Steve Burrill
CEO, Burrill & Company

Burrill & Company is a life sciences merchant bank based in San Francisco with over $400 million under management.  He was involved in the start of the biotechnology revolution 35 years ago and continues to be involved in financing medical innovation.  He serves on the boards of several biotechnical and biopharmaceutical  companies.  In 2002, he was named one of the Scientific American 50 "visionaries" by Scientific America magazine.  He is a founder of the Foundation for the National Medals of Science and Technology.  Prior to founding Burrill & Company in 1994, he worked 28 years with Ernst & Young directing and coordinating services to clients in the biotechnology/life sciences and high technology industries worldwide.

• Burrill & Company
• "Healthcare in Transition:  Biotech Drives Major Changes" -- PRNewswire
• National Science & Technology Medals Foundation

Clifton Leaf
Senior Editor-at-Large, Fortune

Prior to joining Fortune, Leaf was executive editor of SmartMoney and held editorial positions at Fitness Magazine and Harper's Bazaar.  A cancer survivor himself, he wrote the 2004 cover story "Why We're Losing the War on Cancer (And How to Win It)," for Fortune.  The article has won the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business Journalism, the Henry R. Luce Award for public service, and the NIHCM's 2005 Health Care Journalism Award.  He is currently writing a book on the war on cancer for Alfred A. Knopf, due for publication this year.  

• "Why We're Losing the War on Cancer (And How to Win It)" -- Fortune
• "Why the FDA Keeps Blowing It" -- CNNMoney.com
• "Deadly Caution" -- CNNMoney.com

Afternoon session

Arthur Caplan
Ph.D., Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Director of the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania

Caplan is one of the nation's leading bioethicists.  He is the author or editor of 25 books and over 500 papers in refereed journals of medicine, science, philosophy, bioethics and health policy.  He is a frequent guest and commentator on both television and radio, writes a regular column on bioethics for MSNBC.com, and serves on a number of national and international committees.

• Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania
• "Is Biomedical Research Too Dangerous to Pursue?" -- Science magazine
• "The Moral Tragedy of Chronic Illness" -- PBS
• "Breaking Bioethics" -- MSNBC.com