WELCOME
to the
2025 BioCrossroads Life Sciences Summit
Presented in Partnership with AgriNovus Indiana
One Health: Advancing and Defining Indiana’s Leadership Opportunity
For more than two decades, the BioCrossroads Life Sciences Summit has served as a platform to elevate the people, organizations, and innovations driving Indiana’s life sciences sector forward. Each year, the Summit convenes more than 250 leaders from industry, academia, startups, policy, and the nonprofit sector for a focused day of dialogue around the most pressing challenges and emerging opportunities shaping the field.
The 2025 BioCrossroads Life Sciences Summit, presented in partnership with AgriNovus Indiana, will put One Health at the center, recognizing that human, animal, and plant health are deeply interconnected, and that breakthroughs in one area can spark innovation across them all. With world-class R1 research universities, global industry leaders, and strong cross-sector partnerships, Indiana is uniquely positioned to define and deliver real-world One Health solutions.
This event is sold out.
What to expect at Summit
Held in the heart of the emerging One Health Innovation District in downtown Indianapolis, this year’s Summit will bring together leaders from industry, academia, non-profits, and government for a full day of strategic dialogue. Conversations will focus on advancing sustainable farming, improving companion pet health, and reshoring critical supply chains — areas where Indiana’s strengths can make a global impact on public health and national security.
These discussions will explore how Indiana can:
Align its strengths to address specific, high-impact One Health challenges
Advance public health, environmental resilience, and supply chain security
Accelerate the vision for the One Health Innovation District
Expand Indiana’s global leadership in life sciences
Summit Agenda
Breakfast and Networking
Sponsored by our partners at Quality Connection
Welcome
Vince Wong
President & CEO
BioCrossroads
Christy Wright
President & CEO
AgriNovus
Indiana's One Health Economy
Sec. David Adams
Secretary of Commerce
Indiana
Why One Health, Why Indiana, and Why Now?
Mung Chiang
President
Purdue University
Chuck Magro
CEO
Corteva
Dave Ricks
Chairman and CEO
Eli Lilly and Company
Jeff Simmons
President and CEO
Elanco
Pamela Whitten
President
Indiana University
Moderator - Melina Kennedy
CEO
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP)
Break
Healthier People, Pets, Farms, and Farmers
Sylvie Brouder
Director
Purdue Center for Global Food Security
Michael Lairmore, DVM, PhD
Distinguished Professor (emeritus)
Former Dean UC Davis
Acting Executive Director, North America One Health University Network
Christina Lopes
Co-Founder and CEO
FidoCure
Jay Price
CEO and President
Mission Pet Health
Moderator - Aaron Schacht
CEO
BiomEdit
Our Food Supply: The Changing Dynamics and How We Must Pivot
Ignacio Bartolome
CEO
GDM
Heather Eicher-Miller
Professor, Department of Nutrition Science
Purdue University
Moderator - Christy Wright
President & CEO
AgriNovus
Lunch Break
Sponsored by our partners at INCOG Biopharma Services
One Health in Action: Indiana's Leadership Role to Reshore the Life Sciences Supply Chain
Daniel Golden
VP of Global R&D Strategy and Research & Discovery
Elanco
Arup Roy, PhD
Senior VP, Technical Services and Manufacturing Science
Eli Lilly & Company
Wendy Srnic
Vice President of Biotechnology
Corteva Agriscience
Elizabeth Topp
Director, William D. and Sherry L. Young Advanced Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals Institute
Purdue University
Moderator - Ed Maginn
Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Engineering
Associate Vice President for Research
University of Notre Dame
One Health in Action: Indiana's Research Universities Fueling Innovation to Drive Leadership
Dan DeLaurentis, PhD
Executive Vice President for Research and
Bruce Reese Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Purdue University
Jeff Rhoads, PhD
Vice President for Research
University of Notre Dame
Russell Mumper, PhD
Vice President for Research
Indiana University
Moderator - Lucy Flesch, PhD
Frederick L. Hovde Dean of Science
Purdue University
One Health in Action: Reshoring the Nation's Animal, Plant, and Human Health Supply Chain
Sen. Todd Young
United States Senate
Indiana
Ilya Yuffa
Executive VP, Eli Lilly and Company
President, Lilly USA and Global Customer Capabilities
August M. Watanabe Life Sciences Champion of the Year Award Presentation
Closing Remarks
Vince Wong, JD, MBA
President and CEO
BioCrossroads
Networking
Sponsored by our partners at Stevanato Group
2024 Summit Recap
A Crucial Conversation Surrounding Indiana’s Impact on Global Health
The 2024 BioCrossroads Life Sciences Summit featured keynotes, panel discussions, and a patient roundtable focusing on the groundbreaking advancements in diabetes and obesity care management happening across Indiana’s life sciences ecosystem and impacting patients worldwide, including the development and potential for GLP-1’s.