Speaker Profile
M.D., FACP, Center Associate Director, Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin
Biography
Dr. Kurzrock is a board certified medical oncologist and a renowned expert in precision medicine. She founded and built the world's largest Phase I clinical trial department while at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Kurzrock also founded the UCSD Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy and Rare Cancer Clinic, focusing on genomically driven therapy as well as precision immunotherapy, especially in rare cancers. Dr. Kurzrock brought the first transcriptomic precision study to the clinic in an international setting spanning five countries (WINTHER), as well as the first N-of-1 study of individually customized combination therapy (IPREDICT), potentially transforming precision oncology. Dr. Kurzrock received her MD from the University of Toronto, Canada. She has >1000 Pub Med publications, an H index of >150, and has been named to the list of most highly cited scientists in the world. She has overseen early development of multiple drugs that are now FDA approved.
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
