PMWC 2017 Silicon Valley Session Themes

How To Engage Community Oncologists in Precision Medicine
Session Co-Chairs: Lincoln Nadauld, Intermountain Health Care; Laurence Marton, PMWC 2014 Program Chair

Immunotherapy: Emerging Applications and Therapies
Session Chair: James Allison, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Human Biospecimen Acquisition; Risks, Challenges and Solutions
Session Chair: Matt McLoughlin, Scientist.com

CIAPM: Accelerating Precision Medicine Advances in California
Session Chair: Elizabeth Baca, Governor’s Office of Planning and Research; Uta Grieshammer, CIAPM

How to Commercialize Disruptive Technologies That Advance Precision Medicine
Session Chair: Alex De Winter, GE Ventures

An Update on the Cancer Moonshot and Brain Government Initiatives
Session Chair: Joshua Gordon, National Institute of Mental Health

Health Systems as Translational Research Partners
Session Chair: Walter “Buzz” Stewart, Sutter Health

Understanding Human Health and Diseases at the Individual Level
Session Chair: Euan Ashley, Stanford Clinical Genomics Service

Bringing Liquid Biopsy to the Clinic: Overcoming Fundamental Challenges
Session Chair: Walter Koch, Roche

Personalized Medicine – The Cinderella Story of Venture Investments?
Session Chair: Mara Aspinall, Genepeeks

How Immuno-oncology Saved My Life: A Patient’s Perspective
Session Chair: Andrew Schorr, Patient Power

Predictive Biomarkers and Companion Diagnostics for Immuno-Oncology
Session Chair: Brad Gray, NanoString Technologies

Generating Insights from Multi-modal Healthcare Data for Precision Medicine
Session Chair: Atul Butte, UCSF

Issues and Challenges of Immunotherapy
Session Chair: Larry Corey, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

The Last Clinical Mile of Precision Medicine – Challenges at the Point of Care
Session Chair: Assaf Halevy, 2bPrecise

Emerging Technologies Hold Promise to Inform the Practice of Precision Medicine
Session Chair: John Ryals, Metabolon

Immunotherapy: Immunocheckpoint Inhibitors & Beyond
Session Chair: Irv Weissman, Stanford School of Medicine
