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Summit Purpose

New partnerships for research innovation
Identification of regulatory changes, legislation and institutional streamlining that will accelerate the transfer of knowledge from the laboratory to businesses
Ideas for product and service development that will guide private sector investment and demonstrate the need for a supportive government infrastructure
Insight about ways to collaborate with university researchers and other partners to transfer new technologies
New information on how to leverage the assets of universities, financial markets and business investment to create companies and jobs that will strengthen the economic foundations of the region

Business Journals Supplement

View the complete Missouri Regional Life Sciences Summit supplement from the Kansas City and St. Louis Business Journals. Click here to view.

Schedule

Sunday, March 7
Time	Event	Location
5 to 9 p.m.	Exhibitor and poster setup, early registration	UMKC Swinney Recreation Center

Monday, March 8
Time	Event	Location
6:30 a.m.	Exhibit and poster setup	UMKC Swinney Recreation Center
7 a.m.	Registration opens Participants will be invited and encouraged to visit exhibit booths and displays during program breaks and end-of-day-one reception Continental breakfast Exhibits and poster session interaction	UMKC Swinney Recreation Center
8 a.m.	Welcome Welcome: Leo Morton, chancellor, University of Missouri-Kansas City Brief remarks: Gary D. Forsee, president, University of Missouri System Brief remarks: Brady Deaton, chancellor, University of Missouri-Columbia	UMKC Pierson Auditorium
8:15 a.m.	Sen. Claire McCaskill Video Message	UMKC Pierson Auditorium
8:30 a.m.	Keynote Speaker: William H. Danforth, chancellor emeritus, Washington University: "Partnerships for Progress in Health and Economic Development"	UMKC Pierson Auditorium
9:15 a.m.	Distinguished Speaker: Scott Peterson, director of functional genomics research technology, professor, J. Craig Venter Institute: "Synthetic Biology in an Era of Personalized Medicine"	UMKC Pierson Auditorium
10 a.m.	Distinguished Speaker: Krzysztof Ptak, Office of Cancer Nanotechnology Research Center for Strategic and Scientific Initiatives; Office of the Director, National Cancer Institute/ NIH: "NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer: Achievement and Path Forward"	UMKC Pierson Auditorium
10:30 a.m.	Distinguished Speaker: Thomas C. Melzer, managing director and co-founder, RiverVest: "Financial Downturn and Impact on Biosciences Development"	UMKC Pierson Auditorium
11 a.m.	The Role of Life Sciences in Building Regional Economy Legislative and government panel featuring leaders from Missouri General Assembly and regional leaders Chair: Jason R. Hall, executive director of the Missouri Technology Corporation Missouri Rep. Mike Talboy Missouri Sen. Jolie Justus Missouri Rep. Rob Schaaf Kansas Rep. Kenny Wilk (retired)	UMKC Pierson Auditorium
11:50 a.m.	Distinguished Speaker: Gov. Jay Nixon	UMKC Pierson Auditorium
12:30 p.m.	Distinguished Speaker: David W. Kemper, chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of the Company and Commerce Bank N.A., Commerce Bancshares Inc.: "Venture Investment in Life Science"	UMKC Swinney Recreation Center
1 p.m.	Distinguished Speaker: Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond	UMKC Swinney Recreation Center
1:30 p.m.	Chief Research Officers Panel CROs will briefly highlight research strengths of each institution and point out examples of successful collaborations with other represented institutions and industry. Chair: Brady Deaton, chancellor, University of Missouri-Columbia Nasser Arshadi, vice provost for research, University of Missouri-St. Louis Lynda Bonewald, interim vice chancellor for research, University of Missouri-Kansas City Robert Duncan, vice chancellor for research, University of Missouri-Columbia Cindy Kiel, assistant vice chancellor for research services and executive director, Office of Sponsored Research Services, Washington University in St. Louis K. Krishnamurthy, vice provost for research, Missouri University of Science and Technology Raymond Tait, vice provost for research services, Saint Louis University Paul Terranova, vice chancellor for research, University of Kansas Medical Center James Guikema, associate vice president for research, Kansas State University Joseph Heppert, associate vice provost for research and graduate studies, University of Kansas Jim Bloedel, professor and chair, biomedical sciences, Iowa State University	UMKC Pierson Auditorium
3 p.m.	Exhibit browsing and coffee break	UMKC Swinney Recreation Center
3:45 p.m.	Scientifically Led National Enterprises Brief case presentations of academic-industry and national collaborative success stories and lessons learned from small business.	UMKC Pierson Auditorium
4:45 p.m.	Building Innovative Corporate-Academic Partnerships: What is Needed? Chancellor Leo Morton, session chair Corporate perspectives on the building blocks necessary to sustain innovative, profitable partnerships Lesa Mitchell, vice president, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Dan Getman, president, Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute Kevin Sweeney, chair, Life Sciences Practice Unit, Polsinelli Bob Marcusse, president and CEO, Kansas City Area Development Council Jeffrey Townsend, executive vice president, chief of staff, Cerner Corporation Joerg Ohle, president and general manager, Bayer Animal Health	UMKC Pierson Auditorium
6 p.m.	Reception Hosted reception for all symposium participants in the exhibit and poster area of Swinney Center	UMKC Swinney Recreation Center
7:30 p.m.	Exhibits and posters close	UMKC Swinney Recreation Center

