The first Emerging Therapeutics Summit (ETS), (http://www.ets16.org/), will be held in Melbourne, Australia from 23 to 25 November 2016. The summit aims to foster international collaboration and commercialisation. ETS’16 covers a wide range of topics with large number of oral presentations, including but not limited to the followings: 1. Molecular & cellular mechanisms of cancer and other major diseases; 2. Gene therapies (including RNA and vaccines); 3. Antibody technologies and therapies; 4. Normal & cancer stem cells and therapeutics; 5. Nanomedicine; 6. Natural medicine and FDA approval 7. Multidrug resistance 8. Drug delivery