleo (RPI), Andre Watson (Ligandal, Founder & CEO)

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM Networking Lunch

1:15 PM - 1:30 PM NIH/NCATS Quantum Initiative

Dr. Geetha Senthil, PhD, Deputy Director, Office of Special Initiatives National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Institutes of Health (NIH)

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM Computational Biology & Genomic Data

Co-Chair: Mohammed Zaki (RPI), Bing Ren (NYGC)

Panel Discussion: David Knowles (NYGC), Lea Davis (Mount Sinai), Laxmi Parida (IBM)

2:15 PM – 3:00 PM‍ Quantum Computing in Biomarker Discovery with multidimensional data and EHRs

Co-Chairs: Chris Carothers (RPI), Benjamin Glicksberg (Mount Sinai)

Panel Discussion: Dan Blankenberg (Cleveland Clinic), Juergen Hahn (RPI), Elissa Chesler (JAX/NYSCF)

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM‍ Cookie & Networking Break (HSE PhD Poster Presentation)

3:30 PM – 4:15 PM‍ Advanced Organoids, Bioprinting and Microphysiological Systems

Co-Chairs: Pankaj Karande (RPI), Joel Blanchard (Mount Sinai)

Speaker: Jonathan Himmelfarb (Mount Sinai)

4:15 PM – 5:00 PM‍ Quantum Imaging

Co-Chair: Moussa Ngom (RPI) & Priti Balchandani (Mount Sinai)

Speaker: Kimani Toussaint (Brown)

Panel Discussion: Edwin Fhtung (RPI)

July 28th

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Open Breakfast and Networking

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM Plenary Talk- Quantum-Centric & Hybrid Computing

Co-Chair: John Kolb (RPI), Paul Lawrence (Mount Sinai)

Speaker: Gavin Jones (IBM)

Panel Discussion: Cameron Cogburn (RPI), Osama Raisuddin (RPI)

9:45 AM – 10:30 AM Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurovascular Immunology

Co-Chair: Fanny Elahi (Mount Sinai), Andres Munoz Rojas (RPI)    

Speakers: Katerina Akassoglou (RPI), Matheus Victor (Mount Sinai)

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Networking Break

11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Women’s Health Initiative- Clinical Management of Menopausal Transition and Chronic Diseases

Co-Chair: Deepak Vashishth (RPI), Deborah Marshall (Mount Sinai)

Panel Discussion: Fanny Elahi (Mount Sinai), Elizabeth Blaber (RPI), Priti Balchandani (Mount Sinai)

12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Russell Sage Dining Hall: Lunch and Plenary Lecture

Mark H. Ellisman (University of California San Diego)

1:30 PM– 2:15 PM Quantum Computing in Molecular Modeling and Drug Discovery

Co-Chair: Yizhou Dong (Mount Sinai), Stefan Semrau (JAX/NYSCF)

Speaker: Sharon Gerecht (Duke)

2:15 PM – 3:00 PM Personalized Medicine with Cell and Gene Therapy

Co-Chair: Wayne Bequette (RPI), Alexander Charney (Mount Sinai)

Panel Discussion: Howard Kim (JAX/NYSCF), Jeff Chuang (JAX/NYSCF), Jonathan Dordick (RPI)

3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Concluding Remarks