26
Nov
Q&A with Emmanuelle Charpentier, Director, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Recipient of the PMWC 2018 Luminary Award
Q: Can you describe some of the initial challenges you faced in understanding how the CRISPR system works?...
26
Nov
Q&A with Alan Ashworth, President, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Recipient of the PMWC 2018 Pioneer Award
Q: Can you share some of the latest discoveries in new drugs and diagnostics that scientists at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center are working on?...
20
Nov
Challenges of Marrying a Drug with Diagnostics: PMWC Interview with Dan Snyder, President and CEO of MolecularMD – Speaker at PMWC 2018 Silicon Valley
Q: What challenges are there when it comes to defining the commercialization strategy for when marrying a drug with a diagnostics?...
16
Nov
Dealing with Metastatic Breast Cancer – Experiencing the Caregiver’s Journey Firsthand @ PMWC 2018 Silicon Valley
Anil Sethi: “It’s fine to talk about cutting edge immunotherapy, biomarkers for early detection of disease, and the implications of ‘big data’. But there are dirty little secrets surrounding big-data in healthcare…. we’ve got to think much smaller. Small data; N-of-1; The individual. Collected patient...
06
Nov
Meet the Healthcare Disruptors Featured in PMWC 2018 Company Showcases
The startup world is changing! [Link] Startups in “hard sciences” like biology or chemistry are now getting the attention they deserve from big investors and Fortune 500 companies....
05
Nov
PMWC Interview with R. Adams Dudley, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, UCSF – Speaker at PMWC 2018 Silicon Valley
Q: What impact will a pay-for-performance model have on healthcare, the patient and physician, the pharmaceutical industry, or the health insurance provider?...
24
Oct
PMWC Interview with Simon Kos, MBBS, BSC(MED), MBA, Chief Medical Officer, Microsoft – Speaker at PMWC 2018 Silicon Valley
We had a chance to sit down with Dr. Simon Kos, CMO, Microsoft who will be speaking at our upcoming PMWC 2018 Silicon Valley conference this coming January....
09
Oct
Honoring leaders of CRISPR, Telomere, Genomics England, Antibody-Based Drugs, and Genomics Methodologies at PMWC 2018 Silicon Valley
Each plays a critical role in shaping the human healthcare system, moving it from a general population approach toward a personalized and patient-centered care model...
02
Oct
Note from Dr. Eric Schadt, PMWC 2018 SV AI Track Chair
Artificial Intelligence and machine learning are on everyones' minds these days, and they are poised to become game changers in many areas, including the healthcare sector...
29
Sep
PMWC Interview with Slava Akmaev, Ph.D., SVP & Chief Analytics Officer, Berg – Speaker at PMWC 2018 Silicon Valley
We had a chance to sit down with Dr. Slava Akmaev - who will be speaking at our upcoming PMWC 2018 Silicon Valley conference this coming January - to discuss his vision of "why data-driven research is important, and how machine learning and AI will advance...
