Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Vice Dean of Research, U. of Oklahoma
Biography
Dr. Carlos Bustamante is one of the world’s leading experts in medical and population genetics with a career built at the intersection of genomics, data science, and precision health. He received his PhD in Biology and MS in Statistics from Harvard University and has held faculty positions at Cornell and Stanford, where he was founding Chair of Biomedical Data Science and helped shape large-scale genomic initiatives including the 1000 Genomes Project. His research has transformed understanding of human genetic variation and how it influences disease risk across diverse populations. A MacArthur Fellow, Bustamante has published over 250 scientific papers and advised both academic and commercial ventures in genomics technology. In 2025 he was appointed inaugural Vice Dean of Research at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, where he leads cross-disciplinary efforts to advance genomic medicine and innovation.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Ed Kim, City of Hope
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Mark Daly, Broad Institute / FinnGen
• Gordon Sanghera, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
The Data Factory: Integrating Millions of Genomes for Variant Interpretation
• Chair: Stephen Montgomery, Stanford University
• Carlos Bustamante, University of Oklahoma
• Mark Daly, Broad Institute
• Manuel Rivas, Stanford University
• Mark McCarthy, Genentech
• Nilah Ioannidis, UC Berkeley / UCSC
Keynote: Biobanks and the Road Ahead in Human Genetics
• Mark Daly, Broad Institute
Beyond the Read: Long-Read Sequencing in Clinical Variant Pipeline
• Chair: Gordon Sanghera, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
• Hanlee Ji, Stanford
• Barrett Bready, Nabsys
DNA to Drug, Label & Coverage
• Chair: Razelle Kurzrock, Medical College of Wisconsin
• Edward Kim, City of Hope
• Slavé Petrovski, AstraZeneca
• Wei Zhou, Broad Institute
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Scott Gottlieb, New Enterprise Associates
Fireside Chat
• Lauren Silvis, Tempus
• Scott Gottlieb, New Enterprise Associates
25+ Years of the Human Genome: From Bench to Bedside to Beyond
• Chair: Ralph Snyderman, Duke University
• Craig Venter, J. Craig Venter Institute
• Brook Byers, KPCB
• Lee Hood, Phenome Health
AI & Evolution for Predicting Human Disease Genes
• Chair: Yuval Tabach, Hebrew University
• Nilah Ioannidis, UC Berkeley / UCSC
• Saša Jenko, European Commission
