Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Professor, Cornell U.
Biography
Iwijn De Vlaminck trained in applied physics (Ph.D., KULeuven), single molecule biophysics (postdoc, TUDelft) and precision medicine (HHMI research associate, Stanford University). His most recent research has led to the development of sensitive blood tests to diagnose organ transplant rejection, already widely used, the Karius blood test to screen for infection from blood, used in more than 400 US hospitals, RNA liquid biopsy technologies to monitor inflammatory disease, technologies to spatially map RNA in tissues, and highly multiplexed imaging methods to map the biogeography of the human microbiome. He is an elected fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and a recipient of the NIH New Innovator and NIH MERIT awards. He is a co-founder of Kanvas Biosciences and Romix Biosciences.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Christina Curtis, Stanford
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Joe DeRisi, UCSF / CZ Biohub / Delve Bio (Luminary)
• Alexandre Loupy, Inserm / Paris Transplant Group (Pioneer)
Featured Speakers
• Joe DeRisi, UCSF / CZ Biohub / Delve Bio
• Alexandre Loupy, Inserm / Paris Transplant Group
• Minnie Sarwal, UCSF
• Kiran Khush, Stanford
• Iwijn De Vlaminck, Cornell
• Maarten Naesens, KU Leuven
• Charles Chiu, UCSF
• Michael Snyder, Stanford
• Duncan MacCannell, CDC
• Chaz Langelier, UCSF
• Yoel Sadovsky, Stanford
• Ananth Karumanchi, Cedars-Sinai
• Gabriel Bien-Willner, Palmetto GBA / MolDX
• Dawn Cardeiro, Roche Diagnostics
• Bruce Quinn, Bruce Quinn Associates
Transplant & Organ Health Diagnostics
From biopsy to blood-based monitoring of rejection, injury, and infection.
Blood-Based Omics and Host Response in Infection
Metagenomics and host-response signals for difficult infectious disease cases.
Maternal & Fetal Health
From prenatal screening to actionable maternal and placental biomarkers.
From Signal to Standard of Care
What makes a non-cancer blood test clinically actionable and reimbursable.
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