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Confirmed Speakers


Special Speakers

  • Leroy Hood, Co-Founder and Professor, Institute for Systems Biology; CEO, Phenome Health
  • Douglas Lauffenburger, Ford Professor of Bioengineering, Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Samuel V. Scarpino, Director of AI + Life Sciences, Institute for Experiential AI; Professor of Public Health and Health Sciences, Northeastern University
  • Peter Sorger, Otto Krayer Professor of Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

Plenary Speakers

  • Yoseph Barash, Professor of Genetics and Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
  • Melissa Bondy, Professor of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University
  • Katy Börner, Victor H. Yngve Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Information Science, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University
  • Anne Calof, Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine
  • Peter Castaldi, Associate Professor of Medicine, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • David Corey, Bertarelli Professor of Translational Medical Science, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
  • Usama Fayyad, Senior Vice Provost for AI and Data Strategy and Senior Advisor to the President; Founding Executive Director of The Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University
  • Jake Feala, Flagship Pioneering
  • Tania Konry, Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University
  • Galit Lahav, Novartis Professor of Systems Biology and Chair, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
  • Arthur Lander, Director, Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine
  • Herbert Levine, University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Bioengineering, Northeastern University
  • Christian Meisel, Schilling Foundation Professor of Computational Neurology, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH)
  • Christian Meyer, Co-Founder Duet Biosystems; Assistant Member, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
  • Anne O'Donnell-Luria, Institute Member and Co-Director, Center for Mendelian Genomics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
  • John Platig, Assistant Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Virginia
  • Heidi Rehm, Institute Member and Co-Director, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute; Chief Genomics Officer, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
  • Tamar Thompson, Alexion Pharmaceuticals
  • Saskia Trump, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH)
  • Ajay Yekkirala, Co-founder and Senior Vice President, Head of Discovery, Superluminal Medicines

Contributing Speakers

  • Hratch Baghdassarian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Gennaro Gambardella, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM)
  • Sarah Groves, University of Virginia
  • John Lowengrub, University of California, Irvine
  • Bin Zhang, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
  • Ali R. Zomorrodi, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School

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