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Title: Frontiers of New Knowledge in Science
Date: Nov 15-17, 2024
Venue: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Registration: Not open yet

For the first time, a Molecular Frontiers Symposium will take place in China. Lead organizers are Bengt Nordén, Pernilla Wittung Stafshede, Zhongli Luo, Chen Ping and Shuguang Zhang.

We will update this page with more details about the program soon!

Confirmed speakers

Sir Greg Winter, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom: Harnessing Evolution to Make New Medicines
Sir Alan Fersht, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom: Protein Engineering of Anti-tumor p53 Complexes
Reiko Kuroda, Chubu University, Japan: Snail Coiling: CRISPR Editing of A Single Gene Turns Righties Into Lefties
Feng Zhang, MIT and Broad Institute, Cambridge, United States: Advances in Genome Editing for Human Health
Pernilla Wittung Stafshede, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden: Combating Neurodegenerative Diseases
Ed Boyden, MIT, United States: Expansion Microscopy in Neuroscience and Biology
Jens Nielsen, BioInnovation Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark: Metabolic Engineering
Yang Huanming, BGI and Chinese Academy of Sciences: What Can We Learn from A Million Human Genomes?
Philip Ball, Science author, London, United Kingdom: Curiosity and Patterns in Nature
Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute, Gottingen, Germany: Title TBA
Josiah “Jody” Rich, Brown University, United States: Opioid Crisis and How to Overcome It
William DeGrado, University of California, San Francisco: De Novo Protein Design
Barry Sharpless, Scripps Research Institute, Unites States: The click chemistry
Robert Langer, MIT, United States: Recent Excitement in Designer Materials and Sustained Release
Saul Griffith, Otherlab, San Francisco, California, United States: Design Remarkable Materials and Devices for Clean Energy
Tim Hunt, Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom: Title TBA
Zhao Bowen, Quantihealth, Beijing, China: Human Microbiome: Our Second Genome
Joi Ito, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan: Biotech for Climate Change
Zhang Shuguang, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, United States: The QTY Code, Always Ask Unusual Questions
Christina Moberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden: Title TBA
Daniela Rhodes, MRC-LMB, United Kingdom:Title TBA
Anja-Verena Mudring, Aarhus University, Denmark: Title TBA