Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution

Name: Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution
Start: 2025-06-01T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-06-01T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick Place Chicago

How a Kentucky Farm Boy Changed Science Forever

By Uncommon Productions

Date and time

Sunday, June 1 · 6:30 - 8:30pm CDT. Doors at 6:15pm

Location

Hyatt Regency McCormick Place Chicago

2233 South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive Regency Ballroom Chicago, IL 60616

Agenda

6:30 PM

Film Screening

8:00 PM

Discussion and Q&A with Director Bill Haney

8:15 PM

Networking Reception

About this event

Event lasts 2 hours
No venue parking

Uncommon Productions and Stand Up 2 Cancer are pleased to invite you to an advance private screening of Cracking the Code.

This new documentary is a powerful reminder that breakthroughs and life-saving biotech treatments don’t happen by accident. They happen because of a unique ecosystem—one that supports bold ideas, invests in basic research, and encourages entrepreneurs to take risks.

Phil Sharp’s journey—from groundbreaking research to founding transformative companies like Biogen and Alnylam—shows how science, entrepreneurship, and the market can work together to solve humanity’s greatest challenges.

We hope you will join us for the film and the important conversation about how cutting funding for science or rolling back incentives for innovation isn’t just a budget decision—it’s a choice to walk away from the next great discovery and the economic growth fueled by the biotech sector.

The screening will be followed by a networking reception with food and drinks.

Organized by

Uncommon Productions

Founded in 2000 by Tim Disney and Bill Haney, Uncommon Productions produces documentary and feature films that inspire, enlighten, and engage. With offices in Boston and Los Angeles, Uncommon tells stories seen worldwide in major festivals, theaters and streaming platforms.