Speaker Profile
Professor, Cedars-Sinai
Biography
Independent investigator with an active research laboratory for >25 years, focusing on discovering pathogenic pathways and bringing therapies to patients in the areas of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and kidney diseases
Research activities are vertically integrated, ranging from molecular and cell biological studies to animal models, epidemiological studies and frist-in-class human clinical trials
>350 publications (H index =133) & research supported by HHMI, NIH, AHA, Gates foundation and industry; 15 issued patents in biomedicine
Co-director of NIH training grant for Kidney, Urology and Hematology at UCLA/Cedars-Sinai
Received multiple scientific recognition awards (Established Investigator Award - AHA, Chesley Award - International Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy, Outstanding Investigator Award - American Federation of Medical Research, Jean Hamburger Prize- ISN)
Inducted to American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and Association of American Physicians (AAP)
Trained >50 graduate and post-doctoral fellows in basic and translational research.
Associate Editor-Hypertension and Editorial board of numerous medical Journals (JCI, JASN, Hypertension in Pregnancy)
12 endowed lectureships and > 200 invited lectures throughout the world
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Christina Curtis, Stanford
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Joe DeRisi, UCSF / CZ Biohub / Delve Bio (Luminary)
• Alexandre Loupy, Inserm / Paris Transplant Group (Pioneer)
Featured Speakers
• Joe DeRisi, UCSF / CZ Biohub / Delve Bio
• Alexandre Loupy, Inserm / Paris Transplant Group
• Minnie Sarwal, UCSF
• Kiran Khush, Stanford
• Iwijn De Vlaminck, Cornell
• Maarten Naesens, KU Leuven
• Charles Chiu, UCSF
• Michael Snyder, Stanford
• Duncan MacCannell, CDC
• Chaz Langelier, UCSF
• Yoel Sadovsky, Stanford
• Ananth Karumanchi, Cedars-Sinai
• Gabriel Bien-Willner, Palmetto GBA / MolDX
• Dawn Cardeiro, Roche Diagnostics
• Bruce Quinn, Bruce Quinn Associates
Transplant & Organ Health Diagnostics
From biopsy to blood-based monitoring of rejection, injury, and infection.
Blood-Based Omics and Host Response in Infection
Metagenomics and host-response signals for difficult infectious disease cases.
Maternal & Fetal Health
From prenatal screening to actionable maternal and placental biomarkers.
From Signal to Standard of Care
What makes a non-cancer blood test clinically actionable and reimbursable.
PMWC Hall of Impact
Previous Speakers Include
Nobel laureates, technology founders, regulators, CEOs and scientific pioneers who have taken the PMWC stage.
