Speaker Profile
MD, PhD, 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 2024 Silicon Valley
Track Chairs:
Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Metagenomic Sequencing Challenges in Microbiology Labs (PANEL)
Chair: Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Esther Babady, MSKCC
- Robert Schlaberg, Illumina
- David C Gaston, Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Optimizing Clinical Metagenomics for Infectious Diseases Diagnosis (PANEL)
Chair: Steve Miller, Delve Bio
- Anne Piantadoski, Emory University
- Sivan Bercovici, Karius Dx
- Laura Filkins, Children's Health System of Texas
- Catherine Hogan, British Columbia / CDC
- Advancing Infectious Disease Management through AI, Metagenomics, and Emerging Technologies (PANEL)
Chair: Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Purvesh Khatri, Stanford
- Monica Fung, UCSF
- Kristian Andersen, Scripps Research
- Kathleen Jacobson, CDPH - Insight and Actionable Strategies for Microbiome Innovation (PANEL)
Chair: Nathan Price, Thorne
- Colleen Cutcliffe, Pendulum
- Alex Morgan, Khosla Ventures
- Jack Gilbert, UCSD
- Fiona Tambuini, Genentech
- Nikole E. Kimes, Siolta Therapeutics - Stanford Healthcare Innovation Lab Showcase
Chair: Ariel Bacaner Ganz, Stanford
- Maddalena Adorno, Dorian Therapeutics
- Alice Rathjen, DNA compass
- David Wong, XR Workout - Chris Chin, Thera VR Inc.
