An innovator with more than 30 patents to his name, George Prendergast is the President and CEO of the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, prioritizing a holistic, inventive, research-based perspective. His talk delves into the microbiome, in the context of cancer and our health more broadly. Our understanding of the microbiome is evolving and actually quite recent. We are, in fact, a comple..

Dr. Olivera Finn joins Imagine Solutions to talk about her area of expertise, immunology and the immune system in the context of cancer research. Dr. Finn reports the most common questions she gets are, one, are we close to a cure, and two, what is taking so long. Her response is always the same: You cannot win the war if you don't know your enemy. So the biggest priority is to get to know cancer,..

RAND researcher Jennifer Kavanagh presents about truth decay, which she and her colleagues define as the diminishing role that facts, data, and analyses are playing in civil, media, and political discourse. Jennifer and her team determined that aspects of truth decay have been present at previous points in U.S. history, but today there is a unique degree of disagreement about basic facts, undersco..

As an explorer, Gregg Treinish became captivated by combining his love for advanture and the need he increasingly recognized to contribute positively to the ailing ecosystems he encountered. Through Adventure Scientists, Gregg's vision is to enable explorers and adventurers to function as frontline scientific researchers, gathering data from the world's remotest points to contribute to analyses ar..

Michael Porter has taught generations of students at Harvard Business School, and consulted to business, government, and health care leaders from around the world. Michael has joined Katherine Gehl in in her ongoing work on political innovation utilizing his tools for understanding industry competition. They present their research to motivate businesspeople and leaders across America to realign ..

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, believes that only by pursuing and investing in the most audacious and ambitious ideas will we achieve victory over humankind’s deadliest enemy. Their research focus is singular: high-risk, high-reward. Yung tells her role in fostering new generations of scientists by funding research for future cancer breakthroughs.Since their founding in 1946, promis..

Discuss the amazing research they are involved in and what they are interested in 5 years out...

Robert Langer is the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and is the co-founder of Moderna. He is America’s most-honored scientist, receiving more than 220 major awards. He holds more than 1,400 granted or pending patents and is one of the world’s most highly cited researchers with an h-index of 294 with currently over 353,000 citations. ..