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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
- 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
- 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
Presentation Details to be Announced
9:30 am Session Reserved for Tempus
Presentation Details to be Announced
10:00 am The Multimodal Imperative: Scaling Precision with AI-Integrated Data
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
Presentation Details to be Announced
12:40 pm Session Reserved for Predicine
Presentation Details to be Announced
12:50 pm Panel Discussion: Transforming Patient Monitoring Through Innovation in Liquid Biopsy Analytes, Detection Sensitivity & Data Interpretation
- 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?
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
From Biomarker Discovery to Early Clinical Translation Advancing Precision Oncology Through Next-Generation Panels
2:10 pm Session Reserved for Sentry Dx
Presentation Details to be Announced
2:40 pm Precision Biomarkers for Precision Medicines
- 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
- 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?
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
Presentation Details to be Announced
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
- 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
Presentation Details to be Announced
5:30 pm Translational Pharmacology & Biomarker Strategy in Drug Discovery & Development
- 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
7:15 - 9.45
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