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CURIOUS2018FUTURE INSIGHT CONFERENCE

JULY 16-18 2018darmstadtium, DARMSTADT, GERMANY

WWW.CURIOUS2018.COM

CURIOUS2018 IS SPONSORED BY MERCK KGAA, DARMSTADT, GERMANY ON THE OCCASION OF ITS 350TH ANNIVERSARY

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OPENING CEREMONY

Welcome

Introductory Speech

Ulrich Betz (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany)

David Bull (Moderator)

Stefan Oschmann (CEO Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany)

The Merck family owned company– how to prosper for 350 years and beyond

Blue ocean shift- beyond competing: proven steps toinspire confidence and seize new growth

Craig Venter (J Craig Venter Institute)

Renée Mauborgne (INSEAD)

Networking Coffee Break & Curiosity Ground - Exhibition, e-Poster Session, Ask Me All - circle

From digital life to extending healthy human life

Frank Stangenberg-Haverkamp(Chairman family board E. Merck KGaA)

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Nature RoundtableThe Future of Medicine

Don Cleveland (UCSD)

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte (Salk Institute)

Crystal Mackall (Stanford University)

Jennifer Wargo (MD Anderson Cancer Center)

Caroline Dive (CRUK, Manchester Institute)

Carlos Caldas (CRUK, Cambridge Institute)

David Solit (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)

Nancy Cox (Vanderbilt University)

Simon Hay (University of Washington)

Alan Karthikesalingam (Deep Mind Health)

FerrumDavid Bull TitaniumTim Appenzeller (AAAS/Science)

Curiosity driven research: Don‘t predict the future. Create it.

Bringing new chemistry to life

Foresight for visioningscience, technologyand innovation policy

Stimuli-responsive smart soft materials fabricated undernonequilibrated conditions

A new concept for asymmetriclewis acid catalysis

Nanomaterials for the lifesciences

Shinichi Akaike(NISTEP)

Frances Arnold (Caltech)

Daniel Zajfman(Weizmann Institute)

Takuzo Aida (RIKEN)

Benjamin List(Max-Planck-Institut)

Ulrich Wiesner (Cornell University)


Networking Night – Dinner, Topical Islands, AI-workshop, Dream Board & Curiosity GroundThe perfect place to meet inspiring people from all over the world and make surprising discoveries in a creative environment.

Naohiro Shichijo(Tokyo University of Technology)

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Rapid discovery of gene function

The rise and promise of artificial molecularmachines based on the mechanical bond

Stefan Oschmann (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany)

Bruce Beutler (UT Southwestern Medical Center)

Fraser Stoddart (Northwestern University)


Announcement Future Insight Prize

Networking Lunch & Curiosity Ground - Exhibition, e-Poster Session, AI Workshop, Ask Me All - circle

Introductory CommentsUlrich Betz (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany)


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Impacting lives through inno-vative delivery of global healthinterventions in sub-saharanAfrica

Pathology from the molecularscale on up

Barcamp Life Reimagined/

Synthetic Biology

Garry Nolan (Stanford University)

John Gyapong(University of Health and Allied Sciences)


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14.00Perspectives in chemistry – from supramolecularchemistry to adaptive chemistry

Cryo-electron microscopy, and thetransformation of structural biology

Jean-Marie Lehn (University of Strasbourg )


Introductory Comments David Bull

Curiosity Night – Dinner, AI-workshop, Gadget Lounge & Curiosity GroundWe keep moving forward opening new doors, and doing new things, because we are curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

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Man, Microbes and Systems Medicine

Crystalline sponge method forsynthetic and natural productstudies

The neglected diseases: Will a „new world order“ reverseglobal gains?

Biological variability andexperimental biology: Threatsand opportunities

Genome writing

Liquid SunlightScience Roundtable: Technology Breakthroughof the Year

Friederike Schüür (Cloudera)

Matt Rosseinsky (University of Liverpool)

Yang Shao-Horn (MIT)

Emmanuelle Charpentier (MPI Infection Biology)

Christina Smolke (Stanford University)

Mary Voytek (NASA)

Peter Hotez(Baylor College)

Jeremy Nicholson(Immperial College London)

Makoto Fujita(University Tokyo)

Peidong Yang (University ofCalifornia)

Ruedi Aebersold(ETH Zurich)

Jef Boeke(NYU Langone Health)

Joachim Frank (Columbia University)

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Future Insight Prize

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Stefan Oschmann (CEO Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany)

Lothar H. Wieler (Director Robert Koch Institute)

Nadia Tornieporth (CEPI, Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness)

Christopher Milne (Tufts University)

Justin Sanchez (DARPA)

Sir Michael Jacobs (Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust)

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09.00 What is happening to chemistry?

Taking synthetic biology out of the lab and into your life

George Whitesides (Harvard University)

Justin Sanchez (BTO, DARPA)


Networking Lunch & Curiosity Ground - Exhibition, e-Poster Session, AI Workshop, Ask Me All - circle

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New chemical reactionsenergized by light

Assembly line synthesiscreating molecules withtailored shape

Cognitive computingfor discovery

Cybernics Revolution: Fusion of humans, robots andinformation systems

Barcamp Healthy Lives

Scott Spangler(IBM Watson)

Yoshiyuki Sankai(Cyberdyne, INC.)

Dave MacMillan (PrincetonUniversity)

Varinder Aggarwal

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08.50 Curious2018 Future Insight - video message Satya Nadella (CEO Microsoft)Spectrum


Ulrich Betz (Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany)


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13.30The transformative CRISPR-Cas9 technology: Origins and applications Emmanuelle Charpentier (Max-Planck-Institute)

Introductory Comments David Bull

Closing comments and outlook

Role of infectious agents in human colon cancerHarald zur Hausen (Heidelberg Cancer Research Center)

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Standing on the shoulders of mice: adventures in human immunology

Engineered T-cells for cancertherapy

From diagnosing diseases topredicting diseases

Building scale & breadth at the Ginkgo Bioworks Foundry

Barcamp Materials

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Man, machine, magicGiving new life to materialsfor energy, the environmentand medicine

Magic: Ancient, modern, and future

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Crystal MacKall(Stanford University)

Mark Davis (Stanford University)

Rudi Balling(University ofLuxembourg)

Tom Knight(Ginkgo Bioworks)

Angela Belcher(MIT)

Shyam Sankar(Palantir)

Dean Radin(Institute of NoeticSciences)


Joao Monteiro (Nature)

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