Speaker Profile
Ph.D., SVP Population & Precision Health, Oxford Nanopore Tech
Biography
Dr. Kathleen C. Barnes is a genetic epidemiologist with expertise in multiple complex lung and inflammatory diseases. For 30 years her population-based studies have focused on ethnically diverse, family-based and independent populations across the Americas, summarized in 230 publications. She has led multiple international multi-omics projects and is a founding PI in the NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Project. Originally at Johns Hopkins University (1993-2015) then the University of Colorado (2015-present), she has procured 150K biospecimens from her own research laboratory, and high-throughput, cutting edge multi-omics technologies. She is founding Director of the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine, was SVP of Population Genomics Health at Tempus Labs (2021-2023), and currently leads Population and Precision Health at Oxford Nanopore Technologies, focused on facilitating the transfer of precision health capabilities into clinical application.
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
