WIRED Health returns to London with a brand new speaker faculty, covering the most compelling innovations and new technology used in genomics, genetics, mental health, cognitive science and the cancer therapy.
Hundreds of healthcare, pharmaceutical and technology influencers and leaders travel from around the world to be a part of this refreshing event, which offers attendees valuable business insight, human factor thinking and exceptional networking opportunities.
2018 WIRED Health Speakers
Musician
After her mother's diagnosis with Glioblastoma in May 2017, Jess has since been project managing her mothers care. The musician daughter of Tessa Jowell is now campaigning to remove the low ceiling created by the current standard of care for cancer in the UK, by enabling global collaboration between doctors, making the most innovative treatments available to everyone in the UK, irrespective of income or access.
Wildlife veterinary surgeon, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
As a pioneer of keyhole surgery in wildlife, veterinary surgeon Romain Pizzi is renowned for performing brain surgery on Champa the bear – a world first for the procedure – as well as his work developing new surgical approaches that save thousands of animals each year. Read more about them here.
Director of Technology Innovation, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies
Bruce Levine develops and tests novel cell and gene therapies in clinical trials in patients with tumors, HIV and genetic disease.
Eye surgeon and inventor
Andrew Bastawrous created Peek, a low-cost smartphone-based ophthalmic tool built to deliver eye care in some of the world's most challenging places. Read more about them here.
Chief medical officer and co-founder, Medical Realities
Multi award-winning cancer surgeon, teacher, and entrepreneur, Shafi Ahmed cofounded Medical Realities, the company which released the world’s first VR Interactive Surgical Training Module.
Head of cellular genetics, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Sarah Teichmann is creating an atlas of human building blocks – all 37 trillion of them. Her work has won awards from the Lister Prize, the Biochemical Society Colworth Medal, the Royal Society Crick Lecture and an EMBO Gold Medal. Read more about them here.
Director, Institute for Aging Research, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Nir Barzilai is leading an effort to beat age-related diseases through the Targeting Aging with METformin (TAME) study.
Founder and chief medical officer, Ada Health GmbH
Ada Health is an AI-powered health companion that helps users to understand and manage their health, assisting with matching symptoms to potential causes, and offering treatment options.
Clinical neuroscientist and co-creator, Sea Hero Quest
Hornberger co-created Sea Hero Quest, an interactive smartphone game that is designed to efficiently crowdsource large amounts of research which may help understand approaches to early detection in dementia. Read more about them here.
CEO, BenevolentBio
BenevolentBio is the bioscience subsidiary of BenevolentAI, one of the world’s largest private AI companies. Jackie Hunter leads the application of its technology for drug development. Read more about them here.
Founder and CEO, MindMaze
Neuroscientist and electronics engineer Tej Tadi founded MindMaze, a neuro-computing company that combines brain-capturing technology with mixed reality and AI to evoke emotion in the virtual world.
Head of psychedelic Research, Centre for Psychiatry, Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London
Robin L Carhart-Harris is combating resistant depression with the clinical trial of psilocybin, a psychedelic “magic” mushroom, and has designed a number of functional brain imaging studies with psilocybin, LSD, MDMA (ecstasy) and DMT (ayahuasca).
CEO, Elvie
Elvie is a British health and lifestyle brand developing smarter technology for women. Its first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning Kegel trainer that helps women strengthen the pelvic floor via fun, five-minute workouts and has more than 800 health professionals around the world recommending it.
President & CEO, Evelo Biosciences
Entrepreneur and investor Simba Gill believes that science and globalization will dramatically improve life in the 21st century - and as President and CEO of Evelo Biosciences, he and his team are developing treatments to defeat serious diseases through the gut-body network.
Special session from the Francis Crick Institute
With an introduction from
Acting Director of Communications
Before joining the Crick, Jonathan Wood worked on stakeholder communications at NHS England and led the media work of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, an economic think tank, through the 2015 UK General Election.
Head of Electron Microscopy (EM)
Lucy Collinson leads a team with image analysis and laser physics expertise to visualise the structure of molecules, cells and tissues at high resolution. Every imaging experiment is different, and so the Electron Microscopy team collaborates with the research scientists to design workflows unique to each research project. The EM team also provides expertise and advice in big data handling and analysis, and provides a hotbed for imaging research and innovation.
Computational biologist
Trained as a physicist, Andrew Steele’s research involves using machine learning to deal with big biological data, using machine learning techniques to model changes to chemical modifications of our DNA as we age, and to analyse NHS patients' medical records to model their future mortality. He is also an award-winning science communicator, on TV, live and online, in formats from documentary to stand-up comedy.
2018 WIRED Health Partner Speakers
Global Life Sciences Lead, EY
Pamela Spence leads EY’s Global Life Sciences Industry practice, a team of more than 15,000 industry professionals, whose main objective is to be the "Team with the most admired insights", enabling clients deliver on their key strategic ambitions. Pamela has worked closely with WIRED Health in previous years as a judge for the annual Startup Showcase.
Chief executive officer, Modius
Neuroscientist Jason McKeown created the Modius health-tech headset, which uses neuro-stimulation to affect the parts of the brain associated with the metabolism. The aim is to develop it as a new tool in combating obesity.
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
