J.P Morgan Life Sciences Private Capital, Blue Horizon Advisors, and and United AlSaqer Group are sponsoring the inaugural J.P. Morgan Asset Management: Life Sciences Innovation Summit at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi on May 14 – 15th, 2024. The inaugural event seeks to attract top caliber, early stage entrepreneurs in life sciences to seed the growth of the emerging scientific innovation hub in Abu Dhabi. The two-day Summit will take place in conjunction with the Abu Dhabi Global Healthcare Week.
The Summit aims to bring together the life sciences leaders of today and the leaders of tomorrow who are building a wide range of innovative therapeutic solutions, including drugs, diagnostics, medical devices, and digital solutions, addressing diseases prevalent in the Emirati region.
J.P. Morgan Life Sciences Private Capital and Blue Horizon Advisors have invited 11 emerging companies to pitch to an industry-renowned judging panel. All finalists will have the potential opportunity to gain support from J.P. Morgan Life Sciences Private Capital, Blue Horizon Advisors, and other prominent regional investors to fuel their growth.
Dr. Rayees Rahman, PhD, is a co-founder and CEO of Harmonic Discovery. Dr. Rahman completed his PhD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he developed machine learning approaches to characterize the 3D structure of protein kinases and their inhibitors.
Dr. Chun-Hao Huang is Co-Founder and CEO of Algen. Dr. Huang is a genetic engineer, drug developer and AI entrepreneur. He received his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley under the mentorship of Nobel Laureate Professor Jennifer Doudna, and his PhD at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center/Weill Cornell Medicine under HHMI Professors Scott Lowe and Charles Sherr. Dr. Huang pioneered genetically engineered models using advanced CRISPR and RNAi, which led to the discovery of new therapeutic strategies for treating cancer and inflammatory diseases. He also invented methods to identify disease biomarkers that predict drug responses and applied machine learning to the study of genes. Dr. Huang is the recipient of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Talent award of the 1st UNLEASH Global Innovation Lab, a Fellow of the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, and an AACR Basic Cancer Research Fellow. He has authored over 10 patents filed or issued, 40 scientific papers, and 3,000 citations across fields of biotechnology, AI, medicine in top-tier journals including Cell, Science, Nature Biotechnology, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Applications will be judged by the following criteria:
As previewed, after a 10-week application period and a thorough analysis by expert scientists and investors, 11 applicants have been shortlisted as finalists and received an invitation to pitch their ideas and therapeutic solutions over the course of a two-day summit in Abu Dhabi on May 14th–15th, 2024.
An expert panel of judges, as further described below, will assess the innovators.
The challenge was accepting applications through January 22, 2024.
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