BTBA 2023 ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
2023 BTBA 11th Annual Symposium will take place on July 8-9, at the Harvard University Northwest Building, in Cambridge, MA
Featured keynote speakers at the symposium include world-renowned gene editing pioneer Dr. George Church, and healthcare entrepreneurship guru Dr. Liz Kwo.
2023 Symposium speakers will cover a range of topics including cell and gene therapy industry workshop, bioindustry investment panel, trending topics 1, leveraging multi-omics data, real world data, and AI for precision drug discovery and clinical trials and trending topics 2, Health Economics and outcomes research (HEOR). And most important, networking sessions, including the breakfast networking session, lunch career diagnostic room.
Looking for something fun after the long-day symposium? We would like to invite you to attend our conference dinner & poster session on July 8, 6:00 pm. This will be not only a great opportunity for you to share your science in poster session but also to get connected with our distinguished speakers, BTBA committee members, and symposium attendees. Learn more about our past annual symposia.
Registration
Registration is now open for in-person attendance and is limited.
About BTBA
BTBA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization started in 2012 by a group of Taiwanese graduate Students, postdocs and young professionals in the greater Boston area. Our goals are to foster individual career development, to enhance scientific collaborations, to facilitate interactions and to strengthen networking among academic and industrial bioscience communities in Taiwan and the US. We hold annual symposiums as well as seminars and workshops throughout the year. We hope to serve as a platform to foster a community for young scientists to share their research, exchange ideas and explore career opportunities. Our organizing committee.
PROGRAMME
8:00 AM
Registration and poster set up
9:00 AM
Opening Remarks
9:10 AM
Keynote Speech I: George Church, Professor at Harvard (Dr. Church will join us virtually)
10:00 AM
Coffee Break
10:30 AM
Trending Topic
Leveraging Real World Data, Multi-Omics Data, and AI for Precision Drug Discovery and clinical trial (Panel discussion)
12:00 PM
Mentor Apprerciation Ceremony
12:10 PM
Lunch & Career diagnostic room
2:30 PM
Panel 1
Cell and Gene Therapy: Career Insights into the Preclinical and Clinical Stages of Drug Development Life Cycle
2:30 PM
Panel 2
Beyond the Bench: Navigate Successful Career Paths in Biotech Capital Market
4:00 PM
Oral Presentation
5:00 PM
Coffee Break
5:30 PM
Poster session
6:30 PM
Networking Dinner
Speakers
Keynote Speech I: George Church, Professor at Harvard (Dr. Church will join us virtually), 7/8 9:10 AM
George Church
Professor, Harvard and MIT
Keynote Speech II: Liz Kwo, CMO, Everly Health, 7/9 9:20 AM
Liz Kwo
Chief Medical Officer, Everly Health
Opening Remarks, 7/8 9:00 AM
Liang-Yuan Chiu
Research Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Opening Remarks, 7/8 9:00 AM
Yi-Yun Ho
Postdoctoral Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Trending Topic, 7/8 10:30 AM
Yi-Hsiang Hsu
Head of Biomics Data Science, Amgen
Trending Topic, 7/8 10:30 AM
Bin Li
Director of Computational Biology, Takeda
Trending Topic, 7/8 10:30 AM
Kun-Hsing Yu
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Trending Topic, 7/8 10:30 AM
Wen-Han Yu
Associate Director of Computational Immunology, Moderna
Lunch & Career diagnostic room, 7/8 12:10 PM
Shaoyu Chang
Associate Director at Vertex Therapeuticals
Lunch & Career diagnostic room, 7/8 12:10 PM
Chris Chiu
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Lunch & Career diagnostic room, 7/8 12:10 PM
Jack Hsu
Assistant Professor, Rutgers New Jersey Medical school
Lunch & Career diagnostic room, 7/8 12:10 PM
Lisa Huang
SVP, Curie.Bio
Lunch & Career diagnostic room, 7/8 12:10 PM
Wan-Ping Lee
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Lunch & Career diagnostic room, 7/8 12:10 PM
Chen-Ming Lee
Director at Karuna Therapeutics
Lunch & Career diagnostic room, 7/8 12:10 PM
Dian-Jang Lee
Scientist at Takeda
Lunch & Career diagnostic room, 7/8 12:10 PM
Chun Mei Su
Clinical Trial Manager at Prothena Corporation
Lunch & Career diagnostic room, 7/8 12:10 PM
Jun-Han Su
Assistant Vice President, Wellington Management
Lunch & Career diagnostic room, 7/8 12:10 PM
Mong-Hsun Tsai
蔡孟勳
Professor, National Taiwan University
Lunch & Career diagnostic room, 7/8 12:10 PM
Stephanie Yang
Research Scientist at Vertex Therapeuticals
Lunch & Career diagnostic room, 7/8 12:10 PM
Charlie Yang
Vice President, US Biopharma Equity Analyst, Bank of America
Lunch & Career diagnostic room, 7/8 12:10 PM
Sabrina Yang
Principal, Flagship Pioneering. Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Empress Therapeutics
Lunch & Career diagnostic room, 7/8 12:10 PM
Liping Zhou
Senior Director at AstraZeneca
Panel 1, 7/8 2:30 PM
Adam Chu
朱安翔
Associate Director of Regulatory Science CMC, 2seventy Bio
Panel 1, 7/8 2:30 PM
Hon-Ren Huang
Associate Direcotr, Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research
Panel 1, 7/8 2:30 PM
Jim Shaw
Director & Head of Analytical Development at Chimeric Therapeutics
Panel 1, 7/8 2:30 PM
Chih-Sheng Yang
Associate Director, Gene Therapy Process Development, Sarepta Therapeutics
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Ally Chang
Business Development Director - Entrepreneurship, Wyss Institute at Harvard University
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Caroline Chen
Associate Senior Counsel, IP, Eisai US
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Yingling Chiang
Principal Scientist, Global Discovery Chemistry at Novartis
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Hung-Lun Chien
HEOR director, Medtronic
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Philip (Wei Che) Chiu
Staff RnD Engineer, Abbott
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Jimmy Chu
Associate Director of Process Operations and mRNA Development, 2seventy bio
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Jack (Lee-Jae) Guo
Study Director / Scientist I, CBSET
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Ching-Lin Heish
Principal Scientist, Sanofi
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Antoine (Po-Han) Ho
Senior Life Sciences Specialist, L.E.K. Consulting
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Amy Hung
Principal Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Wei-Chien (Wayne) Hung
Sr Engineer II/Manager, Takeda
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Yiwei Lee
Scientific Consultant, Genedata
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Hsuan Lee
Head of Innovation, LifeCanvas Technologies Inc.
