2024 BARDA Innovation Symposium

November 6th, WASHINGTON D.C.

OVERVIEW

This curated symposium brought together early-stage health security companies, government agencies, investors, strategic partners, and existing companies supported through BARDA, including BARDA Ventures, Blue Knight, and the CARB-X programs. Over 300 innovators developing breakthrough health security technologies and non-dilutive funders, investors, strategic partners, and numerous startups participated, eager to share their technologies and connect with one another.

The 2024 Innovation Symposium successfully fostered an environment for meaningful connections to advance the development of innovative medical countermeasures (MCMs) in alignment with BARDA’s mission.

Impact

400+

Innovators, government partners, investors, and industry leaders in attendance

100+

One-on-one partnering meetings with countless other informal meetings and discussions

48

Poster
Presentations

18


Flash Talks

AGENDA

    9:00 AM – 9:15 AM

Welcome Remarks

  9:15 AM – 10:00 AM

Panel 1: Building a Health Security Innovation Pipeline:

Discussion with BARDA’s Early-Stage Programs and Partners

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM

Panel 2: Early-Stage Innovation to Advanced R&D:

Discussion with BARDA Divisions Supporting Advanced R&D

  11:00 AM – 12:15 PM

Flash Talks, Open Engagement

  • Vaccines/Prophylactic Flash Talks

    Amplitude Therapeutics, GEn1E, Neuroene, Tiny Cargo, SNIPR Biome
  • Medical Devices/Diagnostics Flash Talks

    Day Zero Diagnostics, Duke, In Diagnostics, Jumpcode, Micron Biomedical
  • Therapeutics Flash Talks

    Cellics, Immunyx, Locus, Specific Biologics, Swaza, Tiba, Vedanta
  • Engagement Table Meetings

   12:15 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch Break

    1:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Open Engagement and Poster Sessions

  • Poster Session 1

  • Poster Session 2

  • Engagement Table Meetings

  • BARDA Division and Partner Tables

PARTICIPATING COMPANIES

AgileMD
Airfinity
Alamgir Research Inc DBA ARI Science
Allysta Pharma
Amplitude Therapeutics
Ananda Devices Inc.
Asimov
Astrek Diagnostics
Beckman Coulter, Inc.
BioAegis Therapeutics
Biolinq Incorporated
Cellics Therapeutics
Cerus Corporation
Curza, Inc.
Day Zero Diagnostics
Digital Medicine Society
Direct Biologics, LLC
Duke
Eradivir
Evidation Health
Fluxergy
GEn1E Lifesciences Inc
GoDx, Inc
Immunyx Pharma
In Diagnostics
Jumpcode Genomics, Inc.
Karius Dx
KeViRx, Inc.
LimmaTech Biologics AG
Locus Bio
MeMed
Micron Biomedical, Inc.
Neuroene Therapeutics
New England Hemolytics
Northstar Emergency Management, LLC
POP Biotechnologies
Prompt Diagnostics
Rhinomed Ltd
RIVANNA
Scout
Signature Science
SNIPR Biome
Specific Biologics
Swaza
Syntiron
Tiba Biotech, LLC
Tiny Cargo
Vedanta Biosciences
Veridix AI, part of Emmes Group
VGXI.Inc
Wearabledose, Inc
XCMR Inc
Zepto Life Technology
Zeteo Tech, Inc