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Distinguished Speakers, Panelists and Advisory Board for the Omics
Evolution Summit 2012
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PLENARY KEYNOTE SPEAKERS |
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George Church, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics, Director of the Center for Computational
Genetics
Harvard Medical School
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Craig C. Mello, Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate Blais Professor, Molecular Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School Howard
Hughes Investigator
HHMI |
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Clinical Sequencing Workshop |
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Matthew Ferber, Assistant Professor of Laboratory
Medicine & Pathology, Mayo Clinic Andrew Grupe, Senior
Director, Pharmacogenomics,
Celera Tina Hambuch, Scientific Liaison, Illumina Clinical
Services Laboratory Thomas Scholl, Vice President of R&D,
Integrated Genetics / LabCorp |
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Genomic and
Proteomic Drug Discovery |
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Richard M. Weinshilboum
Mary Lou and John H. Dasburg Professor, Cancer Genomics
Research; Chair, Division of Clinical Pharmacology; Professor
Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics and Medicine,
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine |
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Yair Benita, Senior Computation Biologist, Merck
Paul Billings, Chief Medical Officer, Lifetechnologies
Peter Blume-Jensen, CSO,
Metamark Genetics James Cai, Head, Disease & Translational
Informatics,
Roche Stephanie Chissoe, Director and Acting Head of Genetics,
GlaxoSmithKline Alex Gaither, Senior Research Investigator,
Cancer Biology and Biologics Group Leader, Novartis Institutes for
BioMedical Research, Inc.
Rudolf Grimm, Director Science & Technology,
Agilent Technologies
Richard Head, Research Associate Professor, Department of Genetics,
Washington University Stephen Johnston, Director, Center for
Innovations in Medicine, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State
University Urban Kiernan, Senior Scientist,
Thermo Fisher Scientific Johanna Lahdenranta, Principal
Scientist, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals
Martin Latterich, Professor, Proteogenomics Research Institute
for Systems Medicine
Andrew Munk, MRM Proteomics Inc Mike Milburn, CSO,
Metabolon
Yoshiya Oda, Biomarkers and Personalized Medicine Core Function Unit,
Eisai Emanuel Petricoin, Professor, Applied Proteomics &
Molecular Medicine, George Mason University Paul Rejto,
Director and Head of Computation Biology, Oncology Research Unit,
Pfizer Heinrich Roder, CTO and Director, Biodesix
Tristan Sissung, Staff Scientist and Head of the Pharmacogenetics
Core, Clinical Pharmacology Program, National Cancer Institute
Debraj Guha Thakurta, Senior Scientist II & Group Leader,
Dendreon
Peter Tolias, Director, Bioinnovation Program, Stevens Institute
of Technology Markus Warmuth, President and CEO, H3Biomedicine
Eric Yang, Informatics Scientist, Johnson & Johnson
Kate Zhang, Senior Director, Transitional Research, Genzyme, a Sanofi
company |
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2nd Next Generation
Sequencing |
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Rade Drmanac
Chief Scientific Officer Complete Genomics |
John Quackenbush
Professor Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
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Alexander Balatsky, Scientist, Center
for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Labs
Shawn Burgess, Senior Investigator,
National Human Genome Research Institute Massimiliano Di
Ventra, Professor of Physics,
University of California, San Diego Jason Dwyler, Assistant
Professor, Department of Chemistry,
University of Rhode Island
Malek Faham, CSO, Sequenta Jens
Gundlach, Professor, Department of Physics,
University of Washington Ki-bum Kim, Professor, Department of
Materials and Science Engineering, Seoul National University
Predrag Krstic, Senior Scientist,
JICS, University of Tennessee
Shashikant Kulkarni, Head Clinical Genomics & Medical Director,
WashU Joseph Lakowicz, Director, Center for Fluorescence
Spectroscopy,
University of Maryland School of Medicine Bill LaRochelle,
Head of Healthcare and Business Development,
