On the final Breakthrough East agenda: tackling change, disruption, and what’s ahead

BREAKTHROUGH EAST | NYC + ONLINE

Right a topsy-turvy world at Breakthrough East

Dear readers,

Research and development was already tough and unpredictable. With the changes rippling through government agencies, the world feels upside down. At next week's STAT Breakthrough Summit, we will help bring the confusion into focus.

We'll address the disruption with speakers including former CDC director Tom Frieden and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, as well as bioethicist Holly Fernandez Lynch, health equity expert Melissa Simon, and vaccine expert Kathryn Edwards.

But we'll also hear from gene editing pioneer Jim Wilson on the ways in which we're getting everything about that field wrong, and CRISPR trailblazer Kiran Musunuru will explain how gene editing's potential could still be realized.

We'll delve into drugs for a liver disease that could be one of the biggest markets in biotech, and to the challenges and opportunities of licensing drugs from China. We'll hear from Pfizer's chief strategist for the first time.

We'll find hope and empathy with science education legend Bill Nye. We'll celebrate science with the game-show-style STAT Madness competition.

Every session will be moderated by STAT's award-winning journalists. And all day long we'll take questions and comments from our live audience. It will be a blast that will prepare you to think more broadly and strategically about your work. And it will be better for all of us because you are in the audience with us.

I hope to see you there!