Speaker Profile
M.D., Founder & Director, Madrigal Pharma
Biography
Dr. Taub serves as Madrigal’s Senior Scientific and Medical Advisor. Dr. Taub also previously served as Executive Vice President, Research & Development, from July 2016 through June 2019 and as Chief Executive Officer from September 2011 to July 2016. Prior to joining Madrigal, Dr.Taub served as Senior Vice President, Research and Development of VIA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2008 to 2011 and as Vice President, Research, Metabolic Diseases at F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG from 2004 to 2008. In those positions, Dr. Taub oversaw clinical development and drug discovery
programs in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, including the conduct of a series of Phase 1 and 2 proof of concept clinical trials. From 2000 through 2003, Dr. Taub worked at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and DuPont, in a variety of positions, including as Executive Director of CNS and metabolic diseases research at each company.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Victor Velculescu, Johns Hopkins University
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Daniel De Carvalho, University of Toronto
From Mutation to Methylation: The Next Wave of Liquid Biopsy Biomarkers
• Chair: Victor Velculescu, Johns Hopkins University
• Daniel De Carvalho, University of Toronto
• Stephen Master, CHOP/U Penn
• Gordon Sanghera, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Advancing Minimal Residual Disease Detection Through cfDNA & cfRNA Profiling
• Chair: Luis Diaz, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Anne-Renee Hartman, Adela
• Minetta Liu, Natera
• Rita Shaknovich, Agilent
• Ajay Gannerkote, Integrated DNA Tech
AI-Informed Biomarker Trials: Turning Early Signals into Actionable Designs
• Chair: Manish Kohli, University of Utah
• Eric Klein, GRAIL
• Sarah Moseley, DELFI Diagnostics
• Samuel Levy, ClearNote Health
Role of AI in Liquid Biopsies & Cancer Detection
• Chair: Amoolya Singh, DELFI Diagnostics
• Ron Andrews, Dxcover
• Pankaj Vats, NVIDIA
• Paul Shi, Amgen
• Christopher Troll, Claret Bioscience
Integrating Genetic Risk with Early Detection: A Precision Prevention Framework for Cardiovascular Disease
• Paolo Di Domenico, Allelica
AI-Driven Metagenomic and Host RNA Profiling for Precision Diagnosis of Infections
• Charles Chiu, UCSF
AI-Driven Host–Pathogen Signatures from Plasma cfDNA: Bridging Infection Biology and Early Diagnostics
• Sivan Bercovici, Karius
Ultra-Sensitive Multimodal Liquid Biopsy for Early Cancer Detection: AI-Driven Signal Profiling
• John Sninsky, CellMax Life
Overcoming Limits of Traditional cfDNA Assays Using Active Chromatin
• Diana Abdueva, Aqtual
Whole-genome methylome-based early cancer signal detection
• Sally Mackenzie, EpiMethyl Analytics
BrainSee Sees the Brain: FDA-Approved AI for Predicting Modifiable Risk of Developing Alzheimer’s Within Five Year
• Padideh Kamali-Zare, Darmiyan
