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Boston, MA - June 25 to 27, 2025

Boston, MA - June 25 to 27, 2025

21Jul

Sean Stephenson, DCH

Sean Stephenson, DCH

Sean Stephenson

The 3 Foot Giant

Dr. Stephenson was predicted not to survive at birth because of a rare bone disorder, osteogenesis imperfecta, that stunted his growth and caused his bones to be extremely fragile.

Despite his challenges, he took a stand for a quality of life that has inspired millions of people around the world including Sir Richard Branson, President Clinton, and his Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Dr. Stephenson appeared on everything from Oprah to Jimmy Kimmel, in addition to online videos with millions of views. The Biography Channel did an hour-long feature on his life called “Three Foot Giant.”

Dr. Stephenson's message was heard at live events in over 15 countries and 47 states over 21 years. His book, Get Off Your “But.” was released in ten different languages around the world.

In 2019, at the age of 40, Dr. Stephenson passed away after a serious concussion. His last words were "This didn't happen to me, but for me."

Heman Bekele

Heman BekeleTIME’s 2024 Kid of the YearWinner of the 2023…

Leanne Fan

Leanne Fan Winner of the 2022 3M Young Scientist ChallengeLeanne…

Carl June, M.D.

Carl June, M.D. The Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy,…

21Jul

Laura Dominguez-Tauer

Laura Dominguez-Tauer

Laura Dominguez-Tauer

Stem Cell Patient
Co-founder, Beyond the Chair

After an auto accident when she was 16 yrs. old that paralyzed her from the neck down, Laura received her own adult stem cells transplanted into her spine. She can now feel down to her toes, has regained some movement in her legs, and has the ability to stand and stay standing with a walker with little help. She can even contract her quadriceps and hamstring muscles when standing. She is determined to walk again. Her amazing story of perseverance, focus and medical science will inspire and ignite the imagination of anyone interested in the future of stem cell research.

Heman Bekele

Heman BekeleTIME’s 2024 Kid of the YearWinner of the 2023…

Leanne Fan

Leanne Fan Winner of the 2022 3M Young Scientist ChallengeLeanne…

Carl June, M.D.

Carl June, M.D. The Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy,…

21Jul

Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.

Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.

Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.

Author, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist who experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain in 1996. On the afternoon of this rare form of stroke (AVM), she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. It took eight years for Dr. Jill to completely recover all of her functions and thinking ability. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey.

Heman Bekele

Heman BekeleTIME’s 2024 Kid of the YearWinner of the 2023…

Leanne Fan

Leanne Fan Winner of the 2022 3M Young Scientist ChallengeLeanne…

Carl June, M.D.

Carl June, M.D. The Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy,…

21Jul

Isha Jain & Raina Jain

Isha Jain & Raina Jain

Grand Prize Winner, 2007 Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology
Winner, 2010 Sanofi International BioGENeius Challenge

Isha performed her first experiment in the fourth grade, testing candy to figure out why some is chewy and some is hard. Since then, her accomplishments have only gotten sweeter: At 16 she won $100,000 for her research on bone growth in zebrafish, she co-authored six published scientific papers, and she helped direct Harvard’s National Symposium for the Advancement of Women in Science. “If only a small percentage of women are involved in science, we’re slowing the rate at which we’ll make new discoveries,” she says.

Raina became the youngest high-school student in the world to win an award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in 2008, just days after her 14th birthday. The Intel ISEF is the crown jewel of science competitions around the world. Raina’s study of how glass implants can help bones regenerate their cells earned her a fourth-place award in the Biosciences and Engineering category.

Heman Bekele

Heman BekeleTIME’s 2024 Kid of the YearWinner of the 2023…

Leanne Fan

Leanne Fan Winner of the 2022 3M Young Scientist ChallengeLeanne…

Carl June, M.D.

Carl June, M.D. The Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy,…

21Jul

Paige Brown

Paige Brown

Paige Brown

First Place Medal of Distinction in Global Good
2016 Intel Science Talent Search

Paige Brown is the first place medal of distinction winner in global good of the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search, for her research studying the water quality of six environmentally impaired local streams with high E. coli and phosphate contamination levels. She is currently developing a cost-effective filter largely made of calcium alginate strands to remove the phosphate from stormwater systems.

Paige is currently studying chemical engineering at Stanford University.

Heman Bekele

Heman BekeleTIME’s 2024 Kid of the YearWinner of the 2023…

Leanne Fan

Leanne Fan Winner of the 2022 3M Young Scientist ChallengeLeanne…

Carl June, M.D.

Carl June, M.D. The Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy,…

21Jul

Janelle Tam

Janelle Tam

Janelle Tam

Winner, 2012 Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada

At 17-years-old, Janelle Tam has discovered that cellulose, a material found in trees that helps them stand up straight, is an antioxidant with potent anti-aging properties. Janelle’s study of minute particles in tree pulp known as nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) led to an “a-ha”! moment for the young innovator — she had unearthed a super-durable material that had the power to fight disease and prevent aging. This unbelievable discovery won Janelle the 2012 Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada, a national competition for young scientists.

