Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Director, Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, MIT
Biography
Alex K. Shalek is the Director of the Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (IMES) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the J. W. Kieckhefer Professor in IMES and the Department of Chemistry at MIT, as well as an Extramural Member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. He is also an Institute Member of the Broad Institute, a Member of the Ragon Institute, and an Instructor in Health Sciences & Technology at Harvard Medical School. The multi-disciplinary research in his laboratory aims to create and implement broadly-applicable methods to study and engineer cellular responses in tissues, to drive biological discovery and improve prognostics, diagnostics, and therapeutics for autoimmune, infectious, and cancerous diseases. Shalek and his lab are best known for their work in single-cell and spatial genomics, and for studying a number of devastating, but difficult to study, human diseases with partners around the world.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
The PMWC 2026 AI Company Showcase will provide a 15-30 minute time slot for selected AI companies to present their latest technologies to an audience of leading investors, potential clients, and partners. We will hear from companies building technologies that expedite the pre-clinical and clinical drug discovery and development process, accelerate patient diagnosis and treatment, or develop scalable systems framework to make AI and deep/machine learning a reality.
