Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Vice President, AstraZeneca
Biography
Dr. Slavé Petrovski is a human geneticist by training with over 15 yearsexperience leading large-scale omics studies. In this time, Slavé hascontributed to shaping the field of contemporary population and statisticalgenomics, including introducing machine learningadvanced analytics toidentify numerous drug targets across a diverse range of diseases. Since2017, as the Vice President and Head of Astra Zenecas Centre for Genomics Research (CGR) Slavé is accountable for architecting and delivering thecompanys Genomics Initiative strategy. He has built in-house capabilitiesand expertise across key domains: Bioinformatics, Statistical Genetics, Innovative A IML methods, multi-omics, and clinical sciences. Applyingthese cross-disciplinary skills to large-scale omics datasets.
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
