PMWC 2025 Silicon Valley Luminary & Pioneer Awards:

The PMWC Luminary Award recognizes the recent contributions of prominent figures who have accelerated Precision Medicine into the clinic. The PMWC Luminary honorees are listed below.

The Pioneer Award is given to a venerable individual whose foresight and groundbreaking contributions to Precision Medicine propelled the movement in earlier years, allowing it to gain momentum to evolve into the standard of care that it is becoming today. The PMWC Pioneer honorees are listed below.

Honorees: Luminary Award

Carolyn Bertozzi
Stanford

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NOBEL LAUREATE

Jensen Huang
Nvidia

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David Liu
Broad Institute

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Crystal Mackall
Stanford

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Ida Sim
UCSF

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Hedvig Hricak
Memorial Sloan Kettering

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Diana Bianchi
National Institutes of Health

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Nicola Aceto
ETH Zurich

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Honorees: Pioneer Award

Collen Masimirembwa
African Institute of Biomedical Science and Technology

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Drew Weissman
Penn Medicine

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NOBEL LAUREATE

Julie Louis Gerberding
FNIH

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Robert Califf
FDA

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Nanette K. Wenger
Emory University

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Victor Velculescu
Johns Hopkins

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Kari Stefansson
deCode genetics

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Michael Snyder
Stanford

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Paul Chang
University of Chicago

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James M. Wilson
Gemma Biotherapeutics

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Isaac Kohane
Harvard Medical School

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Michael E. Phelps
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

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Date & Agenda

When:

FEBRUARY 5-7*

Agenda:

See in the main program agenda here

Where:

Santa Clara Convention Center

Suggested dress:

Business attire

*The PMWC Award Ceremonies (15 minutes long) will be held at the kick-off of each day of the program according to its track.
All attendees are welcome to take part without an RSVP.

Venue

Santa Clara Convention Center
Exhibition Halls A-D
5001 Great America Pkwy
Santa Clara, CA 95054

PARKING 1,500 on-site parking spaces in a 3-story adjacent parking garage (directions) on the Santa Clara Convention Center campus shared with the Hyatt Regency and TechMart. Additional overflow parking may be available in surrounding lots based on availability as well as the City of Santa Clara Garage (directions) across the street.
DRIVING DIRECTIONS FROM SAN JOSE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT – 5.4 MILES

Take San Jose International Airport’s Guadalupe Pkwy. Exit. Turn left on Guadalupe Pkwy. Follow onto I-101 North. Follow I-101 North roughly three miles and exit at Great America Pkwy. Turn right onto Great America Pkwy. The Silicon Valley Convention Center is located at Great America Pkwy. and Tasman Ave. You can find the Convention Center Parking Garage by exiting at the Hyatt Regency’s 2nd driveway at Bunker Hill Rd.

FROM SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT – 31 MILES

Follow San Francisco International Airport’s exit signs to I-101 South towards San Jose. Take I-101 South roughly 30-40 minutes and exit at Great America Pkwy. Turn left at Great America Pkwy. The Convention Center is at Great America Pkwy. and Tasman Ave. You can find the Silicon Valley Convention Center Parking Garage by exiting Great America Pkwy. at the Hyatt Regency’s 2nd driveway at Bunker Hill Rd.

FROM OAKLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT –33.1 MILES

Exit Oakland International Airport and take Hegenberger Rd. to I-880 South towards San Jose. Take I-880 roughly 30-40 minutes to Highway 237 towards Mountain View. Follow Highway 237 to Great America Pkwy. Exit. Turn left on Great America Pkwy. The Convention Center is at Great America Pkwy. and Tasman Ave. You can find the Convention Center Parking Garage by exiting off Great America Pkwy. at the Hyatt Regency’s 2nd driveway at Bunker Hill Rd.