Biography
Rachel Gollub founded her current company to bring together patient medical history, social determinants of health, and genomic data to bring secure precision medicine to patients everywhere. A Silicon Valley inventor and entrepreneur with a degree from Caltech, she started her career on the team inventing the Java language, later moving to Stanford University to design and build the Stanford Digital Repository. Since then, she has been founding companies to leverage the latest technologies. Most recently, she left a position as CTO of the UnitedHealthcare Technology Employer Individual division to leverage her AI and machine learning background to build a startup at the heart of precision medicine.

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AI in Treatment Decision Support
PointHealth AI is the leader in AI treatment decision support. We use reinforcement learning on millions of similar patients to determine the most effective prescriptions for a given condition. We provide a full report, integrated with the major EHR systems, in realtime at the point of diagnosis. Come learn how!

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PointHealth AI
PointHealth AI brings together medical history, social determinants of health, and genomics to bring better courses of treatment to patients. We give providers on-the-spot recommendations from our data analyses to help patients at the point of diagnosis.

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Keith Booher has been involved in the biotech sector for 15 years, taking on various scientific, business development, and leadership roles. In his current position at Zymo Research, Keith leads the professional research services team, which primarily utilizes NGS technology to answer questions in the field of genomics, especially in microbiome-, epigenome-, and transcriptome-focused analyses. In addition, Keith is the Principal Investigator on over $12 million in research grants and contracts from various federal and local entities. Keith is particularly interested in multi-omics approaches that utilize advanced sample preparation, cutting-edge sequencing, and artificial intelligence or machine learning tools to help solve the most challenging problems in molecular biology.

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Zymo
Zymo Research, a privately owned biotech company founded in 1994, is a global leader in molecular tools for life sciences. Driven by the principle "The Beauty of Science is to Make Things Simple," Zymo is dedicated to developing innovative solutions that address complex scientific challenges.

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Arnout Van Hyfte joined BioStrand in 2019 as a member of the founding team and has played an important role in its evolution into what is now MindWalk. He has contributed to shaping product direction and establishing the product development foundation behind MindWalk’s LensAI platform, powered by HYFT® technology. Arnout leads the product development organization, working across teams to translate complex capabilities into cohesive, user-ready products. His work supports the ongoing evolution of LensAI, roadmap execution, and the delivery of innovative solutions that integrate smoothly into scientific workflows—advancing MindWalk’s long-term product vision.

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MindWalk
MindWalk is a global biologics discovery company integrating bio-native intelligence, deep data, and advanced lab research in a customizable ecosystem. We partner with biotech and pharma to accelerate therapeutic, anti-drug, diagnostic, peptide, and vaccine programs with depth, clarity, and speed.

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Anastasia Rigas leads Heteron Biotechnologies in developing aclinical-stage breath diagnostics platform that leverages advanced machinelearning to transform complex breath profilescontaining thousands of gasesand VOCsinto precise, multi-indication diagnostics. Under her leadership,Heterons multidisciplinary team has applied and rigorously tested variousmodels on proprietary datasets, achieving exceptionally high classificationaccuracy. This builds on prior peer-reviewed expertise now integratedin-house, positioning the platform to detect H. pylori for gastric cancerprevention, stratify metabolic syndrome risk, and enable future hepatic andperformance health applications. The technology is advancing under FDA CDRHoversight with pivotal trials in preparation and secured by global PCTfilings covering hardware, software, and disease-specific biomarkers.Passionate about shifting healthcare from reactive intervention toAI-driven prevention, Anastasia coordinates regulatory strategy,multi-center clinical design, and strategic partnerships to establishbreath-based machine learning diagnostics as a new paradigm in accessibleprecision medicine

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AI Breath Diagnostics for Early Disease Detection
Heterons multi-gas breath platform integrates proprietary machine learningto classify complex VOC profiles, enabling accurate point-of-care diagnosisof H. pylori, Celiac and metabolic syndrome. Advancing under FDA CDRHoversight with global PCT protection, it delivers scalable, reimbursableAI-driven diagnostics that identify earlier-stage disease, improvingoutcomes through timely, informed clinical intervention.

