Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Professor, UCSF
Biography
Dr. Lynchs research focuses primarily on the gut and airway microbiome and chronic inflammatory disease. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Microbiology from University College Dublin, Ireland, before postdoctoral training as a Deans Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University. She has served on a National Academy of Science and Engineering committee and as an American Society of Microbiology, Distinguished Lecturer (2017-2019). She was awarded the Rebecca Buckley Lectureship from the AAAAI in 2015, the Odell lectureship from University of Wisconsin in 2022 and named as one of Foreign Policy Magazines "Global Thinkers" in 2016. She co-founded Siolta Therapeutics Inc. a biotech company whose lead live biotherapeutic for the prevention of childhood atopy and asthma is in human trials.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2025 Silicon Valley
Track Chair: Keith Yamamoto, UCSF
- PMWC 2025 Award Ceremony:
Pioneer Honoree: Robert Califf, FDA
Luminary Honoree: Ida Sim, UCSF
- Fireside Chat: Keith Yamamoto, UCSF, Robert Califf, FDA, and Kathy Giacomini, UCSF
- Keynote: Harnessing Computational Tools in Precision Medicine: Implementation and Future Directions
- Ida Sim, UCSF
- AI-driven Advances in Precision Medicine (PANEL)
Chair: Sharat Israni, Bakar Institute, UCSF
- Peter Norvig, Google
- Susan Lynch, UCSF
- Olivier Gevaert, Stanford
- Michelle Arkin, UCSF
- New Federal Programs Driving Transformative Health Breakthroughs (PANEL)
Chair: Keith Yamamoto, UCSF
- Charles Romine, NIST
- Erwin Gianchandani, NSF
- Jim Brase, Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) - AI-Driven Protein Design (PANEL)
Chair: Tanja Kortemme, UCSF
- Franziska Seeger, Genentech
- William Degrado, UCSF - AI and Ethical Challenges (PANEL)
Chair: Alex John London, Carnegie Mellon University
- Jianying Hu, IBM
- Cora Han, University of California Health
- Ida Sim, UCSF