Janelle is a recent graduate from Princeton University.

Heman Bekele

Heman BekeleTIME’s 2024 Kid of the YearWinner of the 2023…

Leanne Fan

Leanne Fan Winner of the 2022 3M Young Scientist ChallengeLeanne…

Carl June, M.D.

Carl June, M.D. The Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy,…

21Jul

Olivia Hallisey

Olivia Hallisey

Olivia Hallisey

Grand Prize Winner, 2015 Google Science Fair

Olivia Hallisey developed a novel diagnostic Ebola test, the “Ebola Assay Card” (EAC). She determined early diagnosis was critical to arresting the epidemic’s exponential growth. The EAC is inexpensive, rapid, and visual, indicating results through a color change, eliminating language barriers, and increasing ease of use. Most recently, she has developed the “Lyme Assay Card” (LAC) for saliva-based early diagnosis of Lyme disease. She is continuing research on this assay as a broad disease diagnostic with applicability for other ELISA assay-based diseases.

She is currently studying at Stanford University.

Heman Bekele

Heman BekeleTIME’s 2024 Kid of the YearWinner of the 2023…

Leanne Fan

Leanne Fan Winner of the 2022 3M Young Scientist ChallengeLeanne…

Carl June, M.D.

Carl June, M.D. The Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy,…

21Jul

Jack Andraka

Jack Andraka

Jack Andraka

Grand Prize Winner, 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
Breakthrough Inventor, Scientist, and Cancer Researcher

When Jack was 15-years-old he created a new diagnostic test for pancreatic cancer that is 28 times faster, 26,000 times less expensive and over 100 times more sensitive than the current diagnostic tests. And, in case that’s not impressive enough, the test also works for ovarian and lung cancer.

His diagnostic test earned him first prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the world’s largest pre-college science research competition.

Jack is currently studying at Stanford University.

Heman Bekele

Heman BekeleTIME’s 2024 Kid of the YearWinner of the 2023…

Leanne Fan

Leanne Fan Winner of the 2022 3M Young Scientist ChallengeLeanne…

Carl June, M.D.

Carl June, M.D. The Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy,…

21Jul

Virginia Man-Yee Lee, Ph.D.

Virginia Man-Yee Lee, Ph.D.

Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, 2020
The Times 'Science Power List’, 2020

Virginia Man-Yee Lee, Ph.D. was awarded the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for her research on Alzheimer's disease. She is the John H. Ware 3rd Professor in Alzheimer's Research in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research and Co-director of the Marian S. Ware Alzheimer Drug Discovery Program.

Dr. Lee’s research focuses on disease proteins that form pathological inclusions in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, and related neurodegenerative disorders of aging. Her work demonstrated that tau, alpha-synuclein, and TDP-43 proteins form unique brain aggregates in neurodegenerative diseases and provided critical evidence that aggregation of brain proteins is a common mechanistic theme in diverse neurodegenerative diseases. Most importantly, this research has opened up new avenues of research to identify targets for drug discovery to develop better treatments for these disorders. Dr. Lee is listed among the 10 most highly cited neuroscientists by Alzheimer’s Disease researchers.

Heman Bekele

Heman BekeleTIME’s 2024 Kid of the YearWinner of the 2023…

Leanne Fan

Leanne Fan Winner of the 2022 3M Young Scientist ChallengeLeanne…

Carl June, M.D.

Carl June, M.D. The Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy,…

21Jul

Noah St. John

Noah St. John

Founder, SuccessClinic.com

Dr. Noah St. John is known worldwide as “The Father of AFFORMATIONS®” and “The Mental Health Coach to The Stars.”

Working with Hollywood celebrities, 8-figure company CEOs, professional athletes, top executives and elite entrepreneurs, Noah’s clients are the 0.1% rockstars who love to take action and get amazing results.

Noah is also the only author in history to have works published by HarperCollins, Hay House, Simon & Schuster, Mindvalley, Nightingale-Conant, and the Chicken Soup for the Soul publisher.

Noah’s mission is to eliminate not-enoughness from the world and he is internationally recognized for his signature coaching services; facilitating workshops at companies and institutions across the globe; and appearing on over 1,000 media outlets including ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, The Hallmark Channel, NPR, Entrepreneur, The Jenny McCarthy Show, Selling Power and SUCCESS Magazine.

Noah is also famous for inventing AFFORMATIONS®, a new technology of the mind that over 1 million people worldwide use every day to improve their wealth, health, and happiness. Learn more at https://Afformations.com.

Heman Bekele

Heman BekeleTIME’s 2024 Kid of the YearWinner of the 2023…

Leanne Fan

Leanne Fan Winner of the 2022 3M Young Scientist ChallengeLeanne…

Carl June, M.D.

Carl June, M.D. The Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy,…