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Supply chain risk in pharmaceutical manufacturing and the advantages of continuous manufacturing  Prof. Fernando Muzzio is a Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University and the Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center in Structured Organic Particulate Systems. Prof. Muzzio has authored over 250 peer-reviewed papers and numerous book chapters and patents. He is one of the founding co-chairs of the International Institute for Advanced Pharmaceutical Manufacturing.

Logistics Manager's Index as a leading indicator of economic activity, Supply Chain Financing, and Effects of COVID on the global supply chain Prof. Dale Rogers is a Professor of Business at Arizona State University. He is also the Director of the Frontier Economies Logistics Lab and the Co-Director of the Internet edge Supply Chain Lab at ASU. Dale is a leading researcher in the fields of reverse logistics, sustainable supply chain management, supply chain finance, and secondary markets.

Cancer - why have we failed, and how can we get better? The quest to find and destroy the first cell to minimize human strife. Prof. Azra Raza is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the MDS (Myelodysplastic Syndrome) Center at Columbia University. She is a practicing oncologist seeing 30-40 cancer patients weekly. She worked with President Clinton designing Breakthrough Developments in Science and Technology and with Vice President Joe Biden for the Cancer Moonshot initiative. Her latest book, THE FIRST CELL: And the human costs of pursuing cancer to the last was published in October 2019.

Reasons for the science-policy disconnect, statistical inference, threats to scalability, publication bias, and speculation on global economic effects of COVID.  Dr. Omar Al-Ubaydli is the Director of Research at Derasat, a think tank in the Kingdom of Bahrain, an affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and affiliated senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center. His research interests include political economy, experimental economics, and the economics of the GCC countries. Omar previously served as a member of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Joint Advisory Board of Economists and a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago.

Effects of Immigrants on Firms’ Foreign Location Choice and Performance and Immigrant Entrepreneurs as Pathways to Foreign VC Investments Dr. Zeke Hernandez is the Max and Bernice Garchik Family Presidential Associate Professor at the Wharton Business School. He studies global strategy, with an emphasis on how immigrants and innovation help firms successfully globalize.

Artificial Intelligence, Automated Science, Self-driving Scientific Experimentation, Active Learning, High Throughput Screening, R&D optimization Prof. Robert Murphy is a Professor of Computational Biology, Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University.  He is also an Honorary Professor of Biology at the University of Freiburg, Germany, Fellow of the IEEE and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and a Senior Member of the International Society for Computational Biology.  He founded the Computational Biology Department at Carnegie Mellon University and served as its head from 2009 to 2020. His research interests include machine learning of image-derived models of cell organization and analysis and modeling of protein location changes across cell types and diseases.

Causes of Cancer, Healthcare access, Breast Cancer, Emerging Techniques in Breast Cancer Surgery, SHAVE trial Prof. Anees Chagpar is a Professor in the Department of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine. She is a well-known breast surgical oncologist who participates in investigator-initiated and cooperative group clinical trials, as well as translational and clinical research. The results of one of her recent clinical trials to improve outcomes in breast cancer surgery were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. She teaches an online course on Coursera entitled “An Introduction to Breast Cancer”, and co-hosts a radio show and podcast called “Yale Cancer Answers”.

The economic impact of LGBT rights in firms and countries, policy trends, wage gaps and reasons for optimism Prof. M. V. Lee Badgett is a professor of economics and co-director of the Center for Employment Equity at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also a Williams Distinguished Scholar at UCLA’s Williams Institute. Her research focuses on economic inequality for LGBT people, including wage gaps, employment discrimination, and poverty, and on the global cost of homophobia and transphobia. Her latest book is The Economic Case for LGBT Equality: Why Fair and Equal Treatment Benefits Us All (Beacon Press, 2020).

Computer Assisted Mobility, Intelligent Wheelchair design, Human/Machine interactions, and Human Engineering Research Laboratories. Prof. Rory Cooper holds several positions including Associate Dean for Inclusion and Paralyzed Veterans of America, Professor of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, and Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also the Founding Director and the VA Senior Research Career Scientist at the Human Engineering Research Laboratories. He is also a Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Cheaper and faster sterilization of PPE, HPV eliminating antiviral and anticancer agents,  Modulating DNA with polyamides, Green Chemistry  Prof. James Bashkin is a Professor of Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry at the University of Missouri, St.Louis. Prior to this, he was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at Harvard before joining Monsanto Corporate Research, which later became Pharmacia and then Pfizer. His recent research interest has been at the interface of chemistry and biology, in areas such as "chemical genomics," the design of antiviral and anticancer agents, and Green Chemistry.