This evening’s keynote
Personalized Medicine in the Reproductive Area
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM | Auditorium (building 20)
A keynote lecture by Rene Frydman, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Hôpitaux de Paris. He is a university professor, government advisor, and the doctor responsible for the birth of the first in-vitro baby in France.
Yesterday’s highlights
Academic Lectures
The KAUST Smart Health Initiative from “bench to bedside” : promoting research collaborations in the Kingdom
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Auditorium (building 20)
By Pierre Magistretti, Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Division at Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering at KAUST.
Film Festival
Film Festival: Gattaca
8:00 PM – 9:15 PM | Discovery Cinema
Starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, with Jude Law, Loren Dean. Gattaca is a fiction about genetic discrimination in the future based on DNA sequencing. Christian Froekjaer Jensen, assistant professor of Bioscience at KAUST will introduce and lead the discussion of this screening.
And get ready for tomorrow!
Jazz Up Your Evening! LIVE @ THE HARBOR
8:00 PM – 9:30 PM | Harbor Walk
“Music by the Harbor” is jazz from the renowned Juilliard School at Lincoln Center, performed by Grammy Award-winning drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr. and a New York-based troupe of talents on a trajectory: Corentin Le Hir on bass, Liston Gregory on piano, and David Aedwumi on trumpet.