[Mitworld] New:Moniz on Oil, Kamen on the Segway, Forum on Drug Pricing

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MIT Alumni Association
Technology Day 2004 "Shifting Gears" presents

Ernest J. Moniz
Professor of Physics, Director of Energy Studies, MIT

"Oil, Security, Environment, Technology"

Dean Kamen
"The Segway Alternative"


As the price of oil tops $50 a barrel, Moniz describes a range of new 
factors that affect supply and demand, and offers key objectives for 
consideration in US energy policy.  Later, inventor Dean Kamen 
delivers an overview of the history of the Segway, while riding one 
across the stage at Kresge.  The invention of the Segway and its 
eventual adoption as a viable transportation mode will require 
systemic change, which Kamen argues is a change in thinking about 
transportation, cities and urban design.

Go directly to the video at http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/227/.

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MIT Sloan School of Management presents

Large Molecules, Large Dreams:
A Forum on Global Drug Pricing and Sustainable Medical Innovation

"Alternative Models of Differential Pricing for Medicines"

A panel discussion moderated by Tomas J. Philipson
Senior Economic Advisor to the Administrator
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Panelists include

David Meeker, M.D.
President, LSD Therapeutics, Genzyme Corporation

Una S. Ryan
President & CEO, AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc.
Chair, Massachusetts Biotechnology Council

Patricia M. Danzon
Chair, Health Care Systems Department
The Wharton School of Management
University of Pennsylvania

Hannah E. Kettler
Program Officer, Global Health Strategies
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Go directly to the video page at http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/226/. 
This is the second of four sessions from the forum.  The others will 
be on MIT World by the end of October.

The Forum was held in conjunction with and preceding the 3rd Annual 
Celebration of Biotechnology in Kendall Square.  The Forum was 
sponsored by MIT Sloan School of Management, the Harvard-MIT Division 
of Health Sciences and Technology, the MIT Entrepreneurship Center 
and the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council.



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