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7:00 am Check-In & Light Breakfast

8:00 am Chair’s Opening Remarks

Unlocking Precision Through Data at Scale with AI‑Driven Integration Across Omics, Imaging & Clinical Insight

8:10 am Accelerating Target Discovery & Precision Medicine Through AI-Enabled Integration of Human Genetics & Multimodal Data

Vice President & Global Head, Target, Diseases & Systems Biology, Sanofi
  • Building FAIR, AI-enabled disease data ecosystems to accelerate translational discovery and cross-domain decision making
  • Combining human genetics, multimodal biology, and AI to identify and prioritize causal therapeutic targets
  • Resolving disease endotypes through multimodal data integration to enable patient stratification and precision medicine

8:30 am Cancer Biology Through 5hmC Liquid Biopsy: From Early Detection to Drug Development

Vice President, Translational Research, ClearNote Health
  • 5hmC is an epigenetic mark enriched at active gene bodies, enhancers, and promoters transitioning to an active state. Analysis of 5hmC in cell-free DNA therefore provides a window into active disease biology directly from blood
  • Genome-wide 5hmC profiling with ClearNote Health’s Virtuoso epigenomic platform enables cancer detection, subtype classification, treatment response prediction, and longitudinal disease monitoring with a single, liquid biopsy-based assay
  • Clinical evidence across lung, prostate, colorectal, and pancreatic cancers supports applications spanning early detection and drug development, establishing 5hmC profiling by Virtuoso as a versatile epigenomic tool across the oncology pipeline

9:00 am Panel Discussion: Applying AI & Advanced Data Analytics to Transform Biomarker Discovery & Clinical Trial Strategy for Improved Precision Medicine Programs

Vice President & Global Head, Target, Diseases & Systems Biology, Sanofi
Global Head, Data & AI, Clinical Development, Novartis
Executive Director & Head, Integrative Sciences, Oncology Translational Medicine, GSK

Presentation Details to be Announced

9:30 am Session Reserved for Tempus

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10:00 am The Multimodal Imperative: Scaling Precision with AI-Integrated Data

Chief Medical Officer & Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • What’s Possible: Uncovering the lost signals in today’s disjoined multimodal data landscape
  • Key Consideration: Building an AI-ready data foundation for multimodal data, designed to address security, compliance, and scalability requirements, while enabling federated governance so data remains sovereign and cross-institutional insight remains possible
  • The AI Layer: How a connected multimodal foundation improves the ability to answer complex cross-domain questions, democratizes access for all users, and shortens the path from molecular insight to clinical decision

10:20 am Morning Break & Refreshments

10:50 am One-to-One Meetings & Structured Networking

Biomarker Discovery & Translation

Chaired by:

Vice President, Translational Sciences, Compass Therapeutics

Innovation in Liquid Biopsy to Improve Disease Monitoring & Response Prediction for Earlier, Informative Precision‑Therapy Decisions

11:20 am From Market Insight to Clinical Impact: Developing an Ultra-Sensitive ESR1 ddPCR

Vice President, Business Development, Biodesix
  • Why ESR1 now: ESR1 has become a time-sensitive, longitudinal ctDNA biomarker, enabling earlier insight into endocrine resistance as ER-targeted therapies expand
  • Monitoring needs different tools: Reliable resistance tracking requires ultrasensitive, reproducible detection at very low allele fractions, positioning ddPCR as a strong fit for longitudinal monitoring
  • From insight to action: A real-world case study showing how market and clinical needs translate into a validated ESR1 ddPCR assay that supports meaningful R&D decisions

11:50 am Definition of the Best Practices in Clinical Utility of Liquid Biopsy: Clinical Guideline, Technologies, Cost-Effectiveness, Reimbursement, a Unidirectional or Multidirectional Path

Director & Head, Clinical Genomics, Clinical Biomarker Technologies, EMD Serono, the Healthcare business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
  • Decipher the tumor shedding mechanism
  • Precision medicine-driven cut-off strategy implmentation
  • Tired fit-for-purpose liquid biopsy solutions combined with real-world genomic data mining
  • 1ctDNA-guided treatment and consideration of cost-effectiveness thresholds

12:10 pm Session Reserved for Natera

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12:40 pm Session Reserved for Predicine