Tuesday, March 9
Time	Event	Location
7 a.m.	Registration opens	Kauffman Conference Center
8 a.m.	Continental breakfast and networking	Kauffman Conference Center Town Square
9:15 a.m.	Distinguished Speaker: Dean Chapman, professor, anatomy and cell biology, Canada Research Chair in X-Ray Imaging, University of Saskatchewan: Biomedical Research Using Synchrotron Radiation	Kauffman Conference Center
9:35 a.m.	Distinguished Speaker: Robert W. Atcher, director, National Isotope Data Center, University of New Mexico/Los Alamos National Laboratory, professor of pharmacy: Isotopes for Medicine and Pharmaceuticals	Kauffman Conference Center
10 a.m.	Breakout Sessions Translational Medicine and Nanoscience Computing Infrastructure and Informatics to Support Life Sciences R&D, Therapeutics, Diagnostics and Economic Development Jump Starting and Moving New Technologies to Marketplace Translational Vision and Neuroscience Research Advances in Biomaterials and Medical Devices	Kauffman Conference Center
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.	Lunch	Kauffman Conference Center
Noon	Distinguished Speaker: Rainer Bussmann, Director, William L. Brown Center and William L. Brown Curator of Economic Botany, Missouri Botanical Garden: "Plants for a sustainable future"	Kauffman Conference Center
12:30 p.m.	National Movement of Clinical and Translational Science and Drug Discovery Jamal Ibdah, senior associate dean for research and director, MU Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Missouri-Columbia: "Translational Medicine: From Discovery To Health Sitta Sittampalam, professor, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center: "The Institute for Advancing Medical Innovations: Stepping into the future of drug discovery, delivery and biomedical engineering"	Kauffman Conference Center
1:30 p.m.	Breakout Sessions Comparative Medicine: Innovations for the Animal to Human Health Corridor Functional Brain Imaging and New Frontiers of Neuroscience Patent Issues Relative to Life Sciences R&D – Moving from Discovery in Academia to Commercialization Biomedical Tissue Engineering – Where We Go in the Future Public-Private Partnerships for One Health	Kauffman Conference Center
3 p.m.	Animal to Human Health Collaborations: The Path Forward University and business community leaders discuss lessons learned from the summit and charting a road map forward Gary D. Forsee, president, University of Missouri System Brady Deaton, chancellor, University of Missouri-Columbia Leo Morton, chancellor, University of Missouri-Kansas City Robert Duncan, vice chancellor for research, University of Missouri-Columbia Bob Marcusse, president and CEO, Kansas City Area Development Council
4 p.m.	Adjourn

Featuring experts from University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri University of Science and Technology, University of Missouri-St. Louis, University of Kansas, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas State University, St. Louis University, Washington University in St. Louis, Iowa State University and the University of Saskatchewan, as well as business leaders, venture capitalists and policy makers

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Summit Purpose

Business Journals Supplement

Schedule

Sunday, March 7

Monday, March 8

Tuesday, March 9