Speaker Profile
M.D., PHARMD, Senior Vice President, Fred Hutch Cancer Ctr.
Biography
Dr. Fong is the inaugural Bezos Distinguished Scholar and director of the Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. He is also a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology in the University of Washington. As a physician-scientist, Dr. Fong has been involved in both pre-clinical and clinical studies of multiple cancer immunotherapies including a cancer vaccine and immune checkpoint inhibitors that are now FDA-approved. His laboratory has defined multiple immunologic mechanisms that underlie response and resistance to immunotherapies that could enable novel treatments. His contributions to the field have been recognized with a National Cancer Institute Outstanding Investigator Award. He serves on the board of directors for the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) and as a senior editor for leading immuno-oncology journals.
Talk
Non-Clinical Services Showcase:
Future Cancer Care Today
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Serge Saxonov, 10x Genomics
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute (Luminary)
• Aviv Regev, Genentech (Pioneer)
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• Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute
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• Eric Lander, Broad Institute
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• Satish Viswanath, Emory
• Alex Shalek, MIT / Broad Institute
• Christina Curtis, Stanford
• Fei Chen, Broad Institute
• Andy Beck, PathAI
• Kevin Wei, Harvard
• Rebecca Critchley-Thorne, Castle Biosciences
• Dan Rozelle, Rancho BioSciences
• Maximilian Strauss, OmicVision
The Next Map of Biology
From the Human Genome to the Human Cell Atlas in the AI era.
Spatial Biology in Practice
From tissue architecture to decisions that change the answer.
Spatial Proteomics
Cell states, therapeutic targets, and what can be measured in context.
Spatial Pathology from Discovery to Clinical Biomarker
Turning a beautiful image into a validated test.
AI for Spatial Biology
Foundation models, digital pathology, and tissue-scale interpretation.
Scaling Spatial Biology to Clinical Translation
From discovery platform to reproducible clinical evidence.
PMWC Hall of Impact
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