Plenary Lunch Moderator Monday, November 10, 2008 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Sponsored by Centocor, Inc. Chris Matthews Host Hardball with Chris Matthews and The Chris Matthews Show

Chris Matthews hosts Hardball with Chris Matthews Monday through Friday on MSNBC; The Chris Matthews Show on NBC; and is a regular commentator on NBC's Today show.

A television news anchor with significant depth of experience, Matthews has distinguished himself as a broadcast journalist, newspaper bureau chief, presidential speechwriter, and bestselling author. Matthews covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first all-races election in South Africa, the Good Friday Peace Accord in Northern Ireland, and the funeral of Pope John Paul II. He has covered every American presidential election campaign since the 1980s.

Matthews worked for fifteen years as a newspaper journalist, thirteen of them as a Washington bureau chief for the San Francisco Examiner and two as a national columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle.  Before that, he had a fifteen year career in public service: in the U.S. Senate for five years for Senator Frank Moss of Utah and Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine; in the White House for four years under President Jimmy Carter as a presidential speechwriter and on the President's Reorganization Project then for six years as the top aide to Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, Jr.

Matthews has received the David Brinkley Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism and the Gold Medal Award from the Pennsylvania Society. He was a visiting fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics and holds nineteen honorary degrees.

A graduate of Holy Cross College, Mr. Matthews did graduate work in economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Matthews also worked for two years as a trade development advisor with the U.S. Peace Corps in the southern African nation of Swaziland.

Matthews is the author of four best-selling books, including American: Beyond Our Grandest Notions (2002), a New York Times best seller.  His first book, Hardball (1988) is required reading in many college-level political science courses.  Kennedy & Nixon (1996) was named by The Readers Digest "Today's Best Non-fiction" and served as the basis of a documentary on the History Channel. Now, Let me Tell What I Really Think (2001) was another New York Times best-seller.  His latest book, Life's a Campaign, was released in 2007.

Dinner Keynote Address Monday, November 10, 2008 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Sponsored by Celgene Corporation and The State of New Jersey Robert Hugin President and COO Celgene Corporation

Mr. Hugin serves as president and chief operating officer of Celgene Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative therapies for unmet medical needs in cancer and immune-inflammatory disease.  He joined Celgene in June 1999 and has been a director of Celgene since December 2001.  Mr. Hugin also serves as a director of The Medicines Company, Atlantic Health System, Inc. and of Family Promise, a national non-profit network assisting homeless families. Prior to joining Celgene, Mr. Hugin was a managing director with J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc. Mr. Hugin received an AB degree from Princeton University in 1976 and an MBA from the University of Virginia in 1985 and served as a United States Marine Corps infantry officer during the intervening period. 

Luncheon Keynote Address Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Sponsored by Pepper Hamilton LLP Frank Baldino, Jr., Ph.D. Chairman & CEO Cephalon, Inc.

Cephalon founder Frank Baldino, Jr., Ph.D. has led the company from a privately held start-up to one of the top ten biopharmaceutical companies in the world.

Today, just two decades after its founding, Cephalon has nine products in the United States in the areas of central nervous system disorders, cancer, pain and addiction; and more than 30 products in 50 countries worldwide.  In 2007, Cephalon first joined the list of the Fortune 1000 annual ranking of America's largest corporations.

Dr. Baldino received his Ph.D. in pharmacology from Temple University. From 1981-1987, he served as senior research biologist in the medical products department at E.I. duPont de Nemours & Company, where he was responsible for developing research strategies for identifying novel neuropharmaceutical agents.   He has authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, Journal of Neuroscience Research, and Brain Research.

Over the course of his career, Dr. Baldino has received numerous awards and broad recognition for professional achievements.  Most recently in 2007, he was named one of the "100 Most Inspiring People" by PharmaVOICE, and included in a list of entrepreneurs who are redefining the life-sciences industry through innovative approaches to improving technologies, processes, services and ultimately patient care.   Dr. Baldino received the first Hubert J.P. Schoemaker Leadership Award, which recognizes a leader in the biosciences community who best exemplifies the spirit of innovation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

He chairs the Executive Council of the Harvard Division of Sleep Medicine and is a member of the Board of Trustees at Temple University and The Franklin (formerly known as The Franklin Institute).  In addition, Dr. Baldino serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, the Eastern Technology Council, PhRMA, BioAdvance Biotechnology Greenhouse Corp., Quaker BioVentures, L.P., and Pennsylvania Bio.  He is also a member of the Board of Directors for NicOx, S.A., Pharmacopeia Drug Discovery, Inc. and Acusphere, Inc.

Dr. Baldino is a member of the Healthcap Advisors Board and the MPM Capital and Vantage Point Venture Partners Advisory Committee.  He also holds several adjunct academic appointments and serves on the Muhlenberg College Board of Observers.