PMWC 2024 Silicon Valley Luminary & Pioneer Awards:

The PMWC 2024 Luminary Award recognizes the recent contributions of prominent figures who have accelerated Precision Medicine into the clinic. The PMWC 2024 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 2024 PMWC Pioneer honorees are listed below.

Awardees

Pioneer Award

David Page
MIT

PMWC 2024 PIONEER HONOREE, WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACK

David Sidransky
Johns Hopkins University

PMWC 2024 PIONEER HONOREE, LIQUID BIOPSY TRACK

Andrea Gaedigk
Children’s Mercy Research Institute

PMWC 2024 PIONEER HONOREE, PGx TRACK

Atul Butte
UCSF

PMWC 2024 PIONEER HONOREE, REAL WORLD EVIDENCE & DATA (RWE/D) TRACK

Russ B Altman
Stanford

PMWC 2024 PIONEER HONOREE, PGx TRACK

Katherine A. High
Rockefeller University

PMWC 2024 PIONEER HONOREE, CGT TRACK

Timothy Yu
Boston Children's Hospital

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Stanley Riddell
Fred Hutchinson

PMWC 2024 PIONEER HONOREE, CGT TRACK

George Coukos
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research

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Luminary Award

AmirAli Talasaz
Guardant Health

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Heidi Rehm
MGH and Broad Inst.

PMWC 2024 LUMINARY HONOREE, AI & DATA SCIENCES TRACK

Janine Austin Clayton
NIH

PMWC 2024 LUMINARY HONOREE, WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACK

Helmy Eltoukhy
Guardant Health

PMWC 2024 LUMINARY HONOREE, LIQUID BIOPSY TRACK

Geoffrey S. Ginsburg
NIH

PMWC 2024 LUMINARY HONOREE, NEW FRONTIERS IN PRECISION MEDICINE TRACK

Catriona Jamieson
UCSD Health

PMWC 2024 LUMINARY HONOREE, ONCOLOGY APPLICATION TRACK

Teri E. Klein
Stanford

PMWC 2024 LUMINARY HONOREE, PGx TRACK

Suchi Saria
Johns Hopkins University

PMWC 2024 LUMINARY HONOREE, AI & DATA SCIENCES TRACK

Date & Agenda

When:

January 24-26*

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.

Past Luminary Award Recipients

The PMWC Luminary Award recognizes recent contributions of preeminent figures who have accelerated personalized medicine into the clinic.

Award Recipients: Silicon Valley

ALBERT BOURLA

2022

Led a coronavirus vaccine and antiviral drug development in record time

STEPHEN HOGE

2022

Oversaw R&D of the first antiviral synthetic mRNA vaccines ever created as well as the one against COVID-19

STEPHEN KINGSMORE

2022

Leader in neonatal molecular diagnosis using rapid Whole Genome Sequencing™

ANTHONY S. FAUCI

2021

Relentless crusader against some of humanity’s most virulent medical threats

UGUR SAHIN

2021

Co-developer of one of the leading COVID-19 vaccines

ÖZLEM TÜRECI

2021

Co-developer of one of the leading COVID-19 vaccines

LAURA J VAN’T VEER

2020

Leader and visionary entrepreneur in precision genomic diagnostics

PHILIP GREENBERG

2020

Discoveries led to adoptive immunotherapy with genetically engineered T cells

FENG ZHANG

2019

Neurobiologist who led the development of optogenetics and CRISPR

SHARON TERRY

2019

Incited the movement to build systems for individuals to access and share health data

CARL JUNE

2019

Developed CAR-T therapy, the world’s first gene-based cancer therapy

EMMANUELLE CHARPENTIER – Nobel Laureate

2018

Pioneered the CRISPR-CAS9 Genome Editing Technology

JAMES ALLISON – Nobel Laureate

2017

Pioneered Cancer Immunotherapy Through Discovery of the Immune Checkpoint Blockade

JENNIFER DOUDNA – Nobel Laureate

2017

Pioneered the Groundbreaking Crispr-Cas9 Genome Editing Technology

EDWARD F. CHANG

2017

Pioneer in Human Brain Circuit Mapping to Advance Precision Neuropathology

ROGER PERLMUTTER

2016

Expedited Development of Groundbreaking Therapies

LAURA ESSERMAN

2016

Breast Cancer Treatment Paradigm Shifter

RON DAVIS

2015

Developed R-loop Technique of Electron Microscopy

JAY FLATLEY

2014

Established Illumina as the leader in sequence technology

JANET WOODCOCK

2013

FDA Director, fast-tracked targeted drugs through FDA approval

BRIAN DRUKER

2012

Co-inventor, blockbuster drug, Gleevec

GEORGE CHURCH

2011

Contributions to the sequencing of genomes and interpreting such data; In Neuroscience he established a “functional connectome”

LEE HOOD

2010

Inventions included the automated DNA sequencer and a tool for synthesizing DNA

Award Recipients: Pittsburgh

JULIE A. JOHNSON

2021

Early leader in pharmacogenomics discovery research and its clinical implementation

Award Recipients: Duke

JEFFREY I. GORDON

2018 – DUKE

Pioneered the study of gut microbial ecology and evolution and today addresses the global challenges of obesity and undernutrition

FRANCIS S. COLLINS

2017 – DUKE

Advancing Precision Medicine by Leading Sequencing of the Human Genome and Other Major Government Initiatives

ELAINE R. MARDIS

2017 – DUKE

Sequencing Technologies Visionary and Leader in Genomics and Cancer Genomics

KEITH R. YAMAMOTO

2017 – DUKE

Conception, Implementation and Advocacy for Precision Medicine

Award Recipients: Michigan

MARY V. RELLING

2018 – MICHIGAN

Pioneered and advocate for pharmacogenomic personalized medicine

SUSAN A. MURPHY

2018 – MICHIGAN

Developing innovative data science methods to improve patient care through mobile health in chronic disease

ERIC TOPOL

2018 – MICHIGAN

Pioneered genetics and genomics in cardiovascular medicine and led the era of wireless medicine

Past Pioneer Award Recipients

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