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Heteron BIotechnologies,
Heteron is a clinical-stage diagnostics company advancing a multi-gasbreath analysis platform that uses proprietary machine learning to deliverprecise, multi-indication detection from complex breath samples. Thetechnology targets scalable, reimbursable screening for gastric cancerprevention, metabolic syndrome, Celiac Disease and broader preventivecare.

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Hugo Lam, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Engineer and Uber Tech Lead at Genentech, where he guides strategy in advanced data engineering and AI to accelerate scientific innovation. His work focuses on building scalable, FAIR-compliant data ecosystems that are AI-ready and empower cross-functional collaboration, accelerating discovery and enterprise decision-making.Before returning to Genentech, Dr. Lam founded and led HypaHub, directing bioinformatics and software engineering programs that advanced AI- and data-driven diagnostics and therapeutics. The company gained recognition from angels, venture capital, and Y Combinator.Earlier in his career, Dr. Lam led bioinformatics efforts at Roche, shaping data-science strategy and driving informatics research that contributed to next-generation healthcare product development, including work published in Nature Communications. His experience also spans 23andMe, Personalis, and Bina Technologies (acquired by Roche), giving him broad expertise across genomics, computational biology, and large-scale data systems.

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Systems Integration for Drug Discovery and AI
This talk highlights how a unified, AI-ready Data Ecosystem accelerates scientific discovery by integrating data, automation, and adaptive intelligent interfaces. By simplifying access to complex research assets and enabling more dynamic, insight-driven workflows, we empower RD teams to innovate faster and make more informed decisions across the discovery lifecycle.

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Genentech

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Dr. Mark Kiel completed his M.D., Ph.D., and Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellowship at the University of Michigan, where his research focused on stem cell biology, genomic profiling of hematopoietic malignancies, and clinical bioinformatics. He is the founder and chief scientific officer at Genomenon, a genomic intelligence company, where he oversees the company's scientific direction and product development. Mark founded Genomenon in 2014 to address the challenge of connecting researchers with evidence in the genomic literature to help diagnose and treat patients with genetic diseases and cancer.

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Unlocking the Power of Literature-Derived Real-World Evidence
The biomedical literature reflects decades of global clinical practice and millions of highly detailed patient records. Especially for rare or complex indications, where traditional sources of RWE may lack coverage, this evidence can fill critical gaps. We reveal how literature-derived RWE can complement other sources and optimize precision medicine programs in inherited disease and oncology.

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Genomenon
Genomenon is a RWE and genomics intelligence company helping pharmaceutical and clinical diagnostics companies to inform precision medicine efforts and accelerate patient diagnosis by unlocking real-world evidence from biomedical literature. Our unique AI, combined with insights from our team of genomic experts empowers precision therapeutic companies to optimize clinical trial design, enhance diagnostic patient yield, and streamline regulatory submissions.

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Dr. Clifford Reid has over 30 years of experience in leading start-up and growth companies that commercialize important new technologies. Dr. Reid was the founding CEO of Travera, a spinout of MIT that developed a novel live-cell cancer therapy selection test. Prior to founding Travera, he was the founding Executive Chairman of Genos Research, a consumer genomics company that developed a marketplace for genomics research data. Dr. Reid was the founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Complete Genomics (CGI), a leading developer of whole human genome DNA sequencing technologies. He took the company public (GNOM: NASDAQ) and led it through its acquisition by BGI. Prior to CGI he founded two enterprise software companies, Eloquent (ELOQ: NASDAQ, an internet video company) which was acquired by Open Text, and Verity (VRTY: NASDAQ, an enterprise search engine company) which was ultimately acquired by Hewlett-Packard.Dr. Reid is on the Visiting Committee of the Biological Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is a member of the MIT Corporation Development Committee. He is a scientific advisor to NGD, a bacterial genomics company. He earned a BS in Physics from MIT, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and a PhD in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

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Cancer Commons

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Rowan is a co-founder of BEVC an early stage VC firm investing in the intersection of life science, engineering, and computation. Over her career she has led the execution of dozens of equity investments and business deals. Rowan currently serves as an independent director at Natera, Inc. (NTRA), Cambridge Innovation Capital, Cellanome and CornerstoneAI.Previously she was regional Head of JohnsonJohnson Innovation, Head of Healthcare Investing at GE Ventures and Head of Precision Diagnostics at GE Healthcare. Rowan was a partner at MDV for over a decade, investing in a wide variety of data-enabled companies including Adamas (IPO:ADMS), Pacific Biosciences (IPO:PACB), ParAllele Biosciences (Acq:AFFX), Personalis (IPO:PSNL), Sequenta (Acq:ADPT) and Verinata (Acq:ILMN). She was an early employee at Rosetta (IPO Acq:MRK) and Incyte (INCY) and is a co-founder of Initiate Studios. Rowan holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge and carried out post-doctoral research at UCSF.

