RESI Partnering goes live on Monday, enabling fundraising life science executives and the investors who fund them to request meetings with one another on the basis of mutual fit. By getting into the system on day one you have the opportunity of being the first to request meetings, thus increasing your chances of being considered and getting the best meetings possible.

Powered by LSN's proprietary investor data, the RESI partnering platform offers you something no other conference provider can, qualified forward-looking data on what investors are looking for. This data is one of several ingredients in RESI's secret sauce that enables us to make so many meaningful connections (over 1500 per event!) between fundraising executives and investors...

The CFDA released a set of proposals on May 11th regarding major reforms in the Chinese regulatory and approval system. The series of proposals is designed to accomplish four major goals:

1. Acceleration of Drug/Medical Device Review/Approval Process
2. Reform of Clinical Trials Management
3. Implementation of a drugs/medical devices lifecycle management system.
4. Protect drug and medical devices innovators' rights and interests.

Investors in venture philanthropy, such as foundations and specific family offices, have deep expertise that is often overlooked. Many venture philanthropic groups have a specific mission in a disease area that provides them enormous capacity to bring forward more than any entrepreneur can realize. Along with funding, venture philanthropic investors can provide patient access for underserved populations, specialize in assessing and tracking "positively impactful" technology in their particular field, and utilize their own relationships with traditional ventures in creative ways, among other initiatives.

LSN is pleased to announce a panel of five expert venture philanthropic investors for the RESI San Diego Conference on June 19^th. The audience will have an exclusive opportunity to hear from:

• Evelia Johnston, Associate Director, Research Partnerships, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
• Debra Miller, Founder, CureDuchenne
• Javeed Froozan, VP, Research Business Development & Strategic Alliances, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
• Jonathan Behr, Managing Director, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)
• Lucie Brujin, Chief Scientist, ALS Association