Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Siemens Healthineers
Biography
Rangarajan Sampath, PhD, is Senior Vice President and Head of Center for Innovation in Diagnostics (CID) at Siemens Healthineers, where he leads innovation and new product development in the areas of oncology, neurology, cardiometabolic and infectious diseases. CIDs focus is to drive disruptive next-generation innovation, development, and commercialization of in-vitro diagnostics, automation, and digital health solutions. Prior to this, Dr. Sampath was Chief Scientific Officer at Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), a non-profit organization focused on bringing cutting-edge diagnostics to low- and middle-income countries. In the first 2 decades of his career, Dr. Sampath was a co-founder of Ibis Biosciences and co-inventor of a novel PCRESI-MS technology that revolutionized pathogen detection and surveillance and worked on sepsis and infectious disease diagnostics. He is currently serving on the board of Sepsis Alliance and is working with the World Economic Forum on setting up a public-private partnership for pandemic preparedness.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2025 Silicon Valley
Track Chairs:
Charles Chiu, UCSF
- PMWC 2025 Award Ceremony
Pioneer Honoree: Julie Louise Gerberding, FNIH
Luminary Honoree: Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Keynote: From Crisis to Cure: Navigating Public Health Challenges in the Era of Precision Diagnostics
- Julie Louise Gerberding, FNIH
- Keynote: Clinical Metagenomic Sequencing for Precision Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases
- Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Harnessing Emerging Diagnostic Technologies in Primary and Critical Care (PANEL)
Chair: Mylynda Massart, UPMC
- Christopher Woods, Duke
- Yvonne Maldonado, Stanford
- Chaz Langelier, UCSF - New Viral and Microbiome Associations with Cancer
Chair: Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Nancy Joseph, UCSF
- Melody Smith, Stanford
- Advancements in Clinical Metagenomics
Chair: Sivan Bercovici, Karius
- Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Robert Schlaberg, Illumina
- Catherine Hogan, BCCDC, UBC
- Metagenomics and Partnerships: Monitoring Infectious Disease Threats
Chair: Eric Delwart UCSF
- Mindy Nye, LabCorp
- Ranga Sampath, Siemens Healthineers
- Charles Chiu, UCSF - Innovative Therapeutics and Host-Pathogen Interactions in Infectious Disease Management
- Victor Nizet, UCSD
- Nevan Krogan, UCSF
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