PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley Luminary & Pioneer Awards:

The PMWC Luminary Award recognizes the recent contributions of prominent figures who have accelerated Precision Medicine into the clinic. The PMWC Luminary honorees are listed below.

The Pioneer Award is given to a venerable individual whose foresight and groundbreaking contributions to Precision Medicine propelled the movement in earlier years, allowing it to gain momentum to evolve into the standard of care that it is becoming today. The PMWC Pioneer honorees are listed below.

Honorees: Pioneer Award

Jedd D Wolchok
Weill Cornell Medicine

PMWC 2026 PIONEER HONOREE, Immunotherapies & Targeted Therapies Track

Suzanne Topalian
Johns Hopkins University

PMWC 2026 PIONEER HONOREE, Immunotherapies & Targeted Therapies Track

Levi Garraway
Roche Diagnostics

PMWC 2026 PIONEER HONOREE, Immunotherapies & Targeted Therapies Track

Dennis J. Slamon
UCLA

PMWC 2026 PIONEER HONOREE, Therapy Guidance & Monitoring Track

Judy Faulkner
Epic

PMWC 2026 PIONEER HONOREE, RNA, Stem Cell & Gene-Based Therapies Track

Svetlana Mojsov
The Rockefeller University

PMWC 2026 PIONEER HONOREE, RNA, Stem Cell & Gene-Based Therapies Track

David A. Sinclair
Harvard

PMWC 2026 PIONEER HONOREE, Precision Aging & Longevity Track

Gordon Sanghera
Oxford Nanopore

PMWC 2026 PIONEER HONOREE, Systems Integration & Variant Interpretation Track

Honorees: Luminary Award

Michel W. Sadelain
Columbia University

PMWC 2026 LUMINARY HONOREE, Advances in Cell & Gene Therapies Track

Arie Belldegrun
Allogene Therapeutics

PMWC 2026 LUMINARY HONOREE, Advances in Cell & Gene Therapies Track

Regina Barzilay
MIT

PMWC 2026 LUMINARY HONOREE, AI & Computational Medicine Track

Mark Daly
Broad Institute

PMWC 2026 LUMINARY HONOREE, Systems Integration & Variant Interpretation Track

Nigam Shah
Stanford University

PMWC 2026 LUMINARY HONOREE, AI in Clinical Decision Support & RWE Track

Euan Ashley
Stanford

PMWC 2026 LUMINARY HONOREE, Integration & Implementation of Precision Medicine Track

Alexis C. Komor
UCSD

PMWC 2026 LUMINARY HONOREE, RNA, Stem Cell & Gene-Based Therapies Track

Stefan Horvath
Altos Labs

PMWC 2026 LUMINARY HONOREE, Precision Aging & Longevity Track

Nir Barzilai
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

PMWC 2026 LUMINARY HONOREE, Precision Aging & Longevity Track

Date & Agenda

When:

MARCH 4-6*

Agenda:

See in the main program agenda here

Where:

Santa Clara Convention Center

Suggested dress:

Business attire

*The PMWC Award Ceremonies (15 minutes long) will be held at the kick-off of each day of the program according to its track.
All attendees are welcome to take part without an RSVP.

Venue

Santa Clara Convention Center
Exhibition Halls A-D
5001 Great America Pkwy
Santa Clara, CA 95054

PARKING 1,500 on-site parking spaces in a 3-story adjacent parking garage (directions) on the Santa Clara Convention Center campus shared with the Hyatt Regency and TechMart. Additional overflow parking may be available in surrounding lots based on availability as well as the City of Santa Clara Garage (directions) across the street.
DRIVING DIRECTIONS FROM SAN JOSE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT – 5.4 MILES

Take San Jose International Airport’s Guadalupe Pkwy. Exit. Turn left on Guadalupe Pkwy. Follow onto I-101 North. Follow I-101 North roughly three miles and exit at Great America Pkwy. Turn right onto Great America Pkwy. The Silicon Valley Convention Center is located at Great America Pkwy. and Tasman Ave. You can find the Convention Center Parking Garage by exiting at the Hyatt Regency’s 2nd driveway at Bunker Hill Rd.

FROM SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT – 31 MILES

Follow San Francisco International Airport’s exit signs to I-101 South towards San Jose. Take I-101 South roughly 30-40 minutes and exit at Great America Pkwy. Turn left at Great America Pkwy. The Convention Center is at Great America Pkwy. and Tasman Ave. You can find the Silicon Valley Convention Center Parking Garage by exiting Great America Pkwy. at the Hyatt Regency’s 2nd driveway at Bunker Hill Rd.

FROM OAKLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT –33.1 MILES

Exit Oakland International Airport and take Hegenberger Rd. to I-880 South towards San Jose. Take I-880 roughly 30-40 minutes to Highway 237 towards Mountain View. Follow Highway 237 to Great America Pkwy. Exit. Turn left on Great America Pkwy. The Convention Center is at Great America Pkwy. and Tasman Ave. You can find the Convention Center Parking Garage by exiting off Great America Pkwy. at the Hyatt Regency’s 2nd driveway at Bunker Hill Rd.