BUCKINX Tim
Tim Buckinx is the founder and CEO of epihunter. Tim has a professional background in global digital strategy leadership and is the father of a son with ring chromosome 20 syndrome, a type of rare refractory epilepsy. In 2015, his son, at that moment 10 years old, asked Tim « Papa, you work in digital, can’t […]DRAGHIA-AKLI Ruxandra
Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, is Global Head, Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health R&D, where her and her team advance global public health into the next era of innovation through discovery, development, and technology capabilities. She accelerates GPH’s end-to-end strategy by collaborating with teams across Johnson & Johnson on assets with application in global public health settings. […]GROPMAN Andrea
Andrea Gropman, MD, FAAP, FACMG, FANA, is Division Chief, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Neurogenetics at the Children’s National Medical Center and Professor (tenured) of Pediatrics, Neurology, and Genomics and Personalized Medicine at the George Washington University of the Health Sciences. She received her undergraduate degree from Brandeis University, and her Medical education from the University of […]JONKER Anneliene
Anneliene Jonker, PhD, is the Programme Lead of Personalized Medicine of the TechMed Centre, at the University of Twente, in Enschede, The Netherlands and a senior Funding and Strategy officer at the same institute. In this position, she is responsible for setting up projects with different researchers in the personalized medicine-, medtech, and rare diseases […]PANNESE Lucia
Lucia Pannese is a passionate entrepreneur who established one of Europe’s leading and pioneering serious games companies, Milan-based imaginary, in 2004. With her background in mathematics and a very creative, multicultural mind, she acts as both CEO and Research Director and has published numerous international articles and papers. Her company, Imaginary, is recognized internationally for […]SAHEL José-Alain
José-Alain Sahel, MD, trained at Paris University Medical School, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, and Harvard University. He is the Endowed Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine/UPMC. He founded the Vision Institute (Sorbonne Université-Inserm-CNRS) in Paris, France, and the Vision Institute at UPMC, opening in […]WANG Mary
Dr Mary Wang is Programme Director at Rare Diseases International (RDI) where she is leading initiatives on access to diagnosis and essential therapies, and oversees RDI’s collaboration with the World Health Organization. Mary has 17 years of experience in biomedical research, funding, infrastructure, and policy in rare diseases. Prior to joining RDI, Mary worked at […]