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
• W.E. Moerner, Stanford
• Serge Saxonov, 10x Genomics
• Priscilla Chan, Biohub
Honoree Fireside
• Christina Curtis, Stanford
• Priscilla Chan, Biohub
Honoree Fireside: From Measurement to Meaning: What Data AI Still Needs in Biology
• Christina Curtis, Stanford
• W.E. Moerner, Stanford
• Serge Saxonov, 10x Genomics
• Anne Wojcicki, 23AndMe
Unraveling Tissue Architecture with Single-Cell & Spatial Multi-Omics
• Chair: Garry P. Nolan, Stanford
• Joakim Lundeberg, SciLifeLab
• Tae Hyun Hwang, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Michael Angelo, Stanford
Spatial Sequencing for Next Generation Pathology
• Eli Glezer, Singular Genomics
Precision Profiling of Cells: Insights from Imaging-Spectral Flow Cytometry and Single-Cell Multiomics
• Aruna Ayer, BD
Single-Cell Genotype and Targeted Gene Expression Assay
• Zivjena Vucetic, Mission Bio
Resolving Cellular Lineage and State in Tumors with High-Resolution Single-Cell Genomics
• Gary Schroth, Cellanome
Quality and Quantity: Lesson from building 100M+ AI-Ready Single Cells
• Dan Rozelle, Rancho Biosciences
Tumor Evolution & Clonal Dynamics: From Models to Monitoring
• Christina Curtis, Stanford
Personal Omics at Scale: What Longitudinal Profiles Add to Early Detection
• Michael Snyder, Stanford
Multi-Omics-Driven Early Detection: Beyond Liquid Biopsy
• Chair: Alex Aravanis, Moonwalk Biosciences
• Ash Alizadeh, Stanford
• Sara Ahadi, OmicsEra
Scaling Data Generation for Foundational Biology Models with Single Cell Sequencing
• Alex Rosenberg, Parse Bioscience
AI in Molecular Diagnostics: Integrating Multi-Omics & Clinical Data
• Chair: Marina Sirota, UCSF
• Olivier Gevaert, Stanford
• Rebecca Critchley-Thorne, Castle Biosciences
• Lihua Jiang, Stanford
• Yunguan Wang, Cincinnati Children's
