M.D., President and CEO, The Jackson Labs
Biography
Edison T. Liu, M.D. is a global leader in translational genomic medicine who has been at the helm of research institutions in US academia, the US National Cancer Institute, and in Asia. He propelled Singapore’s genomics efforts onto the international stage, helping that country become a regional powerhouse in biomedical sciences. In the last ten years, Dr. Liu guided The Jackson Laboratory to a doubling of its size and revenues, and expanded its footprint from North America into China and Japan. As an active physician scientist, his research is centered on the complex genetics of human cancers with a special focus on the genomic biology of breast cancer. Dr. Liu has published over 320 papers, reviews, and books, and is a recipient of numerous national and international awards. He is an advisor to many institutions across the world seeking to establish a competitive position in the global biomedical sciences.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2023 Silicon Valley
Track 3 - January 27 9.00 A.M.-4.15 P.M.
Track Chairs:
Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance & Alice Rathjen
- PMWC 2023 Award Ceremony:
Pioneer Honoree: David Bentley, Ilumina
- Learnings and Advancements of Population Studies (PANEL)
Chair: Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance
- David Bentley, Illumina
- Slavé Petrovski, AstraZeneca
- Andrea Ganna, FinnGen
- Robert Wildin, University of Vermont Health
- Alexander Charney, Mount Sinai - Precision Medicine in Understudied Populations
- Ryan Taft, Illumina
- Aimé LUMAKA, WALGEMED - Building Future Precision Care in Qatar
Chair: Khalid Fakhro, Sidra Medicine
- Ziyad M. Hijazi, Sidra Medicine
- Edison T. Liu, The Jackson Labs
- Challenges and Opportunities for National Precision Medicine Initiatives (PANEL)
Chair: Alessandro Riccombeni, Microsoft UK
- Catalina Lopez-Correa, Genome Canada
- Khalid Fakhro, Sidra Medicine
- Framework to Improve the Translation of Genomics into the Clinic (PANEL)
Chair: Kathleen Barnes, Tempus Labs
- Carlos Bustamante, Galatea Bio
- Ora Gordon, Providence
- Abasi Ene-Obong, 54gene - Identifying Relationships Between Disparate Data Sets to Monitor and Control Pathogen Outbreak (PANEL)
Chair: Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Amy Kirby, CDC
- Smruthi Karthikeyan, Caltech - Increasing Diversity in Population Studies
- Manual Rivas - Global Biobank Engine, Stanford Rivas Lab
- The Missing Diversity in Human Epigenomic Studies
- Charles E. Breeze, National Cancer Institute
- The Transition from Genomics to Phenomics in Precision Population Health
- Lee Hood, Phenome Health
Session Abstract – PMWC 2023 Silicon Valley
Track 3 - January 27 9.00 A.M.-4.15 P.M.
Qatar Foundation’s Sidra Medicine is a leading regional research hospital and tertiary care facility for women and children, seeing nearly 200,000 patients in 2020. This session will explore the work at Sidra Medicine to take from bench to bedside the applications arising from newly analysed datasets of the Arab genome that will have benefits for patient care, pharmacogenomics and population health.
