Agenda

Session 1: Overview -I

[Chair] Fu-Tong Liu | Vice President, Academia Sinica

[Speakers]

• 09:15 Barend Mons | President, CODATA; Human Genetics Department LUMC

FAIR in times of crisis

• 09:40 James C. Liao | President, Academia Sinica

COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities

• 10: 05 Chien-Jen Chen | Academician, Academia Sinica

COVID-19 Containment and Economic Revitalization in Taiwan

Session 1: Overview -II

[Chair] Fu-Tong Liu | Vice President, Academia Sinica

[Speakers]

• 10:40 Charles Alessi | Chief Clinical Officer, HIMMS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society)

COVID - What are the similarities and the differences in the approach adopted by different countries ? What’s are the insights that result ?

• 11:05 Angela Haczku | Associate Dean for Clinical Research , School of Medicine, UC Davis

COVID-19 at UC Davis: a translational research approach

• 11:30 Jann-Tay Wang | Vice Director, Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine

Clinical spectrum and treatment of COVID-19 in Taiwan

Session 2: SARS-CoV-2

[Chair] Andrew HJ Wang | Academician, Academia Sinica

[Speakers]

• 13:00 Shin-Ru Shih | Director/Professor, Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, Chang Gung University

Genetic Variations of SARS-CoV-2: Impacts on Diagnosis, Antiviral and Vaccine Developments

• 13:25 Stephen Burley | University Professor and Henry Rutgers Chair; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Director, RCSB Protein Data Bank

Protein Data Bank in the Time of Coronavirus: Evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 proteome in 3D during the COVID-19 pandemic

• 13:50 Hui-Ling Yen | Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Universiry of Hong Kong

Pathogenesis and Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Golden Hamsters

• 14:15 Ching-Yung Lin | CEO, Graphen and Adjunct Professor, Columbia University

Live Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 Evolution

Session 3: Therapy

[Chair] Fang-Jen Lee | Distinguished Professor, Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine

[Speakers]

• 15:00 C. Jason Wang | Director, Center for Policy, Outcomes and Prevention, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University

Policy Considerations for the Development, Manufacturing, Financing, and Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines

• 15:25 Sean R. Stowell | Associate Pathologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Member of the Faculty of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Are we forgetting about IgA? Examining the diagnostic and therapeutic utility of IgA for COVID-19

• 15:50 Huey-Kang Sytwu | Vice President, National Health Research Institutes

Overview of the efforts at National Health Research Institutes on development of drugs and vaccines against SARS-CoV-2

• 16:15 Han-Chung Wu | Director, Biomedical Translation Research Center, Academia Sinica

Potent Neutralizing Antibody Cocktail for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19

• 16:40 Hsueh-Fen Juan | Distinguished Professor, Department of Life Science, Graduate Institute of Biomedical and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University

Drug repositioning for COVID-19

Session 4: Impact on Society -I

[Chair] Der-Tsai Lee | Academician, Academia Sinica

[Speakers]

• 09:00 Patrick Yang | Chairman, Acepodia, Inc.; Former Executive Vice President of Technical Operations at Juno, Roche and Genentech

Health is a national security issue (the impact of COVID-19 on biotech supply chain)

• 09:25 Simon Hodson | Executive Director, CODATA

Making Data Work for Cross-Domain Grand Challenges

• 09:50 John Burrows | Professor, Institute of Environmental Physics, IUP, University of Bremen, Germany; Vice President of IAMAS

The impact of COVID-19 on some key trace atmospheric constituents observed from space

Session 4: Impact on Society -II

[Chair] Der-Tsai Lee | Academician, Academia Sinica

[Speakers]

• 10:25 James Schwab | Research Professor, University at Albany, NY, USA/Cheng-Hsuan Lu | Research Associate, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, NY, USA

Selected Impacts in New York: Air Quality, Economic Activity, and Politics

• 10:50 Charles C.-K. Chou | Deputy Director & Research Fellow of Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica/Ben-Jei Tsuang | Professor, Department Environmental Engineering, National Chung-Hsing University

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Regional Air Quality

Part 1: Decline in the East-Asian continental pollution outbreak (Chou)

Part 2: Observation of air quality response in Taiwan (Tsuang)

• 11:20 Simon Liu | Associate Administrator, Agriculture Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Impact of COVID-19 on Agriculture and Research Responses