Roche 454 Kaji Noritada, Associate Professor, Department of
Applied Chemistry,
Nagoya University Walter Reisner, Assistant Professor of
Pathology,
McGill University
Gary Schroth, Senior Director, Expressions Applications R&D,
Illumina
Kári Stefánsson,
CEO, deCODE genetic
Todd Smith, Senior Leader Research and Applications, Perkin Elmer
/ Geospiza Masateru Taniguchi, Professor, The Institute of
Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University John
Thompson, Head of Applications Development,
NABsys Ali Torkamani, Director of Drug Discovery, Scripps
Translational Science Institute Xu Xun, Deputy Director of BGI
Research, BGI |
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Genome-wide Partnering & Dealmaking |
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Bernard Andruss,
Director, Collaborations and Business
Development,
Asuragen
Paul Beresford, VP Business Development and Strategic Marketing,
Biodesix Elaine Cheung,
Director, Business Development,
Genomic Health
Nong Chen, Director of Scientific
Collaborations, BGI Americas
Alan Dance, Vice President, Marketing, NuGEN
Technologies Joseph Ferrara, President,
Boston Healthcare
Gary Gustavsen, Health Advances Karin A. Gregory,
Furman Gregory Deptula Kevin Hrusovsky, President of
Lifesciences,
PerkinElmer
Martin LeBlanc, President / CEO, Caprion Proteomics Elissa
Levin, Vice President of Genomic Services,
Navigenics Gabriela Lavezzari,
Director, Extramural Development, Medco
Research Institute,
Express Scripts
Lita Nelsen,
Director of the Technology
Licensing Office,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Pollack, Co-founder,
Advanced Liquid Logic
Hathaway Pease Rusell, Partner, Foley Hoag LLP
Richard Resnick,
GenomeQuest Rhonda Tannenbaum, VP of Business
Development,
Ontario Genomics Institute Patrick Terry, Principle,
Scientific Advisors LLC Eric Wassman, Chief Medical Officer,
Generation Health Richard Watts,
Senior Director CDx Partnerships
Qiagen |
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7th Protein Kinases in Drug Discovery |
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Michael B. Yaffe,
Ph.D.
Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Nathanael S.
Gray, Ph.D.
Professor, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School |
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Peter Brandt, Principal Scientist, Beactica
Alex Bullock, Principal Investigator and Group Head / PI Structural
Genomics Consortium, University of Oxford Thomas Chan, Chief
Scientific Officer, Discovery and Early Development,
ArQule Shaoqing Chen, Senior Principal Scientist, Roche
Alexei Degterev, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biochemistry, Tufts
University Xianming Deng, Principal Investigator, Xiamen
University
Erin DiMauro, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Therapeutic Discovery,
Amgen Thomas Engler, Senior Research Advisor, Discovery
Chemistry Research and Technologies, Eli Lilly
Said Goueli, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Cell Signaling and Cell
Analysis Group, Promega
Richard Lewis, Principal Scientist, Amgen Min Liu, Assistant
Director, the Laboratory of Drug Discovery,
Harvard Neurodiscovery Center Yan Lou, Principal scientist,
Discovery Chemistry, Roche
Dustin J. Maly, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of
Washington, Seattle Jeffrey Peterson, Associate Professor, Fox
Chase Cancer Center
Jennifer Piesvaux, MS, BS, Research Biochemist, In vitro
Pharmacology: Biochemistry/ Biophysics, Merck Leo Price,
Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug
Research, Leiden University
Elizabeth Quinn, Ph.D., Marketing Director, LeadHunterSM Discovery
Services, DiscoveRX Gary Schieven, Research Fellow,
Immunology Drug Discovery
Bristol-Myers-Squibb Markus Seeliger, Assistant Professor,
Pharmacological Sciences,
Stonybrook University Juswinder Singh, Chief Scientific
Officer,
Avila Matthew Soellner, Assistant Professor Medicinal
Chemistry,
University of Michigan Li Xing, Ph.D., Senior Principal
Scientist, Pfizer |
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3rd RNAi Research and Development |
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John
J. Rossi, Ph.D.
Lidow Family Endowed Professor and Chairman, Molecular and
Cellular Biology Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope |
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Matthew Stanton,
Ph.D.
Head, RNA Optimization Merck |
Rachel Meyers,
Ph.D.