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Atul Butte Company Competition Finals Judge
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BEVC
Early-stage venture capital enabling exceptional founders. Focus at the intersection of life sciences, engineering, and computation.

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Cathryn Cadwell leads a research program at UCSF dedicated to understanding the cellular architecture and circuit logic of the human cerebral. Her lab integrates single-cell genomics, electrophysiology, viral circuit mapping, human primary tissue and organoid models to uncover how cortical neurons develop, connect, and malfunction in neurological disorders. Dr. Cadwell pioneered innovative technologies such as Patch-seq, enabling multimodal characterization of single neuron morphology, physiology and gene expression. More recently, she has advanced scalable, sequencing-based approaches to connectomics using barcoded viral tools to link molecular cell types to circuit function. By combining human models with cutting-edge computational and experimental tools, she aims to reveal the cellular and circuit-level mechanisms underlying epilepsy. Her groups interdisciplinary approach bridges fundamental neuroscience, human biology, and translational insight, with the goal of informing next-generation strategies to restore healthy brain function.

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Precision Pipelines: Accelerating Epilepsy Translation with DataJoint
Discover how the Cadwell Lab (UCSF) leverages DataJoint to power translational research for drug-resistant epilepsy. Learn how automated precision pipelines aim to unify multi-scale dataspanning single-cell genomics, physiology, morphology, and circuit models of human tissueto accelerate the development of novel regenerative cell therapies.

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UCSF
Cadwell Lab at UCSF deciphers human cortical cell types and circuits to map how diverse neurons assemble, connect, and malfunction in health and disease.

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Dr. Zviran is an experienced entrepreneur, scientist, and executive with over 20 years of experience in the defense and life science industries. Dr. Zviran co-founded C2i Genomics, where he served as both CEO and CSO. He guided the company from its beginnings as an academic spin-off to a globally recognized industry leader, culminating in a successful exit. Currently, Dr. Zviran is the co-founder and CEO of Prism AI Therapeutics, an AI-driven multi-omics CDxDx management company. Additionally, Asaf co-chair the Multi-OmicsAI working group at the BLOODPAC non-profit organization.

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Multi-omics AI-driven DxCDx development from small clinical cohorts
Prism AIs platform utilizes our proprietary multi-tensor spectral decomposition method to transform complex multi-omics data from early phase clinical trials into mechanistically interpretable and clinically actionable models, as well as drug efficacy and toxicity biomarkers. Our goal is to improve drug development success rates and expand the patient population that can access precision medicine.

AI and Data Sciences Showcase:
Prism AI Therapeutics
Prism AI is revolutionizing the development and management of multi-omics Diagnostic (Dx) and Companion Diagnostic (CDx) assets. Using an AI-first approach and global SaaS-like business model that can span clinical trials through commercialization, our goal is to enable the development of next-generation therapies and biomarkers.

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Dimitri Yatsenko is the scientific lead behind DataJoint, an open-source framework widely adopted across neuroscience for building reproducible, scalable, and fully automated data pipelines. Originally developed during his work at Baylor College of Medicine, DataJoint has become foundational infrastructure for labs generating large-scale electrophysiology, imaging, behavioral, and multimodal datasets. Dimitris work focuses on transforming fragmented research workflows into unified, auditable systems that integrate data acquisition, analysis, and computational modeling. Over more than a decade, he has championed data-centric research practices that accelerate discovery, improve scientific rigor, and enable collaborative, multi-institution neuroscience projects. His contributions have helped establish best practices for managing complex experimental data and have empowered researchers to connect raw measurements to higher-order insight with speed, transparency, and reproducibility.

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Precision Pipelines: Accelerating Epilepsy Translation with DataJoint
Discover how the Cadwell Lab (UCSF) leverages DataJoint to power translational research for drug-resistant epilepsy. Learn how automated precision pipelines aim to unify multi-scale dataspanning single-cell genomics, physiology, morphology, and circuit models of human tissueto accelerate the development of novel regenerative cell therapies.

