Shinya Yamanaka

Director of Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco For induced pluripotent stem cells. About the participants: Art Levinson- Arthur D. Levinson is chairman of Genentech, Inc. And a member of the Roche Board of Directors. He has been chairman of Genentech since 1999, and he served as chief executive officer of Genentech from 1995 to 2009. Levinson joined Genentech in 1980 as a research scientist and became vice president, Research Technology in 1989; vice president, Research in 1990; senior vice president, Research in 1992; and senior vice president, Research and Development in 1993. Art was appointed Chairman of the Board of Apple in November 2011. He had served as a co-lead director of Apple's board since 2005 and a director since 2000. He is Chairman of the Board of Amyris and a director of NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. And the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He was a director of Google, Inc. From 2004 to 2009. He currently serves on the Board of Scientific Consultants of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Industrial Advisory Board of the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research, the Advisory Council for the Princeton University Department of Molecular Biology and the Advisory Council for the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. Art has authored or co-authored more than 80 scientific articles and has been a named inventor on 11 United States patents. Art received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Washington and earned a doctorate in Biochemical Sciences from Princeton University. Mark Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg is the founder chairman and CEO of Facebook, which he founded in 2004 in his college dorm room. Mark is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for Facebook. He leads the design of Facebook's service and the development of its core technology and infrastructure. Mark studied computer science at Harvard University before moving the company to Palo Alto, California. In September 2010, Mark donated $100 million to the Newark Public School System to help renovate and revamp the system. (MORE) PRNEWSWIRE/ASIANET VSS 02201800 NNNN