Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Vice Dean of Research and Professor of Molecular Genetics and Genome Sciences, U. of Oklahoma
Biography
University of Oklahoma
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Mark Daly, Broad Institute (implied from context, but you didn’t restate – leaving just content here as requested)
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Mark Daly, Broad Institute
• Gordon Sanghera, Oxford Nanopore
The Data Factory: Building Systems to Integrate Millions of Genomes for Variant Interpretation
• Chair: Stephen B. Montgomery, Stanford
• Carlos D. Bustamante, University of Oklahoma
• Mark Daly, Broad Institute/FinnGen
• Manuel Rivas, Stanford
• Mark McCarthy, Genentech
• Nilah Ioannidis, UC Berkeley/UCSC
Beyond the Read: Integrating Long-Read Data into the Clinical Variant Pipeline
• Chair: Gordon Sanghera, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
• Hanlee P. Ji, Stanford
• Barrett Bready, Nabsys
Keynote: Biobanks and the Road Ahead in Human Genetics
• Mark Daly, Broad Institute/FinnGen
AI and Evolution for Predicting Human Disease Genes
• Chair: Yuval Tabach, Hebrew University
• Nilah Ioannidis, UC Berkeley/UCSC
• Sasa Jenko, European Commission
DNA to Drug, Label & Coverage: From Genetic Signals to Approval & Access
• Chair: Razelle Kurzrock, Medical College of Wisconsin
• Russ B Altman, Stanford
• Slavé Petrovski, AstraZeneca
• Wei Zhou, Broad Institute
25+ Years of the Human Genome — From Bench to Bedside to Beyond
• Chair: Ralph Snyderman, Duke
• J. Craig Venter, Craig Venter Institute (JCVI)
• Brook Byers, KPCB
• Lee Hood, Phenome Health
