Leaps Talk #10 | Tackling Huge Challenges Together | @ EmTech MIT 2022.

Описание: History tends to elevate lone heroes, but recent events have shown that enormous challenges can only be solved through team effort. Two celebrated leaders from science and sport, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett and Laurent Duvernay Tardif, discuss how collaboration, resolve, and empathy have contributed to some of their most recognizable achievements. They define their vision for the future, and chart where they’ll set their sights next.

About Leaps Talks:
Breakthroughs in biotech could change the world for the better, but they also raise important ethical questions that cannot solely be answered by scientists and investors. That’s why Leaps by Bayer aims to engage society in this critical dialogue. Leaps Talks is a speaker series that gathers leading minds from distinct disciplines to discuss ethics, opportunities, and challenges in biotech innovation.
Learn more: https://leaps.bayer.com/engagement/

About the speakers:
Kizzmekia Corbett, Lead Scientist, COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Development and Assistant Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett was the scientific lead of the Vaccine Research Center’s coronavirus team at the U.S. National Institutes of Health where she studied coronavirus biology and vaccine development. Those 6 years of research led to the groundbreaking discovery that a stabilized version of a spike protein, which is found on the surface of all coronaviruses, would be a key target for vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, she and her colleagues were central to the development of the Moderna mRNA vaccine and the Eli Lilly therapeutic monoclonal antibody, both of which were first to enter clinical trials in the world. As a result, her work is having a substantial impact on ending the worst respiratory-disease pandemic in more than 100 years. Dr. Corbett is now an assistant professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her work now extends beyond the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines to the outlook of this pandemic and future viral pandemics.

Perhaps just as important as her scientific accomplishments, Dr. Corbett has burst onto the public stage as the face of a diverse and rising generation of talented scientists. She is a stellar science communicator, explaining the vaccine and the virus in highly accessible ways to media outlets, two U.S. presidents, and audiences around the globe.

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, Graduate in Medicine, Professional American Football Champion
Called “the most interesting man in the NFL”, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is a nine-year NFL veteran, Professional American Football Champion, offensive lineman for the New York Jets, and the only active NFL player with a medical degree. Just months after his February 2020 “Big Game” win with the Kansas City Chiefs — and in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic — Duvernay-Tardif stepped away from football to join the medical front lines. From the incredible highs of winning the biggest football event of the year to the burnout of working as an orderly, Duvernay-Tardif shares his remarkable personal story, speaking to resiliency, leadership, and more.

As plans for the 2020 NFL season ramped up, Duvernay-Tardif stepped away from the game he loved, becoming the first player of the 2020 NFL season to publicly opt-out. For the first time in his remarkable career, Duvernay-Tardif couldn’t reconcile his twin passions of football and medicine, and with his team’s “Big Game” win only months behind him, he found himself on the front lines of the pandemic, working in a long-term care facility in Quebec. While working on the front lines, Duvernay-Tardif enrolled in Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Moderator:
Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, CEO and Publisher, MIT Technology Review
Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau is the CEO and publisher of MIT Technology Review, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s independent media company. Since Elizabeth took the helm of MIT Technology Review in mid-2017, the business has undergone a massive transformation from its previous position as a respected but niche print magazine to a widely read, multi-platform media brand with a global audience and a sustainable business. Under her leadership, MIT Technology Review has been lauded for its editorial authority, best-in-class events, and novel use of independent, original research to support both advertisers and readers.

Elizabeth holds an executive MBA from the London Business School, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College.

About EmTech MIT:
EmTech is MIT Technology Review’s flagship annual event on emerging technology and global trends, being held in person at MIT Media Lab. It brings together global changemakers, innovators, and industry veterans to distinguish what’s probable, plausible, and possible with tomorrow’s breakthrough technologies.