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Datajoint Inc.
DataJoint is a research-data platform that transforms fragmented lab workflows into automated, reproducible, and scalable data pipelines, enabling faster, reliable scientific discovery across modalities.

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Rahul Deo is a cardiologist and scientist with 15+ years of experience in academic medicine, most recently at the University of California, San Francisco, and Harvard Medical School, prior to co-founding Atman Health. He completed a PhD in Biophysics and postdoctoral training in Artificial Intelligence and trained in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Womens Hospital and Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. His focus, both in academia and now at Atman Health, has been to bring technology to improve care, recognizing that a solution will require a deep understanding of both the biological complexity of the underlying diseases and the process of clinical management. He recognizes that the core of the problem is a fundamentally broken provider workflow that has resisted innovation, permitting marginal improvements, but no changes that will impact quality, access, or costs. He co-founded Atman Health to build a new model.

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Artificial intelligence-powered specialty care for scaling, complexity, and quality.
Despite significant investment, the same problems remain in healthcare: high costs, poor quality, and limited access. Our software, validated in high-risk populations, redefines the clinical process by using LLM-based clinical data ingestion to feed a transparent, deterministic decision-making engine. Downstream tasks are all automated, enabling outstanding outcomes in a fraction of the time.

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Atman Health
Atman Health’s mission is to transform specialty care through artificial intelligence-powered software that enables high-quality, high-complexity care in a fraction of the time.

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Arya Khokhar, founder of Eos AI, is building the essential data infrastructure layer for reliable healthcare AI. Driven by firsthand experience of seeing millions of dollars in AI research fail to reach the clinic due to data drift, her work is focused on solving data-level generalization failures. Her mission is to make fragmented, heterogeneous medical data usable across hospitals, pharma, and research, ensuring AI systems work reliably in real clinical environments.She has led research across medical imaging, multimodal learning, and clinical data harmonization, collaborating with academic medical centers and industry partners to deploy AI systems that translate beyond single institutions. Aryas work bridges research and production, emphasizing reliability, cost reduction, and trust in healthcare AI. Her mission is to make healthcare AI-native by fixing the data foundation beneath models rather than repeatedly retraining them.

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Billing to Biomarkers: Making AI That Works
AI models trained on fragmented healthcare data often fail in deployment, eroding clinician trust and slowing scientific discovery. This talk explains why current approaches don't scale, and how fixing data upstream enables reliable downstream models for drug discovery and care delivery, reducing costs, accelerating experimentation, and improving care.

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Eos AI
Eos AI is the data infrastructure layer that makes healthcare AI reliable in the real world. By standardizing medical images and clinical text across institutions, we enable downstream models for drug discovery, clinical decision support, billing optimization, and long-term quality-of-care improvement.

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Shiva Nathan is the founder of Onymos, a Silicon Valley-based software company building intelligent automation solutions for healthcare and life sciences. Before founding Onymos, Shiva was Head of Intuit's Platforms Services organization. He has also held technical leadership positions at Oracle and CA. These companies continue to leverage the products he helped define and build. He is an alumnus of BITS Pilani and UC Berkeleys Haas School of Business.

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The Cost of Manual Work in Automated Labs
Most labs just automate their instruments, not the workflows around them. This session examines how and why manual document processing persists inside automated labs, from specimen accessioning to billing. It also shows how Onymos DocKnow closes that automation gap by extracting, validating, and analyzing structured and unstructured document data.

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Onymos
Onymos is building innovative automation software for the high-trust, high-stakes environments inside healthcare and life sciences. It helps organizations modernize their workflows and unlock the value of unstructured data without ever compromising security, compliance, or control.

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Mike is the founder of Haplotype Labs.Previously, Mike served as the VPChief Architect at 23andMe. Mike's tenure at 23andMe spanned a 15+ year category-defining journey from Series A through IPO and beyond.Prior to 23andMe, Mike was an early engineer at Salesforce.com and developed technology at Merrill Lynch.Mike holds a BS in CS from Cornell, a MS in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford, and multiple patents related to cloud computing, security, genetics, and machine learning.

