Expert Speaker Faculty

Ajay Goel

Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Diagnostics and Experimental Therapeutics

City of Hope

Andrew Allen

President, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Gritstone bio

Angela Silvestro

Associate Director, Companion Diagnostics

GlaxoSmithKline

Arvind Dasari

Associate Professor, Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology; Division of Cancer Medicine

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Balaji Panchapakesan

Professor, Founding Director, Small Systems Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Benoit Destenaves

Executive Director, Head of Biomarkers & Companion Diagnostics

H3 Biomedicine

Cyril Ramathal

Principal Research Scientist

AbbVie

Dan Norton

Associate Director, Product Management

Personalis, Inc.

Dana Connors

Scientific Program Manager, Cancer Research Partnerships

Foundation for the National Institutes of Health

Darren Hodgson

Global Project Leader and Site Head Translational Medicine

AstraZeneca Oncology

David Gandara

Professor, Director, Thoracic Oncology Program; Chief Medical Officer

UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center; International Society for Liquid Biopsy

Fernando Cruz-Guilloty

Scientific Director, Oncology Diagnostics

Janssen

George Vasmatzis

Co Director - Biomarker Discovery Program

Mayo Clinic

Harris S. Soifer

Executive Director, Clinical Biomarkers & Companion Diagnostics

Kura Oncology

Jean-Francois Martini

Senior Director, Translational Oncology Lead, Global Product Development

Pfizer

Jennifer Elliott

Senior Director Business Development, Oncology & Precision Diagnostics

Qiagen

Jennifer Jackson

Director, Translational Science and Strategy

Personal Genome Diagnostics

Jess Lambe

Director, CDx Partnering

Illumina

Jill Walker

Head Early Disease Detection Diagnostics, Oncology Precision Medicine

AstraZeneca

John Palma

Vice President of Medical Affairs

Agilent Technologies

Jonathan Beer

Global Precision Medicine Strategic Intelligence Lead

Novartis

Julie Ramage

Director of Precision Medicine Quality Initiatives & Partnerhips

AstraZeneca

Kate Kalashnikova

Senior Translational Scientist

Natera

Kelly Shanahan

MD

Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer

Kenna Anderes

Vice President Translational Medicine & Companion Diagnostics

Mirati Therapeutics

Killian McSorley

Operations Manager, Assay Development & Validation

Almac Diagnostic Services

Klaus Pantel

Chairman, Institute Director

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Koustubh Ranade

Head of Translational Medicine

Immunocore

Lauren Leiman

Executive Director

BloodPAC

Libby Barksdale

Director of Regulatory Affairs and Scientific Policy

LUNGevity Foundation

Lijoy Mathew

Global Director, Medical Affairs, Oncology Biomarkers & Diagnostics

Merck

Louis Levy

Director, Business Development

Guardant Health

Marjorie Petty

Senior Director, Operations & Medical Development

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals

Martin Treder

Chief Scientific Officer

Arjuna Therapeutics

Minetta Liu

Research Chair, Department of Oncology; Consultant, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

Mayo Clinic

Nike Beaubier

Vice President, Head of Translational Medicine

Tempus Labs

Nikki Martin

Director, Precision Medicine Initiatives

LUNGevity Foundation

Partha Das

Medical Director, CDx & Biomarker Strategy

Amgen

Pashtoon Kasi

Director Colon Cancer Research; Precision Medicine Director for Liquid Biopsy Research

Weill Cornell Medicine; Englander Institute of Precision Medicine

Patrick Gallagher

Chief Actuary

EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants

Qu Zhang

Director, Clinical Biomarkers, ImmunoOncology

GlaxoSmithKline

Robbie Lunt

Director of Marketing

Biodesix

Steven Piccoli

Head of Clinical Biomarkers

SPARC

Steven Rosen

Scientific Innovation Leader In Healthcare

Wyss Institute, Harvard University