PMWC 2017 Silicon Valley Luminary & Pioneer Awards
The PMWC Luminary Award recognizes recent contributions of preeminent figures who have accelerated personalized medicine into the clinical marketplace. The PMWC Pioneer Award is given to rare individuals who presaged the advent of personalized medicine when less evolved technology and encouragement from peers existed, but still made major advances in the field.
This year, PMWC will be honoring Dr. Jennifer Doudna (UC Berkeley) with the Luminary Award for spearheading the development of the groundbreaking Crispr-Cas9 genome editing technology and Edward F. Chang for developing advanced neurophysiologic brain mapping methods. For the Pioneer Award, Dr. James Allison (MD Anderson Cancer Center) will be recognized for pioneering cancer immunotherapy through his discovery of the immune checkpoint blockade. Dr. Stephen Quake (Stanford) will receive a Pioneer Award for his prolific inventions of technologies in microfluidics and genetics that have enabled personalized medicine, drug discovery and non-invasive diagnostics.
Luminary Award
Edward F. Chang
University of California
Jennifer Doudna
UC Berkeley
Pioneer Award
James Allison
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Stephen Quake
Stanford University
Date & Agenda
When: January 22, 2017 at 6:30-8:30pm
Agenda: Award Ceremony Agenda
Suggested dress: Cocktail attire
RSVP AND SEPARATE REGISTRATION REQUIRED. SEND INQUIRIES BY 1/5/17 TO [email protected] TO SEE IF SPACE IS AVAILABLE.
Venue
STANFORD ARRILLAGA CENTER
326 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA 94305
(650) 724-2464
Past Luminary Award Recipients
Roger Perlmutter
2016
Expedited Development of Groundbreaking Therapies
Laura Esserman
2016
Breast Cancer Treatment Paradigm Shifter
Ron Davis
2015
Developed R-loop Technique of Electron Microscopy
Jay Flatley
2014
Established Illumina as the leader in sequence technology
Janet Woodcock
2013
FDA Director, fast-tracked targeted drugs through FDA approval
Brian Druker
2012
Co-inventor, blockbuster drug, Gleevec
George Church
2011
Contributions to the sequencing of genomes and interpreting such data; In Neuroscience he established a “functional connectome”
Lee Hood
2010
Inventions included the automated DNA sequencer and a tool for synthesizing DNA
Past Pioneer Award Recipients
Irv Weissman
2016
Pioneer in Regenerative Medicine & Cancer Stem Cells
Ralph Snyderman
2016
Widely recognized as “Father of Personalized Medicine”
Craig Venter
2015
1st Draft Human Gen., 1st Complete Diploid Human Gen., and 1st Synth. Bact. Cell
Dennis Lo
2015
Discovered That An Unborn Fetus Releases Fetal DNA Into Maternal Plasma
Jonathan K.C. Knowles
2015 – UK
Personalized Medicine Leader in both Academia and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Yuet Wain Kan
2014
The first to establish that a single DNA mutation could lead to a human disease, and the first to diagnose a human disease by using DNA
Michael Hayden
2014 – Israel
Developer, First Predictive Test for Huntington’s Disease
Kim Popovits
2013 – Israel
Launched both earliest genetically-targeted therapy and molecular diagnostic assay