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HaploHub: The AI First EHR for Multi-omic Precision Health
As a community, we are advancing our understanding how our systems, organs, tissues, and cell types deteriorate with age. Precision prevention increasingly depends on large 'omics profiles of each individual. We are building a shared EHR to store and interpret the 'omics cloud and invite each of you to contribute to it.

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Haplotype Labs
Haplotype Labs helps precision medicine organization predict detect and prevent disease using polygenic risk scores and multi-omic AI models.

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Cristian Tomasetti, Ph.D., is director of the Center for Cancer Prevention, Early Detection and Monitoring at City of Hope, director of the Division of Mathematics for Cancer Evolution and Early Detection in the Department of Computational and Quantitative Medicine at Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, and professor and director of the Division of Integrated Cancer Genomics at Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).Dr. Tomasetti is recognized internationally for his paradigm-shift contributions to the current understanding of cancer etiology and tumor evolution. By combining mathematical modeling, statistical analysis, and machine learning with experimental, epidemiological and DNA sequencing data, he has provided the first quantitative evidence for the significant role in cancer causation played by the normal, e.g., endogenous, accumulation of somatic mutations in the cells of the human body. As an applied mathematician, he currently leads the effort to develop novel blood tests and classification artificial intelligence algorithms for the early detection of cancer and monitoring of cancer patients.Before joining City of Hope and TGen, he was an associate professor of Oncology and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University with appointments in the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, in both the Department of Oncology (Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center) and the Department of Biostatistics (Bloomberg School of Public Health). Dr. Tomasetti holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park (December 2010). After his Ph.D., he was a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (January 2011 through June 2013), after which he became a faculty member at Hopkins (assistant professor, July 2013 through December 2017).

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City of Hope

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Ravi is the co-founder of Prima Mente, a frontier research company building foundation models for biology. A former clinician and experimental neuroscientist, Ravi believes that AI - when built appropriately - can be transformative for all of biological discovery and medicine. He and his team are committed to curing diseases with the help of AI - starting with the hardest of them all: Alzheimer's Disease.

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Foundation models for neurodegenerative diseases
Foundation models offer the opportunity to understand complex and chronic conditions for the development of novel prognostics and therapeutic targets. When driven by specific biological and clinical questions, we show that appropriate data sets with novelties in modeling allow us to improve clinical outcomes and hypothesize novel mechanisms for new therapeutics for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

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Prima Mente
Prima Mente is a frontier biology AI lab. We generate our own data, build general purpose biological foundation models, and translate discoveries into research and clinical outcomes.

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Naomi Thomson works in Product Strategy and Commercialization at Mithrl, where we focus on translating AI-enabled analytics into practical, reproducible tools for biological discovery. She brings more than 30 years of experience working with molecular data across academic and industry settings, with deep expertise in next-generation sequencing, transcriptomics, and integrative data analysis.

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From Analysis to Insight: AI as Co-Scientist
Advances in AI promise faster discovery, yet value depends on how scientists collaborate. This talk introduces Mithrl as a co-scientist designed to bridge biological and computational perspectives. Using published arthritis and human heart organoid studies, we illustrate how AI-mediated interpretation improves communication, confidence, and insight without compromising reproducibility and transparency.

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Mithrl
Mithrl serves pharma and biotech researchers as an AI Co-Scientist, turning raw omics and other data into new candidates for biomarkers, targets, and other new hypotheses in minutes. Discovery and preclinical teams interact with Mithrl in natural language, bridging biologists and computational teams to uncover insights faster, gain a discovery edge, and move therapies from idea to patient more quickly.

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Dexter Hadley, MDPhD, is a physician-scientist and nationally recognized leader in clinical artificial intelligence, precision medicine, and open biomedical data science. He currently serves as Director of Artificial Intelligence at the American Board for Precision Medicine, where he leads national strategy for evaluating, governing, and integrating AI into precision medicine education and clinical practice.Dr. Hadley trained at Penn, Stanford, and UCSF, working under Atul Butte on NIH-funded translational bioinformatics, drug discovery, and open-data initiatives. He later became the inaugural Chief of AI at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine, embedding AI into the medical curriculum and research infrastructure.He secured the Casey DeSantis Florida Cancer Innovation Grant before founding MammoChat, an open-source platform connecting patients to their clinical data. He now leads OncoNex, MammoChat's oncology-wide evolution, enabling drug discovery, trial matching, and medical dividends through governed reuse of real-world data.His work translates biomedical research into deployable, enterprise-grade clinical platforms.

