Speaker Profile
M.D.,Ph.D., Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, UCSF
Biography
Charles Chiu, M.D. Ph.D. is a Professor at UCSF, Director of the UCS-FAbbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center (VDDC), and Associate Director of the UCSF Clinical Microbiology Laboratory. Chiu currently leads a translational research laboratory focused on clinical metagenomic sequencing assay development for infectious diseases and genomic investigation and surveillance of emerging pathogens, including the SARSCoV2 coronavirus. He also uses RNASeq transcriptome profiling to develop predictive models using machine learning for host response based diagnosis of COVID19 and other infections. Chius work is supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Defense, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), philanthropy, and the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine. He has authored more than 100 peer reviewed publications (20 on COVID19), holds over 15 patents and patent applications, and serves on the scientific advisory board for Mammoth Biosciences, Danaher Dx, Biomesense, and Flightpath.
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