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Shu-Hong Lin
Senior Scientist, BioNTech
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Chih Hao Liu
Staff R&D optical system engineer, Abbott
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Ying-Chih (Paul) Lo
Associate Director, Portfolio Data Science and Advanced Analytics, Novartis
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Rita Jui-Hsein Lu
Bioinformatics Analyst, Washington University in St. Louis
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Yvonne Meng
Director of Protein Engineering, Ring Therapeutics
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Chia-Hsing Pi
Senior Scientist, Process Development Engineering, Vertex
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Amy Shyu
Associate, McKinsey & Company
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Chun-Mei Su
Clinical Trial Manager, Prothena Corporation
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Ming-Ju Tsai
Senior Scientist, Takeda
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Jay (Chih-Chieh) Wang
Principal Scientist, Alexion- AstraZeneca Rare Disease
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Margaret Wey
Director, Global Medicines Development, AstraZeneca
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Pei-Jung Wu
Scientist, Intellia Therapeutics, Inc.
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Quintin (Kuen-Cheh) Yang
Real World Evidence Senior Manager, Vertex
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Ariel (Wei-Hsi) Yeh
Associate, McKinsey & Company
Breakfast and Meet, 7/9 8:20 AM
Po-Jen (Will) Yen
Corporate and Business Development, Voyager Therapeutics
Trending topic: Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR), 7/9 10:30 AM
Inn Inn Chen
Partner, Mckinsey & Company
Trending topic: Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR), 7/9 10:30 AM
Adrian Kielhorn
Senior Director - Global Health Economics and Outcomes Research
Trending topic: Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR), 7/9 10:30 AM
Patty Synnott
Director, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Registry, Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (CEVR), Tufts Medical Center
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Abstracts – Talks and Posters
We welcome everyone in the broadly defined fields of biomedical studies, life sciences, biology, and biotechnology to present their work. Each year, the symposium brings together people from a variety of different professional backgrounds and bridges expertise across biotech subfields. This would be an excellent venue for you to share your research beyond your specific scope of study, to discuss and brainstorm with other young professionals, and to establish potential collaborations.
In addition to a poster presentation, you will also have the opportunity to give a 20-minute oral presentation (15-minute talk plus 5-minute QA) in the annual symposium. Please indicate your interest in giving a talk in your abstract submission. We will select 3 speakers from the pool of poster applications to give a talk. The selected presenters will be awarded a gift card ($30 in value) and their registration fee will be waived.
We will select a few “best poster awards” from poster presenters. (Number of awardees depends on the total number of presenters). These presentation experiences could help build up resumes/CVs.
Please note: due to space limitations, a person can only submit one poster abstract and be the main presenting author on one poster. (You can be co-authors on multiple posters but can only be the main presenter of ONE poster.)
Abstract Submission
Please read carefully the following instructions before proceeding with the online submission.
- Abstract should be 500 words or less in a single page.
- A complete abstract should include background, methods, results, and conclusions.
- Please prepare your abstract submission using the template. Download MS-Word Template.
- If this is your first time using the EasyChair system, please create a new account.
- The person who submits the abstract should mark him/herself as the corresponding author. (Due to the constraints of the EasyChair system settings, only the corresponding author is allowed to submit the abstract.)
Abstract Submission Key Dates
- June 1, 2023: Abstracts Submission Deadline (closes at 11:59 p.m. EDT)
- June 15, 2023: Acceptance Notifications (oral or poster presentations)
- July 8, 2023: Poster Session and Oral Presentation (first day of the BTBA Annual Symposium)
Date and time are based on eastern daylight saving time zone (EDT).
SUPPORT
Call for sponsorships
BTBA is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Your donation to BTBA is tax deductible to the full extent of the law. For the past 10 years, BTBA has successfully created a thriving community that attracts hundreds of talents in the biology-related or health-related fields to learn and grow together. Your donation and support will help us host annual symposia, seminars, workshops, and social events to enhance scientific collaborations, to foster career development, and to encourage in-depth communication and connection.
- BTBA Annaul Symposium is an incredible opportunity for coporates to market your brands, reach and recruit talents, and increase their visibility and public reputation.
- Our sponsorship packages and benefits are as follows.
$5,000
$3,000
$1,500
$1,000
- Please contact us (btba@btbatw.org) for more information.
- More way to give include individual giving, corporate matching, and Amazon Smile etc. Please find more details in BTBA official website as follows.
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