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OncoNex: Precision Oncology That Pays Patients
OncoNex is a patient-centered precision oncology platform that turns real-world clinical data into shared evidence and medical dividends. Evolving from MammoChat's open-source foundation, it spans screening through survivorship, using interoperable standards, governed AI, and a verifiable ledger to keep patients central to discovery and value creation.

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OncoNex
OncoNex is a patient-centered precision oncology platform that transforms real-world clinical data into shared evidence and medical dividends. Evolving from MammoChat's open-source foundation, OncoNex uses interoperable standards, governed AI, and a cryptographically verifiable ledger to accelerate discovery, improve trial matching, and return value to patients across the oncology continuum.

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Art Wallace, M.D., Ph.D. is the CEO of Atapir as well as a professor and vice-chair of anesthesiology and perioperative care at the University of California, San Francisco and Chief of the Anesthesia Service at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco. His research has included multiple clinical projects including device development for monitoring, surgical therapy of heart failure, the off pump CABG, drug development, and testing. He is best known for his work developing medications for the prevention of perioperative cardiac morbidity and mortality. He was one of the developers of perioperative beta blockade. His current work includes setting up a nation-wide, big data, analytic system for anesthesia care in the VA including the VAs 30 million patient database. The current talk will focus on AVD-M monitoring which is new platform for continuous, remote, non-contact, machine vision based medical monitoring.

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Atapir: Remote, Non-Contact, Continuous, Machine Vision Monitoring
Atapir has created a new platform for remote, non-contact, continuous, machine vision based medical monitoring of vital signs in hospital, nursing home, frail elderly at home, and telemedicine. Atapir's AVD-M monitor can monitor heart rate, respiratory rate, pulse oximetry, blood pressure, pain, mood, fall risk and other parameters as software as a monitor.

AI and Data Sciences Showcase:
Atapir
Atapir is a MedTech Company using machine vision and AI to create a new platform for medical monitoring. Atapir's software as a monitor, software as a service provides ambient input to agentic systems reducing patient morbidity and mortality.

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Q Bio

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Trinabh is a pioneer in privacy-preserving technologies and a recognized expert in privacy and cybersecurity having served as an Associate Professor at University of California Santa Barbara. As CEO, he leads DataUnites strategic vision, driving innovation in secure data collaboration for biopharma and healthcare systems. A co-developer of DataUnites core technology, he brings deep expertise from prior roles at Microsoft, VERA Security, IBM, and Nvidia.

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DataUnite

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Seasoned executive and board advisor with over 20 years of leadership experience in governance, risk, compliance (GRC), cybersecurity, and AI-driven digital resilience.Has a proven track record of guiding global enterprises and fintech startups through complex regulatory landscapes, technology transformation, and operational scaling.Successfully built and scaled multimillion-dollar GRC practices, launched award-winning Financial products, and pioneered AI-based compliance solutions in collaboration with industry leaders like Google and Microsoft.

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Diagnosis of Low-Grade Central Osteosarcoma
This presentation showcases a clinical case of low-grade central osteosarcoma often misdiagnosed as fibrous dysplasia. Using a ResNet-101 convolutional neural network for automated mitosis detection, AI accurately identified malignancy (up to 99% probability), aligning with expert diagnoses. The study highlights AIs promise to improve accuracy, reproducibility, and confidence in complex pathology.

AI and Data Sciences Showcase:
MegAITex
MegAITex is an AI-driven medical technology company developing deep learning solutions to enhance diagnostic accuracy and efficiency in pathology. Its platform leverages advanced neural networks to detect early signs of cancer and other diseases from digitized biopsy images, reducing diagnostic errors and enabling faster, more reliable clinical decisions.

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Dr. Tran is a board-certified high complexity laboratory director (HCLD) through the American Board of Bioanalysis. His personal mission is to develop, evaluate, and implement cutting-edge biosensor technologies to advance laboratory medicine and expand access to care. Dr. Trans clinical work focuses on creating synergistic diagnostic pathways that integrate highly automated centralized testing with mobile, near-patient, and point-of-care solutions.As an HCLD-boarded laboratory scientist, he has broad expertise across all technical domains of clinical pathology. His primary areas of specialization include clinical chemistry, molecular infectious disease testing, and point-of-care diagnostics.

