Nobel Laureate Film Screening Series at Karolinska Institutet
We are delighted to invite you to a two-day film screening series featuring two remarkable documentaries by Bill Haney, filmmaker, and CEO of Dragonfly Therapeutics, that celebrate groundbreaking scientific discoveries and the stories of Nobel Laureates who revolutionized the field of medicine.
Please note these are private screenings and RSVPs are required.
Day 1 | Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution
4 November 2024 | 18:15 | Eva & Georg Klein, Biomedicum
Cracking the Code, narrated by Mark Ruffalo, chronicles Nobel Laureate Phil Sharp’s rise from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to revolutionizing medicine. Overcoming obstacles such as childhood dyslexia to threats from the Unabomber, Phil’s pioneering work as a scientist and entrepreneur sparked the creation of the biotech industry, launching life-saving medicines that reach billions each year, offering hope to patients with diseases from diabetes and breast cancer to Multiple Sclerosis and the COVID-19 vaccine.
This is an exclusive advance screening as this film has not yet been released.
Day 2 | Jim Allison: Breakthrough
5 November 2024 | 18:15 | Eva & Georg Klein, Biomedicum
Jim Allison: Breakthrough is the astounding, true story of one warmhearted, stubborn man’s visionary quest to find a cure for cancer. Today, Jim Allison is a name to be reckoned with throughout the scientific world — a 2018 Nobel Prize winner for discovering the immune system’s role in defeating cancer — but for decades he waged a lonely struggle against the skepticism of the medical establishment and the resistance of Big Pharma. Breakthrough takes us into the inspiring and dramatic world of cutting-edge medicine, and into the heart of a true American pioneer, in a film that is both emotionally compelling and deeply entertaining.
Breakthrough is a Gold winner of the 2020 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards and winner of the Award for Scientific Merit at the 2021 SCINEMA International Science Film Festival.
Each film will be followed by an engaging conversation featuring:
• Bill Haney, Film director and CEO of Dragonfly Therapeutics
• Elias Arnér, Ph.D., Professor, Director of Cancer Research at Karolinska Institutet
A reception with food and drinks will follow each screening.
About Bill Haney
An inventor and entrepreneur, Bill Haney started his first company as a college freshman, inventing and building air pollution control systems for power plants. Since then, he has started or helped start more than a dozen technology companies. He is currently Co-founder and CEO of Dragonfly Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotech focused on novel NK-cell based immune engagers, and Co-founder & Chairman of Skyhawk Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotech focused on small molecule RNA splicing modifiers.
Bill was a founding member of the national environmental advisory board for the US Environmental Protection Agency and the President's Circle for the National Academy of Sciences. He has won a Humanitarian Award from Harvard Medical School, an Achievement Award from the ACLU and serves or has served on boards for Harvard, MIT, State and Federal Government agencies, and the World Resources Institute.
As a writer, director, and producer of documentary films, he has won the Gabriel Prize, Silver Hugo, Earthwatch Award, Marine Conservation Award, Amnesty International Award, Genesis Award, Harvard Medical School Humanitarian Award, and the distinguished Pare Lorentz Award. Bill has been repeatedly nominated for the NAACP Image Awards and shortlisted for an Oscar. He has also written and produced several award-winning narrative films, and has premiered numerous films at Sundance, SXSW, Telluride, and other leading film festivals.
Bill holds a BA from Harvard College and was a Kennedy School Fellow from 1997-2001.