Speaker Profile
Sc.D., Retired, Retired, NYSDOH
Biography
Michele Caggana received her doctorate from the Harvard School of Public Health and completed a clinical molecular genetics fellowship at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. She was boarded by the American Board of Medical Genetics, 1996-2025. Dr. Caggana retired from Wadsworth Center in 2025. She was the Deputy Director, Division of Genetics, Chief of the Laboratory of Human Genetics, and Director of the Newborn Screening (NBS) Program. She continues to work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL). She is a member/past Chair of APHL’s NBS Committee and the Molecular Subcommittee. Dr. Caggana served on the federal Advisory Committee for Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children until its dissolution in 4/2025. She served on the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council. Dr. Caggana was funded by the NICHD, CDC, APHL and HRSA. Her career-long effort focused on molecular and genomic NBS.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 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: Kathleen Barnes, Galatea Bio
• 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
