BIO Asia–Taiwan 2023 亞洲生技大會

BIO Asia–Taiwan 2023 亞洲生技大會

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PROGRAM

2022 Conference Agenda

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BIO Asia–Taiwan 2022
Conference Agenda 

Date July 27-29, 2022

Venue TaiNEX2, Taipei + Online event platform

Day 1 - Wednesday, July 27
Day 2 - Thursday, July 28
Day 3 - Friday, July 29
09:00 – 10:35
Session 1 (Plenary)  – Global Biotech Development
09:00 – 09:05

Welcome

Johnsee Lee, Chairman of BIO Asia–Taiwan 2022
09:05 – 09:15

Opening Remark

Lai Ching-Te, Vice President, Taiwan
09:15 – 09:20

VIP Remarks

Chung-Hsiun Wu, Chairman, Taiwan Bio Industry Organization
09:20 – 09:30

Opening Ceremony for Conference

09:30 – 09:45

Keynote Speech- Top iPS Cell Technologies at Affordable Prices

Shinya Yamanaka M.D., Ph.D., Nobel Prize Laureate 
Representative Director, CiRA Foundation
09:45 – 10:00

Bioconvergence: Potential Future Impacts to Personalized Medicine

Laura Matz, Chief Science & Technology Officer at Merck KGaA
10:00 – 10:15

The ‘New Normal’: transforming healthcare and implications for Pharma

Graham Lewis, Vice President, Global Pharma Strategy, IQVIA
10:15 – 10:30

Future of Health – How to transform BioPharma for the upcoming LIFEcare system

Thomas Solbach, Partner and Europe Pharma & Life Science Leader, PwC Strategy& (Germany) GmbH
10:40 – 11:40
Session 2 (Plenary)  – Global Biotech Development
10:40 – 10:55

A Dynamic Global Supply Chain with Policy Consideration

John A. Murphy, III, Chief Policy Officer Deputy Counsel, Healthcare, Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO)
10:55 – 11:10

2022 Health Trends: Appropriate Acceleration in Clinical Development

Ken J. Lee, General Manager and Region Head, Asia Pacific, Syneos Health
11:10 – 11:25

New Horizons for Silicon Nanotechnology in Healthcare

Paru Deshpande, Vice President R&D, imec
11:25 – 11:40

Genomics England: Enabling the Next Chapter of the UK’s Contribution in Genomics

Chris Wigley, Chief Executive Officer, Genomics England
12:20 – 13:50
Session 3 – International Collaboration Strategy
12:20 – 12:25

Opening Remarks

Henry Chen, President, IRPMA; President, Chugai Pharma Taiwan
12:25 – 12:35

Clinical Trial Ecosystem

Mick Stanley, General Manager, GlaxoSmithKline Taiwan
12:35 – 12:45

Collaboration between Pharma and Technology Companies on Digital Health - The Power of Cross-industry Partnering

Jorge Wagner, General Manager & Country President, Novartis Taiwan
12:45 – 12:55

How MNCs Support Taiwan for its Precision Medicine Development?

Cellina Yeh, Country Manager, Pfizer Taiwan
12:55 – 13:40

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Panelists: 
  • Ramanathan Velayutham, Standing Director, IRPMA; General Manager, Abbvie Taiwan
  • Jang-Hwa Leu, Director General, Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affair
  • Donald TF Shang, Director General, Department of Social Insurance, Ministry of Health and Welfares
13:40 – 13:50

Closing Remarks

Ramanathan Velayutham, Standing Director, IRPMA
14:00 – 15:30
Session 4 – Exit Strategies for Early Stage New Drug Companies
14:00 – 14:05

Opening Remarks

Joseph Chou, Chairman and CEO, PwC Taiwan
14:05 – 15:30

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Panelists:
15:40 – 17:10
Session 5 – New Modalities to Cure
15:40 – 15:45

Opening Remarks

Chung-Hsiun Wu, President, Development Center for Biotechnology
15:45 – 16:00

Delivering on the next mRNA-based breakthroughs

Kathy Fernando, Vice President, Head of mRNA Scientific Strategy, Pfizer
16:00 – 16:15

Regeneration of urethral muscle in Stress Urinary Incontinence using engineered mRNA

Klaas Zuideveld, CEO, Versameb AG
16:15 – 16:30

Innovation insight: An analysis of the evolving landscape of nucleic acid-based therapeutics

Tracy Humphries, mRNA Segment Marketing Leader, Cytiva
16:30 – 16:45

Tailoring Lipid Nanoparticles to Enable RNA Delivery to a Variety of Tissues

Dominik Witzigmann, CEO, Nanovation Therapeutics
16:45 – 17:00

Development of Nucleic Acid Medicine in Relation with CDMO

Tsai-Kun Li, Vice President, Development Center for Biotechnology
17:00 – 17:05

Closing Remarks

Chung-Hsiun Wu, President, Development Center for Biotechnology
09:00 – 10:30
Session 6 - BIO Asia–Taiwan 2022 Opening & Award Ceremony (By Invitation Only)
09:00 – 09:30

