Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Director of Computational Biology, Insitro
Biography
Angela is the head of computational biology at insitro. She is passionate about extracting meaningful information from biomedical datasets and use that to improve disease understanding and drug development. Angela holds a BSc and MSc in Biomedical Engineering and a PhD in Systems Biology. Her PhD work became the foundation of a new direction of thinking on why cancer develops resistance to chemotherapy, the major reason for treatment failure. Before moving to insitro, she led the Data Science platform at CZ Biohub. There she made significant contributions for the whole organism cell atlas projects including the first whole mouse cell atlas, the first aging cell atlas, and Tabula Sapiens, the first Human Cell Atlas drafts. She is also a founder and core member of Open Problems in Single Cell, a community effort to improve multimodal data analysis by both generating gold standard datasets and benchmarking metrics and infrastructure.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2024 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Gad Getz, Broad Institute
- PMWC 2024 Luminary Award
Luminary Honoree: Heidi Rehm, MGH and Broad Institute
- Opening Talk: The Power of Data by Track Chair Gaddy Getz, Broad Institute
- Global Data Sharing Collaboration: Overcoming Organizational and Sectoral Barriers (PANEL)
Chair: Gad Getz, Broad Institute
- Peter Goodhand, GA4GH
- Valentina Di Francesco, NHGRI - Challenges of Remote Data Harmonization and Querying
Chair: Heidi Rhem, MGH and Broad Institute
- Andrea Ramirez, All of Us
- Simona Carini, UCSF
- Josh Peterson, Emerge/Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Nara Sobreira, Johns Hopkins/GeneMatcher - Keynote: Machine Learning for Therapeutic Discovery
- Daphne Koller, insitro
- Exploring the Power of AI and Data Sciences in Drug Discovery
Chair: Russ Altman, Stanford University
- Kim Branson, GSK
- Sun-Gou Ji, BridgeBio
- Angela Oliveira Pisco, Insitro - Foundation Models to Advance Precision Medicine (PANEL)
Chair: Nigam Shah, Stanford
- Aashima Gupta, Google
- Matthew Lungren, Microsoft
- Rod Tarrago, AWS
