Conference on Biotechnology: Scientific, Commercial and Societal Risks

Schedule

Friday, February 25, 2005

5:00 - 6:00 PM - Registration & Refreshments
6:00 - 6:15 PM - Welcome from Dean Emeritus Donald Jacobs
6:15 - 7:15 PM - Keynote Speaker: Brigadier General Stephen Reeves, Joint Program Executive Officer for Chemical and Biological Defense Program
7:30 - 9:00 PM - Dinner

Saturday, February 26, 2005

7:30 - 8:30 AM - Registration and Breakfast
8:30 - 10:30 AM - Panel: The Nature of Innovation Risk

Panel Moderator: Scott Stern
Fiona Murray, MIT
Louis Galambos, John Hopkins
Alfonso Gambardella, IEGI ­ Università Bocconi
Respondent: Mark Rohrbaugh, NIH

10: 30 -10:45 AM - Break

10:45 - 12:45 PM - Panel: Commercial Risk

Panel Moderator: David Austen-Smith
Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School
Iain Cockburn, Boston University School of Management
Respondent: Norbert Riedel, Baxter

12:45 - 2:00 PM - Lunch

2:00 - 4:30 PM - Panel: Social Risk — Biodefense

Panel Moderator: Daniel Diermeier
Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon
John D. Steinbruner, University of Maryland
Respondent: Teresa R. Zembower, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University