Speaker Profile
PhD, Director, Cancer Genome Analysis & Professor of Pathology, MGH & Broad Inst.
Biography
Dr. Getz is an internationally acclaimed leader in cancer genomics and is pioneering widely used tools for analyzing cancer genomes. Dr. Getz is a Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of Bioinformatics at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, and is an Institute Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where he directs the Cancer Genome Computational Analysis Group. He has published over 400 papers in prominent journals describing new methodologies to study cancer genomes that have identified new genes and pathways involved in different tumor types, mutational signatures, and tumor evolution.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2024 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Gad Getz, Broad Institute
- PMWC 2024 Luminary Award
Luminary Honoree: Heidi Rehm, MGH and Broad Institute
- Opening Talk: The Power of Data by Track Chair Gaddy Getz, Broad Institute
- Challenges of Remote Data Harmonization and Querying (PANEL)
Chair: Heidi Rhem, MGH and Broad Institute
- Chris Lunt, All of Us
- Simona Carini, UCSF
- Josh Peterson, Emerge/Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Nara Sobreira, Johns Hopkins/GeneMatcher - Promoting Global Collaboration for Data Sharing: Overcoming Organizational and Sectoral Barriers (PANEL)
Chair: Gad Getz, Broad Institute
- Peter Goodhand, GA4GH
- Valentina Di Francesco, NHGRI
- Melanie Courtot, ICGC-ARGO
- Erica Galvez, Manifest MedEx - Keynote: Machine Learning for Therapeutic Discovery
- Daphne Koller, insitro
- Exploring the Power of AI and Data Sciences in Drug Discovery (PANEL)
Chair: Michelle Chen, Insilico Medicine
- Kim Branson, GSK
- Laszlo Radvanyi, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
- Martin Stumpe, Tempus
- Sun-Gou Ji, BridgeBio
- Angela Oliveira Pisco, Insitro - Foundation Models to Advance Precision Medicine (PANEL)
Chair: Nigam Shah, Stanford
- Aashima Gupta, Google
- Rod Tarrago, AWS
- Lana Feng, Huma.ai - PMWC Showcase
- Janusz Dutkowski, Data4Cure
