Agenda
NERDS 2025
Workshop Tentative Agenda
Day 1,
Thursday, October 9th 2025 (Location: )
- 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Keynote Session 1
- 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Speaker 1: Carmen Bozic,
Chief Medical Officer, Vertex Pharmaceutical
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Speaker 2: Jonathan G.
Seidman, Harvard Medical School
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Discussion and Q&A
Session: Lee-Jen Wei, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM: Session 1: Innovative
Design and Methods in Rare Diseases
- 1:10 PM - 3:00 PM: Session 2: Gene and Cell
Therapy
- 3:30 PM – 4:50 PM: Session 3: AI and
Machine Learnings
- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Poster Session
Day 2, Friday,
October 10th 2025 (Location: )
- 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Keynote Session 2
- 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Speaker 1: Dr. Mark Van
Der Laan, UC Berkeley
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Speaker 2: Edward
Neilan, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, National
Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Discussion and Q&A
Session: Li Wang, Head of Statistical Innovation group, AbbVie
- 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM: Session 4: Real-world
evidence and HTA