Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Interim Director at UCSF BCSHI and Associate Professor, UCSF
Biography
Marina Sirota is a Professor and Interim Director of UCSFs 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 AMIA 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 UCSFs AI4ALL program, which introduces high school girls to the applications of AI and machine learning in biomedicine.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Christina Curtis, Stanford
PMWC Award Ceremony
• W.E. Moerner, Stanford
• Serge Saxonov, 10x Genomics
• Priscilla Chan, CZI
Honoree Fireside
• Chair: Christina Curtis, Stanford
• W.E. Moerner, Stanford
• Priscilla Chan, CZI
• Serge Saxonov, 10x Genomics
Unraveling Tissue Architecture with Single-Cell & Spatial Multi-Omics
• Joakim Lundeberg, SciLifeLab
• Garry P. Nolan, Stanford
• Tae Hyun Hwang, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Michael Angelo, Stanford
Spatial Sequencing for Next Generation Pathology
• Jeremy Schurman, Singular Genomics
Precision Profiling of Cells: Insights from Imaging-Spectral Flow Cytometry and Single-Cell Multiomics
• Aruna Ayer, BD
Single-Cell Genotype and Targeted Gene Expression Assay
• Zivjena Vucetic, Mission Bio
Tumor Evolution & Clonal Dynamics: From Models to Monitoring
• Chair: Christina Curtis, Stanford
Personal Omics at Scale: What Longitudinal Profiles Add to Early Detection
• Michael Snyder, Stanford
Multi-Omics-Driven Early Detection: Beyond Liquid Biopsy
• Ash Alizadeh, Stanford
• Alex Aravanis, Moonwalk Biosciences
• Sara Ahadi, OmicsEra
AI in Molecular Diagnostics: Integrating Multi-Omics & Clinical Data
• Chair: Marina Sirota, UCSF
• Olivier Gevaert, Stanford
• Rebecca Critchley-Thorne, Castle Biosciences
• Lihua Lei, Stanford
• Yunguan Wang, Cincinnati Children's
