Noubar Afeyan, PhD
Co-Founder & Chairman, Moderna • Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Flagship Pioneering
Noubar Afeyan, PhD
Co-Founder & Chairman, Moderna • Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Flagship Pioneering
Deepak Chopra MD, FACP, FRCP
Founder, Chopra Foundation
Deepak Chopra MD, FACP, FRCP
Founder, Chopra Foundation
Canan Dagdeviren, PhD
LG Career Development Professor in Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab
Canan Dagdeviren, PhD
LG Career Development Professor in Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab
Dagdeviren earned her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she focused on exploring patterning techniques and creating piezoelectric biomedical systems. Her collective Ph.D. research involved flexible mechanical energy harvesters, multi-functional cardiac vessel stents, wearable blood pressure sensors, and stretchable skin modulus sensing bio-patches.
As a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, she conducted her postdoctoral research at the MIT David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. Here, she designed and fabricated multi-functional, minimally invasive brain probes that can simultaneously deliver drugs on demand and electrically modulate neural activity precisely and selectively for the treatment of neurological disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease.
Dagdeviren’s work has been featured in many media outlets, including TIME, Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, Popular Mechanics, CBS News, BBC News and Physics World. In 2015, MIT Technology Review named her among the "Top 35 Innovators Under 35" and Forbes selected her as one of the "Top 30 Under 30 in Science". Recently, Dagdeviren has been named as a Spotlight Health Scholar by Aspen Institute and World #1 in Medical Innovation Category of Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World (TOYP) by Junior Chamber International. In 2016, Dr. Dagdeviren was awarded the Science & Sci Life Prize for Young Scientists in Translational Medicine Category and invited to attend Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. Recently, Dr. Dagdeviren has been named as 2017 Innovation and Technology Delegate by the American Academy of Achievement. In 2019 Dr. Dagdeviren was among 87 of the nation’s brightest young engineers who have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 25th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium, hosted by Boeing in Charleston, South Carolina.
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David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Translational Medicine & Human Genetics, University of Pennsylvania
David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Translational Medicine & Human Genetics, University of Pennsylvania
Marc Hodosh
Founder & Co-Host, LIFE ITSELF
Marc Hodosh
Founder & Co-Host, LIFE ITSELF
Previously, Marc co-created and hosted TEDMED, the health and medical version of the TED Conference. After selling TEDMED he continued to focus on the intersection of health innovations and media, with a particular focus on human aging and longevity.
Prior, Marc led the XPRIZE for Genomics, a $10 million competition to inspire rapid and cost effective genome sequencing technology, which followed the successful $10 million Ansari Space XPRIZE.
He has been a consultant to inventor Dean Kamen at DEKA Research & Development and also chaired Dean's FIRST Robotics competition within the Boston region — a non-profit foundation which inspires high school students to pursue careers in science and technology.
Additionally, Marc founded and sold ID One, specializing in facial recognition technology for the U.S. military and intelligence communities. Earlier he led business development at Viisage Technology, a biometric and secure ID company.
Marc became interested in health and medicine during high school and college, while volunteering as an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) with the local ambulance services, as well as through his experiences working in a hospital emergency room. After a year at Boston University Medical School, he decided to pursue business and entrepreneurial endeavors by inventing and patenting consumer products, which were distributed through Bed Bath & Beyond, QVC television, Toys-R-Us, and others.
Susan Magsamen
Founder & Executive Director, International Arts + Mind Lab, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Susan Magsamen
Founder & Executive Director, International Arts + Mind Lab, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Bob McDonald
Former Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs
Bob McDonald
Former Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs
Hemant Taneja
Managing Partner, General Catalyst
Hemant Taneja
Managing Partner, General Catalyst
Hemant is an early investor in market-leading companies like Stripe, Livongo (acquired by Teladoc in an $18.5B merger, the largest in digital health history to-date), Samsara, Snap (NYSE: SNAP), Fundbox, Grammarly, Gusto, and Thoughtspot.
He is a visionary leader in the healthcare space. His 2020 book, UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance, co-authored with Dr. Stephen Klasko, CEO of Jefferson Health, details their thesis for how the healthcare system needs to transform a “sick care” system into a Health Assurance system designed to help people stay well, bend the cost curve, and make quality care more affordable and more accessible to all.
Hemant is an advocate for Responsible Innovation, aligning innovation with the long-term interests of society by engineering for growth and good with greater intention, fewer unintended consequences, and increased inclusivity. In his 2018 book, Unscaled, Hemant articulates the need for accountability, transparency and explainability as AI permeates every aspect of our daily lives.
Hemant serves on the Stanford School of Medicine Board of Fellows and has worked on climate and energy issues as the co-founder and Chairman of Advanced Energy Economy.