Advancing Precision Medicine Symposium 2025

Precision Medicine 2.0: Improving detection and Multi-modal diagnosis

Event Agenda

8:00–9:00 AM | Atrium

Registration
Breakfast, networking, and poster setup

9:00–9:05 AM | HSLC 1306

Introduction
April Hall & Gaelen Hess

9:05–9:30 AM | HSLC 1306

Opening Remarks
Muhammed Murtaza

9:30–9:35 AM | HSLC 1306

Speaker Introduction
Gaelen Hess & April Hall

9:35–10:35 AM | HSLC 1306

Keynote Speaker
Janice Chen, Mammoth Bio

10:35–11:15 AM | Atrium

Poster Session
Snacks, coffee, and tea

Concurrent Scientific Talks

20-minute talk + 5-minute Q&A

11:15–12:30 PM | HSLC 1306

Multi-modal Omics

• Jeff Nirschl, Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology & Lab Medicine: “Post-mortem Brain Omics in Neurodegeneration: Establishing the Ground Truth for Precision Biomarker Development”
• Josh Coon, Professor, Dept of Biomolecular Chemistry: “How mass spectrometry can drive biological discovery”
• Snehal Chaudhari, Assistant Professor, Dept of Biochemistry: “Metabolomic atlas of biochemical pathways reveals early triggers of fatty liver disease”

11:15–12:30 PM | HSLC 1335

Diagnostics Implementation

• Pallavi Tiwari, Associate Professor, Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, Medical Physics; Co-Director, Imaging and Radiation Science, UW Carbone Cancer Center:  “AI, Computational Imaging, and the Quest for Precision”
• Mehreen Kisat, Assistant Professor, Dept of Surgery: “Improving diagnosis of post-traumatic sepsis using sequencing of microbial DNA in blood”
• Ali Pirasteh, Assistant Professor, Radiology & Medical Physics: “Potentials of PET/MRI in clinical and translational medicine”

12:30–1:30 PM | Atrium

Lunch

Concurrent Education Sessions

25-minute talk + 5-minute Q&A

1:30–3:00 PM | HSLC 1220–22

Diagnostics Technologies

• Josh Hyman, UWBC Core Director, “Uncovering the Hidden Drivers of Health and Disease: From Microbiomes to Single Cells”
• Jeremy Kratz, Assistant Professor, Dept of Medicine: “Next Generation Organoid Modeling”
• Matthew Brown, Assistant Professor, Dept of Surgery: “Humanized and Privatized Mouse Models for Precision Medicine Studies”

1:30–3:00 PM | HSLC 1306

Diagnostics Commercialization

• Beth Fischer, Director of Intellectual Property, Life Sciences, WARF: “Developing an Intellectual Property Strategy for Diagnostic Technologies”
• Abram Becker, Interim Director, Discovery 2 Product (D2P), Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR): “Beyond the Bench: A Practical Guide to Commercializing University Diagnostics”
• Christopher Konop, Innovation and Commercialization Specialist, Isthmus Project, UW Health: “From Isthmus to Impact: De-Risking Diagnostic Commercialization in a Health System”

3:00–5:00 PM | Atrium

Reception & Posters
Hors d’oeuvres, posters, and networking