Admission

09:30 – 09:35

Introducing Honorable Guests

09:35 – 09:37

Welcome Remarks

Johnsee Lee, Chairman of BIO Asia–Taiwan 2022
09:37 – 09:40

Opening Speech

Tsai Ing-wen, President, Taiwan
09:40 – 09:43

VIP Remarks

Chen Chien-Jen, Former Vice President, Taiwan
09:43 – 09:46

VIP Remarks

Michelle McMurry-Heath, President & CEO, Biotechnology Innovation Organization
09:46 – 10:05

2022 Taiwan BIO Awards Ceremony

10:05 – 10:15

Ribbon-cutting Ceremony

10:15

Adjourn

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10:40 – 12:00
Session 7 – Future Pandemic Preparedness
10:40 – 10:45

Opening Remarks

Chung-Hsiun Wu, Chairman, Taiwan Bio Industry Organization
President, Development Center for Biotechnology
10:45 – 11:05

Development of Universal COVID Vaccine

Chi-Huey Wong, Welch and Wolf Prize Laureate; Academician, Academia Sinica; Scripps Family Chair Professor of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
11:00 – 11:15

Stopping the Next Pandemic Before It Starts

Rasmus Bech Hansen, Co-founder and CEO at Airfinity Ltd
11:15 – 11:30

Post COVID-19 Pandemic Health Challenges: How to expedite such a trial for the treatment of COVID Long Haulers

Kazem Kazempour, President and CEO, Amarex Clinical Research
11:30 – 12:00

Panel Discussion: Readiness to Contain Pandemic-the Role of Industry with Public-Private Partnership

Moderator: Panelists:
12:20 – 13:50
Session 8 – Healthcare Innovation Strategy
12:20 – 12:23

Welcome Remark

Chii-Wann Lin, Vice President and General Director, Biomedical Technology and Device Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)
12:30 – 12:30

Opening Remarks

Dan Wang, Regional Head, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Asia Pacific
12:30 – 12:45

Building a Sustainable BioTech Ecosystem with Taiwan

Chii-Wann Lin, Vice President and General Director, Biomedical Technology and Device Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)
12:45 – 13:15

Integrating Global Innovation Networks

Stephen Lee, Director, Early Innovation Partnering, North Asia, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Asia Pacific
Sharon Chan, Head of Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS, Asia Pacific
Wei Wu, Principal, Venture Investments, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC
13:15 – 13:50

Panel Discussion: Accelerating Innovation Through External Collaboration

Moderator:  Panelists:
14:00 – 15:30
Session 9 –
Winning the Global Competition with Taiwanese DNA
14:00 – 14:03

Opening Remarks

Michael Huang, Managing Partner, Bio Fund
Taiwania Capital Management Corp.
14:03 – 14:18

Why Adoption Strategy is Critical to Digital Health?

Lenny Chen, Executive Consultant, Presentality
14:18 – 14:33

Bridging the Gap between Academia and Commercialization: From the Healthcare Perspective

Yu Chuan Jack Li, Distinguished Professor, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Taipei Medical University
14:33 – 14:48

The Common Misconception of ICT in Healthcare

Jerry Chang, President, FaceHeart Corporation
14:48 – 15:27

Panel Discussion: How Do We Survive and Thrive?

Moderator:
Victoria Wang, Principal, Bio Fund
Taiwania Capital Management Corp.

Panelists:
Jim Long, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, AESOP Technology
Tien-Jen Liu, MD, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, AIXMED Inc.
Jerry Chang, President, FaceHeart Corporation
Ed Deng, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Health2Sync
15:27 – 15:30

Closing Remarks

Michael Huang, Managing Partner, Bio Fund
Taiwania Capital Management Corp.
15:40 – 17:10
Session 10 – AI & Digital Health
15:40 – 15:45

Opening Remarks

Huey-Kang Sytwu, Vice President, National Health Research Institutes
15:45 – 16:00

Managing Trial Planning and Design with Artificial Intelligence

Aparajeeta Priyadarasini, Manager, Solution Consulting, Medidata
16:00 – 16:15

Overview of Decentralized Clinical Trial (DCT)
-Planning & Implementation in APAC

Grace Lin, Director of Clinical Development, Therapeutic Strategy & Innovation, Oncology, Syneos Health
16:15 – 16:30

Investment Trends in Digital Health

Chia-Jui Su, Co-Head of Healthcare & Life Science, KPMG in Taiwan
16:30 – 16:45

Artificial Intelligence Advanced Precision Medicine for Metabolic Diseases

Ting-Fen Tsai, Professor, Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences in National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
16:45 – 17:00

