Speaker Profile
PMWC LUMINARY AWARD
Led GWAS/population genetics that mapped disease genes at scale
Ph.D., Chief, Analytic & Translational Genetics, MGH; Co-Director MPG, Broad Inst.
Biography
Mark Daly is the founding Chief of the Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit (A TGU) at Massachusetts General Hospital and is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on statistical and computational methods to discover and interpret genetic variation in complex disease, and on bringing genome information into clinical settings. He is also an Institute Member and Co-Director of the Program in Medical and Population Genetics at the Broad Institute, where he leads major sequencing studies in autism and inflammatory bowel disease. His group has major research efforts in neuropsychiatric genetics, particularly autism, schizophrenia, and A DHD, and has led many large GWAS and exome studies. His lab serves as an analytic hub for the Psychiatric GWAS Consortium. He has also led gene mapping in Crohns disease and ulcerative colitis. Daly served as Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) and received degrees from MIT and Leiden University.
Talk
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Ed Kim, City of Hope
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Mark Daly, Broad Institute / FinnGen
• Gordon Sanghera, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
The Data Factory: Integrating Millions of Genomes for Variant Interpretation
• Chair: Stephen Montgomery, Stanford University
• Carlos Bustamante, University of Oklahoma
• Mark Daly, Broad Institute
• Manuel Rivas, Stanford University
• Mark McCarthy, Genentech
• Nilah Ioannidis, UC Berkeley / UCSC
Keynote: Biobanks and the Road Ahead in Human Genetics
• Mark Daly, Broad Institute
Beyond the Read: Long-Read Sequencing in Clinical Variant Pipeline
• Chair: Gordon Sanghera, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
• Hanlee Ji, Stanford
• Barrett Bready, Nabsys
DNA to Drug, Label & Coverage
• Chair: Razelle Kurzrock, Medical College of Wisconsin
• Edward Kim, City of Hope
• Slavé Petrovski, AstraZeneca
• Wei Zhou, Broad Institute
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Scott Gottlieb, New Enterprise Associates
Fireside Chat
• Lauren Silvis, Tempus
• Scott Gottlieb, New Enterprise Associates
25+ Years of the Human Genome: From Bench to Bedside to Beyond
• Chair: Ralph Snyderman, Duke University
• Craig Venter, J. Craig Venter Institute
• Brook Byers, KPCB
• Lee Hood, Phenome Health
AI & Evolution for Predicting Human Disease Genes
• Chair: Yuval Tabach, Hebrew University
• Nilah Ioannidis, UC Berkeley / UCSC
• Saša Jenko, European Commission
