Ph.D., Chief Operating Officer and Clinical Director, Fabric Genomics
Biography
Dr. Hofherr joined Fabric Genomics in September of 2022, bringing clinical expertise and over a decade of experience in molecular diagnostics. At Fabric, Dr. Hofherr leads the strategy around the development of the Fabric Enterprise Platform as well as scientific and clinical utility of Fabric’s offerings. Prior to joining Fabric, Dr. Hofherr, served as Chief Scientific Officer of GeneDx. During his tenure, he led the shift to scalable exome and genome testing including rapid offerings for both, setting the path for the testing firm to become the leader in large scale clinical genomics. His background also includes building the Molecular Diagnostics program at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC where he introduced a first-in-class Personalized Sequencing Panels. Dr. Hofherr completed his clinical training in Molecular and Biochemical Genetics from the Mayo Clinic. He received his PhD from Baylor College of Medicine in Molecular and Human Genetics.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2023 Silicon Valley
Track 4 - January 25 9.00 A.M.-4.45 P.M.
Track Chair: Cindy Lawley, Olink
- How New Public-Private Collaboratives Can Catalyze Transformative Health Breakthroughs
Chair: Keith Yamamoto, UCSF
- Douglas Friedman, Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC)
- Jay Keasling, JBEI (Joint BioEnergy Institute)
- Renee Wegrzyn, ARPA-H - Moving Sequencing into the Clinical Setting
Chair: Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Charlotte Hobbs, Rady Children’s Hospital
- Euan Ashley, Stanford University
- Sivan Bercovici, Karius
- Heike Sichtig, Foundation Medicine - Evolving Sequencing Applications: Spatial Single-Cell Multi-Omics
Chair: Michael Rhodes, NanoString
- Chrstina Curtis, Stanford - How will Cheap Genome Sequencing Impact Genomic Medicine (PANEL)
Chair: Euan Ashley, Stanford
- Shawn Levy, Element Biosciences
- Aleks Rajkovic, UCSF
- David Bentley, Illumina
- Stacey Gabriel, Broad Inst.
- Sean Hofherr, Fabric Genomics - Single-cell, Spatial, and in Situ Technologies
Chair: Dina Finan, 10x Genomics
- Carina Emery, Miltenyi Biotec - Combining WGS with a AI-based Tumor Enrichment Method
Chair: Asaf Zviran, C2I
- Multi-omics Approaches Supporting Clinical Translation
Chair: Cindy Lawley, Olink
- Erin Smith, Takeda
- Si Wu, Stanford
- Christopher Whelan, J&J - Molecular Diagnosis New standard with NGS for Neurological and Infectious Conditions
Chair: Scott Rabuka, DNA Genotek
- Forrest Wright, Quadrant Laboratories
- Frank Middleton, SUNY Upstate Medical University - PMWC Showcase
- Josh Lauer, Ultime
- Olivier Lucas, Oxford Nanopore
- Lukasz Boryn, Ardigen
