The world-renowned Precision Medicine World Conference (PMWC 2024) will be held in person January 24-26 in Santa Clara, California, the heart of Silicon Valley, just south of San Francisco. PMWC 2024 will feature over 400 outstanding speakers and multiple different tracks of focus across the full breadth of precision medicine over three full days of sessions. There will also be more than 90 company exhibits. You may register to attend this superb conference here. The PMWC will present its 2024 Pioneer and Luminary Awards to a number of outstanding scientists during the relevant topic tracks. The multiple different topic tracks will be chaired by eminent leaders in their fields. The conference will be attended by an international audience of top-flight professional scientists and company executives and is being co-hosted by UCSF, the University of Michigan, Duke University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Stanford Health Care/Stanford Medicine.
Pioneer Awards
The PMWC Pioneer Awards are given to venerable individuals whose foresight and ground-breaking contributions to precision medicine propelled the movement in earlier years, allowing it to gain momentum to evolve into the standard of care that it is becoming today.
The PMWC 2024 Pioneer honorees are Atul Butte (UCSF) (Real World Evidence & Data Track), George Coukos (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research) (Gene-Modified Cell Therapies Track), Andrea Gaedigk (Children’s Mercy Research Institute) (Pharmacogenomics Track), Katherine A. High (Rockefeller University) (Cell & Gene Therapies Track), David Page (MIT) (Women’s Health Track), Stanley Riddell (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center) (Gene-Modified Cell Therapies Track), David Sidransky (Johns Hopkins) (Liquid Biopsy Track), and Timothy Yu (Boston Children’s Hospital) (Cell & Gene Therapies Track).
Luminary Awards
The PMWC Luminary Awards recognize the recent contributions of prominent figures who have accelerated precision medicine into the clinic. The PMWC 2024 Luminary honorees are Janine Austin Clayton (NIH) (Women’s Health Track), Helmy Eltoukhy (Guardant Health) (Liquid Biopsy Track), Geoffrey S. Ginsburg (All of Us & NIH) (New Frontiers in Precision Medicine Track), Catriona Jamieson (UCSD Health) (Oncology Applications Track), Teri E. Klein (Stanford) (Pharmacogenomics Track), Heidi Rehm (MGH and Broad Institute) (AI and Data Sciences Track), Suchi Saria (Johns Hopkins) (AI and Data Sciences Track), and AmirAli Talasaz (Guardant Health) (Liquid Biopsy Track).
Track Chairs
The different topic tracks will be chaired by the following leaders in their fields: Tal Behar (PMWC LLC) (PMWC 2024 Program Chair & Facilitator), Sharon Benzeno (Adaptive Biotech) (Oncology-Focused Gene-Modified Cell Therapies Track), Kelly Caudle (St. Jude) (Pharmacogenomics Track), Charles Chiu (UCSF) (Infectious Diseases Track), Russ Cuchina (UCSF Health) (AI and Data Science in Clinical Practice Track), Stacey Gabriel (Broad Institute) (Sequencing & Tech Applications Track), Gad Getz (Broad Institute) (AI & Data Sciences in Drug Discovery & Clinical Research Track), John F. Kalafut (Asher Orion Group) (AI and Data Science in Clinical Practice Track), Razelle Kurzrock (Medical College of Wisconsin) (Oncology Applications Track), Peter Marks (FDA) (Gene & Cell Therapies for Rare Diseases Track), William Oh (Prostate Cancer Foundation) (Real World Evidence & Data Track), Yoel Sadovsky (Magee Women’s Research Institute) (Women’s Health Track), Laura Van’t Veer (UCSF) (Clinical Utility of Liquid Biopsies Track), Yael Weiss (Mahzi Tx) (Gene & Cell Therapies for Rare Diseases Track), and Keith Yamamoto (UCSF) (New Frontiers in Precision Medicine Track).
Plan to Participate
We encourage you to participate in this premier conference and join your fellow scientists in advancing the cause of precision medicine. Again, you may register for PMWC 2024 here.