Speaker Profile
PhD, Co-Founder and CEO, Dorian Tx
Biography
Maddalena Adorno completed her postdoctoral training in Stem Cell and Aging Biology at Stanford University, where her discoveries in stem cell biology were considered amongst the most important research at Stanford University in 2013. She has published 13 papers in high impact journals including Nature, Cell and Science, and is an inventor on several patents in cancer biology, aging and degenerative diseases. She was also the cofounder of StemGuard, Inc., a biotech company developing neuroprotectors for degenerative diseases. Maddalena was an invited speaker at the Time 100 Health Summit in 2019, where she presented senoblockers as potential therapeutics for aging. She sits on the advisory board of KinKeepers and advises the Stanford Down Syndrome Research Center. Maddalena received her M.Sc. in Medical Biotechnology magna cum laude and a Ph.D. in Biomedicine from University of Padova, Italy.
Stanford Healthcare Innovation Lab Showcase:
Dorian Therapeutics
Session Abstract – PMWC 2024 Silicon Valley
Track Chairs:
Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Metagenomic Sequencing Challenges in Microbiology Labs (PANEL)
Chair: Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Esther Babady, MSKCC
- Robert Schlaberg, Illumina
- David C Gaston, Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Optimizing Clinical Metagenomics for Infectious Diseases Diagnosis (PANEL)
Chair: Steve Miller, Delve Bio
- Anne Piantadoski, Emory University
- Sivan Bercovici, Karius Dx
- Laura Filkins, Children's Health System of Texas
- Catherine Hogan, British Columbia / CDC
- Advancing Infectious Disease Management through AI, Metagenomics, and Emerging Technologies (PANEL)
Chair: Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Purvesh Khatri, Stanford
- Monica Fung, UCSF
- Kristian Andersen, Scripps Research
- Kathleen Jacobson, CDPH - Insight and Actionable Strategies for Microbiome Innovation (PANEL)
Chair: Nathan Price, Thorne
- Colleen Cutcliffe, Pendulum
- Alex Morgan, Khosla Ventures
- Jack Gilbert, UCSD
- Fiona Tambuini, Genentech
- Nikole E. Kimes, Siolta Therapeutics - Stanford Healthcare Innovation Lab Showcase
Chair: Ariel Bacaner Ganz, Stanford
- Maddalena Adorno, Dorian Therapeutics
- Alice Rathjen, DNA compass
- David Wong, XR Workout - Chris Chin, Thera VR Inc.
