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