Speaker Profile
Ph.D., CEO & Founder, Twist Bioscience
Biography
An early pioneer in the high-throughput synthesis and sequencing of DNA, Emily Leproust, Ph.D., is disrupting markets to enable the exponential growth of DNA-based applications across chemicalsmaterials, diagnostics, therapeutics, food and digital data storage. As CEO and co-founder, she has integrated biosecurity into Twist's processes and offerings while growing Twist from a startup to the leading global company that it is today, leveraging Twist's core technology to expand into new and significant markets and enabling customers to build a better, healthier and more sustainable world with synthetic DNA.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2025 Silicon Valley
Track Chair: Edward Esplin, Invitae
- PMWC Award Ceremony
Pioneer Honoree: Michael Snyder, Stanford
Pioneer Honoree: Kári Stefánsson, deCode Genetics
- Keynote
- Kári Stefánsson, deCode Genetics - Genomic & Multiomic Intervention and Prevention of Disease: Colorectal Cancer
- Edward Esplin, Labcorp Genetics - Multi-omic Characterization of Cancer Development and Progression
Chair: Kathleen Barnes, Oxford Nanopore Tech
- Carol Greider, UCSC
- Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, Genentech
- Emily Leproust, Twist Biosciences - Imaging and Data Strategies in the Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN)
- Sean Hanlon, NIH/HTAN
- Advanced Image Analysis and Data Integration in the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP)
- Pinaki Sarder, University of Florida - Predicting Disease and Managing Health Through Wearables Technologies (PANEL)
Chair: Michael Snyder, Stanford
- Jessilyn Dunn, Duke
- Noosheen Hashemi, January.ai
- Gil Levy, Assuta Ashdod Hospital - Protein Scoring Empowers Improved Disease Risk Prediction
- Cindy Lawley, Olink
- Multi-omic Interrogation of Organ Systems
Chair: Jessilyn Dunn, Duke
- Gloria Pryhuber, University of Rochester Medical Center
- Chenchen Zhu, Stanford
- Assaf Kacen, PromiseBio - Harnessing Single-Cell Genomics for Precision Disease Intervention
- Ben Hindson, 10x Genomics - Vision for Tomorrow: Pioneer Insights (Audience Qs)
Chair: Cindy Lawley, Olink
- Kári Stefánsson, deCode Genetics
