Speaker Profile
M.D.,Ph.D., Vice President, Real World Evidence, Guardant Health
Biography
Dr. Amar Das has three decades of experience in advancing clinical research through data science and AI. At Guardant Health, he leads a team that generates real world evidence for blood-based testing in precision oncology and cancer screening. Prior to Guardant Health, Dr. Das was on the faculty at Stanford and Dartmouth. As Director of Biomedical Informatics at Dartmouth, he co-founded the Department of Biomedical Data Science, the first department focused on this discipline. Following his career in academia, he served as Director of Healthcare Effectiveness Research at IBM and Director of Real World Data Analytics and Innovation at MerckMSD. Dr. Das has received multiple professional and research awards, and is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. Dr. Das received his MD and PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford and completed his residency and postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Epidemiology at ColumbiaNew York Presbyterian.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Co-Chairs:
Gad Getz, Broad Institute
Alex Morgan, Khosla Ventures
PMWC Award Ceremony Honoree
• Greg Brockman, President & Co-Founder, OpenAI
• Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder, Apple
Keynote
• Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures
Target Discovery: Beyond Genomics – Revealing Hidden Layers of Biology with AI
• Keynote: Stephen Quake, CZ Biohub
• Aritro Nath, City of Hope
• Massa Shoura, Phinomics
• Omar Serang, DNAnexus
Illuminating Drug Discovery: AI Models That Learn From Biology
• Erwin Estigarribia, HEADLAMP Health
Harmonizing the Data Economy: Enabling AI Across Institutions and Therapeutic Areas
• Noah Nasser, Datma
Can AI Really Create the Next Blockbuster Drug?
• James Zou, Stanford
Interpretable AI for Biomarker Discovery: Accelerating Drug Development
• Chair: Rajat Roy, PATHOMIQ INC
Closing the Loop: AI in the Messy Middle of Drug Development
• Ari Caroline, Weave Bio
• Dina Katabi, Emerald / MIT
Is AI the New Drug?
• Michael J. Kahana, Nia Therapeutics