Data insights: Along the patient journey

Sylvia Wong, Customer Success Manager, Roche Diagnostics
17:00 – 17:10

Closing Remarks

​Huey-Kang Sytwu, Vice President, National Health Research Institutes
09:00 – 10:30
Session 11 – Novel Platforms for Biopharma Discovery
09:00 – 09:05

Opening Remarks

Han-Chung Wu, Director, Biomedical Translation Research Center (BioTReC), Academia Sinica, Taiwan
09:05 – 09:20

Engineering Gene-Circuit-Enhanced Natural Killer Cell Therapies for Oncology

Timothy K. Lu, Co-founder & CEO, Senti Biosciences; Associate Professor of MIT Biological Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
09:20 – 09:40

Preemptive Genetic Profiling for Drug Development and Health Management

Pui-Yan Kwok, Distinguished Research Fellow and Director, Institute of Biomedical Sciences; Academician, Academia Sinica
09:40 – 10:00

1 Cell, 2 Weeks, 3D Culture to Find a Drug:
Single Cell 3D Culture Technology Accelerating Precision Medicine

Ying Chih Chang, Professor, Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica; Founder, AcroCyte Therapeutics
10:00 – 10:15

Machine Learning Driven Protein Engineering

Tristan Bepler, Group Leader, Simons Machine Learning Center, New York Structural Biology Center; Co-Founder and CEO of OpenProtein.AI
10:15 – 10:30

Conclusion Remarks
Jung-Hsin Lin, Research Fellow/Deputy Director, Biomedical Translation Research Center (BioTReC), Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Closing Remarks

​Han-Chung Wu, Director, Biomedical Translation Research Center (BioTReC), Academia Sinica, Taiwan
10:40 – 12:10
Session 12 – Biologics Product Development and Manufacturing
10:40 – 10:42

Opening Remarks

Lee-Cheng Liu, Dr.Sci.Eng., Founder, Chairman and President of EirGenix, Inc.
10:42 – 11:02

Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs): 
Decades of study, successful product developments and a resurgence of interest

John M. Lambert, PhD, John Lambert Consulting, former Executive VP Emeritus & Distinguished Research Fellow
11:02 – 11:22

Development and Industrialization of Advanced Biomanufacturing Platform to Address Business Needs and Affordability of Biologics

Christopher Hwang, PhD, Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer at Transcenta
11:22 – 11:42

New Transformational Technologies for High-Quality and Cost-Effective Viral Vector Production to Enable Gene Therapies Development

David Chang, PhD, CEO, WuXi Advanced Therapies
11:42 – 12:10

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Lee-Cheng Liu, Founder, Chairman and President of EirGenix, Inc.
Panelists:
12:20 – 13:50
Session 13 – Advances in Cell & Gene Therapy
12:20 – 12:25

Opening Remarks

Hong-Nerng Ho, General Consultant, Chair Professor, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University and Director, Research Center for Cell Therapy and Regeneration Medicine
12:25 – 12:40

Reimaging the future of Cancer Care, the Asia Pacific Experience

Joseph Liu, Commercial Head, Cell and Gene Therapy, Asia Pacific Region, Novartis
12:40 – 12:55

Promise Fulfilled? The Next Decade of Cell, Gene, and RNA Therapies

William Xu, Medical Strategy Director, IQVIA
12:55 – 13:10

Planning for Success: Future-proofing the Cell Therapy Process

David Loong, Senior Consultant, Novel Modalities Asia Pacific, Bioprocessing Strategy, Merck Life Science
13:10 – 13:25

TMU Research Center for Cell Therapy and Regeneration Medicine

Hong-Nerng Ho, General Consultant, Chair Professor, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University and Director, Research Center for Cell Therapy and Regeneration Medicine
13:25 – 13:50

Panel Discussion


Moderator: Panelists:
14:00 – 15:30
Session 14 – CDMO Business for Small Molecules
14:00 – 15:30

Panel Discussion

Moderator:

Jo Shen, Venture Partner, Vivo Capital

Panelists:

15:40 – 18:00
Special Forum – Emerging opportunities when ICT meets BIO
15:40 – 15:45

Opening Remarks

Johnsee Lee, Chairman, Precision Medicine Industry Association of Taiwan 
Liang-Gee Chen, President, Taiwan Digital Health Industry Development Association
15:45 – 16:00

Building a Smart Cloud Computing Ecosystem for Healthcare

Barry Lam, Chairman & CEO, Quanta Group
16:00 – 16:15

Introduction to the Digital Patient Solution -Unify

Matthew Bonam, Head of Digital Health, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca
16:15 – 16:30

Ubiquitous Smart Healthcare in the Digital Era

Chang Yu, Director of Healthcare & Life Science, AWS GCR
16:30 – 16:45

Integration of Biomolecular Sensor Technologies on a Silicon Platform

Pol Van Dorpe, Fellow of the Life Science Technologies Department, imec
16:45 – 18:00

Panel Discussion: Opportunities & Strategy When ICT Meets BIO