A GENOME BC VIRTUAL EVENT

Agenda — Genome BC's 2024 Annual Genomics Forum

Note: This agenda is subject to change.  The final agenda, schedule, and speakers will be posted closer to event date. All times are Pacific Daylight Time.

Speakers


David Altshuler
Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer
Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Orlando Rojas
Professor and Canada Excellence Research Chair
University of British Columbia (UBC)

Carl de Boer
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Health Research Scholar
University of British Columbia and Michael Smith Health Research BC

Joerg Bohlmann
Professor and Distinguished University Scholar
Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia (UBC)

Lisa Giacomelli
researcher
Fondazione Mach

Sarah Graham
Chief Innovation Officer and Co-Founder
Lite-1

Saad Kenderian
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Immunology and Oncology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science

Megan Levings
Canada Research Chair in Engineered Immune Tolerance, BCCHR Lead, Childhood Diseases Theme
BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute

Krishna Mahadevan
Canada Research Chair in Metabolic Systems Engineering
University of Toronto

Nathan Michaels
Director
BC Ministry of Health

Ben Novak
Lead Scientist Program Manager, Biotechnology for Bird Conservation
Revive & Restore

Bridget Baumgartner
Director of Research & Development and Program Manager for Wild Genomes
Revive & Restore

Blythe Sather
Vice President, Head of Research
Tune Therapeutics

Kevin Song, MD FRCPC
Medical Director of the Leukemia / Bone Marrow Transplant Program of British Columbia and Clinical Professor
Department of Medicine in the University of British Columbia (UBC)

Ann Thresher
Postdoctoral Scholar, Philosophy
Stanford University

Alice Virani, MA (Oxon), MS, MPH, PhD
Executive Director, Clinical Ethics and Spiritual Care Service
Provincial Health Services Authority of BC

Sam Wadsworth
CSO
Aspect Biosystems

Simren Brar
Research and Innovation Manager
Genome British Columbia

Federica Di Palma
CSO & VP Research and Innovation
Genome British Columbia

Suzanne Gill
President and CEO
Genome British Columbia

Kyla Hingwing
Research and Innovation Manager, Health
GenomeBC

Dorota Stefanowicz
Research and Innovation Manager
Genome British Columbia

Chen Wan
Director, Research and Innovation, Health
Genome British Columbia