Speaker Profile
PMWC LUMINARY AWARD
Drove regulatory innovation that advanced real-world evidence, modernized pathways for targeted therapeutics and diagnostics, and accelerated the integration of genomics and data science into clinical care
M.D., Partner, New Enterprise Assoc.s
Biography
Scott Gottlieb is a physician who served as the 23rd Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He is currently a partner at New Enterprise Associates, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Dr. Gottlieb is a member of the board of directors for Pfizer, Inc., Illumina Inc., UnitedHealh Group, and NEA portfolio companies Tempus Labs, Aetion, Comanche Biopharma, Xaira and National Resilience. In addition, he serves on the boards of directors of Wesleyan University and the Mount Sinai Health System. Previously, he served as the FDAs Deputy Commissioner, a Senior Adviser to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us, and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic, and a regular contributor to CNBC and CBS News Face the Nation.
Talk
Fireside Chat
Fireside Chat
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
