Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Professor and Co-founder, EarlyDiagnostics
Biography
Dr. Zhou is a co-founder of EarlyDx and a Professor of Pathology and Lab Medicine at UCLA. She has an extensive publication record in bioinformatics, big data analytics, and liquid biopsy diagnostics. She is currently leading the NIH-funded UCLA Center for the Early Detection of Liver Cancer. She previously served as the Head of Computational Biology program at University of Southern California. She is a recipient of NSF CAREER Award and Alfred Sloan Fellowship. She holds a Diplom in Biochemistry from University of Tubingen (Germany), and a Nachdiplom in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. She completed her postdoctoral training in Biostatistics at Harvard University.
Talk
Methylome-based Liquid Biopsy for Early Cancer Detection
EarlyDiagnostics’ cfMethyl-Seq technology provides cost-effective cfDNA methylome sequencing for sensitive and specific cancer detection and localization.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2023 Silicon Valley
Track Chair: Cindy Perettie, Roche
- PMWC 2023 Award Ceremony
- Luis Alberto Diaz Jr., MSK
- Razelle Kurzrock, Medical College of Wisconsin - Non-invasive Liquid Biopsy Techniques (PANEL)
Chair: Razelle Kurzrock, Medical College of Wisconsin
- Apostolia Tsimberidou, MD Anderson
- Mandana Kamgar, MD Medical College of Wisconsin
- Mina Nikanjam, UCSD
- Ash Alizadeh, Stanford University - Liquid Biopsy Challenges and Limitations (PANEL)
Chair: Victor Lin, Mary Bird Perkins
- Luis Alberto Diaz Jr., MSK
- Maximilian Diehn, Stanford
- Dana Dilbeck, Agilent
- Emma Shtivelman, Cancer Commons - Liquid Biopsy in Clinical Trials: Learnings and COVID Experience (PANEL)
Chair: Cindy Perettie, Roche Diagnostics
- Eric Peters, Genenetch
- Andrew Mckenzie, Sarah Cannon
- Yang Pan, Gilead
- Alan Sandler, Mirati Therapeutics - Multi-Cancer Early Detection Through Multi-Biomarker Class Liquid Biopsy Testing
Chair: Tom Beer, Exact Sceinces
- Liquid Biopsy for Early Cancer Detection (PANEL)
Chair: Priti Hegde, Foundation Medicine
- Daniel Kim, UCSC
- Mike Nolan, Freenome
- Jeffrey Venstrom, Grail Bio
- Kathryn Phillips, UCSF
- Lon Castle, eviCore healthcare
- Tom Beer, Exact Sciences - Liquid Biopsy for Minimal Residual Disease (PANEL)
Chair: Minetta Liu, Natera
- Peter Bach, Delfi diagnostics
- Laura Vantveer, UCSF
- Susan Bobulsky, Adaptive
- Joshua Cohen, Johns Hopkins
- PMWC Showcase
- Harmeet Dhani, Biological Dynamics
- Varsha Rao, Claret Bio - PMWC NCI Showcase
- Xianghong Jasmine Zhou, EarlyDiagnostics
