Speaker Profile
M.D.,Ph.D., Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine, Biomedical Data Science & CS, Stanford
Biography
Russ Biagio Altman is the Kenneth Fong Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine, Biomedical Data Science and (by courtesy) Computer Science) and past chairman of Bioengineering at Stanford University. His research uses computing to understand drug action at molecular, cellular, organism and population levels. He founded the PharmGKB, is an Associate Director of the Stanford Institute for HumanCentered AI, and coleads an FDA Center of Excellence. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, past president of the International Society for Computational Biology and of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology Therapeutics. He chaired the FDA Science Board and served on the NIH Directors Advisory Committee. He has received Stanford awards for Teaching and Mentorship. He coorganizes the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, and is a founder of Personalis (NASDAQ: PSNL). He is founding editor of the Annual Reviews of Biomedical Data Science, and hosts a podcast entitled "The Future of Everything."
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
Beyond the Read: Long-Read Sequencing in Clinical Variant Pipelines
• Chair: Gordon Sanghera, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
• Hanlee Ji, Stanford University
• Barrett Bready, Nabsys
Keynote: Biobanks and the Road Ahead in Human Genetics
• Mark Daly, Broad Institute
AI & Evolution for Predicting Human Disease Genes
• Chair: Yuval Tabach, Hebrew University
• Nilah Ioannidis, UC Berkeley / UCSC
• Saša Jenko, European Commission
DNA to Drug, Label & Coverage
• Chair: Razelle Kurzrock, Medical College of Wisconsin
• Russ Altman, Stanford University
• Slavé Petrovski, AstraZeneca
• Wei Zhou, Broad Institute
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
PMWC Award Ceremony (Continued)
• Scott Gottlieb, Former FDA Commissioner
