Date: 12 September 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 2:00 - 6:00pm (HKT)
Venue: Senate Room, 19/F Lau Ming Wai Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong (CityU)
Speakers: Bruce E. Johnson, MD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Raju Kucherlapati, Ph.D.
Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics & Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Sujuan Ba, Ph.D.
President & CEO, National Foundation for Cancer Research
Founder & CEO, Asian Fund for Cancer Research
Facilitator: Michael Yang Mengsu, Ph.D.
Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor of Biomedical Sciences &
Senior Vice-President (Innovation and Enterprise), City University of Hong Kong


Time Programme
2:00 - 2:10 pm Opening
2:10 - 2:15 pm AFCR-CityU MoU Signing
2:15 - 3:00 pm Precision Medicine Applied in Lung Cancer Abstract
Bruce E. Johnson, MD
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
3:00 - 3:45 pm Genetics in Medicine Abstract
Raju Kucherlapati, Ph.D.
Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics & Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
3:45 - 4:05 pm Networking Break
4:05 - 4:50 pm Bridging Research from Academia to Cancer Entrepreneurship Abstract
Sujuan Ba, Ph.D.
President & CEO, National Foundation for Cancer Research
Founder & CEO, Asia Fund for Cancer Research
4:50 - 5:50 pm Panel Discussion: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Biomedicine
Facilitator: Michael Yang Mengsu, Ph.D.
Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Senior Vice-President (Innovation and Enterprise)
City University of Hong Kong
5:50 - 6:00 pm Closing Remarks