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Local Multi-Agent AI Systems for Diagnostics and Biorepositories
Locally deployed multi-agent AI systems have the potential to transform both biomedical research and healthcare delivery. This presentation highlights local multi-agent AI solutions developed at our Computational Pathology and AI Center of Excellence, spanning applications from biobanking operations to mobile field care.

AI and Data Sciences Showcase:
University of Pittsburgh
The Computational Pathology and AI Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh is a premier center for clinical studies, innovation, education, research and ethical governance in AI and ML. Its goal is to transform medicine by using AI to detect disease earlier, more efficiently and more accurately to improve outcomes for patients.

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Ivana Mikic focuses on developing AI-based methods that expand the information content of fluorescence microscopy without requiring changes to hardware or experimental workflows. Her work centers on extracting quantitative insight from complex biological systems and improving imaging data fidelity and experimental reproducibility, with applications across research, drug discovery, toxicology, and diagnostics.Over the past two decades, she has applied computer vision and multimodal AI to problems across life sciences, spanning digital pathology, fluorescence microscopy, spatial multi-omics, and organ-on-chip platforms. She previously co-founded Image Informatics and led it through a successful acquisition by Dassault Systèmes in 2016, and later built and led the AI team at Reveal Biosciences, acquired by CellCarta in 2021.

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Pushing Fluorescence Microscopy Beyond Optical Limits with AI
Fluorescence microscopy underpins modern life sciences, yet hardware constraints limit the amount and quality of data captured. This talk introduces Sarpedas AI-based, software-only approach to doubling the information density of fluorescence imaging while reducing noise and background, enabling richer biological insight across drug discovery, toxicology, and diagnostics without changing microscopes or workflows.

AI and Data Sciences Showcase:
Sarpeda
Sarpeda develops AI-based, software-only technology that doubles the effective information capacity of fluorescence microscopy. It enables high-plex imaging with standard antibodies and fluorophores while removing autofluorescence and other structured background, without hardware changes.

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Magda founded intoDNA with a mission to make STRIDE the new standard in DNA damage analysis and enable DNA break detection at a new precision. She has authored the publication and the patent on DNA damage analysis with STRIDE. With more than a decade of research experience in biophysics and cell biology, she leads intoDNA and the STRIDE technology into new business verticals to support consistently growing numbers of customers in diagnosing DNA damage in yet new areas. Magda earned her PhD in Cell Biophysics from Jagiellonian University and was a visiting PhD student at UC Davis, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and UMass Medical School.

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AI-enabled functional biomarkers of replication stress and DNA repair
We present a proprietary suite of functional assays and AI powered digital pathology software that quantify replication stress, DNA damage, and repair activity in situ for precision oncology.

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IntoDNA
intoDNA is a precision medicine company pioneering functional biomarkers that directly measure DNA damage repair pathway activity. Its proprietary STRIDE® platform delivers ultra-sensitive, in situ functional insight not inferable from genomics alone. STRIDE supports biopharma research today and is advancing toward diagnostic and companion diagnostic applications, including dSTRIDE™-HR for functional HRD assessment to improve patient stratification and accelerate drug development.

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Sourav Dey is chief AI officer and co-founder of Manifold, an AI engineering company. Global companies partner with Manifold to build intelligent software products faster. As leader of the engineering team, Sourav has years of expertise, enabling him to help clients move faster by making the right decisions at the right time. He focuses on machine learning and data engineering work across client projects and developing platform technologies to make our engineers more efficient. He also works closely with business stakeholders, gaining a clear understanding of their priorities and challenges.Souravs career has always been at the intersection of math and computer scienceprior to Manifold, he led teams building smart thermostats and security cams at Google-Nest, worked on an IoT platform at Ingenu, and designed algorithms for wireless chips at Qualcomm. He has authored over a dozen papers and patents for his work on intrusion detection, user similarity, and wireless. He holds PhD, MS, and BS degrees from MIT in electrical engineering and computer science.Sourav was born in Michigan to parents who emigrated from India. Sourav grew up in Kentucky, Korea, and Malaysia.

AI and Data Sciences Showcase:
Manifold AI