Future of Genomic Medicine 2017 – Program

Thursday, March 2, 2017

7:30 – 8:00 AM

Registration & Breakfast

8:00 – 8:15 AM

Welcome & Opening Remarks
Eric Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute

8:15 – 8:55 AM

Patient Presentation

Session I: Genome Editing

Moderator: Ali Torkamani, PhD, Director, Genome Informatics, Scripps Translational Science Institute

8:55 – 9:15 AM

Genome Editing
Feng Zhang, PhD, Core Institute Member, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

9:15 – 9:35 AM

Genome Editing
Bill Lundberg, MD, Chief Scientific Officer, CRISPR Therapeutics

9:35 – 9:55 AM

Q&A

9:55 – 10:25 AM

BREAK

Session II: Progress in Medical Specialties

Moderator: Eric Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute

10:25 – 10:45 AM

Infectious Disease
Pardis Sabeti, MD, DPhil, Professor, Harvard University & Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

10:45 – 11:05 AM

Infectious Disease
Kristian Andersen, PhD, Director, Infectious Disease Genomics, Scripps Translational Science Institute

11:05 – 11:15 AM

Q&A

11:15 – 11:35 AM

Genetic risk, adherence to a healthy lifestyle, and heart attack
Sekar Kathiresan, MD, Director, Preventive Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital

11:35 – 11:45 AM

Q&A

11:45 AM – 12:30 PM

LUNCH

12:30 – 12:50 PM

Cancer
Brian Druker, MD, Director, Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University

12:50 – 1:10 PM

Cancer
Laura Esserman, MD, MBA, Professor, Department of Surgery and Radiology, University of California, San Francisco

1:10 – 1:30 PM

Dawn of the Precision Medicine Era: Marrying Genomics and Immunotherapy
Razelle Kurzrock, MD, Chief, Division of Hematology and Oncology, UCSD School of Medicine

1:30 – 1:45 PM

Q&A

1:45 – 2:05 PM

Neuro
Beth Stevens, PhD, Institute Member, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

2:05 – 2:25 PM

Preventing Alzheimer’s
Eric Reiman, MD, Executive Director, Banner Alzheimer’s Institute

2:25 – 2:45 PM

Q&A

2:45 – 3:15 PM

Patient Presents Her Generics Story

OPTIONAL BREAK

Session III: Perspectives and Controversies in Genomic Medicine

Moderator: Kristian Andersen, PhD, Director, Infectious Disease Genomics, Scripps Translational Science Institute

3:15 – 3:35 PM

Daniel MacArthur, PhD, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital

3:35 – 3:55 PM

The Library of Babel: On Trying to Read My Genome
Carl Zimmer, Columnist, The New York Times

3:55 – 4:15 PM

Genetic Counseling: The Key to the Genomic Revolution
Jehannine Austin, PhD, CGC, Associate Professor & Genetic Counselor, The University of British Columbia

4:15 – 4:35 PM

Michael Eisen, Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, University of California, Berkeley

4:35 – 5:00 PM

Q&A

5:00 – 7:30 PM

WELCOME RECEPTION 
Scripps Seaside Forum

Friday, March 3, 2017

7:30 – 8:00 AM

Registration & Breakfast

8:00 – 8:05 AM

Opening Remarks
Eric Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute

8:05 – 8:45 AM

Idiopathic Diseases of Man – 2nd Patient Presentation

8:45 – 9:25 AM

Microbiome
Ed Yong, Science Writer, The Atlantic

Session I: Precision Medicine

Moderator: Kathy Hudson, PhD, Former Deputy Director for Science, Outreach, and Policy, National Institutes of Health

9:25 – 9:55 AM

The Precision Medicine Initiative
Eric Dishman, MD, PhD, Director, All of Us Research Program, Precision Medicine Initiative, National Institutes of Health

9:55 – 10:15 AM

Healthspan
Ali Torkamani, PhD, Director, Genome Informatics, Scripps Translational Science Institute

10:15 – 10:35 AM

Individualized Medicine
Eric Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute

10:35 – 10:50 AM

Q&A

10:50 – 11:15 AM

BREAK

Session II: New Frontiers

Moderator: Ali Torkamani, PhD, Director, Genome Informatics, Scripps Translational Science Institute

11:15 – 11:45 AM

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Personalized Genomic Medicine (includes Q&A)
Paul Knoepfler, PhD, Profesor, University of California, Davis

11:45 AM – 12:15 PM

Optogenetics and Expansion Microscopy: Tools for Mapping and Controlling Living Systems (includes Q&A)
Ed Boyden, PhD, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

12:15 – 12:45 PM

The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University

12:45 – 12:55 PM

10th Annual Scripps Genomic Medicine Award

12:55 – 1:45 PM

LUNCH

  • Book signing: Paul Knoepfler, author of GMO Sapiens: The Life-Changing Science of Designer Babies
Session III: Data Science and System Medicine

Moderator: Nathan Wineinger, PhD, Director, Biostatistics, Scripps Translational Science Institute

1:45 – 2:05 PM

Translating a Trillion Points of Data into Therapies, Diagnostics, and New Insights into Disease
Atul Butte, MD, PhD, Director & Distinguished Professor, Institute for Computational Health Science, University of California, San Francisco

2:05 – 2:25 PM

Erez Lieberman Aiden, PhD, Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine

2:25 – 2:45 PM

Q&A

2:45 – 3:15 PM

BREAK

Session IV: Future Directions in Cancer and Liquid Biopsy

Moderator: Emily Spencer, PhD, Director, Clinical Genomics Research, Scripps Translational Science Institute

3:15 – 3:35 PM

Detect Cancer Early, When It Can Be Cured
Jeff Huber, Chief Executive Officer, GRAIL

3:35 – 3:55 PM

Epigenetic Approaches in Genomic Medicine
Jay Shendure, MD, PhD, Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine

3:55 – 4:15 PM

Solving the Last Mile Problem in Hereditary Cancer Screening: A Story of Technology, Access and Prevention
James Goldberg, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Counsyl 

4:15 – 4:30 PM

Q&A

4:30 – 7:30 PM

CLOSING RECEPTION
Scripps Seaside Forum