Pitch block 1 - 9 AM - 10:15 AM
- Mark Lemmon
- Silvia Vilarinho (Presented by Joao Pereira)
- Christine Ko
- Samuel Katz
- Luisa Escobar-Hoyos
- Jorge Sepulcre
- Lajos Pusztai
- Dan Wu
Pitch block 2 - 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
- Arya Mani
- Madhav Menon (Presented by Gabriel Barsotti)
- Whitney Besse
- Roel Verhaak
- William Damsky
- Andrew Wang
- Janghoo Lim
- Elizabeth Jonas / Lawrence Young
Pitch block 3 - 1 PM - 2:20 PM
- John Fulkerson
- Yibing Qyang
- David van Dijk
- Sreeganga Chandra
- Victor Batista
- Seth Herzon
- Farren Isaacs
- Richard Flavell
- Eric Song
Pitch block 4 - 2:40 PM - 4:00 PM
- David Hesse (Presented by Henry Ritter)
- Themis Kyriakides
- Daniel Wiznia
- Richa Sharma
- David Pitt
- Ellen Foxman
- David Braun (Presented by Mike Hurwitz)
- Jennifer Kwan

Andrew Wang, MD, PhD, AB Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (Rheumatology)
Optimal Diet: A New Approach To Improve Outcomes In Cachectic States

Arya Mani, MD, FACC, FAHA Robert W Berliner Professor of Internal Medicine (Cardiology) and Genetics
Developing Catalytically Inactive CELA2A As A First-in-Class Therapy For Diabetes

Christine Ko, MD Professor of Dermatology and Pathology
Rescuing P53 To Treat Cancer

Dianqing Wu
Professor

Daniel Wiznia, MD Associate Professor of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation
Foaming Surgical Antiseptic: An Effortless Solution For Infection Prevention

David Braun, MD, PhD Assistant Prof Medical Oncology, Louis Goodman & Alfred Gilman Yale Scholar
AI-powered, Minimally Invasive Detection And Monitoring For Cancer

David Hesse, MD Associate Professor of Urology
Uroplug: A Novel Device For Managing Urinary Incontinence That Is Low Cost, Patient-Friendly, And Sustainable (Presented By Henry Ritter)

David Pitt, MD Associate Professor of Neurology
AstroScope: A Novel Neurodiagnostic Platform

David Van Dijk, PhD, MSc, BSc Assistant Prof of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and of Computer Science
Toward A Cellular Operating System: Foundation Models For Contextual Biology

Elizabeth Jonas, MD Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Endocrinology and of Neuroscience Lawrence Young, MD Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and of Cellular And Molecular Physiology
A Novel Target For Treatment Of Major Heart Attacks

Ellen F. Foxman, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Immunobiology
VirusCheck: Rapid Screening For Respiratory Virus Infection

Eric Song, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Adjunct of Ophthalmology & Visual Science and Immunobiology
Treating CNS Aging Through Meningeal Lymphatic Rejuvenation

Farren Isaacs, PhD Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Biosynthesis Of Therapeutic GLP-1 Peptides

Janghoo Lim
Professor Of Genetics And Neuroscience

Jennifer Kwan, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
AI-Powered Personalized Heart Health

John Fulkerson, MD Professor of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation
Trivara AMZ Platform

Jorge Sepulcre, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
Novel Compound For Treating And Imaging Glioblastoma And Other Solid Tumors

Lajos Pusztai, MD, DPhil Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology)
First-in-Class Nectin-2 Targeting ADC For Solid Tumors

Luisa Escobar-Hoyos, MSc, PhD Assistant Professor of Therapeutic Radiology
Mimetika

Madhav Menon, MBBS, MD Assistant Professor
Shroom3-Rock Interaction And Kidney Fibrosis: Designing Precision Therapeutics For CKD

Mark Lemmon, PhD, FRS, Alfred Gilman Professor and Chair of Pharmacology
Targeting Cancer Stroma To Prevent Metastatic Escape

Richa Sharma, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Neurology
POLARIS: An AI-Powered Tool To Prevent Stroke

Richard Flavell, PhD, FRS Sterling Professor of Immunobiology
A Therapeutic Calcium Channel-Blocking Antibody For Cancer

Roel Verhaak, PhD Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery
Developing An ADC For Treatment Of Glioma

Samuel Katz, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Pathology
Nanobody MET CAR For Solid Tumors

Seth Herzon
Milton Harris '29 Ph.d. Professor Of Chemistry

Silvia Vilarinho, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and of Pathology
Liver Endothelial Vascular Reprogramming: A Therapeutic Alternative To Liver Transplantation

Sreeganga Chandra, PhD Professor of Neurology & Neuroscience
Development Of A Novel, Phosphospecific Alpha-Synuclein Antibody As A Therapeutic For MSA

Themis Kyriakides, PhD Professor of Pathology
Genetically Modified Porcine-Derived Decellularized Vascular Grafts

Victor Batista, PhD, John Gamble Kirkwood Professor of Chemistry
Closing The AI-to-Human Validation Loop To Accelerate Drug Discovery

Whitney Besse
Assistant Professor

William Damsky, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Dermatology and Dermatopathology
Personalizing Treatment Selection For Inflammatory Skin Disease

Yibing Qyang, PhD Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells For Next-Generation Endothelialized Grafts