Hey everyone, I wanted to formally announce PMWC 2026's program. Please see details below. I hope you can join!
PMWC 2026 — March 4–6, Santa Clara Convention Center
Co‑hosted with Stanford & UCSF • 2,500 attendees • 12 tracks + 4 educational tracks • 90 exhibitors
Select speakers confirmed:
Greg Brockman (OpenAI) — Transforming science & medicine with Generative AI (AI Awards Day)
William Moerner (Stanford) — Nobel Laureate (Spatial Biology & Single‑Cell)
Reunion Panel: “25+ Years of the Human Genome — What Made It to the Bedside” with J. Craig Venter, Lee Hood, Brook Byers, Ralph Snyderman
Judy Faulkner (Epic) — ranked #2 Most Influential in Healthcare (2024)
Carl June — CAR‑T pioneer, Breakthrough Prize (Life Sciences)
Vinod Khosla — UNEP Entrepreneurial Vision laureate (Keynote, AI & Drug Discovery)
Dennis J. Slamon — Lasker & Gairdner laureate (HER2/Herceptin)
David Sinclair — Aging & epigenetics (TIME 100)
David Entwistle — CEO, Stanford Health Care
TRACKS:
Track 2: AI & Computational Medicine (3 days):
AI in Imaging & Predictive Simulation — Chairs Sharat Israni (UCSF); sessions on radiomics/radiogenomics, contrast‑free MRI & low‑dose CT, and quantitative imaging biomarkers.
AI in Clinical Decision Support & Real‑World Evidence — Chairs William Oh (Yale) & David Reese (Amgen); Nigam Shah (Stanford) honored; David Entwistle (Stanford Health Care) and Karan Singhal (OpenAI) on safe, scalable clinical AI; interoperability + data quality that actually moves the needle.
AI in Drug Discovery & Computational Biology — Curated by Gad Getz (Broad) & Alex Morgan (Khosla Ventures); Greg Brockman honored; Keynote: Vinod Khosla. Sessions include target discovery beyond genomics (with Stephen Quake), the “messy middle” of translational AI (Ari Caroline, Dina Katabi), foundation models for chemistry/biology, predictive tox, and “Is AI the new drug?” (Michael J. Kahana).
Track 3: Precision Diagnostics (3 days):
Liquid Biopsy — Early Detection & Screening — Chair Victor Velculescu (JHU); trial design for population‑scale screening, pre‑symptomatic detection, integrating imaging + LBx, and pre‑analytics that don’t sink your assay.
Liquid Biopsy — Therapy Guidance & Monitoring — Chair Adrian Lee (Pitt); Dennis J. Slamon (UCLA) honored; sessions on neoadjuvant→adjuvant MRD timing, serial ctDNA‑guided switching (incl. SERENA‑6), and multi‑omics monitoring (methylation/fragmentomics/EV/ctRNA).
Spatial Biology & Single‑Cell Multi‑Omics — Chair Christina Curtis (Stanford); William Moerner honored; with Joakim Lundeberg (SciLifeLab) and more on tissue architecture, tech benchmarking, and clinical‑grade pipelines.
Track 1: Next‑Gen Therapies (3 days):
Engineered Cell‑Based Therapies — Chair Cindy Perettie (Kite); PMWC awards to Michel Sadelain & Arie Belldegrun; CAR‑T design, delivery, and what’s next.
Immunotherapies & Targeted Therapies — Chair Ira Mellman; checkpoint “2.0” strategy, ADCs in the checkpoint era, and future targets with Jedd Wolchok, Levi Garraway, and industry leads.
RNA, Stem Cell & Gene‑Based Therapies — Chair Catriona (Cat) Jamieson (UCSD); keynote on bioorthogonal chemistry (yes, the clinical implications); plus translation‑minded gene editing and delivery.
Track 4: Integrated Precision Medicine (3 days):
Systems Integration & Variant Interpretation — Honoring Mark Daly (Broad) and Gordon Sanghera (Oxford Nanopore); real‑time nanopore in clinic; Human Genome 25‑Year Reunion (Venter/Hood/Byers/Snyderman).
Integration & Implementation of Precision Medicine — Featuring Euan Ashley (Stanford); practical sessions on hospital‑level PM programs, beyond‑oncology rollouts, and payer‑relevant outcomes.
Precision Aging & Longevity — Honoring Steve Horvath & Nir Barzilai; biomarkers that matter (Luigi Ferrucci, Sara Hägg, Daniel Belsky), epigenetic rejuvenation (delivery counts), and trial endpoints that aren’t wishful thinking.
Why pin this? We bring together a unique mix of the highest level KOLs from across the spectrum of precision medicine together in one place where you can interface, ask questions and make valuable connections that is hard to get anywhere else.
Action: See expiring early-bird rate → www.pmwcintl.com
Sponsorship / exhibiting / session interest? DM me and we’ll find the right fit.
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