Vice President, Research and RLD Alnylam |
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Daniel G. Anderson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Chemical
Engineering, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology, David
H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Sujit K. Basu, Ph.D., Vice President,
Formulation,
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals James Cardia, Ph.D., Scientist II,
Technology Development,
RXi Pharmaceuticals Pieter R. Cullis, Ph.D., FRSC, Professor,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia
Paul Diehl, Ph.D., Director, Business Development, Cellecta
Paloma H. Giangrande, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine,
University of Iowa Klaus Giese, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer,
Research and Development,
Silence Therapeutics Benjamin Haley, Ph.D., Scientist,
Molecular Biology Department, Genentech Richard T. Ho, M.D.,
Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Research and Development,
Marina Biotech Randall W. King, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor,
Cell Biology,
Harvard Medical School Troels Koch, Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer, Santaris Pharma
Devin Leake,
Global Director of Research & Development, Genomics,
Thermo Fisher Scientific Dave Rozema, Vice President,
Chemistry, Arrowhead Research
Attila Seyhan, Sr. Biomarker Discovery and Development Leader,
Biotherapeutics Clinical R&D,
Pfizer Yu Shen, Senior Group Leader, Cancer Research,
Abbott S. Mark Tompkins, Associate Professor,
Infectious Diseases,
University of Georgia
Ralph A. Tripp,
Professor & GRA Chair, Infectious Diseases,
University of Georgia
Hua Yu, Ph.D., Associate Chair and Professor, Department of Cancer
Immunotherapeutics & Tumor Immunology, Beckman Research Institute at
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center |
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2nd Epigenetics in Drug Discovery |
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Alexander Meissner, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Harvard University Senior
Associate Member
the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |
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Arthur M. Krieg,
M.D.
Chief Executive Officer RaNA Therapeutics |
Rab Prinjha
Vice President, Head of Epinova Epigenetics DPU
GlaxoSmithKline, UK
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Schahram Akbarian, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Brudnick Neuropsychiatric
Research Institute; Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University
of Massachusetts Medical School Hozefa Bandukwala, Instructor,
Signaling and Gene Expression, La Jolla Institute of Allergy and
Immunology Olena Barbash, Investigator, Cancer Epigenetics DPU,
GlaxoSmithKline
Kun Bi, Ph.D., Senior Staff Scientist, Primary and Stem Cell
Systems,
Life Technologies Richard Deth, Professor, Pharmacology,
Northeastern University
Guoping
Fan,
Professor, Human
Genetics,
University of California, Los Angeles Jean-Christophe
(JC) Harmange, Executive Director, Drug Discovery,
Constellation Johannes Graeff, Ph.D., Brain and Cognitive
Neurosciences, Li-Huei Tsai's Lab,
The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
Quamrul Hassan,
Lab Head, Oncology,
Novartis Tom Heightman, Director, Medicinal Chemistry, Astex
Pharmaceuticals
Carsten Hopf,
Associate Director Target Discovery & Business Development
Technology,
Cellzome
Hella Kohlhof, Manager Translational Pharmacology,
4SC
Shidong Jia, Scientist, Genentech Tamara Maes, Ph.D.,
Chief Scientific Officer, Research and Development, Oryzon Genomics
Mikel Moyer, Ph.D., Vice President, Molecular Discovery,
Epizyme Peter Ordentlich, Ph.D., Vice President,
Translational Medicine,
Syndax Pharmaceuticals Dafydd Owen, Ph.D., Associate
Research Fellow,
Pfizer Rab Prinjha, Interim Head of Epinova Epigenetics DPU
and Head of Biology, GlaxoSmithKline, UK Charles W. M.
Roberts, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Pediatric Oncology,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical
School Y. Geno Shi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine;
Associate Biochemist,
Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital David
Sinclair, Ph.D., Epigenetics in Aging and Age-Related Diseases,
Harvard Medical School
Casandra Smith, Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Biology and
Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics; Director, Molecular
Biotechnology Research Laboratory,
Boston University
Keith Szulwach, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Human Genetics,
Emory University School of Medicine
Claes Wahlestedt, M.D. Ph.D., Associate Dean for Therapeutic Innovation;
Vice Chair for Research, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Director,
Center for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI), University of Miami Miller
School of Medicine
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