Speaker Profile
M.D., Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder, PathAI
Biography
Andy earned his MD from Brown Medical School and completed residency and fellowship training in Anatomic Pathology and Molecular Genetic Pathology from Stanford University. He completed a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University, where he developed one of the first machine-learning based systems for cancer pathology. He’s been certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic Pathology and Molecular Genetic Pathology. Prior to co-founding PathAI, he was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School in the Department of Pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He has published over 110 papers in the fields of cancer biology, cancer pathology, and biomedical informatics.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Serge Saxonov, 10x Genomics
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute (Luminary)
• Aviv Regev, Genentech (Pioneer)
Featured Speakers
• Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute
• Aviv Regev, Genentech
• Eric Lander, Broad Institute
• Gad Getz, Broad Institute
• Emma Lundberg, Stanford
• Garry Nolan, Stanford
• Nikhil Wagle, Genentech
• Satish Viswanath, Emory
• Alex Shalek, MIT / Broad Institute
• Christina Curtis, Stanford
• Fei Chen, Broad Institute
• Andy Beck, PathAI
• Kevin Wei, Harvard
• Rebecca Critchley-Thorne, Castle Biosciences
• Dan Rozelle, Rancho BioSciences
• Maximilian Strauss, OmicVision
The Next Map of Biology
From the Human Genome to the Human Cell Atlas in the AI era.
Spatial Biology in Practice
From tissue architecture to decisions that change the answer.
Spatial Proteomics
Cell states, therapeutic targets, and what can be measured in context.
Spatial Pathology from Discovery to Clinical Biomarker
Turning a beautiful image into a validated test.
AI for Spatial Biology
Foundation models, digital pathology, and tissue-scale interpretation.
Scaling Spatial Biology to Clinical Translation
From discovery platform to reproducible clinical evidence.
PMWC Hall of Impact
Previous Speakers Include
Nobel laureates, technology founders, regulators, CEOs and scientific pioneers who have taken the PMWC stage.
