2012 Global Biosecurity Conference, Program and Events

We’re exploring the issues impacting the life sciences around the globe, Wednesday, June 20 – Thursday, June 21! Join us for this important event!

8:30am – 9:45am
Opening Roundtable Discussion: Preventing a Real-World Contagion: the Science, Policy, and Public Perception of Pandemics

Robert Kadlec, Consultant, RPK Consulting (Invited)
Dr. Harvey Rubin, Director, Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response (Confirmed)
Eric Rose, MD, CEO & Chairman, SIGA Technologies; Co-Chair, Alliance for Biosecurity (Confirmed)
Brian Kamoie, Senior Director for Preparedness Policy, National Security Staff, The White House (Confirmed)

10:00am – 11:30am
Innovative Strategies to Develop New Countermeasures

Robin Robinson, Director, BARDA, Moderator (Confirmed)
Alan Liss, Director, MCMI PHSAT, Office of Counterterrorism and Emerging Threats, FDA (Confirmed)
Alan Rudolph, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (Confirmed)
Bert Liang, CEO, Pfenex (Confirmed)
Michael Eichberg, Achaogen (Confirmed)
Ram Mandalam, President & CEO, Cellerant (Confirmed)
Vas Narasimhan, Novartis Vaccines (Confirmed)

12:30pm – 1:45pm
BIO Keynote Address and Luncheon

2:00pm – 3:30pm
Ensuring Local Preparedness and Response: Managing Bioterrorism and Pandemics at the State Level

Erin Mullen, RxResponse, Moderator (Confirmed)
Richard Patrick, Chief, Medical First Responder Coordination, Science and Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security (Invited)
Dr. Ali Khan, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Confirmed)
Brooke Courtney, Regulator Counsel, Office of Counterterrorism and Emerging Threats, FDA (Confirmed)

3:45pm – 5:15pm
From Cows to Cantaloupe: Ensuring the Security of the Global Food Supply

Raphael Della Ratta, Partnership for Global Security, Moderator (Confirmed)
Jamie Johnson, Office of Laboratory Programs, Science and Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security (Confirmed)
Mark Walton, CEO, Feed the Real World (Confirmed)
Dr. Cara Cuite, Food Policy Institute, Rutgers University (Confirmed)

8:30am – 9:45am
Implementing the Biologics Weapons Convention: Maximizing Global Biotechnology Benefits While Minimizing Risk

Dr. Harvey Rubin, University of Pennsylvania Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response, Moderator (Confirmed)
Richard Lennane, BWC Implementation Support Unit, United Nations Geneva Office (Confirmed)
Chris Park, Director of Biological Policy Staff, International Security and Nonproliferation Bureau, U.S. Department of State (Confirmed)
Ben Fontes, International Federation of Biosafety Associations (Confirmed)
Todd Peterson, Life Technologies (Confirmed)

10:00am – 11:15am
Closing Roundtable Discussion
H5N1 and the Dual-Use Debate

Richard Besser, ABC (Invited)
Dennis Dixon, Chief, Bacteriology and Mycology Branch, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (Confirmed)
Barbara Jasny, Deputy Editor, Science (Confirmed)
Vikram Savkar, Publishing Director, Nature Publishing Group (Invited)
Courtney Corley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Confirmed)