Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Interim Director at UCSF BCSHI and Professor, UCSF
Biography
Marina Sirota is a Professor and Interim Director of UCS Fs Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute. Previously, she served as a Senior Research Scientist at Pfizer, focusing on precision medicine. She earned her PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University. With 20 years of experience and over 170 publications, Dr. Sirota develops computational integrative methods for diagnostics and therapeutics, specializing in womens health. Her laboratory is funded by the NIA, NLM, NIAMS, Pfizer, and the March of Dimes. A 2017 A MIA Young Investigator Award recipient, she leads the UCSF March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center and co-directs ENACT, a precision medicine center for endometriosis. Dr. Sirota also founded UCS Fs AI4ALL program, which introduces high school girls to the applications of AI and machine learning in biomedicine.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Okan Ekinci, Roche / Navify
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Fei-Fei Li, Stanford (Pioneer)
• Andrew Ng, Stanford / DeepLearning.AI (Luminary)
• Daphne Koller, insitro (Luminary)
Featured Speakers
• Fei-Fei Li, Stanford
• Andrew Ng, Stanford / DeepLearning.AI
• Daphne Koller, insitro
• Andy Beck, PathAI
• Germán Corredor Prada, Emory / Georgia Tech
• Drew Williamson, Emory
• Marina Sirota, UCSF
• Pranav Rajpurkar, Harvard
• Okan Ekinci, Roche / Navify
• Janusz Dutkowski, Data4Cure
• Alex Moreau, Champions Oncology
• Jadwiga Bienkowska, Pfizer
• Sharat Israni, UCSF
Beyond the Glass Slide
What computational pathology sees that humans cannot.
AI-Enabled Companion Diagnostics
From biomarker discovery to patient selection.
The Precision Oncology Operating System
Wiring multimodal AI into the oncology workflow.
AI and Omics Foundation Models
Modeling translational biology across omics, pathology, and clinical data.
From Pilot to Standard of Care
Scaling AI diagnostics in real clinical practice.
PMWC Hall of Impact
Previous Speakers Include
Nobel laureates, technology founders, regulators, CEOs and scientific pioneers who have taken the PMWC stage.
