Venture Beyond the Horizon in Genetics

Cliff Tabin
Department Chair of Genetics
Harvard Medical School

Stephen Elledge
Gregor Mendel Professor 
of Genetics and of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Brielle Ferguson
Assistant Professor of Genetics and Neurology
Harvard Medical School

 

Monica Colaiacovo
Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School

Doyle Karr
External Affairs Strategist,
Doyle XT LLC

Imam Khalil Abdur-Rashid
Muslim Chaplain, Harvard University
Lecturer, Harvard Divinity School & 
Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Rabbi Getzel Davis
Director of Interfaith Engagement
Lecturer, Committee of Study of Religion, Harvard
Harvard University

Rev. Professor Matthew Potts
Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church
Professor, Harvard Divinity School
Harvard University

George Q. Daley
Dean of Harvard Medical School

Kamila Naxerova
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School

Scott Kennedy
Philip and Aya Leder Professor of Genetics,
Harvard Medical School

Julia Li
Assistant Professor of Genetics,
Harvard Medical School

Ting Wu
Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School

Wendy Calhoun is a Peabody award-winning TV writer/producer known for her work on Fox's Empire, The Rookie Feds, Prodigal Son, Station 19, Revenge, Nashville, and Justified. ​She is developing It Takes A Woman, a gripping family drama with DeVon Franklin/CBS Studios/Netflix. ​Wendy co-chairs the Alliance of Regenerative Medicine’s Sickle Cell Disease Gene Therapy Hollywood Think Tank, moderates panels for The Sloan Foundation, serves on the Board of Directors for the Geena Davis Institute, and is a creative advisor for Film Independent’s Global Media Makers and FX Imaginar TV Incubator. ​Wendy frequently speaks at the Austin Film Festival (AFF), including twice headlining AFF’s annual writers’ retreat at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. She’s an honored NYU Tisch School of the Arts School of Film and Television alumnus.

Victoria Gray is a wife, mother, sickle cell warrior, and patient advocate. First person to be treated with CRISPR gene editing for sickle cell disease.


 

Nicole Perlman is best known for co-writing “Guardians of the Galaxy," “Captain Marvel,” and “Detective Pikachu." Her screenplays have won the Tribeca Film Festival's Sloan Foundation Grant for Science in Film, the Hugo Award, and the Ray Bradbury award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation. Nicole has been a Creative Advisor at the Sundance Screenwriting Labs for the past nine years, in addition to mentoring for the Sloan Foundation, Global Media Makers, Women in Film, the BlackList, and serving as Director of the Oxbelly Screenwriters Program in 2024. She is currently developing original television series for Searchlight, Netflix, and FX. Additionally, Nicole and her husband David are executive producing a new procedural called CIA, which premieres this Fall on CBS.

George Church
Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, Founding Core Faculty, Wyss Institute
Harvard University

Fabienne Mondesir
Science Teacher, Boston Day & Evening Academy, Boston Public Schools

Don Ingber
Founding Director and Core Faculty, Wyss Institute;
Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology, Harvard Medical School & Boston Children’s Hospital