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12:50 pm Panel Discussion: Transforming Patient Monitoring Through Innovation in Liquid Biopsy Analytes, Detection Sensitivity & Data Interpretation

Associate Vice President, Companion Diagnostic Development, Merck
Director & Head, Clinical Genomics, Clinical Biomarker Technologies, EMD Serono, the Healthcare business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
Senior Director, Clinical Biomarkers & Clinical Development, Eikon Therapeutics
Vice President, Translational Sciences, Compass Therapeutics
  • What are the most impactful recent innovations in liquid biopsy biomarkers, and how can these be robustly validated and effectively integrated into clinical trial designs?
  • How can drug-diagnostic stakeholders build high-value, collaborative frameworks to advance liquid biopsy technologies, particularly in improving detection sensitivity, standardization, and data interpretation?
Clinical & CDx Development
Rx–Dx Commercialization & Adoption
Digital Pathology & Spatial Biomarkers
Multimodal & AI-Enabled Precision Medicine

1:10 pm Lunch Break & Networking

1:10 pm Lunch & Learn Hosted By Natera

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1:40 pm One-to-One Meetings & Structured Networking

Biomarker Discovery & Translation

From Biomarker Discovery to Early Clinical Translation Advancing Precision Oncology Through Next-Generation Panels

2:10 pm Session Reserved for Sentry Dx

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2:40 pm Precision Biomarkers for Precision Medicines

Group Vice President, Translational Medicine, Incyte
  • Showcasing single-cell approaches for pharmacodynamics and proof of mechanism
  • Reviewing advances in quantitative image analysis and multimodal models

3:00 pm Session to be Confirmed

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3:10 pm Panel Discussion: Navigating Biomarker Complexity as a Biotech to Build Smarter Precision Oncology Strategies that Maximize Clinical & Commercial Impact

Executive Director, Translational Biomarkers & Diagnostics, Immunome
Acting Chief Development Officer, Incendia Therapeutics
Director, Clinical Biomarkers, Agenus
Vice President, Translational Medicine & Research, Pyxis Oncology
  • How to determine when a biomarker‑enabled strategy truly advances the program, balancing scientific risk, portfolio focus, and capital efficiency?
  • What can biotech do to evaluate partnership models that foster innovation while ensuring operational feasibility, sustainable costs, and long-term scalability of CDx?
  • When to integrate biomarker considerations into early clinical development without overburdening trial design, patient recruitment, or organizational capacity?
Clinical & CDx Development
Rx–Dx Commercialization & Adoption
Digital Pathology & Spatial Biomarkers
Multimodal & AI-Enabled Precision Medicine

3:40 pm Afternoon Break & Dedicated One-to-One Meetings

Driving Precision Medicine in Unmet Patient Populations with Biomarker Designs for Novel Assays & Small Cohort Studies

4:10 pm Session Reserved for Personalis

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4:40 pm Neurofilament: The Journey of a General Marker of Axonal Damage to a Biomarker with Clinical Utility in Multiple Sclerosis & Future Utility in Multiple Indications

Vice President & Precision Medicine Head, Diagnostic Sciences & Partnerships, Novartis
  • Overview of evidence generation for neurofilament light chain over the last 10 years
  • Importance of robust diagnostic testing systems with established performance characteristics for neurofilament testing in clinical trials
  • Drug-diagnostic co-development in MS and neurodegenerative disorders

5:00 pm Session Reserved for Thermo Fisher Scientific

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5:30 pm Translational Pharmacology & Biomarker Strategy in Drug Discovery & Development

Senior Vice President, Pharmacology & Biomarkers, PTC Therapeutics
  • Approval of a drug requires a statistically significant improvement in an outcome measure. Outcome measures, reflecting how patients feels or function, can require many patients and long studies to reach statistical significance
  • Biomarkers, object measures of biological changes, can be used to select the dose and to provide evidence of disease modulation with fewer patients and in less time
  • Preclinical studies can be utilized to link a biomarker to subsequent outcome measures

5:50 pm Closing Remarks & End of Conference Day Two

Senior Vice President, Global Head, Research Unit, & Neuroscience, Immunology & Billerica Campus Head, EMD Serono the Healthcare business of Merck KGaA

7:15 - 9.45

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