Caltech Bioscience Industry Day 2026

Caltech Bioscience Industrial Partners Program

We are excited to announce our next upcoming event, Caltech Bioscience Industry Day, which will take place on Thursday, May 14th, 2026, at Noon in the Chen Neuroscience Research Building and Breezeway on Caltech's campus. The event will kickoff with a keynote speaker followed by mentoring and networking.

We especially hope alumni and industry reps will join us for mentoring and connection building. Registration below.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Bassil Dahiyat, Co-Founder and CEO of Xencor

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Bassil Dahiyat has been Xencor's president and chief executive officer since the Company's incorporation in August 1997. He is the co-founder of Xencor and co-inventor of Xencor's breakthrough XmAb® technology. He has led the Company in creating a diverse clinical-stage portfolio of engineered antibodies and cytokines for the treatment of life-threatening and debilitating diseases, and has established alliances with leading biopharmaceutical companies that have resulted in three marketed drugs. Dr. Dahiyat has co-authored numerous scientific papers in the fields of protein design and drug delivery, is an inventor of over 30 U.S. and numerous foreign patents and has received scientific awards from the American Chemical Society, the Controlled Release Society, the Protein Society and Caltech. Dr. Dahiyat also serves as a member of the board of directors of Kodiak Sciences and Terray Therapeutics. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Caltech and B.S. and M.S.E. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University.

Alumni and Industry Representative Registration

Current Student and Postdoc Registration