The Agenda is:
14:15 Attendees to join
14:25 Welcome – Shaun Grady, SVP Business Development Operations, AstraZeneca
14:30 Keynote and Q&A: Collaboration to combat COVID-19: Politicians and Partnerships –Pascal Soriot, CEO, AstraZeneca
15:00 Panel Discussion: Creating the Cambridge COVID-19 Test Centre: lessons in collaboration and for the future
- Professor Andy Neely, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise and Business Relations, University of Cambridge
- Rebecca Scott, Chief of Staff, Medicinal Science and Technology
- GSK Ian Waddell, Executive Director, Charles River Laboratories
- Clive Green, Executive Director, Sample Management Discovery Sciences, AstraZeneca
- Penny James, COO R&D BioPharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca
- Moderator: Steve Rees, VP Discovery Biology, AstraZeneca
15:30 Panel Discussion: Perspectives on partnering in the pandemic
- Professor Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology, Jenner Institute & Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
- Professor Andy Pollard, Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group
- Per Alfredsson, SVP Biologics Operations, AstraZeneca
- Sjoerd Hubben, VP Global Government Affairs & Policy, AstraZeneca
- Tonya Villafana, Global Franchise Head - Infection, AstraZeneca
- Moderator: Kumar Srinivasan, VP Global Head of Business Development and Licensing, AstraZeneca
16:00 Keynote: Turning science into medicine: pivoting during the pandemic – Sir Mene Pangalos, EVP and President BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca
16:30 AZ with Accelerate @ Babraham – Start-up Pitching Competition
Facilitator: Hitesh Sanganee, Head of Emerging Innovations, AstraZeneca
17:00 Reflections on the day, opening the voting for winning pitch and winner announcement –Shaun Grady, SVP Business Development Operations, AstraZeneca
17:15 Virtual networking
18:00 Adjourn
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